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PBS Takes Notice: Premiere of “Silicon Valley Goes to Space” on KQED Nov 20
http://moonandback.com/2013/11/16/pbs-takes-notice-premiere-of-silicon-valley-goes-to-space/
PBS Takes Notice: Premiere of “Silicon Valley Goes to Space”
San Francisco Affiliate KQED Special Airs Wednesday, Nov. 20
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – KQED Television explores how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in a half-hour special, Silicon Valley Goes to Space, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 20.
From space tourism to mining the moon to companies ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300 billion global space industry. KQED talks to a new generation of entrepreneurs sprung from the high-tech culture of Silicon Valley who are venturing into the new unregulated “wild west” of space exploration in search of their space gold. KQED also examines potential new risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments.
“One of the most rewarding aspects of this documentary was spending time with executives and engineers at these new space startups and witnessing the passion and intelligence they bring to their amazing endeavors,” says Sheraz Sadiq, KQED Science television producer. “Many of these brainy, bold individuals are in their 20s and 30s, much like the phenomenal team of young NASA engineers who helped America reach the moon more than 40 years ago.”
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Silicon Valley Goes to Space was produced by KQED Science, the largest science and environment reporting unit in California. The half-hour documentary will also be online at kqed.org/science, along with KQED’s latest multimedia science and environment videos and reports.
PBS Takes Notice: Premiere of “Silicon Valley Goes to Space”
San Francisco Affiliate KQED Special Airs Wednesday, Nov. 20
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – KQED Television explores how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in a half-hour special, Silicon Valley Goes to Space, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 20.
From space tourism to mining the moon to companies ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300 billion global space industry. KQED talks to a new generation of entrepreneurs sprung from the high-tech culture of Silicon Valley who are venturing into the new unregulated “wild west” of space exploration in search of their space gold. KQED also examines potential new risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments.
“One of the most rewarding aspects of this documentary was spending time with executives and engineers at these new space startups and witnessing the passion and intelligence they bring to their amazing endeavors,” says Sheraz Sadiq, KQED Science television producer. “Many of these brainy, bold individuals are in their 20s and 30s, much like the phenomenal team of young NASA engineers who helped America reach the moon more than 40 years ago.”
<snip>
Silicon Valley Goes to Space was produced by KQED Science, the largest science and environment reporting unit in California. The half-hour documentary will also be online at kqed.org/science, along with KQED’s latest multimedia science and environment videos and reports.