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Tom Marotta is the CEO and Founder of The Spaceport Company. He is trained as a city planner, served the United States as a diplomat in Europe, Africa, and Iraq, helped write spaceport regulations for the FAA, and helped set up Astra’s first Florida launch pad in record time. The Spaceport Company holds two active DOD contracts, has launched five rockets at sea, and owns a specialized launch pad vessel. Tom has been an NSS member since at least 2016, when he was the Director of Operations for March Storm. Tom is the co-author, with long-time NSS member Al Globus, of The High Frontier: An Easier Way, a book outlining how new research and new technologies will make it easier than ever to build communities in space.