Space Business Podcast Space Business Podcast #93 - Nima Shahinian
Nima Shahinian is a Norwegian industrial designer planning on going to space, and he has already started some of the training, which he will tell us about. He has now even put together a whole project and team in Norway that is working on taking a group of people to space, including several candidates with disabilities. Hear all of about it in this episode – and, since he is a designer, we also talk about space design! Enjoy!
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:43 How did Nima become an astronaut candidate?
4:51 Nima's Design work
6:20 Space design
8:16 Best space suits
10:00 Family's take
11:20 Forming a project team
12:54 Timeline and origin
18:01 First mission
20:50 Financing the Project
24:33 Iranian women in space
26:26 The Next Step project
30:15 Potential candidates
33:13 Plans for the mission
38:30 Nima's space training to date
41:48 Helping Project Next Step
44:03 Vision for the project
45:57 Sci-Fi