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Podcast: SpaceBase Podcast
Episode: On Personal Spaceflights, Founding Aerospace Companies, and Catalysing Innovation in the NZ Aerospace Industry: An Interview with Mark Rocket
Description: An interview with Mark Rocket, founder and CEO of KEA Aerospace, developing a solar-powered, unmanned aircraft that will fly continuously in the stratosphere for months at a time to collect frequent high-resolution aerial images. Mark was also a co-founder of Rocket Lab, and the President of Aerospace Christchurch, a group of individuals and organisations that want to grow the economic wealth and aerospace capability of Christchurch.Mark is the very first kiwi to hold a suborbital flight ticket on Virgin Galactic and is just waiting for his turn to fly in space. In this interview, we...