Comments on: eSpace “incubates” nascent aerospace entrepreneurs http://www.opennasa.com/2009/02/24/espace-incubates-nascent-aerospace-entrepreneurs/ Your NASA, My NASA, OUR NASA Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Justin http://www.opennasa.com/2009/02/24/espace-incubates-nascent-aerospace-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-11878 Justin Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:11:34 +0000 http://www.opennasa.com/?p=470#comment-11878 Thanks for the heads-up. That'll teach me to take a CNN article at face value without double-checking the attribution. ;) Thanks for the heads-up. That’ll teach me to take a CNN article at face value without double-checking the attribution. ;)

]]> By: scott tibbitts exec dir. espace http://www.opennasa.com/2009/02/24/espace-incubates-nascent-aerospace-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-11877 scott tibbitts exec dir. espace Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:09:16 +0000 http://www.opennasa.com/?p=470#comment-11877 it has been great to realize that there are a large number of individuals and organizations that are their resonating with the vision of eSpace. But first, to set the record straight before I am credited with something undeserved, Jim Benson, a great space visionary was the progenitor of SpaceDev. I founded Starsys Research Corporation which was acquired by SpaceDev about 3 years ago. It has been great fun since the launch of eSpace to see the companies that are contacting us to connect with what we are doing. I've been in the space biz for 20 years, and had no idea of some of the really innovative, businesses out there, sometimes just a couple of smart engineers, doing some really great stuff. As a case in point, one company that contacted us, Zybek Advanced Products, here in Boulder. Turns out they make lunar soil...not the real thing, but an exact duplicate. They take raw material and subject it to Plasma, which fuses it in the same way as lunar soil is fused and then this can be used by folks working on lunar habitats, rovers etc. They make tons of the material. Have a thriving business doing this. I'm trying to get over there to say the plasma gun at work. We'll keep you posted. There is much going on as we connect with and support these companies in doing great good. Scott it has been great to realize that there are a large number of individuals and organizations that are their resonating with the vision of eSpace. But first, to set the record straight before I am credited with something undeserved, Jim Benson, a great space visionary was the progenitor of SpaceDev. I founded Starsys Research Corporation which was acquired by SpaceDev about 3 years ago.

It has been great fun since the launch of eSpace to see the companies that are contacting us to connect with what we are doing. I’ve been in the space biz for 20 years, and had no idea of some of the really innovative, businesses out there, sometimes just a couple of smart engineers, doing some really great stuff. As a case in point, one company that contacted us, Zybek Advanced Products, here in Boulder. Turns out they make lunar soil…not the real thing, but an exact duplicate. They take raw material and subject it to Plasma, which fuses it in the same way as lunar soil is fused and then this can be used by folks working on lunar habitats, rovers etc. They make tons of the material. Have a thriving business doing this. I’m trying to get over there to say the plasma gun at work.

We’ll keep you posted. There is much going on as we connect with and support these companies in doing great good.

Scott

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