A week before the launch of NASA’s Artemis II crewed lunar orbit mission, NASA unveiled plans to establish a permanent lunar base near the Moon’s south pole. NASA will invest $30 billion over the next decade. In her guest column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Justine Kasznica discusses the need to sustain this vision in the region. With our PA-based firms and institutions and advantages in energy, this region brings a combination of strengths aligned with a lunar economy and is well-positioned to partner with NASA to build the infrastructure that could define the 21st and beyond. Companies like Astrobotic Technology are already contributing to NASA’s lunar ambitions through landers, delivery systems, and lunar power technologies, and other Pennsylvania-based firms, including Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Ansys, and Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. are leaders in space nuclear technologies, computing and simulation, and thermal technologies respectively. To read the full article, click here.
Justine Kasznica will be a panelist on the Small Business Presentation panel to speak from her role as a lawyer who helps space and other technology businesses/individuals designed soon-to-be proprietary information operate in the tech transfer space, especially individuals and companies in the early stages of idea development moving out of their lab and into the commercial realm.
Attorney Justine Kasznica who is also the Board Chair of the Keystone Space Collaborative leads the 2022 Keystone Space Collaborative Inaugural Conference April 20-21 at the Carnegie Science Center. Speakers include:
- Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) who chairs the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee that funds NASA
- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) who is a member of the Senate Appropriations CJS subcommittee
- Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA)
- Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator
- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator for Science
- Jim Reuter, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology
The Keystone Space Collaborative represents the Tri-State region’s (PA, OH, WV) space industry and community and values making space more accessible for all who want to learn and understand what commercial space represents for the nation and humankind.