Date Aired: Sunday 22 Jun 2008
Guest : Gene Meyers, CEO of the Space Island Group (www.spaceislandgroup.com), was the guest for this Space Show program. We started our interview with Gene providing us with background and updates for both a historical overview of Space Island, plus an update with its current activities. Most of the overview addressed the Space Island Group's plan to use shuttle external tanks for a space station or other commercial purposes. The current project for the company involves space solar power,...
Date Aired: Tuesday 17 Jun 2008
Guest: William Watson, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF), was the guest for this show to discuss the upcoming NewSpace 2008 conference, July 17-19, 2008 in Washington, DC. Will went over the list of speakers and panels, noted that the conference is single track unlike many other conferences, and responded to listener questions about students, NASA participation, side trips to possibly Goddard or Wallops, and much more. We talked about space education and career...
Date Aired: Tuesday 17 Jun 2008
Guest: Homer Hickam was the guest for this special Space Show program. Mr. Hickam, author of "Rocket Boys," which was made into the acclaimed movie "October Sky," spoke with us about many topics and all of us had lots of fun while learning from someone who is, in my opinion, a true American hero. We started the discussion by asking him about his discovering two Tyrannosaurs in Montana. This took us directly to his early rocket launching days in Montana and putting Barbie dolls into space or...
Date Aired: Friday 13 Jun 2008
Guest: Dr. Donald Rapp was the guest for this Space Show program to discuss his book, "Assessing Climate Change: Temperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance." This was a factual discussion of Earth's climate, climate change history over time, the Little Ice Age as a baseline, the hockey stick graph, and much more. Dr. Rapp takes a hard look at the climate talk and you will not want to miss what he has to say. He then defines the real problem as one of having sufficient energy for Americans...
Date Aired: Sunday 25 May 2008
Guest: Rand Simberg, who blogs at Transterrestrial Musings (www.transterrestrial.com/), was the guest on the show. Rand recently wrote an article about the possible space policies from each of the three leading American presidential candidates and we wanted him to talk about his views on this subject right here on The Space Show. This was a comprehensive discussion on space policy, not just the possible policy of each of our presidential candidates, and you will find this information most...
Date Aired: Monday 12 May 2008
Guest: Robert Zimmerman was the guest for this program to discuss his new book about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), "The Universe In A Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It." This is an excellent book, a must read for those of you who want to know more about the HST. Having read the book and after talking to Bob, it's easy to realise that there is still much to learn about HST's history, from CCD cameras to mirrors and NASA contracting. The...
Date Aired: Sunday 27 Apr 2008
Guest: Dr. Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, was the guest for today's program. We began our discussion talking about the advancements in revolutionary technology needed for a manned mission to Mars. Dr. Bushnell has a published paper on this subject, titled "Advanced-to-Revolutionary Technology Options for Humans-Mars," which I will send as a Word document if you email me and request it. Based on this paper and the first part of our discussion, Dr. Bushnell...
Date Aired: Wednesday 26 Mar 2008
Guest: Matt Hancher was the guest for this special Wednesday Space Show program. We began our discussion with an explanation of the Yuri's Night global celebrations. For more information on this event, please visit their main web page www.yurisnight.net. From their website, you can find where the parties are located in the United States as well as around the world. If you find there is no party near you, you can start one. Just follow the instructions on the website and add your party's...
Date Aired: Tuesday 25 Mar 2008
Guest: Steven Milloy, founder of JunkScience.com (www.junkscience.com), was the guest for this program. Steven started out telling us how and why he started JunkScience.com. This is an interesting story about agenda driven and controlled financing of science projects and experiments, so don't miss it. From this topic we went to the topic of aerial spraying, DDT, and real vs. imaginary science behind such government or NGO programs. Again, this is an important discussion. If anyone would like a...
Date Aired: Monday 24 Mar 2008
Guest: Michael Potter, documentary film maker, was the guest for this show to talk with us about his new documentary film, "Orphans of Apollo: The Battle of the Mir & the New Space Revolution" (see www.orphansofapollo.com for more information). Mr. Potter told us the story of his documentary, the origin of the name "Orphans of Apollo," and we spoke at length about the cast of characters involved in working to buy the Mir Space Station from Russia for a commercial venture. You will hear...
Date Aired: Monday 10 Mar 2008
Dr. Eligar Sadeh returned to The Space Show to update us on the recent National Space Forum which was held in Washington, DC. in early February 2008. Dr. Sadeh summarized most of the panels and presentations at the Forum, so we addressed U.S. space policy for the upcoming administration, U.S. space leadership and its effectiveness, space commerce, and civil space. It was brought to his attention that many attending the Forum were disappointed that NewSpace / alt.space were not a significant...
Date Aired: Monday 03 Mar 2008
Dr. Tahir Rahman was the guest for this Space Show program to discuss his new book, "We Came In Peace For All Mankind: The Untold Story of the Apollo 11 Silicon Disc." Please refer to Dr. Rahman's website www.silicondisc.com for more information about his book and this interesting topic. This is a meticulously researched book on the subject of the goodwill silicon message disc which the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the moon. Dr. Rahman took us through many of the special goodwill messages that...
Date Aired: Saturday 23 Feb 2008
Guest: Dr. Madhu Thangavelu. Key Topics: Altair, Cislunar system, CEV, NASA, teleoperations, time delay, ISRU, education, medical problems. Dr. Madhu Thangavelu returned to The Space Show to discuss the creative problem-solving evidenced by his recent December 2008 USC class, "Return to the Moon: Looking Glass 204 Team Project." Dr. Thangavelu explained the focus of the class and then went through some of the student team solutions to problems we face in returning to the Moon. The subject range...
Date Aired: Monday 04 Feb 2008
Guest: Kathleen Connell. Kathleen Connell returned to The Space Show for this special program the day before Super Tuesday for the 2008 Presidential Primary Election Campaign. During the show, Kathleen spoke about space and politics, the place for space policy in the national dialog, and the work we need to do to bring this dialog into existence with political candidates, our representatives, and the general population. We briefly discussed the space policy of some of the leading presidential...
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: 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 28 Jul 2007
Shubber Ali was the guest for this Space Show program. We covered many discussion topics from the accident at Scaled last week to the problems reported with NASA, including possible shuttle sabotage and possible drunk shuttle crews. The points made by Shubber on these topics are interesting and to the point so don't miss them. We also talked about SSP and its possible R...
Date Aired: Sunday 24 Jun 2007
Alan Ladwig was the guest for this Space Show program. Alan, having just returned from visiting the Paris Air Show, brought us up to date on the space component and several other items of interest regarding the air show during the first segment. We learned of the lean NASA presence while other national space agencies were strongly represented. Also, the NewSpace industry here in the States was not represented. We talked about commercial and business jets, Boeing and Airbus competition, the new...
Date Aired: Monday 11 Jun 2007
Andrew Hoppin, Robbie Schingler, and Jessy Cowan-Sharp joined The Space Show for this program which focused on the innovative NASA Ames CoLab (Collaborative Space Exploration Laboratory) project. To follow this discussion and to learn more about CoLab, including subscribing to the CoLab newsletter, visit http://colab.arc.nasa.gov. We started this program with Andrew giving us a comprehensive introduction and description for the CoLab program, the need and purpose for virtual and open source...
Date Aired: Friday 04 May 2007
Dr. Roger Launius was the guest for this special program. We began our interview with a discussion of his views on space tourism given his recent article in the peer reviewed journal, AstroPolitics: "The International Journal of Space Power and Policy." Roger's article, "Is It Finally Time for Space Tourism?" is a timely discussion of issues concerning space tourism including market studies, NASA, sub-orbital tourism, and much more. Dr. Launius was asked questions about historical comparisons...
Date Aired: Friday 02 Mar 2007
Ed Buckbee, Konrad Dannenberg and Sonny Morea were the special guests for this program. What can one say about this program with such an amazing guest list? Well, I can tell you again and again what these men created with the Saturn program, the Saturn V, going to the Moon, the lunar rover, the inspiration they gave America for generations and generations which continues today. Yes, I can tell you all of that and all of the subjects that we discussed regarding engines, engineering, rocket...
Date Aired: Wednesday 17 Jan 2007
Richard C. Hoagland was the special guest for this two hour Space Show program. We began our discussion with a look at the VSE, its hardware for returning to the Moon, the time table for doing so, and the COTS program. Richard discussed some of the challenges presented by the VSE and suggested that some of what NASA was doing did not make much sense. He talked about an alternative hardware and launch methodology called "Direct" which he summarized for us as well as letting us know who developed...
Date Aired: Tuesday 16 Jan 2007
Dr. Al Harrison and Dr. Jim Pass were the special guests for this Space Show program. We began our discussion by having Dr. Pass provide us with a working definition for the subject and field of astrosociology. We continued with this definition when we came back from the first break as Dr. Harrison shared some of his experiences with the discipline through his academic career. Listeners asked questions about sociological issues as well as human factors psychology issues regarding long term...
Date Aired: Tuesday 02 Jan 2007
David A. Broniatowski was the guest for this first Space Show program of 2007. Given that David is a PhD student at MIT, we started the interview by asking David for a student's perception of the VSE, NASA, and the private space program. This initial discussion opened up into a wider discussion about students, voting, space issues, professors, careers and much much more. This discussion is a must and absolutely the best way possible to start the year out on The Space Show! I asked David to...
Date Aired: Friday 29 Dec 2006
Jeff Greason, CEO of XCOR Aerospace returned for this special Space Show program. Jeff began the interview with an update on XCOR activities progress over the past year and recent times. XCOR has sustained superb growth and has a mix of products its developing for private customers and NASA. From Rocket Racing League rockets to the suborbital space tourism vehicle, the Xerus Multi-function vehicle, along with rocket engines and fuel piston pumps, XCOR is a leading NewSpace company. Now engaged...
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