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Theodore Southern
Ted Southern is an American artist and designer. He is a co-founder of Final Frontier Design and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Biography Ted Southern, President of Final Frontier Design, artist, and designer, began his career in aerospace by entering the NASA Astronaut Glove Challenge in 2007 as part of his MFA thesis at Pratt Institute. In 2009, Ted and Nik took home a cash prize and created Final Frontier Design from the winnings with Nikolay Moiseev. Ted and Nik used kickstarter to help fund the 3G space suit. Prior to space, Ted's work focused on technical garments for movies, theatre, and television including wings for Victoria's Secret and costumes for Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun .... References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Frontier Design
Final Frontier Design is a seed-stage startup company that builds and tests spacesuits. The company's products both enable, and are enabled by, the more recent lower-cost access to outer space, space epitomized by NewSpace Space launch, launch companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace. FFD was awarded a Phase I SBIR in 2011 and developed pressure garment glove technology under this contract. In July 2011, Final Frontier Design won third place in the ''2011 NewSpace Business Plan Competition'' in Silicon Valley, sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation. In December 2014, Final Frontier Design obtained an official Space Act Agreement with NASA. Company Final Frontier Design was founded in 2010 by "artist and designer" Ted Southern, a former Eyebeam (organization), Eyebeam resident, and his partner Nikolay Moiseev, "a Russian mechanical engineer," with the intent to "craft affordable yet highly capable spacesuits for a burgeoning Private spaceflight, commerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
