Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

For which piece?

Not-for-profit is NASA grants, a little bit of corporate sponsorship, and then philanthropy from visionaries who want to see a vision of space that is more inclusive, that is more democratized.

All two of them.

Or that they want to let...

Both of them.

I don't get any money from those two.

I think it's more that we... And I used to be really obsessed with science fiction when I was younger.

I really did want to go live on Mars and elsewhere.

Someday, I think that'd be amazing for humanity.

But I changed my focus in Aurelia Institute right around the beginning of the pandemic to say, I actually want to work on space infrastructure that is good for life on Earth.

So our donors are people who are happy to support space, but they want it to support life on Earth.

They want it to be off-worlding the AI data center so that you're not having that burden of the heat that's generated inside of a water vapor atmosphere, right?

That's why they're excited to support Aurelia.

It's a little bit different than the other typical people that you think about in the space industry, but yeah.

I'm with you guys on this.

I think humans should live in space stations that can spin.

Why go to another gravity well that's only one-third our gravity well, which means we're not going to do well.

We're not even sure a woman can bring a baby to term in one-third G. So talk about Mars civilization.

It's more like Mars outpost.

This is my favorite topic.

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