Date Aired: Friday 05 Feb 2021
Guest: Dr. Pekka Janhunen; Topic: Dr. Janhunen's concept of a megasatellite orbital settlement around Ceres. Links to his paper will be added to this summary and the blog.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 10 Oct 2017
Guest: John Bucknell; Topics: Rockets, SpaceX, Mars, Moon, nuclear propulsion, orbiting lunar habitat, and the Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket plus more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a...
Date Aired: Sunday 13 Jul 2014
Guests: Dr. John Jurist, Dr. Jim Logan. Topics: EVAs, spacesuits, Moon, Mars, radiation, Aquarius HSF launch vehicle Space Enterprise Institute. Please direct all comments & questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments & questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even...
Date Aired: Tuesday 19 Nov 2013
Guests: Dan Adamo, Dr. Jim Logan, Dr. John Jurist. Topics: "Trajectory Challenges Faced By Orbiting Infrastructure Supporting Multiple Earth Departures For Mars." Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written...
Date Aired: Tuesday 23 Jul 2013
Guest: Dr. Dennis Bushnell. Topics: We discussed Dr. Bushnell's paper, TRL for space development & how best to move forward with civil space. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written...
Date Aired: Sunday 07 Jul 2013
Guest: Dave Ketchledge. Topics: Mars Lander Choices. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part...
Date Aired: Sunday 10 Jul 2011
Guest: Dr. Erik Seedhouse. Topic: Space medicine, human spaceflight, bioethical issues for human spaceflight. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a...
Date Aired: Thursday 19 Aug 2010
Guest: Paul O. Wieland. Topics: Space as a problem solver, opportunities in space. We welcomed Paul O. Wieland to the program to discuss his book, "Crossing The Threshold: Advancing Into Space To Benefit The Earth." You can purchase this book from the One Giant Leap Foundation Amazon Partners page at www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/books or www.amazon.com/dp/0982512716?tag=onegialeafou-20 and Amazon will make a contribution to The Space Show. In our first segment, Paul talked about the genesis...
Date Aired: Wednesday 14 Jul 2010
Guest: Dr. Ralph McNutt: American spacecraft and plutonium power sources, Mercury, Messenger, Cassini. We welcomed Dr. Ralph McNutt of the Applied Physics Lab to the program. We started our first segment with a discussion of the use of Plutonium 238 as a power source for American spacecraft, asking the questions about why there appears to be so much resistance to anything nuclear in space by broad groups of concerned people. As you will hear, Dr. McNutt said that by using Plutonium 238, we were...
Date Aired: Saturday 22 May 2010
Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Nuclear rockets and propulsion, bone loss, radiation, VASIMR. This Open Lines program was a two hour plus discussion without a break regarding many issues ranging from space policy to nuclear propulsion. The VASIMR was again a focal point for discussion and this took us into a lengthy discussion of nuclear propulsion. Nuclear Thermal Rockets were the main topic but other nuclear propulsion concepts were discussed. This seemed to be the...
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