In this episode, Ravi talks to Dr. Sean Casey about the exciting world of commercial spaceflight and the benefits to the economy, science, and human development.
Dr. Sean Casey is Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Silicon Valley Space Center (SVSC), a business accelerator for NewSpace entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. As a mentor and investor, Dr. Casey has supported early-stage startups in hardware, software, and wetware (i.e. manned spaceflight) sectors of the growing commercial spaceflight industry. Companies supported by SVSC include Spire, Vital Space, Alanax, Infinity Aerospace, Moffett Federal Airfield Alliance, Integrated Spaceflight Services, SpaceVR, Lunar Station, and the New York Center for Space Entrepreneurship. He is the president of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), a member of the Suborbital Applications Researchers Group of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF), and served over two decades as a NASA astrophysicist and airborne astronomer. Dr. Casey is a frequently invited speaker for many events including Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace conference, Space 2.0 by Infocast, SpaceCom in Houston, and the Satellite Innovation Symposium in Silicon Valley. He is a co-author of numerous publications and has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago and dual MBAs from the Berkeley Haas and Columbia Schools of Business.
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