Date Aired: Saturday 20 Oct 2007
Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Puig-Suari is the CubeSat Project advisor at Cal Poly University and this program was devoted to CubeSat projects, both university and otherwise. We started the discussion with the basics of cubesats and the Cal Poly program. Jordi also gave us his personal report on watching their university payload, along with many other universities, destruct on a failed Dnieper launch about 18 months ago. This is a failed launch description...
Date Aired: Thursday 18 Oct 2007
LtCol. Paul Damphousse from the NSSO was the guest for this special Space Show program. We started the discussion by explaining the Space-Based Solar Power Study as an opportunity for Strategic Security and why the National Security Space Office (NSSO) undertook this study. Listeners who have not yet seen the study or heard about the press conference held to announce the results of the study should visit the website of the National Space Society (www.nss.org) as the press conference audio is on...
Date Aired: Wednesday 17 Oct 2007
Frank Sietzen returned to The Space Show for this special program. Frank brought us up to date regarding the VSE in a comprehensive discussing ranging from the technical and the engineering to the policy and educational components needed for the VSE to be successful. Many listeners participated in this discussion which is a must listen to show. Frank detailed the budget aspects of the VSE and the state of our nation and brought them both together so we could understand what supporters of the...
Date Aired: Monday 15 Oct 2007
Dr. Paul Mueller, James Kendall Villarreal, and Brian Van Roy were the guest for this special program to discuss the Intercollegiate Rocket Launch Competition. You can find out more about this exciting competition by visiting http://spacegrant.usu.edu/esra. Dr. Mueller started out with an explanation of the program and then both James and Brian talked about their teams, membership, funding, rockets, and technical issues. Listeners asked several questions ranging from the application of what...
Date Aired: Sunday 14 Oct 2007
David Urie was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Urie, recently with the Rocketplane Kistler Group, is now a consultant regarding space business development. With space engineering experience pre-dating Sputnik 1, we talked in detail about rocket engineering, technology, markets, and economics. We discussed the feasibility of suborbital space tourism, orbital space tourism, the $100/lb to LEO cost, the Marine Space Transportation Vehicle and much more. Listeners asked lots of questions...
Date Aired: Saturday 13 Oct 2007
Dr. Joseph Pelton was the guest for this Space Show program. For this program, we discussed the upcoming Reach To Space - Space Commercialization Conference in Washington, DC, Nov. 12-13, 2008, www.reachtospace.org. We started our discussion regarding space tourism and space commerce as part of the conference. This is a good discussion, you will want to hear it. Listeners asked about the future economic potential for the telecommunications industry and for buying risk down with other commercial...
Date Aired: Thursday 11 Oct 2007
Mike Snead was the guest for this special Space Show program live from Grand Forks, ND as I am here teaching at UND Space Studies this week. Our topic was establishing space infrastructure and there is nobody more capable of discussing this topic than Mike Snead. As you will hear during this show, creating and putting into place space infrastructure is essential to becoming space faring. Mike received many listener questions about infrastructure ranging from costs, deployment, public versus...
Date Aired: Monday 08 Oct 2007
This is the Deep Space Message by Mel Marsh of Covington, GA: Greetings from Earth! I hope this message finds you well. The next time you are in the neighborhood of our Sun (it’s a relatively small middle-aged yellow star), please come to the third planet. You can’t miss it. It’s the small blue planet with a large satellite. While you are here, please come get me and take me back to your home. I would love to learn from you and you can learn from me. I’m an anthropologist, a student of humanity...
Date Aired: Monday 08 Oct 2007
Dr. David Schrunk and Dr. Madhu Thangavelu were our guests for this program regarding their book, "The Moon: Resources, Future, Development and Settlement," published by Springer/Praxis 2007. This book is available at Amazon.com and other book stores. During or program, both our guests fielded many questions regarding lunar development and why we should be doing it. They even received questions about environmental protection on the Moon and raised the concern of lunar development damaging the...
Date Aired: Sunday 07 Oct 2007
Dr. David J. Whalen was the guest for this special Space Show broadcast originating from Grand Forks, ND as I am here teaching this week in Space Studies at UND. Dr. Whalen is the new Department Chair for Space Studies at UND and we spoke about the department, future plans, courses offered, competition with other space studies programs at different universities and more. Several students were tuned in and were asking about the start of a Ph.D program in Space Studies, more faculty, changes in...
Date Aired: Thursday 04 Oct 2007
The Honorable Andrea Seastrand and Janice Dunn, both of the California Space Authority (CSA), were the guests for this program. We started our discussion talking about the upcoming Transforming Space 2007 Conference in Los Angeles, CA, November 5-8, 2007. For Space Show listeners, you can register for a $100 discount by putting "Space Show" in the coupon slot on the online registration form. You will hear Ms. Dunn make this generous offer at the end of the interview. Visit www....
Date Aired: Wednesday 03 Oct 2007
Space Studies at the University of North Dakota 20th Anniversary Message with Dr. David Webb, one of the founders of the Space Studies program and the first Chairman of the Space Studies Department, and Dr. David Whalen, the current Chairman of The Space Studies Department. Happy anniversary to the UND Space Studies Department, all the professors, staff members, students, and alumni. You are doing a great job and the next 20 years will be better still. A special thank you to Drs. Webb and...
Date Aired: Wednesday 03 Oct 2007
Paul Dickson, author of "Sputnik: The Shock of the Century," was the guest for this special Sputnik week program for The Space Show. Mr. Dickson is with us for about an hour without any breaks, discussing the impact of Sputnik from yet several different perspectives. In this discussion, we examine some of the non-space cultural issues such as the beginning of the women's movement, the integration issues of Little Rock, Arkansas and much more. Mr. Dickson fielded many questions about education,...
Date Aired: Wednesday 03 Oct 2007
This special program is a simulcast of the 62 Mile Club special event, "Space...it's Closer Than You Think" program which was held Oct. 4, 2007 at the Luxe Hotel in Bel Air, California. You will hear all the terrific talks made during this impressive program which promotes the commercial space industry to future customers, investors and the general public. About 140 people attended the event, networking opportunities were awesome for those in attendance, and The Space Show bring all of the...
Date Aired: Tuesday 02 Oct 2007
Dr. Roald Sagdeev was the special guest for this Sputnik 1 celebration program live from Moscow, Russia. Dr. Sagdeev provided us with historical and important insights from the Soviet space program and Sputnik. We talked about the cultural impact of Sputnik, space policy issues, returning to the Moon by the US, and going to Mars. Listeners asked questions about comparing the Russian space program with NASA, joint space operations, international cooperation, and ISS management and functions. One...
Date Aired: Tuesday 02 Oct 2007
Erika Lishock and Matt Bille joined Space Show listeners for this special Space Show program as part of Sputnik Week on The Space Show. We started this discussion by exploring the meaning of the Sputnik anniversary for this time in 2007, from a global perspective as well as from the American point of view. We spent much time during the program discussing various lessons learned and what we should have learned from Sputnik and the early days of the space race and how such lessons can and should...
Date Aired: Monday 01 Oct 2007
Ted Spitzmiller was the guest for this special Space Show program. As a space historian and author of the newly published series of books by Apogee, "Astronautics: Book 1-Dawn Of The Space Age" and "Book 2-To The Moon and To The Future," we talked important space history starting with Sputnik 1. As this week is the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, we did focus on the impact of Sputnik on America and the world, plus the early days of the American space program. Many listener questions came in for...
Date Aired: Sunday 30 Sep 2007
Bruce Damer, CEO of DigitalSpace, was the guest for this Space Show program. Please visit his website while listening to this program as many of the 3D visuals and graphics we talk about are on the site, www.digitalspace.com. We talked about his work with NASA, the challenges in getting NASA to see value in this work and to begin working with Bruce and his company. We talked about using this media to attract new people to the space movement, especially younger members of society. Bruce talked...
Date Aired: Saturday 29 Sep 2007
Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette was the guest for this special and important Space Show program. Dr. Shrader-Frechette spoke with us about radiation, career radiation dosages, what this means for spaceflight, even short suborbital spaceflight. She stressed over and over again during this interview that there is no safe limit for ionizing radiation and that even absorbing a small amount of this radiation in a suborbital flight can cause us health issues depending on our own body chemistry, our...
Date Aired: Thursday 27 Sep 2007
UND Space Studies Students Beth Reynolds and Driss Takir were the guests for this program which originally aired on Wednesday, Sept. 26 and is archived as of Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. Dr. John Jurist was the co-host for this program as he was one of the guest speakers for this week's class focusing on human factors for space travel and settlement. Beth and Driss were asked many questions about the Space Studies program, an inter-disciplinary program versus a focused program, perhaps on space...
Date Aired: Monday 24 Sep 2007
Dr. Mike Gaffey and Vishnu Reddy Kanupuru, Ph.D. candidate at UND in Earth System Science and Policy, were the guests for this Space Show program co-hosted with Dr. John Jurist. We began the discussion with Dr. Gaffey updating us on new developments with the Space Studies department at UND. From there, we began a discussion of Earth and Planetary Sciences, telescopes - both Earth-based and space-based, and telescope observing. We asked about the recent possible meteroirte in S. America and...
Date Aired: Sunday 23 Sep 2007
Jay Barbree, NBC'S veteran space correspondent, was with us to talk about our space program from Sputnik to today. His new book, "Live From Cape Canaveral" was the focus of this discussion. As listeners will hear, Jay shared with us not only his thought on the space program then and now, but hilarious stories with the Mercury 7 and the Gemini 9 astronauts. This interview is both very funny and entertaining and also informative and instructive. Listeners asked him many questions comparing the...
Date Aired: Saturday 22 Sep 2007
This is the second and final AIAA Space 2007 program and it features Stephen Metschan, CEO of TeamVision and Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises. Stephen was at AIAA promoting and presenting papers re the Direct 2 program which we have discussed on The Space Show. In this segment, he gives his impressions of what is happening at Space 2007 re Direct 2 and the NASA program, plus he compares and contrasts talks given by Dr. Scott Horowitz and Dr. Michael Griffin here at the conference. Rex...
Date Aired: Thursday 20 Sep 2007
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Date Aired: Thursday 20 Sep 2007
This is the first of two AIAA Space 2007 conference interview programs. This set of interviews includes discussion by Debra Facktor Lepore, President of Air Launch, LLC, Dr. Eligar Sadeh and his wife Chris, and Dr. Mike Gruntman, professor at USC. Debra updates us with Air Launch LCC news, Eligar is now a professor at the USAF Academy and has also started a private consulting business, and Dr. Gruntman talks about his educational ideas for space engineering improvements at the college level....
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