Space Business Podcast #93 - Nima Shahinian

Nima Shahinian is a Norwegian industrial designer planning on going to space, and he has already started some of the training, which he will tell us about. He has now even put together a whole project and team in Norway that is working on taking a group of people to space, including several candidates with disabilities. Hear all of about it in this episode – and, since he is a designer, we also talk about space design! Enjoy! Nima's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_nims/ Follow us: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelroettgen/ Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/podcast_space Instagram - brand new! @raphael_space www.instagram.com/raphael_space/ Learn more about space & the space economy: Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy There is now a certificate for those wanting to enter the space sector: https://www.spacecertificate.com Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven:  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/spacebusinesspodcast   Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:43 How did Nima become an astronaut candidate? 4:51 Nima's Design work 6:20 Space design 8:16 Best space suits 10:00 Family's take 11:20 Forming a project team 12:54 Timeline and origin 18:01 First mission 20:50 Financing the Project 24:33 Iranian women in space 26:26 The Next Step project 30:15 Potential candidates 33:13 Plans for the mission 38:30 Nima's space training to date 41:48 Helping Project Next Step 44:03 Vision for the project 45:57 Sci-Fi