EP #372 - Thomas Zurbuchen: Startups & NASA: Braving the Unknown
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Timestamps:
4:26 - Getting kicked out of home
16:00 - Immigrants and entrepreneurs
20:56 - Getting a job offer from NASA
39:35 - Startups and space missions
43:39 - Leaving NASA
About Thomas Zurbuchen:
Thomas Zurbuchen is a professor at ETH Space and the former Head of Science at NASA. He was born in 1968 in the canton of Bern, son of a Free Church preacher who did not want him to attend university to study Astrophysics. Thomas went against his father’s wishes and was consequently kicked out of the house, and the ensuing isolation was the hardest ordeal he ever experienced in his life. In retrospect, Thomas believes this experience inoculated him from fearing future isolation and hardship.
After completing his PhD in Astrophysics at
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