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Richard Mains
Richard C. Mains is President and Principal Scientist of Mains Associates, a Berkeley-based company specializing in strategic science communications. The company recently celebrated 25 yrs of providing professional services to clients for capturing, writing and communicating the real value produced by their researchers, businesses, and emerging markets, for their key stakeholders NASA has been a major client over this period but increasingly the company has extended its services to industry, academia and NGOs. Richard has been an author of over 50 science and technical publications and his company has received several NASA Certificates of Excellence, awards for spaceflight mission achievements and associated publications, and commendations for its products and services.
Let's Stop Pretending We Can Establish Human Outposts Beyond Earth Orbit
We're not ready! It's time for ISS research on human life support, development and testing of commercial space transport, robotic technologies, and lunar rovers as pathfinders.
We Need Cheaper Access to Space: Can It Be Done?
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What's really behind Obama's revised strategy for NASA? Why is Bolden solidly behind it and convinced that his team, with commercial space partners, can make it happen?
“I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help”
NASA will be the ideal "Collaborative Customer" for Commercial Space Services as they become available. But what will it require for the Agency to assume that role?
So, Let's Talk About It: The NASA Resources Gap
How can we lower costs for access to space, create a real space economy, and produce jobs for the future? Let's talk about it.
Inside the Big Suborbital Research Tent
The emerging commercial suborbital research community contains an amazingly broad range of stakeholders who need to collaborate for lower-cost space access, resource leveraging, market building, and business success.
