Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  FAA approves Boca Chica for Super Heavy launches with conditions, environmental concerns, SpaceX internal descent, and more.  

Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  The Russian invasion of Ukraine, Starlink to Ukraine, Starlink jamming, GPS jamming, anti-ISS rhetoric from Russia and more.

Guest:  Doug Messier of Parabolic Arc;  Topics:  We largely focused on the FAA and related issues to Starship being able to test and launch from Boca Chica.  Other topics and timely news were also discussed. Refer to our Tags for most of these topics.

We welcomed Doug Messier back to the program for a 94 minute discussion starting out with the success of the Perseverance Mars rover landing earlier in the day.  Most of the first segment was devoted to Perseverance, the various science experiments plans, the onboard hardware and instruments such as the helicopter, microphones, advanced cameras, MOXIE to make O2 out of the Martian atmosphere plus more.  Listen as Doug and callers/emailers discuss the instrument package, the experiments and the search for possible past life on Mars.  Also discussed was the landing site, Jezero Crater, plus t

Guest:  Doug Messier;  Topics:  A look at big space 2020 issues plus we look ahead to 2021.  Use the tags and key words for the outline of discussed topics.