For those of you who don't know Jeffrey Manber, he is the former CEO of MirCorp, the short-lived venture which actually managed to lease the Mir Space Station, prevented it from being de-orbited (temporarily), and set a number of commercial firsts in space, including the first commercial space mission. Now, Manber is CEO of NanoRacks, LLC, a company that sells lab space on their "Nanorack" product, which houses CubeSat size modules and fastens to the external structure of the ISS.
Before this and before MirCorp, however, Manber was the U.S. representative of RSC Energia, and contributed and witnessed first-hand the very beginnings of U.S.-Russian cooperation in space. This is the topic of his new book, "Selling Peace". The path-breaking deals overseen by Manber in this time laid the foundation for future cooperation.
An excerpt of his book, made available on FOX News last week and complete with a rigorous documentation of Russian drinking habits, can be seen here:
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