When SpaceX's Starship is ready to settle Mars, will we be? (op-ed)
The challenges of settling Mars stretch beyond the boundaries of rocket technology, impacting our biology and fundamentally questioning our identity as a species.
Volodymyr Usov
Entrepreneur, former Chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine
Volodymyr Usov is a technology entrepreneur from Ukraine who served as a chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine in 2020 and 2021. He is a co-founder of Kurs Orbital, a start-up developing an autonomous rendezvous and docking system for future in-orbit servicing missions. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and currently resides in Turin, Italy, where he is developing Kurs Orbital's technology with support from the European Space Agency's Business Incubation Center.
