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607 (Special Edition) |  Listen to the show! | | Aired on October 13th, 2006 | | Guest: Dr. Sam Dinkin |
| Dr. Sam Dinkin returned as the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview with a brief update from Dr. Dinkin on his new blog, Decisive Win (www.decisivewin.com). Check it and comment on it. Dr. Dinkin continues to write for The Space Review but his posting on his own blog will now constitute his blogging rather than his previous contributions to Transterrestrial Musings. The conversation then moved on for updates about SpaceShot, Sam's new start-up skill game to allow people the opportunity to earn a trip to suborbital space. Sam explained how SpaceShot works and toward the end of the program, he did a primer on SpaceShot for listeners not familiar with this new business. Space-Shot affords Dr. Dinkin a unique perspective on the developing suborbital tourism industry and Sam did share his insights and perceptions with us about many of the companies, spaceports, and the space tourism industry,both suborbital and orbital. We also talked about the Chinese space program and their statements about their entering the space tourism industry. Dr. Dinkin commented on the Chinese program and then in response to my questions abut the Chinese economy, the trade deficit and the debt with the U.S. and China, we got an economic analysis of the situation from a real economist. Dr. Dinkin shared his thoughts with us about the influence of political change on NASA, the VSE, and the developing private sector space industry. For those of you going to the X-Prize Cup in Las Cruces, make sure you see the SpaceShot booth and play the game testing your skill and also you just might be the one to get a ride to the edge of space. If you have questions or comments for Dr. Dinkin, email him at dinkin@space-shot.com. He can also be reached by telephone at 1 888-4-Dinkin. |
| About our guest... |
Dr. Sam Dinkin
Sam Dinkin is just back from spending 3 months in India helping one of the cellular operators there buy billions of dollars of spectrum for 3G cell phone and WiMax internet service. Dr. Dinkin has been beating the drum for space commercialization since 2004 when he started writing for the Space Review. He was the founder of Space Shot which had memoranda of understandings with three suborbital and two orbital companies to offer flights as prizes including a flight for two around the Moon. Space Shot dissolved at the end of 2009 having awarded two Zero G flights. Dinkin has pledged to award a suborbital flight and will hold the drawing later this year. In addition to journalist and entrepreneur, he is a space investor, advocate, philanthropist and enthusiast. Since the last time he was on the show, he also captained the US contract bridge team that won a silver medal in Sao Paulo.
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