Small Steps & Giant Leaps

Your community for discussing how to create a multi-planetary future for humanity.

[Small Steps & Giant Leaps @StepsLeaps]

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[Michael Mealling -- e/acc @mmealling]

To anyone building a startup that's trying to raise money or sell their product:

Do NOT start by talking about your technology. I repeat, DO NOT DO THAT.

First, describe the problem.

Then who has the problem. Then describe the level of pain that the problem causes. Then talk about how much the people who feel that pain are willing to pay. THEN give first-hand evidence for all of that. Then talk about your business model: who pays, how much, when, how, etc. Then ask the person you are talking to about whether they want to hear about your solution. Not your technology. Your solution. If you don't know the difference, then go back to your business model and start over. Only after ALL of that, would an investor or customer be even remotely interested in how your technology solves PART of the problem.

*Screen shot from SpaceNews' Military Space article "What defense buyers want from space startups":

[Alder @alder_riley]

When the @StepsLeaps community visited @skyler_chan_'s HQ months ago I told the crowd ISRU was going to be one of those terms that defines the coming decades as we expand to the stars.
Companies like @itemfarm, @gru_space, and others will define the off world industrial base.

[Small Steps & Giant Leaps @StepsLeaps]

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T- 3.5 hrs until our weekly space industry room! Stop by and chat about our future among the stars - Link below

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https://t.co/lkEeQVSMOd

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

This is incredible. The new @NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs.
I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us:

Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms
and dancing aurora!

[Skyler Chan @skyler_chan_]

if you've built flight hardware and are looking to work on our historic payload landing on the Moon next year, email me at skyler [at] gru [dot] space.

we are hiring founding avionics/ee engineers in sf to change the course of human history when we make the world's first bricks on the Moon in 2027.

[Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady]

Wearing my doppelganger jacket🥼 for the #PrincessLeia look on 💫 #StarsWarsDay — a gift from @Columbia1938
@starwars #StarWars #MayTheFourthDay #Maythe4thBeWithYou

[George Whitesides @gtwhitesides]

This site is incredible, all the NASA Artemis photos in one timeline:

https://t.co/8cXCz6qNcA

[Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady]

(1 of 2) Let’s Send Frank to Space! @fwhite66 coined the phrase “The #OverviewEffect” — how seeing our planet from afar can change the way people think. He has inspired many astronauts, including me, to share our perspectives. 👇

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https://t.co/jK6Wnq0HTb

We're doing our first cross-platform version of our weekly space industry chat next Sunday! RSVP here

[Alder @alder_riley]

Wonderful initiative to send Frank White to space!
Frank coined the term Overview Effect to describe the feeling and the impact of seeing earth from space and has been a tireless advocate for humanity's recognition of our place in the cosmos.

https://t.co/6dCtUG752W

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

A new Golden Age of exploration is here and we’re building the team to lead it.

NASA Force applications open today at 1pm ET.

Join NASA through a 1–2 year appointment and work on the missions pushing America higher, farther, and faster than ever before.

[Ben @B_Garelick]

One step closer to the Moon!

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Celebrating 65 years of humans in space!

Today on the International Day of Human Space Flight, we honor the first flight into space made by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, as well as the first Space Shuttle launch in 1981.

The best is yet to come.

[Alder @alder_riley]

"This is just the beginning"
- @NASAAdmin

An amazing day for humanity

[Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides @LorettaWhtsides]

25 Years of Yuri's Night THIS Sat April 11
At Los Angeles' iconic Griffith Observatory

With @Astro_Ron @RonRosano @AndySadhwani @AstroChuie, Nadine Nicole, Rod Roddenberry, Tim Russ, @FWhite66, @RichellEllisart @SamuelStubblefield, @JackBeyer, @XylaFoxlin, @astro_jannicke

[Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady]

🚀#TBT: Chatting with @SumiSomaskanda on @BBCWorld as the #Artemis2 crew performed the translunar injection (#TLI) maneuver —to break the #Orion spacecraft free from low Earth orbit and begin their trip to the Moon.
@NASA @NASAArtemis #space #Moon

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

Our full 4K shot of Artemis II SLS launching last week

God rockets are cool.

[Small Steps & Giant Leaps @StepsLeaps]

NASA's image site is updating now!

https://t.co/RlhoBE4eGu