Date Aired: Sunday 05 Mar 2006
Father George Coyne was the special guest for this Space Show program. WE began the interview by finding out astronomy and the Catholic church, why their interest, its origins, and their observatory in Italy as well as in Tucson. I personally found the history and origins to be fascinating, going back to the need to make adjustments in the calendar. You will certainly want to hear this discussion. We then shifted focus and talked about telescopes, not just in Tucson, but worldwide. As a result...
Date Aired: Tuesday 28 Feb 2006
Dr. Jeff Bell was the guest for this special two hour Space Show program. Dr. Bell began the interview explaining his background in the pro-space community dating back to L5. He explained what happened that took him away from this community, why he is returning but also how he is returning to the community. Dr. Bell clearly explains why he is skeptical and has safety concerns regarding many of the companies making up alt.space and the pro-space community. Both as part of his interview comments...
Date Aired: Sunday 26 Feb 2006
William Hulsey was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Hulsey, as an expert attorney in intellectual property, put for the case for developing space intellectual property rights. He very thoroughly explains why this is important, what intellectual property rights mean for commercial space development and above all, why the time is right for developing these laws and rules now, rather than after commerce has begun. You will certainly find this discussion informative and compelling. We...
Date Aired: Friday 24 Feb 2006
M. G. Lord was the guest for this special Space Show program. M. G. began the interview jumping right in with the "colorful" history of one of the JPL founders, Frank Malina, explaining both his rocket brilliance and his flirtation with communism and more. Growing up as a young girl in the 50's with a Dad who was a JPL engineer and a mom terminally ill, gave M. G. perspectives and issues to address which she does very well in her book, "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science." We also...
Date Aired: Thursday 23 Feb 2006
Pete Sepp from the National Taxpayers Union joined The Space Show for this program with a special no commercial break 60 minute interview. Mr. Sepp began the interview by stating his interest in space and the general position of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) regard government spending and space policy. You will find most interesting his lead off comments about the ISS. The discussion then focused on the proposed merger of the launch vehicles and services of both Boeing and Lockheed into...
Date Aired: Tuesday 21 Feb 2006
Marlowe Cassetti was our special guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Cassetti, with is vast NASA experience on Mercury, Gemini, Skylab, and the Shuttle, shared with us information and stories that are not normally discussed on any program. For example, we learned that there was a serious effort to design, plan, and fly the Gemini spacecraft to the Moon. We learned about a government cover-up in the space program, not about ETs, but about keeping information classified and away from the...
Date Aired: Sunday 19 Feb 2006
Randa and Roderick Milliron of Interorbital Systems were the special guests for this Space Show program. Interorbital Systems (www.interorbital.com) is planning orbital space tourism, eventual lunar visits and an even futuristic space tourism mission to Venus. During this interview, Randa and Rod explain their unique offshore ocean launching system, the selected launch sites, their progress with AST and other regulatory issues, their time line, and their plan to sell tickets for space tourism...
Date Aired: Tuesday 14 Feb 2006
Joe Palaia was the guest for this special Space Show program. Joe explained the purpose of his 4Frontiers Corporation and the Mars Foundation regarding their work to settle Mars. Many listener questions were presented to Joe about possible Martian settlement from radiation, space suit, construction and other perspectives, to who goes and how the people going are selected. Space law and property rights were discussed in the context of settlements on Mars. The Moon was discussed in connection...
Date Aired: Sunday 12 Feb 2006
Ann K. Ganzer of the Department of State and ITAR was the special guest for today's program. This interview provides the listener with a comprehensive look and analysis of the Export Control Act and ITAR from the regulator's point of view and from the State Department. Space Show listeners are urged to hear this full program for a different view on ITAR from what we normally get by those in the trenches doing carrying out space commerce on a daily basis. In this interview, Ms. Ganzer makes it...
Date Aired: Tuesday 07 Feb 2006
Michael Paolucci was the guest for this special Space Show program. Michael began the interview by giving us the background to his having created Slooh.com, a commercial, membership telescope viewing program using an observatory in the Canary Islands. As he clearly states, the origins have a philosophical nature to them as Michael got the idea to create this venture after being in New York during 9/11 and losing his best friend. He realized the importance of space and the world without borders...
Date Aired: Sunday 05 Feb 2006
Dr. Harvey Wichman was the guest for this special Space Show program. As Dr. Wichman is an expert in human factors for space travel, suborbital as well as orbital, plus since he is the director of the Aerospace Psychology Lab at Claremont McKenna College having done various human experiments simulating space flight and cabin condition, we spent a significant amount of time discussing the wide range of factors that can and do impact people in space. Dr. Wichman was superb at breaking down what...
Date Aired: Wednesday 01 Feb 2006
Rick Sanford was the special Space Show guest for this program. As Director of the Space Initiatives Global Defense, Space & Security Group at Cisco, Systems, Inc., Mr. Sanford brought us squarely into the world of the internet in space. This is a must program for Space Show listeners. Not only does Mr. Sanford discuss cutting edge technology and engineering, he points out the business planning, strategy, development, and methodology behind the engineering and technology development. Do you...
Date Aired: Tuesday 31 Jan 2006
Dr. Paul Hardersen what the guest for this special Friday morning Space Show program. We began our discussion by inquiring about the observatory that is at the University of North Dakota, the plans for remodeling it, what it will be able to do and the opportunities it will afford students, and the fund raising campaigns designed to support the program. We then switched topics to asteroids, one of the areas of special interest and expertise for Dr. Hardersen. Our discussion was wide ranging from...
Date Aired: Sunday 29 Jan 2006
Virgiliu Pop returned to The Space Show for this special program discussing his new boo, "Unreal Estate" about the men and women who have and are selling the Moon and other cosmic real estate. Mr. Pop has done stellar research on this topic and his book is extremely informative and interesting. Many of the characters in the book are hilarious to read about and listening to Virgiliu talk about them on the show was a great experience. You will find the stores he tells to be compelling, the legal...
Date Aired: Thursday 26 Jan 2006
Rand Simberg returned for this Space Show program. As always, Rand is full of current information, important insights, realistic and grounded perspectives and a real treat to have as a gues on the program. We discussed the RTM program, its benefits and flaws, architecture, heavy lift, costs, economics, and future. We also heard Rand's preferred way of returning to the Moon so listen in to hear the differences! With questions from listeners as well as from me, Mr. Simberg spoke with us about...
Date Aired: Tuesday 24 Jan 2006
Robert Zimmerman returned as the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview with Robert discussing the new proposed FAA regulations for space travel and flight. The regs can be found at www.faa.gov. The final date for them to become law is in June so if you want to comment on the proposed regs, now is the time to do it. In the discussion, Robert was critical of the regs from the perspective of taking away freedom from Americans by having the government act as the source of...
Date Aired: Sunday 22 Jan 2006
Dr. Harvey Willenberg returned to The Space Show for this special program focusing on space for energy uses, HE3, fusion, nuclear power, fossil fuels, space solar power and more. Dr. Willenberg does a superb job discussing these topics from the perspectives of science (physics) breakeven analysis, engineering breakeven analysis, and the economic breakeven analysis, then blending them all together for a sane energy program. We had questions on fusion, HE3, alternative energy, energy from space,...
Date Aired: Friday 20 Jan 2006
Dr. Loren Acton, Research Professor of Physics in the Dept. of Physics at Montana State University, was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Acton was a payload specialist on Challenger 8 so after a brief discussion regarding his membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the intelligent design subject, we discussed what it was like being an astronaut. We covered lots of topics from training, to space sickness, his mission and research, transformative...
Date Aired: Thursday 19 Jan 2006
Alan Lawrie, author of "Saturn," was the guest for this special Space show program. We began the interview by asking Mr. Lawrie why he had an interest in the Saturn V rocket. For many of us, the answer does not come as a surprise given our having grown up in the Saturn V space era. Mr. Lawrie then took us through many of the Saturn V components, manufacturing processes, transportation to Florida, safety, quality control, redundancy, etc. We talked about lessons learned for the modern day...
Date Aired: Wednesday 18 Jan 2006
Rod Pyle, author of "Destination Moon: The Apollo Missions in the Astronauts' Own Words," was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Pyle discussed the views of the Apollo program and our current space program with many of the Apollo era astronauts and Moon walkers. We discussed their comments, thoughts, recommendations, etc. on air. Mr. Pyle also talked about others involved in the Apollo program, not just astronauts. For example, Chris Kraft and Gene Krantz. Rod spoke about the futuristic...
Date Aired: Tuesday 17 Jan 2006
Pablo de Leon joined The Space Show for this program. We began the discussion talking about Pablo's XPRIZE entry from Argentina. He described his entry in detail, his plans, his budget, etc. Listeners wanted to know more about his rocket and hybrid motor experience which Pablo also talked about in detail. We then moved on to space and pressure suits, why use them for suborbital flights, how to make less costly consumer single use models, the profitability of such suits, radiation and space...
Date Aired: Sunday 15 Jan 2006
Bob Ward, author of "Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun," was the guest for this Sunday Space Show program. This two hour program provides the listener with a comprehensive discussion about Von Braun, from his childhood interests, his Nazi work for the Germans in World War II, his coming to the United States with Operation Paperclip, and his work with the U.S. government for rockets, our space program, NASA, our going to the Moon, developing space camp and more. Mr. Ward, aided by...
Date Aired: Tuesday 10 Jan 2006
Dr. Barrett Caldwell joined The Space Show for this program. We spoke about his research and how he incorporates it in space education outreach with the Space Grant program he manages at Purdue University. Dr. Caldwell spoke about team performance and relating team work to space development. Team performance was also discussed in terms of long term space flight, gender differences, and age preferences. Dr. Caldwell then related his research findings and work to K-12 educational outreach. We...
Date Aired: Sunday 08 Jan 2006
Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz returned for this Space Show program for several important space law updates. We began the program discussing the Disaster Charter (www.disasterscharter.org) and its meaning for satellites and emergency assistance. This is an important discussion. We also spoke about the importance of the Group On Earth Observations (www.earthobservations.org) and a different type of satellite assistance for emergencies and humanitarian reasons. Professor Gabrynowicz gave us new...
Date Aired: Friday 06 Jan 2006
Dr. Sam Dinkin and Cmdr. John Herrington joined The Space Show to discuss Rocketplane and Dr. Dinkin's new venture, SpaceShot, a skill game designed to provide ordinary people with a chance to take a $200,000 suborbital space tourism flight for about a $5 entry fee. We began the program talking with Cmdr. Herrington about Rocketplane, the spaceflight experience, space suits and pressure suits, the Rocketplane flight test program, and everything related to Rocketplane. This is the program to...
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