Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of his space company, Privateer Space. He wrote about this on Twitter.
“Privateer Space, unlike the others, is being launched,” the message says.
A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others. https://t.co/6s8J32mjuF
— Steve Wozniak (@stevewoz) September 13, 2021
Wozniak attached a link to a video about the company. In the description of the video, it is indicated that Privateer Space was founded jointly by Wozniak and an American engineer and CEO of the robotics company Ripcord, Alex Fielding. The Ripcord website says it was launched by NASA in 2014.
Privateer Space's future plans will become known at the AMOS technology conference, which will be held from September 14 to 17 on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
In April 2018, Wozniak told RBC that the development of space tourism will depend, in particular, on how many people can afford such a trip. “I would like a lot of people and companies to work to make space travel affordable. If I could get on a ship and fly to Mars with a one-way ticket, I would, ”he said. According to Wozniak, in the future, people will be able to move to colonies on other planets as part of both projects of space agencies and private enterprises, but they will not leave Earth en masse.
Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne in 1976, soon the company released the first model of the computer of the same name on the market (it is believed that Wozniak developed hardware for a computer almost alone). In 1981, Wozniak got into a plane crash, after which he retired from participating in the management of Apple. Later he worked as an engineer and scientist, collaborating with a number of companies and non-profit associations. Wozniak is still an Apple employee and continues to receive a salary. He himself explained that the only person who could fire him was Steve Jobs, who died in 2011.
