Dr. Thomas Matula

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRIVATE COMMERCIAL SPACE

By Dr. Tom Matula

For my friends at The Space Show and elsewhere:

July 10 was the 60th Anniversary of the birth of the private commercial space industry with the launch of Telstar. It was design and built entirely with money from Bell Labs who owned and operated it. Bell Labs also paid NASA to launch it, a practice the commercial satellite industry continued into the 1980’s, only ending after the Challenger accident.

Guests:  Dr. Tom Matula, Dr Darryl Mitry;  Topics:  We discussed the new book by our two authors, "Beyond the Covid Shock: The Great Economic Transition."  While many of our discussion points/questions were of a general economic nature, we applied most everything w/out economy to commercial space. Don't miss this discussion.

Guest:  Dr. Tom Matula; Topics:  Space settlements benefit Earth, lunar settlements, agriculture and food for space, the need for 1 g facilities, families and space settlement and more.

Guest:  Dr. Tom Matula;  Topics:  Spaceports, space business parks, commercial space trends, commercial space terrestrial infrastructure, large commercial rockets vs. government rockets and much more.

Guest: Dr. Tom Matula. Topics: Space settlements known as astrosettlements, commercial space development. 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.

Guest: Dr. Tom Matula. Topics: Space commerce, closing the commercial space business case. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. We welcomed our friend Dr.

Dr. Tom Matula returned to The Space Show for this program. Dr. Matula has a specialty in private spaceports so we began the discussion talking about spaceports in New Mexico and elsewhere. Dr. Matula addressed financing and market issues, political risks, orbital and suborbital destinations, and more. He provided us with a comprehensive analysis of the developing spaceport industry, the markets for the spaceports and the likely timing and commercial success of various spaceports under development or consideration.

Dr. Tom Matula returned to The Space Show for this program to discuss his latest proposal, the Space Markets Act of 2005. This proposed law is designed to stimulate within the U.S., the demand for sub-orbital and orbital launch services. During the program, Dr. Matula explained his proposed Act and answered many questions about it from listeners.

Dr. Thomas Matula, an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Houston - Victoria, where he teaches in their MBA program, discusses new businesses strategies that have the potential to break through many of the existing commercial space barriers. We discuss space development banks, spaceports, the state of space education throughout the United States, space tourism, and space commerce in the aftermath of the Columbia shuttle accident. Dr. Matula offers suggestions for dealing with many of the existing problems facing the continued commercial development of space resources.