Rick Tumlinson

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UnKnown

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Businessman

Rick Tumlinson has been named one of the world's leading space consultants and is best known for his help in building a real estate industry, often referred to as: NewSpace. He is the founding partner of SpaceFund, a new type of investment firm at the crossroads of digital financial technology and space development. The lead author, speaker and witness of Congressional, led the commercial takeover of the Russian space station, signed the first space shuttle, founded the Space Frontier Foundation, and was a member of the board that founded the X-Prize. Rick also founded Deep Space Industries - a space mining company. For her world-changing work, in 2015 she won the World Technology Award. Currently, his non-profit organization, the New Worlds Institute, is developing people and technology to cross the border.

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When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will do nothing but bad things, a deeper kind of sadness sets in, almost at the level of resignation.

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

I am a Leaper: a person who - thanks to some mathematical errors tied to the cosmic interactions of Earth and Sun and bad math on the part of some old timers long ago - is lost in time, born on a day that simply doesn't exist three out of four years.

Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.

To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early pioneers, there will be no nearby friendly merchants or supportive governments to replace that broken tool.

Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream.

We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we will get more science because when you are living somewhere, you obviously learn more about it. NASA and the government must first get out of the way and then support us as we open the frontier.

Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.

Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you know you can do, or simply beyond what you know. It is in these moments that we live.