Bruce Furst is an Austin, Texas-based entertainment executive who has managed the distribution of licensed music content for a variety of film productions. Among Bruce Furst’s future-focused endeavors is Intergalactic Royalty Operations Corporation (iRoc), which functions similarly to ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) in safeguarding the royalties earned by members for extraterrestrial public performances of their music.
With placing humans on Mars and returning manned space vehicles to the Moon a national priority, iRoc-facilitated outer space distribution rights will result in major growth. In December 2017, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, which provides NASA with a mandate to form public-private partnerships with the potential to drive human expansion across the solar system.
An emphasis is on reorienting the organization toward manned space expeditions in place of robotic probes. As a first step toward this, plans are underway to send the first astronauts to the Moon since the early 1970s. These plans will build the foundation for a subsequent Mars mission. NASA's new mandate represents the furthering of the free market principles that have driven economic growth into the space realm, with an emphasis on building areas of human progress and expansion.
