• The launch of SpaceX's Demo-2 is the first partnership between the government and a private company.
• The launch unlocks the possibility of a new era of sustained, private, commercial activity in space.
• Allows the US to avoid reliance on Russia to send astronauts to the space station
• This launch redefines the new age of space exploration.
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• This launch has even introduced us to new spacesuits that are just super cool to see.

• Robotic refueling equipment that was onboard Atlantis' final mission were computers as sold as the shuttle program. The program was born in 1981.
• There were four computers on board that operated in sync for reliability purposes.
• The speed of these computers was slower than any modern PC or smartphone.
• A fifth computer was the backup flight system. It ran on the same hardware and used different software.
• Astronauts used laptops for the first time in the 1980s.
• The Space station has a Wi-Fi network that is equivalent to broadband speeds at home

• Analog lines are the perfect legacy example.
• They have been around since the 1950s, yet their cost keeps rising due to tariffs and regulatory fees while becoming less reliable.

• The Telecommunications industry, as a whole, has innovated and introduced new ways of communication that are less costly and more efficient.
• To name a few, Web Conferences, Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), and other forms of Voice over IP (VoIP).

• VoIP and smartphones allow business owners to take calls from anywhere
• VoIP enables large enterprises to be flexible and to be able to adapt to unexpected events, like Covid-19, where all employees relocated to their homes.

• The same way that NASA is eliminating dependency from Russia, service providers like Granite, allow businesses to reduce dependence from incumbent carriers.
• When customers take the lead and focus on their business, they sit inside the cockpit. Similarly, Granite becomes your telecommunications control center, when you share control with us.

• When you partner with the right enterprise service provider, your business can accomplish so much more.
• Wall Street analysts for the SpaceX program estimate that it will lower the price tag for taxpayers and produce cost savings.
• Technology migrations can have the same effect on any business.