Date Aired: Tuesday 30 Jan 2024
Note: Due to ilness, we have changed our guest for tonight's program. Please be sure to read the bio for our new guest, Agnieszka Pilat. In addition, our cell phone connection resulted in strained audio. Our apologies for the less than excellent audio for this important discussion. Thank you.
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Guest: Agnieszka Pilat; Topics: Art and technology, SpaceX example, her Boston Dynamics robot pet dog Spot, growing up in communist Poland and its...
Date Aired: Tuesday 16 Jan 2024
Guest: Joe Carroll; Topics: Joe talks about gravity, artificial and partial gravity, spin rates and human tolerances, NASA, planning the future to move forward, the lack of progress on human spaceflight, classifications of human spacecraft and more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 06 Dec 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Eric Berger, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The most recent Starship demo test flight from Boca Chica.
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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: Sunday 10 Sep 2023
Tags: Tim Ventura, propulsion history, EV technology, battery development, Ukraine war, AI, robots, rocket technology, space tourism spaceships, fusion, nuclear space power, the Moon as a staging area for the solar system, Mars not now, mitigating gravity, UAP concerns, FTL travel, gravitational lensing, space tourism challenges, NASA, Private Sector , Blue Origin, SpaceX, space leads to unrealistic expectations, race car technology, comparing Ford Explorer to Tesla Model 3, Tesla...
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: Friday 28 Apr 2023
Guest: Dr. Matthew Weinzierl: Topics: We discussed commercial space economics, Matt's Harvard classes relating to commercial space and economics plus his students, student interest in space, space as a long term play vs. short term economic news.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 26 Apr 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Rick Fisher, 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 21 Apr 2023
Guest: Tim Cash: Tim went over the known details for the initial Starship demo test from April 20, discussing potential problems, possible remedies and rocket modifications. Furthermore, Tim talked about his passion in detail, space solar power. Starship modifications and the potential impact on lunar and Mars timelines were also discussed as was the rocket's acoustic damage at launch to the engines and the pad.
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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: Tuesday 21 Mar 2023
Guest: Robert (Bob) Zimmerman; Topics: SpaceX and Starship plus FAA launch license delay, Blue Origin, ULA, U.S. launchers, 3 D printing, ice on Mars, Boca Chica launch site, Bloomberg's article on Musk and the Administration plus much more.
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Date Aired: Friday 03 Mar 2023
Guest: Laura Montgomery, Atty; Topics: The soon to expire human spaceflight moratorium, moratorium analysis, spaceflight safety regulations, space flight participants, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Starlink, FCC, liability concerns, commercial space expansion, the Outer Space Treaty, Code of Federal Regulation, debris mitigation 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: Tuesday 28 Feb 2023
Dr. Namrata Goswami, Tuesday, 2-28-23; #3991; Time: 1 hour 38 minutes
Guest: Dr. Namrata Goswami; Topics: A detailed look at China and their comprehensive quest for power including space power, America's response and leadership concerns, lunar development and return, technology, AI, robotics, 3 D printing and much 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: 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: 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: Sunday 11 Dec 2022
Guest: Dr. David Livingston, host; Topics: Various topics as suggested by listeners in their emails and phone calls. The host also suggested multiple discussion topics. We covered many topics over the two hours of this program.
We welcomed listeners to the final Open Lines discussion of the year. After I put forth some possible discussion topics, I also talked about possible changes with Open Lines in 2023 to get more callers and make it more interesting....
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 09 Oct 2022
Guest: Frank Slazer; Topics: The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, government space, commercial space, launcher comparisons with SLS and Starship, market analysis, lobbying with congress, and much more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 11 Sep 2022
Guest: Dale Scran; Topics: National Space Society, Space Solar Power, space settlement, human gravity prescription, energy for settlement, SpaceX, rocket reusability, lowering space access costs and more.
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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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