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Paragon’s HALO customer and NASA visited Paragon to present awards to outstanding Paragon employees working on the life support system for the first space station to orbit the moon!

ICES 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky last week was a big success. Large attendance, great papers, and a stellar Dessert Reception sponsored by Paragon.
Paragon hopes to see you at ICES 2025 in Prague next year!

The legacy of Apollo 11, 55 years later.

The legacy of Apollo 11, 55 years later A reflection on Apollo 11, on the 55th anniversary of its launch in 1969, and lessons learned for today's space explorers.

Paragon Announces Water Purification System EDU for Starlab

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paragon-announces-water-purification-system-edu-for-starlab-302158951.html

The book is out!! Paragon's President & CEO contributed to a book on Interstellar Travel. The second volume of a 3 volume set, Grant Anderson wrote the chapter (4) on the Life Support challenges and design for an interstellar mission. The chapter discusses key concepts and design features needed to take humans to the stars. https://shop.elsevier.com/books/interstellar-travel/johnson/978-0-323-91280-8

's President & CEO Grant Anderson will be on a panel at the Space Tourism Summit. (https://spacetourismconf.com) Grant will be on the "Fostering health & Happiness in Off-World Habitats" panel moderated by Jacki Morie of on May 22nd. Healthy...but really?

Thanks Buzz Aldrin for giving us a shout-out and sharing Grants OpEd article on Apollo 13 lessons learned!

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Congratulations to Sierra Space on this momentous milestone. Paragon is proud to be part of the Dream Chaser Tenacity team!

Dream Chaser Tenacity has successfully completed its rigorous environmental test suite at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in readiness for first flight. The Dream Chaser spaceplane and Shooting Star cargo module were subjected to multiple cold-hot cycles to provide a realistic thermal simulation of the flight environment.

Press Release: https://www.sierraspace.com/press-releases/sierra-spaces-reinvents-space-transportation-with-dream-chaser/

Failure is not an option in Space

Failure is not an option: learning from Apollo 13 There are many important lessons we can learn from the Apollo 13 mission, and actions of the heroes both orbiting the moon and on the ground.

Paragon was honored with two RNASA Stellar Award nominations: Jonathan Anthony for Early Career, and Ron Wright, Bryan Hart and the entire HALO ECLSS team for the team nomination. Although we did not take home a trophy, we were honored with a luncheon, NASA behind the scenes tour, and recognition at the gala. Congrats to our amazing team!

Paragon is excited to announce it has received two RNASA Award Nominations. We are very proud of our team and the groundbreaking work they are achieving.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paragon-announces-rnasa-stellar-award-nominations-302125626.html?tc=eml_cleartime

Thank you, Lockheed Martin, for visiting our Houston office. We were thrilled to have you here and hope you enjoyed the experience of trying on a suit!

A Wish List for Boosting the Space Economy in 2024: As we push forth into the new year, Grant Anderson discusses new opportunities and Industry challenges for policymakers to address.

A Wish List for Boosting the Space Economy in 2024 The last decade has seen a tremendous resurgence in, and recognition of, the importance of space to everything that defines modern life. We simply wouldn’t have what we have – from our def

Thank you for the feature Emphasis Technologies!
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Paragon is at the Von Braun Symposium this week! Please email Kimmie at [email protected] for any meeting requests.

Today is a day of reflection for all of us, and a painful memory for all too many. On this day we come together to remember the fallen and honor those who selflessly risked their lives 22 years ago.

Paragon is excited to be a prime contractor for the Hera Rising mission! Please help us in raising awareness and pledge your funding for "Phase 1" of our journey to making the first female-led jump from the edge of space possible. Not only the first female-led jump, but a mission that will smash every existing record known! https://www.linkedin.com/company/risingunited/

Paragon’s recent Op-Ed “Getting Creative in Strengthening our Defense Industrial Base” is now live! Being innovative and flexible in how we tackle challenges will continue to become more important as America faces economic headwinds in an uncertain world.

Getting Creative in Strengthening our Defense Industrial Base A recent opinion piece was published a few weeks ago on America’s need to modernize its approach to the production of munitions. Expertly authored by GEN Joseph Martin (USA, ret.) and LTG David

Hera Rising is an unprecedented global live event of the first ever stratospheric balloon jump from the edge of space done by a woman that is set to break current world records. Paragon is excited to be the prime contractor on this mission! Hera Rising American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics - IST Chapter Society of Women Engineers https://www.space.com/stratosphere-parachute-jump-woman-skydive

Paragon is happy to announce Glenn Wells as our Chief Operating Officer. Welcome to the team!

Paragon Announces Glenn Wells as COO /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Space Development Corporation® (Paragon) is pleased to announce Glenn A. Wells as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Wells will...

Another Paragon office theme, the Tucson team rocks their Hawaiian Shirt Fridays!