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The quest to build a telescope on the moon
If the FarView radio telescope is built, it would double as a demonstration of two unprecedented activities: mining and manufacturing in space.
When he was an undergraduate, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, he co-founded a company called Lumina Investments, which New York magazine lampooned as “the World’s Youngest, Most Charmingly Oblivious Hedge Fund.” (It eventually morphed into Dalma Capital Management.) They and scientists at several universities formed the FarView consortium, and, in 2021, NASA ’s Institute for Advanced Concepts ( NIAC) granted the group a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to develop its design. Meanwhile, he joked, employees from industrial backgrounds sometimes ask, “Why is this place so clean?” I reminded him of the culture clash in the film “Armageddon” between Bruce Willis’s character, an oil driller, and NASA, which wants him to drill into an asteroid.
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