Earth economy down? NASA says we’re going to have an awesome space economy
Yes. And our first trillonares will come from this space economy.
Read the rest of the article at the link.NASA has joined forces with space tech companies that can help the agency figure out how to get human spaceflight beyond the atmosphere and in business. The 12 companies, which included Axiom, Blue Origin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, recently presented a series of studies to NASA that will act as a roadmap for achieving a low-Earth orbit (LEO) economy that beats anything here on terra firma.
Focusing on how to commercialize low-Earth orbit, these companies gave NASA their visions of what a thriving off-Earth economy would potentially look like. The studies assess the potential growth of such an economy and propose the most successful ways to fire up private demand for commercial human spaceflight. Think everything from space tourism to habitats in microgravity. The ISS has been a hub of research and development for technologies that would make a space economy possible, and these companies now want to take that to the next level.
Axiom wants “to make living and working in space commonplace as a means to sustained human deep space exploration and for the improvement of life on Earth.”