Commercial opportunities in space – Brittany Zimmerman
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Brittany Zimmerman, who has worked with NASA, ISS, and the US DoD. She has an inside track on the current and future technologies regarding space travel. We get some great insight on the commercial opportunities of space. If you want to invest in the final frontier, you will love this episode.
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- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello, the Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. Welcome to this week's show. My name's Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host. So today, we're talking with Brittany Zimmerman. How are you doing today, Brittany? |
| 0:20.9 | I'm doing wonderful. Thank you, Kirk. Good. Well, glad to have you on. This is going to be one of those shows where you'll probably enjoy because Brittany is what our Bostonians call wicked smart. And we're going to be talking about a lot of interesting topics and trends here. So Brittany, maybe you could tell us a little bit about your background. |
| 0:42.8 | I was originally educated in mechanical and aerospace engineering. So I designed aircraft for a while before I jumped out of the aerospace industry and joined the outer space industry. |
| 0:48.2 | Started working on an inflatable lunar Martian habitat and designing a greenhouse module. That was |
| 0:54.1 | fantastic. I did a lot of work |
| 0:56.3 | in the outer space community. I designed a lot of stuff and components for NASA. I ended up |
| 1:02.8 | inventing a technology that takes astronauts fecal matter, extracts the water from the feces, |
| 1:08.8 | makes it fully potable again. Then I would utilize the dried biomass actually as a filler for additive manufacturing |
| 1:15.5 | processing. |
| 1:16.2 | So we could actually 3D print commodities in flight for some of our long-duration space missions. |
| 1:22.3 | So it was exciting. |
| 1:23.1 | Got selected as the youngest NASA principal investigator and got the opportunity to lead a lot of teams |
| 1:28.3 | through the development of technologies from initial concepts, right, a TRL zero, up through |
| 1:34.1 | integration and commercialization. I'm fortunate enough to have technology is currently on the |
| 1:40.0 | International Space Station, have patents that are selected for a lot of the different space |
| 1:44.5 | initiatives that are going on right now, got to develop some habitats for the Martian Surface |
| 1:49.7 | operations, the whole slowest stuff for the Department of Defense, and have recently really made |
| 1:55.0 | a shift into more of the terrestrial applications for some of those technologies. |
| 1:59.6 | One of the reasons I brought Brittany on the show is because |
| 2:02.3 | given there's a huge trend now into space, we've talked about a little bit on the show every once in a while, |
| 2:08.1 | but there's a lot of investment going into the space field. And I thought Brittany would be a great |
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