The South by Southwest (SXSW 2013)  festival (March 8-17, Austin Texas) combines “original music, independent films, and emerging technologies”. This year there will be a

panel on “Crowd-sourcing the Space Frontier” will include Anousheh Ansari, who visited the International Space Station in 2006 and was name sponsor for the Ansari X-Prize in 2001, and Citizens in Space project manager and citizen-astronaut candidate Edward Wright.

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