Clayming Space

In this episode we talk to Vered Cohen Barzilay.

An Israeli-born social entrepreneur and tenacious advocate for aviation, space, and science education. She is the Founder Director of "Out of the Box", a Social Enterprise to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in education. Vered serves as a mentor at Space 4 Women, a project of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to promote women's empowerment in space. She also serves as a mentor at the Starburst Accelerator at IAI, at the 8200 Impact Accelerators and is currently a glider pilot student. Vered was elected by the US Department of State for the #FacesofExchange initiative that highlights 80 accomplished alumni, their lives, and the impact their exchange program brought to the global community.

Her flagship program, the Science Accelerator received special recognition by the senator of California, The Ministry of education and the municipality of Givatayim in Israel as "A pioneering program, original and visionary in the subject of space education". Vered is also the founder of Novel Rights - a Human Rights Literature global movement. She is the Founder and former director of Women's Media Center Israel - a hub for gender equality and social justice in the media industry. She is the Co-Founder of Chamber of Women Journalists and was elected 5th out of a 100 most influential in the Israeli Media in 2014. Vered was a board member for Arts for Amnesty, a global project which encourages artists to become involved in the efforts to raise awareness for human rights issues. Arts for Amnesty members (such as U2, YOKO ONO, etc) lend their voices for Amnesty International campaigns around the World.

"Out of the Box"'s purpose is to spark passion in the future generation for working in the aerospace industry and to provide them with the know-how and skills they need to succeed in this future working market. They put a special focus on attracting young women and girls to the programs and to empower female facilitators. They provide opportunities for students to gain experience in an international arena through peer-to-peer learning. Out of the Box acknowledges the importance of creating and leading a diverse and equal society on Earth and beyond and therefore are committed to the mission to make space accessible for everyone and to dream and dare!

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Professor Alice is from Flinders University South Australia, is recognized as one of the world’s foremost scholars in the cutting-edge field of space archaeology. Her research focuses on the archaeology and heritage of space exploration, including space junk, space stations, planetary landing sites, off-earth mining, rocket launch pads and antennas. She is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a former Deputy Chair of the Space Industry Association of Australia. In 2020 she was appointed to the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs Space4Women Mentor Network, to further the goal of Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender Equality. Her multi-award-winning book Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future was published in 2019. She often tweets as @drspacejunk and blogs at Space Age Archaeology. Her vision is to make space truly accessible for all, and to connect people to space through their cultural heritage.

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In this episode we talk to Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Co-Founder and President of For All Moonkind Inc.

Michelle is Co-Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law and its Center for Air and Space Law. She is also a Co-Founder and President of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that is the only organization in the world focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. For All Moonkind has been recognized by the United Nations as a Permanent Observer to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Michelle Chairs the International Committee of the National Space Society and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, the world’s oldest law journal dedicated to the legal problems arising out of human activities in outer space. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and her J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. Michelle earned her LLM in Air and Space Law from McGill University where the focus of her research was commercial space and the intersection of commerce and public law.

Prior to focusing on space law, Michelle was engaged in a private business law practice. Her legal career commenced with the restructuring of sovereign debt for several South and Latin American countries and evolved into the negotiation and implementation of cross-border technology mergers and acquisitions. Her subsequent solo practice advised entrepreneurs across four continents on all aspects of bringing their innovative ideas to market: from basic corporate formation to financing and buyouts.

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This is part two of the two-part episode series on Blockchains in the Space Industry with former COO of SpaceChain Alessandro Albano. 

Alessandra has been advising blockchain projects since 2017. She has joined SpaceChain after having been COO of DEX, a decentralised data exchange, and having been part of the founding team at Ocean Protocol, a decentralised data sharing protocol, in charge its ecosystem growth and operations.  Oxford Said Business School and INSEAD executive programs alumna, Alessandra specialises in sustainable growth strategies and operational excellence. She brings with her a wealth of experience in managing high-value contracts and large-scale teams in different sectors and at global level.  As one of the early innovators in tokenization, she is an established thought leader in ecosystem growth, she’s a published author and the founder of AcchaLabs.ai, a company that advises traditional companies on incorporating tokenization in their business model through incremental innovation.  Boasting more than a decade of experience in leading operations and marketing between Europe, India and Asia, Alessandra is in charge of SpaceChain’s global operations and strategy, and leads its ecosystem growth.  Keen to champion more diversity in the space and blockchain sectors, Alessandra is an advocate for women in leadership roles in STEM, a mentor and a speaker.

This is part one of the two-part episode series on Blockchains in the Space Industry with former COO of SpaceChain, Alessandra Albano.

Alessandra has been advising blockchain projects since 2017. She has joined SpaceChain after having been COO of DEX, a decentralised data exchange, and having been part of the founding team at Ocean Protocol, a decentralised data sharing protocol, in charge its ecosystem growth and operations.  Oxford Said Business School and INSEAD executive programs alumna, Alessandra specialises in sustainable growth strategies and operational excellence. She brings with her a wealth of experience in managing high-value contracts and large-scale teams in different sectors and at global level.  As one of the early innovators in tokenization, she is an established thought leader in ecosystem growth, she’s a published author and the founder of AcchaLabs.ai, a company that advises traditional companies on incorporating tokenization in their business model through incremental innovation.  Boasting more than a decade of experience in leading operations and marketing between Europe, India and Asia, Alessandra is in charge of SpaceChain’s global operations and strategy, and leads its ecosystem growth.  Keen to champion more diversity in the space and blockchain sectors, Alessandra is an advocate for women in leadership roles in STEM, a mentor and a speaker.

In this episode we talk to Dr. Shawna Pandya. Dr. Pandya is a scientist-astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, physician, aquanaut, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver, pilot-in-training, VP Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies and Fellow of the Explorers’ Club. She holds degrees in neuroscience, space, entrepreneurship and medicine, and is currently completing a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine.  In 2015, Dr. Pandya completed scientist-astronaut candidate training with Project PoSSUM (Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere) and was on the first crew to test a commercial spacesuit in zero-gravity. She has flown over 140 parabolas in microgravity to date. Dr. Pandya is the lead instructor for Project PoSSUM’s EVA 102: Operational Space Medicine course and Director for Project PoSSUM’s Space Medicine Group. Through Project PoSSUM, she completed hypobaric hypoxia training, centrifuge studies, aerobatic flight, basic and advanced emergency spacecraft egress and sea survival training, and high altitude noctilucent cloud research. Dr. Pandya also completed a tour at the Mars Desert Research Station analog in Utah, both as Commander and as Crew Health & Safety Officer. In 2019, Dr. Pandya attained her aquanaut designation during a 5-day underwater mission (NEPTUNE) at the Jules Underwater Lodge, completed the World Extreme Medicine Hyperbaric and Dive Medicine Course at Aquarius Reef Base, where NASA NEEMO missions take place, and was named a fellow of the Explorers’ Club. Her adventures were recently captured in the Land Rover short, released with the Apollo 11: First Steps film.

In this episode we talk to Cynda Collins Arsenault, Co-founder, Board Chair and President of Secure World Foundation , an operating foundation working for the secure and sustainable use of outer space for the benefit of humanity. She has 45+ years of experience in non-profit work including peace and justice, criminal justice, mental health, disability rights and environmental issues.

We have Cynthia Lam back on the show to discuss about the concept and topic of Decolonizing Mars. Cynthia is a doctoral student at Massey University in New Zealand studying Chinese-Kiwi identity in New Zealand Theater and is going to give her perspective on identity in the application to the topic of Decolonizing Mars.

In this episode, we'll be talking to Jon about his involvement with the Jus Ad Astra initiative. Jon Lim is a Solicitor a WiseLaw, a Geopolitical Analyst, Co-founder of Young Lawyers and Diplomats Society Asia Pacific, Space Law and Policy Group Member at the Space Generation Advisory Council, is a Young Leader Fellow of the Pacific Forum. He is also the Project Co-Lead and Founder of Jus Ad Astra. 

In this episode we'll be talking to Laura Montgomery from Ground Based Space Matters. Laura teaches space law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and her practice specializes in regulatory space law, with an emphasis on commercial space transportation and the Outer Space Treaties. She is the former manager of the space law branch of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration or FAA, her expertise encompasses the regulation of human space flight, spaceports, and launch and reentry.  She writes and edits the space law blog GroundBasedSpaceMatters.com. She also writes science fiction.