Investing in Space by Investing in Youtm

Food production is being redefined in countless ways, from artificial proteins to revolutionary methods of vertical farming. Not only is the need for soil being evaporated but the entire need for animals is being eradicated from the equation.

On December 7, 1972, from a distance of around 29,000 kilometers above the earth, the crew of Apollo 17 captured one of the most famous images in history – The Blue Marble. The Blue Marble (shown above) is the first photograph.

Can we develop a base on the Martian surface? Can we make space travel affordable for the everyday person? Could we launch without polluting the atmosphere? Most people in the space industry would agree that developing

Amid ongoing concerns around the testing of space weapons by foreign countries and the security of national satellites, the US set a precedent by designating a specific branch of the military to protect the public interest in space.

In the field of space resources, the term Subterranean Life Support Systems refers to the wide range of systems that could be used to support human life underground.

In-Situ Resource Utilization is an industry that is about to be born. Contained within it will be countless subindustries. At its core will be to view anew how we have utilized earth resources on planet earth.

Communication is essential to all human endeavors. As we build out humanities presence on the Moon, Mars, and all points in between, we will need infrastructure that can accommodate the web of communication…

Launch is the quintessential component of space and the primary driver of the direction of space economy development. While there is outsized attention being given to launch, in the near future it is justified. In the relative future, attention will dissipate away from launch to other components of the developing space economy.

With our vast goals in space, managing the frequency and logistics of launches will be key to sustainable growth of the space ecosphere. It is equivalent to moving a city with all its inhabitants and belongings from its current location to its new location, in space.

We live in a world that is now built by software. Innovation has three components from which it traverses, wetware to software to hardware. Wetware is our brain where conceptualization begins. This is where creativity combines with function, to form concepts and ideas which are then materialized into existence.

In conversations regarding Space we hear cool sounding terms like Cis Earth and Cis Lunar. And occasionally we also may hear CIS Mars. Anything that is orbiting near a terrestrial body is classified as CIS. The sectors contained within these spheres, may not all be ripe for settlements via space stations.

The human condition is quite a frail one. We possess the capacity of very small deviations in environmental conditions. Any variations in the temperature, balance of chemicals in the air, or exposure to radiation from any source, leaves us in peril for survival.

Water is the essence of life, a fact that is evidently clear. However, knowing that water is abundant in the cosmos is a new understanding that we are slowly absorbing. Water’s state changes happen in a far tighter range than most other elements, and hence we find water in liquid, gas, and solid forms throughout the nooks and crannies of our solar system.