Date Aired: Sunday 30 Dec 2007
Guest: Professor Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz. Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz returned to The Space Show as the last guest of 2007 in order to afford us a legal look at space law for the year. A few topics discussed on this show included the new U.S. Federal regulation for commercial personal spaceflight, new remote sensing laws in Germany and France, pending space laws in Japan, and the upcoming 2nd International Conference on the State of Remote Sensing laws. Professor Gabrynowicz certainly earned...
Date Aired: Saturday 29 Dec 2007
Guest: John Spencer. John Spencer was with us today to talk about space tourism. John, as founder of The Space Tourism Society ( http://www.spacetourismsociety.org), started off our discussion with the big picture for space tourism both here in the United States and globally. We talked about the growth the space tourism industry is undergoing in terms of its early development, the international aspects and interest regarding space tourism and the ability to give people here on Earth a taste of...
Date Aired: Thursday 27 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. George Robinson. Dr. George Robinson returned to The Space Show to discuss the topic of his new paper, "Public Space Law, The Practitioner, And The Private Entrepreneur: Distinguishing What 'Ought To Be' From What Is." Dr. Robinson said there were several important areas of space law which need to be examined by both domestic and international lawyers before the VSE can be fully implemented. These areas include ITAR, difficulties with the U.N. Outer Space Treaty (OST), how to provide...
Date Aired: Wednesday 26 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. Robert Farquhar. Dr. Robert Farquhar was the guest for this Space Show program. Our interview jumped right into the frying pan as we asked Dr. Farquhar for his thoughts on the current VSE. As we discovered, Dr. Farquhar would prefer to visit a NEO in preparation for going to Mars, rather than return to the already-explored Moon. As part of preparing for a manned NEO visit, there would need to be lunar orbital missions and extensive use of the Sun-Earth L2 libration point as the...
Date Aired: Tuesday 25 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. Robert Farquhar. Dr. Robert Farquhar was the guest for this Space Show program. Our interview jumped right into the frying pan as we asked Dr. Farquhar for his thoughts on the current VSE. As we discovered, Dr. Farquhar would prefer to visit a NEO in preparation for going to Mars, rather than return to the already-explored Moon. As part of preparing for a manned NEO visit, there would need to be lunar orbital missions and extensive use of the Sun-Earth L2 libration point as the...
Date Aired: Sunday 23 Dec 2007
Guest: Robert Zimmerman. Robert Zimmerman was our guest for this special Christmas Eve Space Show program. Thus, how appropriate for Bob to lead off the discussion with a look back 39 years ago to the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon and the reading from Genesis in the Old Testament by the three crewmen as they went around the Moon on that special Christmas Eve. Bob told us the story of events leading up to selecting and reading from Genesis, and provided us with information from his interviews...
Date Aired: Saturday 22 Dec 2007
Guest: Dennis Wingo. NOTE: At the end of this archived program are two Earth...
Date Aired: Thursday 20 Dec 2007
Guests: Dr. Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain. Dr. Pamela L. Gay and Fraser Cain were the guests for this program to discuss Astronomy Cast, which they each co-host (visit www.astronomycast.com for more information). We discussed the types of programming that Pamela and Fraser have on the program. As you listen to the discussion, you will hear their interactions just as you would on Astronomy Cast. They received many astronomy related questions from listeners, commencing with a discussion of higher...
Date Aired: Wednesday 19 Dec 2007
Guest: Tom Olson. Tom Olson was the guest for this Space Show program focusing on a 2007 year end review. Tom has been doing this review since the early days of The Space Show and it has since become an annual tradition. Along with being a light and fun show, he provided important and substantive analysis on many key topics and issues which faced the space world in 2007. Many of these issues will undoubtedly face the space world for 2008. We had many listener questions on several topics dealing...
Date Aired: Tuesday 18 Dec 2007
Guest: Robert Godwin. Robert Godwin, owner of Apogee Books, was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Godwin just released his own new book through Apogee, "The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook: A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles." During the show, Rob explained how he found and researched the color plates now found on every page of this book. He also told listeners about his motivation for compiling these images and writing this book. Rob and I signaled out a few images to discuss in detail...
Date Aired: Monday 17 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. Robert Zubrin. Dr. Robert Zubrin was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Zubrin started off the discussion by letting us know his plan for energy independence as detailed in his new book, "Energy Victory: Winning The War On Terror By Breaking Free Of Oil.” You can visit the book's website, www.energyvictory.net for more information on this very important book. Bob's plan is simple and straight forward. Congress needs to enact legislation which requires all vehicles sold in the...
Date Aired: Sunday 16 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. Clark Lindsey. Dr. Clark Lindsey was the guest for this Space Show program which focused on a summary of New Space developments in 2007 and a look forward to possible developments in 2008. In the discussion with Clark, listeners asked him specific questions about New Space rhetoric in 2007 versus what was said in previous years, Bigelow Aerospace, Mars crew habitats and its radiation shielding, the NASA COTS competition and its potential influence on presidential candidates, and much...
Date Aired: Saturday 15 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. Michael Simpson. Dr. Michael Simpson, President of the International Space University (ISU) in Strassbourg, France was the guest for this program. In order to better follow along with this discussion, please visit the ISU website at www.isunet.edu/. We started the discussion by asking Dr. Simpson to provide us with an introduction to ISU, what the university is about as well as its curriculum, student body, admissions, and more. There were many listener driven questions ranging from...
Date Aired: Thursday 13 Dec 2007
Guest: Christophe Bonnal. M. Christophe Bonnal of CNES - Launcher Directorate was the guest for this Space Show program. We started our discussion with Christophe with a question from an American living in France. The question asked about European and French entrepreneurism in space and why, according to the listener, Europe was behind the U.S. in creating an entrepreneurial space industry. You will certainly want to hear how M. Bonnal responded to this very interesting question. Then we talked...
Date Aired: Tuesday 11 Dec 2007
Guest: Christopher Stott. Chris Stott was the guest for this program. We began our discussion with Chris offering us an introduction to both space industry on the Isle of Man and the company he founded, ManSat. This discussion led us to more detailed discussions regarding space commerce, space education such as the International Space University, space law and treaties, property rights, and the potential impact on space law/property rights depending on which nation will be the first back to the...
Date Aired: Sunday 09 Dec 2007
Guest: Dr. Dan Barry; Open Lines. Dr. Dan Barry, retired astronaut, space walker, and medical doctor was the guest for the first hour of this Space Show program. Dr. Barry provided us with a comprehensive look at space-walking and the experience in space, the training, and expectations leading up to the space walk. As a result of a listener question, we learned how an astronaut is selected for a ride to space as well for EVA training and an initial space walk or for additional space walks....
Date Aired: Saturday 08 Dec 2007
Guests: Dr. Paul Eckert, Tom Olson.Dr. Paul Eckert...
Date Aired: Thursday 06 Dec 2007
Guest: Miles O'Brien, CNN. Miles O'Brien, the CNN chief technology and environment correspondent was the guest for this special half hour program. Miles talked with us about the importance of the space vision and his concern about NASA being able to get the job done regarding the VSE. He told us how important COTS was but he also stressed the excitement of exploration and the private space movement. Listeners asked him about space career opportunities (he was not so excited about the thought of...
Date Aired: Thursday 06 Dec 2007
Guests: Phillip Hurst of Air & Space TV (www.airandspace.tv) ; Bob Werb regarding the Space Frontier Foundation: Andy Turner of Space Systems/Loral. This set of three back to back interviews (no breaks) from the Space Investment Summit #3 held in San Jose, CA on Dec. 6, 2007, starts with Phillip Hurst of Air...
Date Aired: Tuesday 04 Dec 2007
Guest: Alex Kirk. Alex was the guest for this half hour Space Show program to bring to the attention of listeners the Mars Society fax service to let the 2008 presidential candidates and your congressional representatives know your thoughts on space development and a humans to Mars trip. The Mars Society website is hosting this server at http://fax.marssociety.org. and you do not need to be a member of the Mars Society to use it. During this discussion with Alex, you will hear why this service...
Date Aired: Monday 03 Dec 2007
Dr. Brad Edwards and Carla Sabotta were the guests for this Space Show program focusing on the space elevator. Please be advised that due to extremely wet weather in the Seattle area and the Bay Area, plus the use of cell phones, there is unavoidable phone line noise on this program. We started the program with Dr. Edwards providing us with an update on the climber games that were held in Salt Lake City. Brad explained the various teams, the technology being used, what happened to the...
Date Aired: Sunday 02 Dec 2007
Alan Boyle, science editor and author of the Cosmic Log blog, returned as a guest for this Space Show program. Our discussion with Alan covered many topics including space journalism ethics and controls, COTS, the VSE and returning to the Moon, and competition for the Moon with other ideas for visiting an asteroid or Mars. We also discussed fusion energy, the X Prize Cup, air shows, Bigelow Aerospace, inflatable structures and NASA’s plans for them, the ISS and onboard ISS science experiments,...
Date Aired: Saturday 01 Dec 2007
Dr. Young K. Bae was the guest for this Space Show program to provide us with important updates on his groundbreaking work with photonic laser thrusters. You can follow along with this discussion by visiting his website, www.baeinstitute.com. Dr. Bae received many listener questions about photonic laser thrusters as well as his work on fusion energy. One listener asked about ISP or his photonic laser thrusters while another took it a step further and asked Dr. Bae about other ways to judge...
Date Aired: Thursday 29 Nov 2007
Lon Levin was the guest for this two hour Space Show program which first aired Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Writing a short synopsis of this program is a challenge due to the variety of interesting and important topics mentioned by Lon and listeners. Among the topics we discussed included space investment and the investing process, management, emotions, confidence, being turned down and rejected, listening skills, getting feedback, dreams and realities versus fantasy, business plans, the idea...
Date Aired: Monday 26 Nov 2007
Dr. Paul Eckert was our guest for this Space Show program which focused on the upcoming Space Investment Summit 3, Dec. 5-6, 2007 in San Jose, CA. Visit the Summit website at www.spaceinvestmentsummit.com. Dr. Eckert started our discussion with an overview of this meeting and we followed that by going through the list of speakers, keynotes, business plan presenters, conference structure. Listeners asked about the pricing, who can attend, the availability of audio after the conference ended, and...
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