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    • Mr. Anderson has remained in high demand internationally as a speaker since co-founding Space Adventures and Planetary Resources and making history by launching the world’s first private space travelers to orbit.
    • As a speaker, his experience includes delivering keynote addresses to large corporate, educational, and non-profit audiences, and detailed interviews and feature appearances in television news and educational programs.
    • Mr. Anderson draws heavily upon the lessons he learned in creating the world’s first space tourism company in his speeches.  Although the commercial space market serves as the framework, his topics are applicable to any industry, market, academic endeavor, or other area.
    • Some of the topics on which Mr. Anderson speaks on regularly include:
      • The Resources of Space: Expanding our economy into the Solar System**
        • The resources of space hold the answer to the survival of our species. Earth’s population is ever growing and the planet’s resources are undisputedly finite and declining. We need to bring the Solar System into our economic sphere of influence to continue humanity’s prosperity here on Earth and further our exploration of space.
    • Innovation, creativity and “thinking outside the planet”**
      • Mr. Anderson built the private space travel industry from the ground up with a combination of innovation, determination, entrepreneurial spirit.  The lessons learned along the way are applicable to other bold endeavors and can help entrepreneurs learn how to approach seemingly insurmountable problems.
    • The Future of Programming**

      • There are big changes in store for how software is created that enables anyone to encode their knowledge and expertise in computer programs without ever writing a line of code. Imagine if it didn’t take an army of computer programmers to create, change or customize software? What if you could not only write your OWN software but also make everything in your life, at work and at home, programmable? Thanks to exciting new developments in knowledge processing and meta-programming, this future is closer than you think.

        As most topics are forum specific, we invite you to contact us regarding your event, learn more about Mr. Anderson and the unique perspective he brings, and discuss hosting Mr. Anderson as your keynote speaker.

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        • TITLE:: There Are 2 Seats Left for This Trip to the International Space Station
          • PUBLISHER:: The New York Times
          • PUBLISHED: March 5th, 2020 Updated November 2nd, 2020
          • AUTHOR: Kenneth Chang (https://www.nytimes.com/by/kenneth-chang)
          • FULL TEXT: https://nytimes.com/2020/03/05/science/axiom-space-station.html
            • Axiom Space is selling tickets on a SpaceX capsule for a $55 million, 10-day stay on the orbiting outpost that would be the first to involve no governmental space agencies.
            • A rendering of the proposed Axiom Space modules attached to the International Space Station. Even before that addition, Axiom plans to send paying tourists to the space station. The first trip could launch as soon as the second half of 2021.
            • Credit...Axiom Space
              • Published March 5, 2020Updated Nov. 2, 2020
            • If you have tens of millions of dollars to spare, you could as soon as next year be one of three passengers setting off aboard a spaceship to the International Space Station for a 10-day stay.
            • On Thursday, Axiom Space, a company run by a former manager of NASA’s part of the space station, announced that it had signed a contract with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, for what might be the first fully private human spaceflight to orbit.
            • “I think you’ll see a lot more energy in the market as people come to realize it’s real, and it’s happening,” said Michael T. Suffredini, the president and chief executive of Axiom.
            • The spaceflight, Axiom officials said, could take off as soon as the second half of 2021.
            • SpaceX developed its Crew Dragon capsule for taking NASA astronauts to and from the space station. But just as the company’s development of its Falcon 9 rocket for taking cargo to the space station led to a vibrant business of launching commercial satellites, SpaceX is also looking to expand Crew Dragon passengers beyond just NASA astronauts.
            • For now, NASA wants a new Crew Dragon for each trip carrying its astronauts, even though the capsules are designed for multiple trips to space. That means a Crew Dragon flown for NASA could be used again for a flight of tourists.
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            • Serena Auñón-Chancellor, a flight engineer, with air and water management equipment inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station in 2018. Space tourists will be encouraged to keep their hands to themselves and monitored by a trained astronaut.
            • Credit...JSC/NASA
            • Last month, Space Adventures, another company, announced an agreement with SpaceX to fly a Crew Dragon with up to four tourists for a free-flying trip that would last up to five days. That trip would not dock at the space station. Eric C. Anderson, chairman of Space Adventures, said in an interview the Crew Dragon would fly autonomously but that the passengers would receive training to be ready for various emergencies.
            • The Space Adventures trip could happen in late 2021 or early 2022. “It’ll be probably right around the 60th anniversary of the John Glenn’s flight,” Mr. Anderson said, referring to the first American to circle Earth, on Feb. 20, 1962.
            • The capsule and its passengers would take an elliptical path, reaching an altitude two to three times as high as the space station’s orbit.
            • Mr. Anderson did not provide an exact price, but said the cost would be $10 million to $20 million less than the $50 million to $60 million usually mentioned for orbital trips.
            • On the planned Axiom flight, one seat would be occupied by a company-trained astronaut who would serve as the flight commander. The other three seats will be for customers who are to spend 10 days in orbit floating inside the space station. The Axiom astronaut would also oversee the space tourists while they were on the station, making sure that they did not interfere with the six crew members.
            • Mr. Suffredini said that the space station, with as much interior room as a Boeing 747 jetliner, should have enough room for everyone.
            • He declined to talk about the cost, but in the past, Axiom has confirmed that a seat on the trip will cost $55 million, and it has already signed up one person.
            • From 2001 to 2009, seven nonprofessional astronauts bought trips to the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. In each of these trips, arranged by Space Adventures, the other two astronauts on the spacecraft were working professionals headed for a tour of duty in orbit. Last year, the United Arab Emirates bought a Soyuz seat to jump-start its space program by sending an astronaut, Hazzaa al-Mansoori, to the space station.
            • The Axiom mission could be the first orbital flight with people aboard without the direct involvement of a governmental space agency.
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            • Credit...Todd Spoth for The New York Times
            • NASA has in recent years become more receptive to allowing companies to find new ways to make money on the space station. Last June, NASA set up a price list for various commercial activities, including charging companies like Axiom $35,000 a night for each tourist staying at the station for space to sleep and the use of its amenities like air, water, the internet and the toilet. The largest chunk of the $55 million ticket price is for the rocket ride, which Axiom will pay to SpaceX, not NASA.
            • “NASA has been very forward leaning, and we’re taking advantage of that,” Mr. Suffredini said.
            • From 2005 to 2015, Mr. Suffredini worked at NASA as program manager for the International Space Station. A year after retiring, he was one of the founders of Axiom, which claims it can build and operate a private facility at a fraction of the $4 billion that NASA spends annually on the International Space Station.
            • But the first step in that plan is going to the I.S.S.
            • Axiom has been discussing with NASA the possibility of tourist flights for several years. Last month, NASA also selected Axiom to develop a module that would be attached to the I.S.S. in 2024 and used for commercial business activities. When the space station is eventually retired, the Axiom module would be detached and used as a building block for Axiom’s private space station.
            • If a trip to orbit seems like too much, two other companies, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, may be on track to carry their first customers on short-hop space tourism flights to the edge of space. Virgin earlier priced seats on its space plane at $250,000, but may now charge more. Blue Origin has not announced the cost of a trip aboard its reusable rocket and capsule, New Shepard.
            • “I think it’s an important inflection point,” said Mr. Anderson of Space Adventures. Space travel, even if affordable for only a few, is still marker of hope and what humans can and do accomplish, he said.
            • “I’m hopeful it will be something cool and positive in the world,” he said.
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            • Credit...Axiom Space
        • TITLE: Space Adventures signs contract for Soyuz flight with spacewalk option
          • PUBLISHER:: SpaceNews
          • PUBLISHED: June 25th, 2020
          • AUTHOR: Jeff Foust (https://spacenews.com/author/jeff-foust/)
          • FULL TEXT: https://spacenews.com/space-adventures-signs-contract-for-soyuz-flight-with-spacewalk-option/
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            • Two Russian cosmonauts performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Space Adventures has signed a contract with Energia for a Soyuz flight to the ISS for two private astronauts that will include an option for one of them to perform a spacewalk. Credit: NASA
            • WASHINGTON — Space tourism company Space Adventures has signed a contract with RSC Energia for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station that will include an opportunity for one customer to perform a spacewalk.
            • Under the contract announced June 25, a Soyuz spacecraft will fly a “short duration” mission, which Space Adventures described in a statement as lasting 14 days, to the ISS with two spaceflight participants and one professional cosmonaut on board. The contract is similar to an agreement announced in February 2019 for a 2021 Soyuz flight to the station, also with two spaceflight participants and one professional cosmonaut on board.
            • The new contract, though, would include the opportunity for one of the spaceflight participants to walk in space. According to a Roscosmos statement, that person, along with a Russian cosmonaut, would perform a spacewalk from the station’s Russian segment.
            • “A private citizen completing a spacewalk would be another huge step forward in private spaceflight,” Eric Anderson, chairman and chief executive of Space Adventures, said in a company statement. “We applaud our colleagues at Energia for working with us to create amazing new adventures in space.”
            • The idea of a spacewalk by a private astronaut has been floated for years as an add-on to an orbital space tourism flight. Space Adventures has promoted spacewalks from the ISS on its website for several years as a unique experience. Every person who has done a spacewalk to date has been a professional astronaut.
            • However, a spacewalk would require customers to conduct additional training on top of standard spaceflight training as Russia’s Star City facility. It would also likely have a significant additional cost. “The price of the spacewalk depends on the timing of your mission and other factors,” Space Adventures’ website states, not giving a specific price.
            • The timing of the mission is not clear. The Roscosmos statement said the mission will launch in 2023. However, Stacey Tearne, a spokesperson for Space Adventures, said the mission will take place “once we have identified and contracted with customers,” and did not confirm the 2023 date from the Roscosmos statement.
            • Tearne said this mission is separate from the contract announced last year for a late 2021 Soyuz mission, which does not include a spacewalk opportunity. The company has not provided an update on progress it’s made signing up customers for that flight.
            • The company is best known for brokering flights for several people on Soyuz missions to the ISS starting nearly 20 years ago. Space Adventures arranged flights of seven people on eight trips to the ISS (one customer, Charles Simonyi, flew twice) using seats available on Soyuz flights from 2001 through 2009. Those flights ended, though, because of a lack of Soyuz seats when that spacecraft became the exclusive means of accessing the station.
            • Space Adventures did have another customer for an ISS flight, singer Sarah Brightman, who was to fly to the station when a seat became available as part of a “one-year” mission on the station in 2015. Brightman, though, backed out several months before the mission, citing “personal family reasons.” A cosmonaut from Kazakhstan flew in her place.
            • In February, Space Adventures announced a contract with SpaceX for a dedicated Crew Dragon flight. That mission, scheduled for launch between late 2021 and the middle of 2022, will carry four spaceflight participants on a five-day flight that would orbit the Earth at more than twice the altitude of the ISS.
        • Title: Space Adventures looks for a customer to do a spacewalk after Russia gives its OK Link: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/russian-space-officials-say-space-adventures-struck-deal-let-customer-spacewalk/ Source: GeekWire Date: June 25, 2020 Author: Alan Boyle
        • Title: Microsoft Aquires Intentional Software and brings old friend back Into Fold Link: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/microsoft-acquires-intentional-software-and-brings-old-friend-back-into-fold/ Source: TechCrunch Date: April 18, 2017 Author: Ron Miller
        • Title: Mars, Our First Outpost on the Final Frontier - James Fallows talks with space entrepreneur Eric Anderson about the next wave of space exploration. Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/life-on-mars/309251/ Source: The Atlantic Date: April 2013 Author: James Fallows
        • Title: Extraterrestrial Outfitter - If you’re planning an off-world vacation, there’s only one name to call: Eric Anderson Link: https://www.airspacemag.com/space/extraterrestrial-outfitter-21038993/ Source: Air & Space Magazine Date: March 2012 Author: Michael Belfiore
        • Title: 500 new space startups by 2025? The Founder Institute wants to make that happen. Link: http://ecanderson.com/2017/05/24/500-new-space-startups-by-2025-the-founder-institute-wants-to-make-that-happen/ Source: SpaceNews Date: May 24, 2017 Author: TJ Sherrill
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