Financial Times
Writing for Financial Times, visiting scientist Ariel Ekblaw SM '17, PhD '20 makes the case that “we need to see space as an emerging market — one that requires strategic attention.” “As a factory floor, space offers a set of unique properties. Microgravity assists new assembling habitats that may enable breakthroughs. Pharmaceutical companies have studied protein crystallization on the International Space Station,” Ekblaw writes. “The infrastructure that we build in orbit can directly benefit Earth.”