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Astronomycast, episode 349, Mercury 7 Astronauts.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos,

who we help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the University of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the director of Cosmonquest.

Hey Pam, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing, Fraser?

I'm doing really well and I've got a new job that I thought I would announce here publicly in Astronomycast,

and among all the other things to try and get some publicity.

We get to shamelessly sell for more things we do from time to time.

We do, and this is an awesome project.

This is a pretty awesome job.

Yeah, so I have joined a company called HeroX, and HeroX is an offshoot of the X Prize.

So, you know, we've talked about the X Prize before.

This is the prize created by Peter Diamandis to offer that awarded $10 million to the first private space.

They're reached 100 kilometers altitude twice.

It was won by skilled composites, and they've gone on to come up with other X prizes,

like the Tri-Corder X Prize and the Looter X Prize, which I know you're doing some work with.

Yeah.

So, what HeroX is, is it is sort of Kickstarter meets X Prize.

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