Christina Korp is the former manager of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and, in recent years, was COO and CMO of the Aldrin Family Foundation. A veteran of the mainstream entertainment and media industry, she developed and executed global marketing campaigns, brands and activations, and co-produced the Emmy-nominated, Webby-winning “Buzz Aldrin’s Cycling Pathways to Mars” VR experience with 8i and TIME LIFE VR. In this Astro Ben Podcast interview, we hear what it was like to be a “fly on the wall” in Buzz’s life and how Christina is committed to bringing the Apollo-era perspective to generation Artemis.
They also cover how Christina found herself in a room with Buzz Aldrin and Barack Obama, what Buzz thinks about private companies accessing space, the challenges of raising the profile of Artemis and what she would change about the US educational system.
What you will hear in this episode
Who Christina Korp is
How Christina found herself in a room with Buzz Aldrin and Barack Obama
What it was like working for Buzz
What Buzz thinks about private companies accessing space
How Christina’s view of space has changed
Challenges with raising the profile of Artemis
Making rockstars of astronauts
What Christina would change about the US educational system
What Christina learned from Buzz
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