Drea Bernardi

The Varda capsule in it's Hawaiian shirt at the Payload tiki night. Last week, I attended my first-ever Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, and I’m still processing the energy, ambition, and momentum of it all. For 41 years, this gathering has helped shape conversations about where the space industry is headed. To experience it for the first time as a relative newcomer was equal parts inspiring, energizing, and clarifying. It also made one thing very clear: the next 40 years of space are...