Joshua Carlson, Sunday, 4-24-22, #3858, Time:  1 hour 29 minutes

Guest:  Joshua Carlson; Topics:  The author used his recent book, “Spacepower Ascendant: Space Development Theory and a New Space Strategy” to discuss national security space, space settlement, space policy, competition, timelines and more.

Guests: John Batchelor, George Dvorsky, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Competition for lunar human landers.  

Guest. Dr. Brian Green; Topics:  Our guest discussed his new book "Space Ethics" along with leading us through a more detailed discussion about ethical issues for humans developing and living in space.  See the blog post for information about his book and the Table of Contents for his book.

Note:  Mr. Batchelor has notified me that this file was lost, thus there will be no archived program.  Please use the summary below to reference our one segment Hotel Mars discussion.  Thanks.  David

Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Mars and the new Perseverance rover  

Guest:  Dr. Ajay Kothari; Topic:  Returning to the Moon post Covid 19.  Be sure to read Dr. Kothari's Space Review article from May 11, 2020.  He has posted a link to this article on the blog plus to other relevant documents.  The bottom line for Dr. Kothari was and is that it is essential to return to the surface of the Moon, we are in a fierce competition with China that also involves national security, we must bypass the Gateway and go direct using the FH or a yet to be built other large commercial rocket.  He explained the need for returning to the Moon has having two points.