The New Space Race
Entrepreneurs, agency leaders and astronauts driving a new era of space exploration and commercial launch.
12 faces
Who's in this deck?12 names — peek before you play
Elon Musk
Businessman
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and former public official who is the CEO and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX.
Jeff Bezos
Founder of Blue Origin · Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who founded Amazon and the space company Blue Origin.
Jared Isaacman
NASA administrator and commercial astronaut · NASA
Jared Taylor Isaacman is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025.
Gwynne Shotwell
American business executive
Gwynne Shotwell is an American business executive and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.
Peter Beck
CEO of Rocket Lab
Sir Peter Joseph Beck is a New Zealand entrepreneur and founder of Rocket Lab, an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. Before founding Rocket Lab, Beck worked in various occupations and built rocket-powered contraptions.
Sunita Williams
U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut
Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Expedition 32, and Expedition 71 and commander of Expedition 33 and Expedition 72.
Josef Aschbacher
Austrian space administrator
Josef Aschbacher is Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), a position he has held since 1 March 2021.
Shan Zhongde
Administrator of China's space agency · CNSA
Shan Zhongde is a Chinese engineer and administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut
Chris Austin Hadfield is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS).
Samantha Cristoforetti
Italian astronaut
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy.
Jessica Meir
Swedish and American marine biologist and NASA astronaut
Jessica Ulrika Meir is an American and Swedish marine biologist, physiologist, and NASA astronaut.
Victor Glover
American astronaut, circled the Moon in 2026
Victor Jerome Glover Jr. is a United States Navy captain, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. A former F/A‑18 pilot and graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in 2020, he piloted the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon to the International Space Station.