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Maintaining leadership in space with Victoria Coleman

Chimera readability score 65 out of 100, Academic reading level.

In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, David Ariosto talks with Victoria Coleman, the former chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force who now serves as associate provost of the Berkeley Air & Space Center at the University of California, Berkeley. They discuss how space represents the convergence of disparate scientific fields such as computing, AI, physics and materials, combined with human’s inherent curiosity about exploration. They also talk about operationalizing and disrupting new space technologies and what it takes to maintain asymmetry in military technologies.
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