Futurama: Space Manufacturing w/ Twyman Clements - Co-Founder & CEO of Space Tango

Topics:Starting a microgravity research companyHow microgravity is achievedVomit comets and drop towersDeveloping stem cells in space.Optimizing the space station supply chainThe next stage of space manufacturingTesting pills for long-duration flightsThe biggest challenges to making manufacturing in space widely adopted.Space manufacturing in 10 years.Twyman is the co-founder and CEO of Space Tango, a company that manufactures products in space that create transformational solutions that cannot be attained on earth.Twyman went to the University of Kentucky where he got involved with the Space Program which eventually turned into a job. At Kentucky Space, he was a Program Manager for the KySat-2 CubeSat program and was also the lead engineer on KS 5 Regenerative Medicine Experiment that was sent to the ISS in 2014. From there, he founded Space Tango which started small but has grown into the leading player in the on-orbit R&D and Manufacturing industry with 19 missions launched, 94 payloads delivery, and 165 experiments conducted in microgravity conditions.Website: https://spacetango.com/Twyman Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/twyman-clements-88263642/Movies: Interstellar, Apollo 13

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