‘Explosion of opportunity’: Axiom, NASA project low-Earth-orbit economy boom in next decade

Four planned commercial spaceflights and a campus under construction in the Houston Spaceport are part of Axiom Space’s bet on a successful low-Earth-orbit manufacturing economy within a decade, according to CEO and co-founder Michael Suffredini

“The local economy is affected significantly because not only will there be jobs, but the amount of research and manufacturing that will take place over time will start to focus around the Houston area as well,” Suffredini said. “There’s a lot of testing…