Speakers

EtherealX is currently building the world's first fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, Razor Crest Mk-1. The company is founded to significantly reduce space transportation costs, enable quick scientific growth, and catalyze civilizational progress. EtherealX’s Co-founder and CEO, Manu Nair, is a mechanical engineer whose early exposure to the Vedas sparked a lifelong interest in space exploration. Before founding EtherealX, he worked on propulsion systems for satellites and launch vehicles and contributed to a project at ISRO’s Human Spaceflight Centre. He graduated as a Scientist-Astronaut Candidate through a formerly NASA Space Flight Opportunities-supported research initiative, Project PoSSUM, in 2022. Manu has also contributed pro bono to planning private commercial spaceflight missions that have since been successfully executed.