On Episode 135 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Rick Jenet of Expanding Frontiers about how the space workforce of the future will be educated and, perhaps more importantly, engaged.

Located in Brownsville, Texas, just a stone's throw away from SpaceX's Starbase, expanding Frontiers works with underprivileged communities to bring them into 21st-century space-related trades and to encourage individual entrepreneurship. Dr. Jenet has a fascinating history as well, attending MIT as an undergraduate and earning his PhD in astrophysics from Caltech, then progressing through his work at various places, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before founding Expanding Frontiers. Join us!

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