Greg Autry has worn many leadership hats in the space sector. He is currently the Clinical Professor & Director of the Space Leadership, Policy and Business Program at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was a presidential nominee (as CFO) at NASA and continues to hold roles at the agency. He was also chair of the FAA’s COMSTAC Safety Working Group. Our conversation ranges from space entrepreneurship over space safety to geopolitics in space. I think you’ll really enjoy this one. I did!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:22 Greg's bio

6:09 Is the Space Sector an appropriate place for entrepreneurs

8:34 Space Master program at Thunderbird

11:02 What does a NASA CFO do?

13:15 More on Thunderbird

22:09 NASA InSPA

26:50 In-space manufacturing

31:35 FAA COMSTAC

35:10 Commercial space flight participant regulation

39:18 Space traffic management

44:38 "Death by China"

48:29 Astropolitics

50:27 Quickfire questions on the space sector

59:23 A message for young people

1:01:49 Sci-Fi