Intergalactic Southern Utah’s Moonshot Company By Elainna Ciaramella
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t’s been over 18,600 days since humans last set foot on the moon, yet all the activity in space in 2021 is signaling that we’ve entered a new era of space exploration. The race is on to see who will be the first billionaire to commercialize space travel or the first person to walk on Mars.
The resurgence in intergalactic interest isn’t being driven by government agencies this time around, but by some of the most influential entrepreneurs of our time: Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. While NASA is still pushing towards the ends of the universe, these innovative tycoons are commercializing, even democratizing, space travel. At the center of this new quest into space is a technology developed and manufactured by a newly rebranded
St. George startup company: Intergalactic. Formerly known as Airborne ECS, Intergalactic is an aerospace systems integrator that builds the world’s smartest, lightest, and most advanced thermal management systems for the commercial aviation, defense, and space sectors. And while the company once focused on travel within earth’s atmosphere, Intergalactic and CEO Brian McCann are pushing the boundaries to the ends of space. Continued on Page 10 Fall 2021 :: Southern Utah Business Magazine 9
