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MIT New Space Age Conference to explore the emerging space economyCAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The space race is on – but it's a different kind of race today. Private companies continue to create and expand a new commercial market, advertising future habitats on Mars and trips into space. The space industry is reaching new heights as China and India engage in a new space race and SpaceX plans for moon tourism flights. As this industry's growth continues its upward trend, the MIT Sloan School of Management will host its 2nd annual New Space Age Conference organized by the MIT Sloan Astropreneurship and Space Industry Club (ASIC). It will be held on March 11, 2017 at the Samberg Conference Center on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. The conference will serve as a platform to advance growth of the private space industry by bringing together business leaders, academics and institutional investors. Speakers will discuss all aspects of "astropreneurship" – ridesharing as it pertains to sharing the cost of space access, high-bandwidth communications in space via laser, making space travel affordable to the public, the Earth-Mars supply chain, the relationship between private space companies and governments, and more. Slated speakers, among many others, are:
To register for the New Space Age Conference, please visit: http://www.newspaceage.org/tickets/ Follow along on Twitter @SloanSpace and #MITNewSpaceAge. About the MIT Astropreneurship and Space Industry Club About the MIT Sloan School of Management
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