The Nationwide Area Society’s Martine Rothblatt Area Settlement in Our Lifetime Prize Enterprise Plan Competitors continues to be accepting submissions for its 2025 money awards. This competitors grants money awards of $16,000, $10,000, and $6,000 USD for first, second, and third place for the highest three finest house settlement-related enterprise plans acquired that replicate Dr. Rothblatt’s imaginative and prescient for house settlement. Previous winners have gone on to run profitable space-related enterprise and have even launched payloads to the Moon. The competitors will settle for submissions till midnight Pacific Time, March 1, 2025, and winners shall be introduced on the Nationwide Area Society’s Worldwide Area Improvement Convention® (ISDC®) in June. For extra info, see the competitors web site.
Dr. Rothblatt has been a pioneer in satellite tv for pc communications, founding the Sirius XM radio community in 1990, and later turned the chair and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm dedicated to prolonging human life. Dr. Rothblatt’s trailblazing work in organ alternative has saved numerous lives and shall be a key know-how in creating sustainable communities in house. You possibly can be taught extra concerning the competitors, and Dr. Rothblatt’s imaginative and prescient—a key ingredient of a profitable entry—at spacebizplan.nss.org.
“Dr. Rothblatt’s views of the way forward for house settlement symbolize a grand imaginative and prescient for the human growth into house—to stay and prosper—over the subsequent century,” stated NSS President Isaac Arthur. “This imaginative and prescient consists of mass migration of human beings to house habitats, and we on the NSS hope that the Area Settlement in our Lifetime Enterprise Plan Competitors continues to propel superior fascinated with settling the ultimate frontier.”
This competitors isn’t for merely an thought or a proposal, however for an entire preliminary marketing strategy that outlines your imaginative and prescient and demonstrates its potential as a affluent enterprise endeavor that takes place in, makes use of, or leverages some facet of cislunar house. To be taught extra concerning the parameters of a very good house marketing strategy, and higher perceive Dr. Rothblatt’s imaginative and prescient, go to the competitors web site.
The competitors is open to anybody, of any age, wherever on Earth (native legal guidelines and restrictions could apply). Entered enterprise plans shall be adjudicated by senior Nationwide Area Society leaders with three finalists to be introduced previous to the ISDC convention.
