Date Aired: Friday 02 Feb 2024
Listeners: Note that Cox Cable had an outage about 20 minutes into our program. Fortunately the internet came back and after about a ten minute delay we were able to produce a full length Space Show program. I removed the dead air from the recording. Nothing from our discussion was omitted. The audio was fair, probably because bandwidth was going in and out due to the Cox outage problem.
Guest: Jim Lewis; Topics: The first Vulcan launch, the two onboard Celestis...
Date Aired: Friday 12 Jan 2024
Due to guest illness, we have had a change in guest plans. We thank Doug for stepping in at the last moment so we can continue with our Friday program.
Guest: Dr. Doug Plata; Topics: A review of rockets, their capabilities, mission plans, objectives and more.
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Date Aired: Friday 17 Nov 2023
Guest: Dr. Tom Jones; Topics: We discussed Tom’s new book, “Space Shuttle Stories” plus we talked safety, commercial space, spacesuits, the Overview Effect and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 15 Oct 2023
Guest: John Jossy. Topics: The overall theme for this program was “Why Settle Space” per the blog Space Settlement Progress by John Jossy. We discussed the many contributing settlement vision statements submitted to John’s blog. The post is also on TSS blog for this show. Check it out to read the mission statements submitted. Additional questions on various topics were fielded re the vision statements and ideas.
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Date Aired: Thursday 20 Jul 2023
Guest: Rand Simberg: Topics: Apollo July 20th anniversary, Artemis 1 lunar mission, lunar south pole not Tranquility Base, multiple other important space news topics including the October concern about renewing the learning period for commercial space.
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Date Aired: Thursday 08 Jun 2023
Guest: Robert (Bob) Zimmerman; Multiple topics on space. For a short review of the discussed topics see our Tags for this show. The tags will be repeated below in this summary.
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Date Aired: Sunday 07 May 2023
Guest: John Strickland; Topics: Personal experience seeing the Starship Demo Test Flight at Boca Chica, U.S. energy policy and energy requirements, Space Solar Power, using GEO for SSP, SSP power delivery numbers, SSP compared to ground based solar, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion, nuclear electric power
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Date Aired: Tuesday 28 Mar 2023
Guest: Peter Garretson; Topics: Commercial space development and vision, mining the sky, resources, space and China, the U.S. Space Force, developing a space economy, the need for space infrastructure, Space Solar Power and more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 01 Mar 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Eric Berger, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: ULA possibly up for sale, Blue Origin, SpaceX, Starship testing, permits, Boca launch site, Artemis, testing re-entry, Raptor engines, BE 4 engine, lunar lander, financial stability, military, NASA and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 05 Feb 2023
Guest: Mark Whittington; Topics: Multiple space news stories plus new information on Starship, Artemis and proposed nuclear propulsion projects. Note that not all projects and items discussed were included in the tags so do listen to the show to hear all of what was discussed with Mark.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 03 Jan 2023
Guest: Robert (Bob) Zimmerman; Topics: 2022 launch rate as a record, SLS, Artemis, Starship fuel compared to SLS, China and their program, India's program and launchers, life at Venus, Artemis moon landers and more.
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Date Aired: Thursday 22 Dec 2022
Guest: Howard Bloom; Topics: Multiple space topics with a focus on Musk and SpaceX, state of the world with nuclear threats, Putin, China and totalitarianism, returning to the Moon, Mars, Artemis, Starship and much more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 20 Dec 2022
Guest: Rick Fisher; Topics: Rick provided us with an historical and present analysis of China and their space program with commentary spilling over into other important areas of our relationship with China.
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Date Aired: Sunday 18 Dec 2022
Guest: Michael Listner; Topics: Michael review space law and policy actions, policy and considerations for the year 2022. This resulted in multiple and various discussion topics. Use the Tags as a guide to the topics talked about on this program.
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Date Aired: Friday 16 Dec 2022
Guests: Dr. Jim Logan and Dan Adamo; Topics: Artemis, SLS, lunar landers, Gateway, returning to the Moon, Starship, Mars, art. gravity, human spaceflight safety, space medicine, space tourism, orbits, deep space compared to LEO and so very much more.
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Date Aired: Thursday 15 Dec 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Orion, Artemis 1 & SLS update with updates on Starship, Raptor engine testing and more.
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Date Aired: Friday 18 Nov 2022
Guest: Brad Bergan: Topics: We discussed Brad’s new book, Space Race 2.0: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Orbit, NASA and the Privatization of the Final Frontier. In addition, Brad was asked for his opinion on the new commercial space personalities, business, the commercial space future, national security concerns with China and more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 08 Nov 2022
Guest: Robert (Bob) Zimmerman; Topics: A look at some key space events for 2022, a look toward 2023, company reviews, a look at the records being made in the launch industry this year, commercial space and national security space commentary, space economics and much more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 16 Oct 2022
Guest: Dr. Erik Seedhouse: Topics: Erik's new book, "SpaceX: Starship To Mars The First 20 Years," SpaceX and Starship, SLS, human Mars mission, challenges for human Mars missions, launching from Boca Chica and much more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 27 Sep 2022
Guest: Sarah Scoles; Topics: Sarah talked about your science journalism, nuclear and also extraterrestrial work, articles, and books including her current work in progress, we talked about her target market for her articles, commercial space, Artemis, settlement, SSP and much more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 25 Sep 2022
Guest: Leonard David; Topics: Leonard discussed a variety of space topics ranging from public to commercial to planetary to human spaceflight. He included lunar return, Starship, SLS, Artemis, national security space issues, China and Russia and lots more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 14 Sep 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Eric Berger, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Preparing for the SLS and Starship test flights.
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Date Aired: Friday 09 Sep 2022
Guest: Dallas Bienhoff; Topics, OffWorld.ai, lunar return, policy, nuclear propulsion, depots, heat in space, orbital construction, a.i., robotics, terrestrial development for use in space and much more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 31 Aug 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Rand Simberg, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: SLS upcoming launch on Artemis 1
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Date Aired: Tuesday 30 Aug 2022
Guests: Multiple callers and email listeners; Topics: SLS, Starship, home made airplanes, Las Vegas, Focus Fusion, JWST, redshift, Big Bang, The Lurio Report, and more.
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