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Space Cafe Radio - Eyes Wide Open: Marshall Smith on Building the Commercial Space Station
20 minutes Posted May 14, 2026 at 6:00 am.
Space Cafe Radio - Eyes Wide Open: Marshall Smith on Building the Commercial Space Station
From NASA to Commercial: Marshall's Journey
Starlab's Development Status
The ISS Gap Risk
Starship as the Launch Vehicle
Funding & Government Demand Signals
International Partnerships
ITAR & Regulatory Barriers
Starlab as a Platform for Science & Commerce
Manufacturing in Orbit
Artemis II & the Vision for Humanity
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In this episode of Space Cafe Radio, host Torsten Kriening, Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global, sits down with Marshall Smith, CEO of Starlab Space, at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The conversation reconnects a story that began in Bremen back in 2018, when Marshall was wiring together SLS, Orion, and Gateway at NASA, and now finds him on the other side, building the commercial future he once championed from inside the agency. From NASA Insider to Commercial Builder Marshall refl...