On The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 October 2025:
The Karman Project: Building a cooperative future in space
The Karman Project is a non-profit foundation promoting peace and security in space through strategic international cooperation.
The project aims to unite global decision-makers to drive urgent, collaborative action for a sustainable and peaceful future in space — recognising the core role of international cooperation to secure the space sector's prosperity, and Earth's critical reliance on it.
The organisation fosters trust, cooperation and independent dialogue between global leaders in tech, science, business, politics, the arts and people in the space industry, who want to positively impact space.
The Space That Makes Us Human is a documentary film experience showcasing the mission, vision and voices of The Karman Project. It shifts into focus The Karman Project’s efforts in connecting the leaders of tomorrow to create positive impact in space, and transports this message of impact to a global audience.
This episode features comments from Katherine Bennell (Australian Space Agency), Hélène Huby (Co-founder & Chair, The Karman Project), Thomas Pesquet (Astronaut, ESA), William Gerstenmaier (Vice President, Mission Assurance, SpaceX), Karen Hitschke (Board member, Yunus Social Business), Chris Boshuizen (Co-founder, Planet), Jonathan Hofeller (Vice-President, Starlink, SpaceX), Sera Markoff (Member, Event Horizon Project, University of Amsterdam), Jean-Jaques Dordain (former Director General, ESA) and Prateep Basu (Co-founder & CEO, SatSure).
Marking what would have been the 70th birthday of astronaut Ronald McNair, who died in 1986 during the launch of STS 51-L, Space Shuttle Challenger.