Space travel is closer than you think. Space entrepreneur Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria became fascinated with space as a young boy. Since then, he co-founded MirCorp which bought the Mir Space Station and began Planet Space - a private enterprise that is revitalizing public space travel and subcontracting cargo flights for NASA. In this talk, he reveals a huge number of initiatives to make space travel accessible and paints a bright future for private citizens in space.

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