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TEDxNaperville - Richard Godwin - The Next Space Journey

1,106 views · Published 12 December 2011 · 10:34 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Science & Technology

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The first part of our journey into space is coming to a close. It provided technologies for those of us left on the ground. The next part of the journey is beginning, and it will take our human society to the planets and beyond.

Richard has been a serial entrepreneur since the age of 16 when he started purchasing and renting out properties in the north of England. He has built small medium and large companies in Europe, Canada and the US. He is currently President of Apogee Books, a space book publisher, Founder of Local Impressions a local digital signage company and a consultant to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) working on their nascent DragonLab project, a new commercial free flying microgravity laboratory. He was the first person to sit on the Board of Directors of both the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation simultaneously.

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