Date Aired: Wednesday 21 Feb 2024
Tags: John Batchelor, Dr. Ajay Kothari, Dr. David Livingston, Thorium, Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR), thorium U.S. and global reserves, nuclear power replacement, liquid not solid, no explosive possibility, no pressure chamber or dome, TMSR history, isotopes, no meltdown possibility, smaller plant profile, DOE interest, small modular reactors, Copenhagen, Holland, China, KW/hour cost estimates, space propulsion, in-space usage for power, upper stages can be repurposed for lunar...
Date Aired: Friday 26 Jan 2024
Guest: Paul Szymanski; Topics: Paul's latest book, "The Battle Beyond: Fighting and Winning the Coming War in Space," fighting a war in space, leadership issues, understanding strategy, weapons, defenses, Space Force, space war history, space war goals, the FOB, defenses, a battle of the minds, risks and more.
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Date Aired: Friday 08 Dec 2023
Guest: Andrew Chanin; Topics: Andrew discussed the state of the economy including inflation and the impact on space investments. He updated us on the UFO EFT, space and security, cybersecurity and other important topics.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 10 Oct 2023
Guest: Jess Sponable; Topics: Multiple topics around launch including vertical takeoff and landing, horizontal takeoff and landing, the DC-X reunion, DARPA, AFRL, New Frontier Aerospace (NFA), hypersonics, point to point flight.
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Date Aired: Sunday 01 Oct 2023
Guest: Dr. Jay L. Zagorsky; Topics: U.S. space economy output is actually shrinking, space economy definitions and analysis, government statistics on the space economy, space industry jobs and pay, national security space and more.
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Date Aired: Friday 14 Apr 2023
Guest: Michael Gold; Topics: The Artemis Accords, international participation, the Artemis project, lunar Gateway, commercial space development with PPP, space treaties, bilateral agreements, countering space development naysayers and more.
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Date Aired: Friday 17 Feb 2023
Guest: Peter Hague; Topics: Peter discussed his Planetocracy blog moving to substack plus a few of the major articles on the blog. We also discussed UK space, space international with the US, China, Russia and the EU plus much more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 12 Feb 2023
Guest: Dr. Livingston with multiple callers & email users; Topics: See the tags but we covered multiple topics, sometimes with fairly long phone calls.
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Date Aired: Friday 06 Jan 2023
Guest: Lt. General Steve Kwast, USAF (Ret); Topics: Why commercial space is essential, space as the path for prosperity and peace, China, influencing our policy, Russia, Ukraine, Skycorp, innovation, orbital commercial activities, global space policies and more
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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: 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: Thursday 17 Nov 2022
Guest: Dr. Robert "Sam" Wilson; Topics: The US Space Force and budget analysis, missile warning and tracking, LEO and MEO, rescue, weapons, China, Russia, and much more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 09 Nov 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Anatoli Zak, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Russian and the Lunar Gateway, Roscosmos, the Orel crewed spaceship.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 13 Jul 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Laura Montgomery, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Space law, The Artemis Accords, returning to the Moon, China and Russia.
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Date Aired: Sunday 26 Jun 2022
Guest: Michael Listner; Topics: Space policy and space law issues, national security concerns regarding space, pending legislation bottlenecks in congress, China and the Moon, Musk and China, Starlink from China's perspective plus lots more.
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Date Aired: Friday 22 Apr 2022
Guest: Dr. John Horack; Topics: The increasing value and wealth of LEO plus additional commercial/NewSpace activities and sectors, economic growth and national security.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 26 Jan 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Tom Roeder, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: U.S. Space Force protection of Cislunar space and assets.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 11 Jan 2022
Guest: Joe Carroll; Topics: Artificial gravity, Starship as a tanker, space settlement, debris mitigation, solar system surface gravity, Joe's recent Space Review Article, "How to clarify human futures beyond Earth."
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Date Aired: Tuesday 04 Jan 2022
Guest: Dr. Malcom Davis; Asian space and national security focused on China and Australia, commercial space in Australia, space policy, space weaponization, nuclear weapons and the first strike defense posture and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 26 Dec 2021
Guest: Leonard David; Topics: Leonard brought up multiple space news stories for discussion on this show, plus we looked ahead to 2022 for what would likely be a continuing news story or a breakthrough story.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 21 Dec 2021
Andrew Chanin; Topics: Commercial space investing summary for 2021, 2022 investing predictions, China and U.S. space policy, the China space race, Exchange Traded Funds, U.S. Policy, space sector economic concerns, surge in space sector public companies and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 14 Nov 2021
Guest: Chris Stone: Topics: U.S. national security space, the announcement of the China's hypersonic nuclear guide missile weapon, hypersonic technology, nuclear thermal rockets, kinetic kill weapons, weapons in space, Defense Authorization Act, U.S. weapons gap with China, Russian hypersonic weapons program.
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Date Aired: Friday 12 Nov 2021
Guest: Michael Castle-Miller: Topics: The NSS Space Settlement Event and Business Plan Competition plus an examination of Michael's concept known as the Lunar Development Cooperative.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 26 Oct 2021
Guest: Dr. James Dewar; Topics: Nuclear power, propulsion and for space. Jim's ideas and suggestions per his attached paper, "The Nuclear Rocket."
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Date Aired: Tuesday 12 Oct 2021
Guest: Dr. Ajay Kothari; Topics: Thorium energy and reactors, details, advantages and some of the politics involved in using thorium to solve our energy problems.
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