Eric Anderson of Space Adventures Speaks at TED2010
February 12 2010
Today, Eric Anderson, President and CEO of Space Adventures, Ltd. the only company that provides human space missions to the world marketplace, gave a lecture at the TED University’s 2010 Conference in Long Beach, California.
Held annually, TED University’s conferences brings together fifty speakers to give lectures on topics such as science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world.
Space Adventures, the company that organized the flights for the world's first private space explorers, is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecrafts. The company's advisory board includes Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, Skylab/Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev.
