A few months ago, I asked him to be on my advisory board for my new company. He thanked me for the offer, but told me he had to decline because there was a potential conflict of interest. But today he announced that he is going to be heading up a much more important advisory council. I think it’s a great choice.
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…for my new company.
I must not have been paying close enough attention to this blog.
What new company?
The one that I’ll be getting off the ground this year (I hope) but haven’t announced yet, either formally or otherwise. It will involve transportation and other services in LEO.
We need an orbital (and planetary) outfitters. Somebody to do suits and the mundane stuff. If one could get from development to production with product before the cash burn eats one alive.
Yup. In the California gold rush, it wasn’t the miners that made money, it was Levi Strauss.
After he retired, Wayne Hale came to work for the company I’m at now. It has little to do with space flight, but his insight was very valuable. There was a while when I volunteered at JSC to do VIP tours of Bldg 9 and then would hand the VIP over to Wayne at MCC. I never got to know Wayne as well as Milt Heflin, but I was in awe of them more than the astronauts. I’m glad he will continue to provide his sage advice to NASA. They need it.