David Limp, BS’88, CEO of rocket company Blue Origin, is on a quest to open a new frontier of space exploration and has set his sights on building a “road” for millions of people to get there.

Blue Origin and a handful of other private companies, like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX, are racing to develop low-cost, reusable rockets that are safe enough to regularly ferry humans—and other materials—to space and back again. At least a dozen other Vanderbilt alumni are working in some capacity with Limp to achieve the company’s sweeping vision.

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