Guests: John Batchelor, James Bennett, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Heavy lift rocket comparisons with SLS, New Glenn and Starship.  

Guest:  Robert (Bob) Zimmerman; Topics:  Multiple topics for tis program.  See the tags and key words repeated below for a good summary of what Bob and I discussed with our callers for this program.

Guest:  Robert (Sam) Wilson; Topics:  We discussed "The Value of Space" report produced by Sam Wilson and his co-authors. You can download it @ https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Gleason-Wilson_ValueOfSpace_20200511.pdf..

Guest:  Dr. Ajay Kothari; Topic:  Returning to the Moon post Covid 19.  Be sure to read Dr. Kothari's Space Review article from May 11, 2020.  He has posted a link to this article on the blog plus to other relevant documents.  The bottom line for Dr. Kothari was and is that it is essential to return to the surface of the Moon, we are in a fierce competition with China that also involves national security, we must bypass the Gateway and go direct using the FH or a yet to be built other large commercial rocket.  He explained the need for returning to the Moon has having two points.

Guests: John Batchelor, Bill Harwood, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Demo 2 Crew Dragon return and splashdown, Starship testing.