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Jeffrey Manber
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Jeffrey Manber

American businessman1

Jeffrey Manber is the CEO of NanoRacks. Manber has been involved in key commercial space projects, principally those revolving around the commercialization of space assets as well as the integration of the Russian space industry into major space programs, including that of the International Space Station.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Jeffrey Manber (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

About

Manber is believed to be the only American to be an official part of the Russian space corporation, RSC Energia, during their privatization period of the 1990s.

As the founding CEO of NanoRacks, and founder of the parent company XO Markets, Manber guided the growth of the first company to own and market its own hardware services on board the International Space Station.

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Companies

Career

Occupation: businessperson, writer.5

Early Career and Soviet Space Program

This work led him to be invited by the Reagan Administration to help establish the Office of Space Commerce within the U.S. Department of Commerce. In so doing, he became involved in the early efforts by the Soviet Union to privatize and commercialize that nation's space efforts. In 1988 he assisted in the first ever commercial contract between the brand-new Soviet space station Mir and a U.S. company, Boston-based Payload Systems. The highly controversial pharmaceutical research undertaken on this project showed that microgravity was not always conducive to industrial research, despite the claims of NASA at that time. He was invited to the Soviet Union in 1989 to witness the launch, and began working with the Russians and the international banking community to privatize post Soviet space assets.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jeffrey Manber (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States6

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