Chasing Space
What’s really happening in the trillion dollar space industry? Chasing Space tells the story of the people, the global movements, and the unimaginable engineering feats that are transforming our world every day - in ways most people don’t even realize.
Hosted by Brenden Swanik.
Chasing Space
27. Bradley Cheetham: From the Drawing Board to the Moon
Future Space Leaders Foundation
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Bradley Cheetham is a lifelong space advocate, highly experienced engineer, a three-time entrepreneur and, seasoned graduate-level instructor. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Advanced Space where he leads company in its efforts to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space by delivering solutions in flight dynamics, technology development, and rapid turn-key missions to clients across the space industry. Advanced Space is the owner and operator of the CAPSTONE spacecraft, which successfully arrived at the Moon in 2022 as a pathfinder for NASA's Artemis program. Bradley serves as the PI for this mission which represents the first-ever commercial spacecraft to operate at the Moon.
Cheetham earned a degree in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and received his Masters in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, there he also conducted significant research on spacecraft navigation at the Moon in support of a Doctorate of Philosophy under the guidance of the late Dr. George Born. He created and taught a graduate level course in Commercial Spaceflight Operations at CU Boulder for 7 years.
As an advocate for the space industry, he was a co-founder and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Future Space Leaders Foundation, is a member of the Entrepreneurship and Investment Committee of the International Astronautical Federation, and serves on the Board of Advisors and the Board of Trustees of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). As an advocate for the Colorado entrepreneurial ecosystem, Brad serves on the Board of Directors for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) Colorado.
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