Rick Tumlinson

Rick Tumlinson is the founder of SpaceFund, a venture capital firm investing in space startups. He also founded the Space Frontier Foundation, Earthlight Foundation, the Space Cowboy Ball, and was a founding board member of the X Prize Foundation. Rick's goal is an open frontier in space in his lifetime and has worked to achieve this for over 35 years.

Articles by: Rick Tumlinson

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk celebrates the successful launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on May 30, 2020.

The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire 'NewSpace' revolution

By Rick Tumlinson published

As entrepreneurs spend billions on space, there is a backlash building that holds their projects as icons of extravagance, even as they may help save the Earth. This is the "Elysium effect."