Guest: Adam Brinckerhoff. Topics: SpaceUnited & space missions to benefit humanity. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. In addition, please remember that your Amazon purchases can help support The Space Show/OGLF. See www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/amazon.htm. For those listening to archives using live365.com and rating the programs, please email me as to why you assign a specific rating to the show. This will help me bring better programming to the audience. We welcomed Adam Brinckerhoff to discuss SpaceUnited (www.spaceunited.org). During the first segment of our 1 hour 34 minute program, Mr. Brinckerhoff introduced us to SpaceUnited and told us about their three main programs, ExploraLab, Home-1, and Shim-1. To learn more about these innovative participatory space programs, visit http://spaceunited.org/missions and click on each specific mission. ExploraLab is a program where you can create your own experiment, fly it to the stratosphere in a balloon & have it returned to you. Home-1, the Human Optimized Modular Environment program, seeks to improve human life by improving housing with technologies that are also beneficial off Earth. The SHIM-1progject, the Satellite Humanitarian Imagery Mission, strives to purchase real-time and archive satellite photos for humanitarian efforts including emergency relief organizations and international human rights watchdogs. During this segment, Adam explained how these programs work, how they are funded, and how the benefits are shared with those designated to receive the benefits. SpaceUnited is a nonprofit organization that not only uses space technology, it implements space missions such as the three programs described above. Listeners asked several email questions to explain the programs and also to inquire as to possible future programs. Adam mentioned that for now, everyone associated with SpaceUnited was on a volunteer basis but that would change when warranted by company operations and growth. In the second segment, questions about space tourism & other technologies came up. Adam talked about a future program to bring internet service to poor nations around the world via satellite. He said this was a long term goal for the company. A listener email asked him to compare and contrast SpaceUnited plans with those of Facebook & Google to deliver worldwide wifi. Later in the segment, we talked about the SpaceUnited blog and their use of Google + hangouts for a weekly interview show each Tuesday at 11:30 AM Mountain time. These sessions cover topics such as asteroid mining, nanosat issues and more. To find out more about these half hour programs, visit http://spaceunited.org/blog. Later, we talked about their store and his offer to listeners to win an IPhone case over the next two weeks. You can see the cases at www.cafepress.com/spaceunited/10837486. Another product they offer is the mushroom kit (http://spaceunited.org/back-to-the-roots). As we were nearing the end of our discussion, we talked about the impressive SpaceUnited Board of Advisors and Board of Directors, plus I asked him for their 3-5 year plan for growth and new projects. Please post your comments/questions on TSS blog above. You can contact Adam through me or use the Contact button in the upper right corner of their home page.