How you and your friends can get to space

The space race captured the nation's attention in the last century, but does anybody care today? The idea of a starting space company or doing something in space yourself might seem impossible -- after all, isn't space supposed to be hard (like Rocket Science)? In this talk, Chris will show how a group of students can build and launch their own spacecraft, and even become space entrepreneurs.

Chris is co-founder and CTO of Planet Labs, a Silicon Valley startup company that is launching a fleet of small low-cost satellites to image the Earth every day. Previously he was a Space Mission Architect at NASA Ames Research Center where he pioneered low cost spacecraft, including something fun you find out about in this talk.