{"id":53012,"date":"2023-07-31T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/the-value-of-a-lunar-economy-explained\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:35:10","slug":"the-value-of-a-lunar-economy-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/the-value-of-a-lunar-economy-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of a Lunar Economy Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Why are the world\u2019s space faring nations racing back to the Moon? What is the value of establishing a new lunar economy? In this episode of On Orbit\u2019s Future Space Economy webcast series, host Jeffrey Hill speaks with Yale University\u2019s Emma Louden, <strong>Nanoracks<\/strong>\u2019 Mike Lewis, and former <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> leaders David Anderman and Sita Sonty about what\u2019s driving the new space race to the Moon. The group explores the value of lunar materials and resources, research on the \u201cdark side of the Moon,\u201d and the economic opportunities created by just getting there (as well as getting there first)<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the speakers:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Anderman is co-founder &amp; operating partner, Stellar Ventures. He was most recently the general counsel of SpaceX, where he helped with the first-ever launch of astronauts by a private company, the maiden flight of Starship (SpaceX\u2019s Mars colony ship), and the rollout of the Starlink global satellite internet system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Emma Louden is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate of Astrophysics at Yale University. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, and has been selected as a Brooke Owens Fellow and a Quad Fellow. Emma also is a part-time analyst at BryceTech and a contributor to Metaculus.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lewis is chief innovation officer of Nanoracks, a Voyager Space Company, where he is responsible for overseeing the technical, scientific, and engineering direction for the company. He has developed, built, and flown experiment platforms to the International Space Station, and has helped deliver more than 1,300 experiments to space.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sita Sonty is currently on sabbatical from her position leading Boston Consulting Group\u2019s Commercial Space team. She also previously served as the head of Human Spaceflight Sales at SpaceX, where she helped execute the first private spaceflight sales on the Crew Dragon on a Lower Earth Orbit Free Flyer mission and to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<h3>Listen Here:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future Space Economy Series: The Value of a Lunar Economy Explained by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1579223979&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are the world\u2019s space faring nations racing back to the Moon? What is the value of establishing a new lunar economy? 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