One part of the endowment focuses on community development work, mostly in the outer boroughs, such as job training, nonprofit real estate development, the Freelancers Union health care program and support for food businesses from artisanal food companies arising in Brooklyn to larger food processing plants that provide employment.
Dempsey pointed out that at the time the U.N. drafted the Outer Space Treaty, there were only two spacefaring nations -- the U.S. and the Soviet Union.