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Rick Liebling is a vice president at VSC, a public relations agency that specializes in working with tech startups. His experience includes working with clients across a variety of industries and verticals, including space, AI, Web3, mobility, and sustainability and climate tech.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a faraway spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA STSCI
Posted inOpinion

We’ve lost our ability to be awed by space

by Rick Liebling July 11, 2025July 8, 2025

There was a time when looking up at the night sky stirred a visceral sense of wonder. The moon landing, the Shuttle launches, the Voyager missions — these were moments […]

Self-proclaimed "First Buddy" Elon Musk gestures while discussing the sixth Starship test launch with President-elect Donald Trump at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. To the right of Trump is Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force.
Posted inOpinion

How independent space companies can fight back against misinformation from Elon Musk and Donald Trump

by Rick Liebling February 28, 2025February 27, 2025
AI-generated image of rockets simultaneously launching from all around the world.
Posted inOpinion

Winning hearts and minds to further the global space economy

by Rick Liebling October 23, 2024October 22, 2024

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