Date Aired: Tuesday 08 Nov 2005
Robert Zimmerman returned to The Space Show for this program. We began the discussion with Bob giving us his first hand report from the recent Frank Borman comments about Space Ship One being a stunt and the reaction to his comments, both from the audience (they applauded) and on www.spacepolitics.com. We then discussed the Lunar Robot Lander program scheduled as part of our Return to The Moon program for around 2010-2011. This took us into a rather detailed discussion about NASA, the vision,...
Date Aired: Sunday 06 Nov 2005
Rick Tumlinson returned to The Space Show for a very special two hour program. This interview addressed many important subjects and topics. We started by having Rick summarize the recent Space Frontier Foundation Annual Conference held in Los Angeles and the architecture being used by NASA to return to the Moon. This afforded Rick the opportunity to talk about the program, NASA, Congress, and Dr. Griffin, NASA's Administrator. This is a must listen to discussion, especially for anyone...
Date Aired: Tuesday 01 Nov 2005
Al Globus was the guest for this Space Show program. Al's special interest is space settlement and this program was largely devoted to stating the case for space settlement, how it can be done, why it should and in fact must be done, and how to make the case for space settlement with the general public and political leaders. We also talked about space resources, solar power, nanotechnology and its application in getting cheaper launch costs, space tourism including both suborbital and orbital,...
Date Aired: Sunday 30 Oct 2005
Dr. Philip R. Harris was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the discussion with Dr. Harris pointing out the need to reach the youth of our country and world in order to bring them into a space-faring consciousness, not only for their own sake, but for the betterment of humanity. As Dr. Harris said, it would help our youth focus and turn outward, not inward. Its an important discussion that you will certainly want to hear. We then talked about about space solar power and the need...
Date Aired: Tuesday 25 Oct 2005
Dr. Eligar Sadeh returned for this Space Show program. Our discussion focused on the management content implemented at NASA with the NASA Administrator, Dr. Mike Griffin. Dr. Sadeh is concerned that the management being implemented at NASA contains within it some very destructive elements and he discusses these elements on the show. We also discussed private and public partnerships for space development, including the space advocate community side by side with the large aerospace industry and...
Date Aired: Sunday 23 Oct 2005
Dr. David Criswell returned to The Space Show for this program to discuss in greater detail his plans for commercial lunar solar power power. Dr. Criswell, assisted by listener questions and calls, outlined how such plans could work, the quantity of energy that could be delivered with such a system, the state of our technology and engineering today to have such a system in place, the timing, and the costs. We also discussed the economic feasibility of even a pilot program, the likelihood of the...
Date Aired: Tuesday 18 Oct 2005
Michael Mealling was the guest for this Space Show program. Michael began the interview discussing the Masten Space Systems development of their VTVL launch vehicle, the XA 1.0. He described the market for this vehicle for carrying cargo to 100 km., specifically cargo from K-12 school age children competing for science fair projects with a 100- 300/kg payload capable of flying multiple times per day for a very low price of about $25,000. Their marketing and business plan is most innovative and...
Date Aired: Sunday 16 Oct 2005
Rick Tumlinson returned to The Space Show to discuss space vision, The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) and its coming conference in Los Angeles from Oct. 21-23, and much more. While discussing the SFF conference, Rick was joined by Krysta Paradis who is managing and coordinating the conference. For more information about the conference, visit www.space-frontier.org/. In addition to promoting the conference, Mr. Tumlinson explained why space development is important for everyone, not just for...
Date Aired: Tuesday 11 Oct 2005
Gary Hudson joined The Space Show for a fascinating 90 minute interview. I urge listeners to listen carefully to what Gary has to say about so many of the topics and subjects that we "spacers" are interested in and want to see develop into reality. We began the interview by discussing with Gary his thoughts on what it will take to build an SSTO. Hearing what he has to say based on his experience is a must as he talked about both an expendable and reusable SSTO. He also talked about what we can...
Date Aired: Monday 10 Oct 2005
Dr. Michael Gruntman, Chair of Astronautics at the Viterbi School Engineering of USC was the special guest for this Space Show program. As author of the superb book, "Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry," we started our discussion with questions pertaining to the history of rockets starting with Asia and moving to Greece and Egypt. We talked about rockets and their development by military's and wars throughout the centuries up to the current period. I asked Dr....
Date Aired: Sunday 09 Oct 2005
Gerry Zeitlin was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Zeitlin discussed the Open SETI Initiative and the information on his Open SETI website, www.openseti.org. Gerry explained the difference between Open SETI and regular SETI and why this difference is important. We also talked about projects which all of can get involved with to support Open SETI such as the Pulsar Project (see www.openseti.org/Docs/planw1.htm). If this interests you, please contact Mr. Zeitlin and me. As part of this...
Date Aired: Tuesday 04 Oct 2005
Gene Meyers of The Space Islands Group returned to The Space Show for this program. Sir Charles Shultz, an associate of The Space Islands Group was also on the show with Gene to participate in the discussion about new Space Islands projects. We focused considerable attention on SPS and hurricane deflection. In addition, Gene explained the Space Islands approach to working with external tanks and a cloned shuttle to deliver an operating SPS to orbit within a few years. We discussed the economics...
Date Aired: Sunday 02 Oct 2005
Eric Westling was the guest for this Space Show program. One field of expertise for Mr. Westling is the space elevator and we began the interview with a comprehensive discussion on the subject. This discussion took us into economics and from there to a discussion about our energy problems, how the space elevator might help resolve them, other possibilities including helium, hydrogen, SPS, etc. We discussed Eric's economic axioms and interested listeners can get a copy of them by sending an...
Date Aired: Tuesday 27 Sep 2005
Dr. John Jurist returned to The Space Show to discuss human factors for commercial space travel, specifically for suborbital space tourism flights. The discussion focused on what happens to a human body under acceleration, the type of G force a person can handle without problems, radiation issues, decompression in the space vehicle, shirt sleeve environments versus pressure suits for the passengers, AST space flight participant guidelines, and more. Listeners asked questions concerning the...
Date Aired: Sunday 25 Sep 2005
David Urie, Executive Vice President of Rocketplane, Ltd, was the guest for this Space Show program. At the start of the interview, I asked Mr. Urie several questions regarding his work at Lockheed and Skunk Works with the National Aerospace Plane, the SR-71, SSTO's, X-33, and more. Mr. Urie provided not only interesting insights and information to these projects, the timing, the company, and the politics of the day, but he also shared with us his fresh perspectives regarding these and future...
Date Aired: Tuesday 20 Sep 2005
Rosanna Sattler was the guest for this Space Show program. Ms Sattler began the interview by discussing the source of international law and existing space property rights under the Outer Space Treaty. As a result of the property rights discussions, several questions were received from listeners that addresses questions relating to protecting a possible business claim on the Moon. The issues of guns, poaching, claim jumping, self and property defense all came up and Ms. Sattler explained why it...
Date Aired: Sunday 18 Sep 2005
Dr. Jordin Kare returned to The Space Show for this special program. We began the interview discussion with some updates from Dr. Kare regarding laser launch possibilities. One of the major areas that Dr. Kare talked about was the use of many smaller lasers joined together rather than one huge laser as it is believed that this will lower laser costs and add to the plausibility of using laser systems. One listener asked Dr. Kare to explain the difference between lasers being discussed on the...
Date Aired: Tuesday 13 Sep 2005
Dr. Thomas Van Flandern was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview by discussing gravity and how Dr. Van Flandern understands gravity as compared to tradition physics and science. We also looked at how gravity can be manipulated to serve the interests of obtaining lower space access and transportation costs. Dr. Van Flandern brought us up to date on gravity modification efforts, how gravity modification might take place and how far along with it we are right now. In the...
Date Aired: Sunday 11 Sep 2005
Anthony Duignan-Cabrera was the guest for this Space Show program. The interview began with my asking Mr. Duignan-Cabrera about space press/media coverage with the mainstream press and networks given his experience with ABC News, Good Morning America and more, plus his space.com experience. No surprises in his answer but you will certainly want to hear it and take note of his perspective. We then began a comprehensive discussion about the Space Exploration Vision and leadership from everyone in...
Date Aired: Tuesday 06 Sep 2005
Shubber Ali returned to The Space Show for this special two hour program. The interview began by asking Shubber questions about the space industry in Australia, in America, and elsewhere in the world. In the context of this discussion, we also talked about the launch industry, especially in America, but we did discuss demand around the world and the entrepreneurial business in the United States. Shubber also told listeners why he does not like the term "space industry" and this developed into a...
Date Aired: Monday 05 Sep 2005
Robert (Bob) Richards was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview talking with Bob about his having founded the Space Generation Foundation, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), and the International Space University (ISU). We discussed his interest and focus on education for everyone but especially for younger people and getting them to realize fulfillment of their dreams, including their space dreams. We then shifted our discussion to the subject...
Date Aired: Sunday 04 Sep 2005
John Barber returned to The Space Show for this program to update us on MagLev systems and to share with listeners his concept for a MagLev sled that might be a commercially developed project. Almost from the start of this program, questions came in from listeners concerning MagLev, including a circular system designed to accelerate 70,000 pound projectiles to space. Mr. Barber fielded all of the questions about this subject, including those by Richard who has proposed such a MagLev system at...
Date Aired: Wednesday 31 Aug 2005
Jim Lewis, Managing Director of Deep Space Communications Network (DSCN), was the guest for this special morning Space Show program. Mr. Lewis explained the concept behind DSCN and how any of us can use the product to send a message to deep space. This is an exciting space business right here on the ground that any of us can access and the fee is reasonable. Mr. Lewis, in response to many listener questions as well as my own, discussed the technical aspects of how they send a message to deep...
Date Aired: Tuesday 30 Aug 2005
Chris Luginbuhl, an astronomer with the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and expert on Dark Skies, was the guest for this Space Show program. Dark Skies or the use of star friendly lighting was the main theme and discussion subject for this program. We discussed the need for star friendly lighting, why people other than astronomers should care about it, and how to go about working for Dark Sky policies in city building codes. Mr. Luginbuhl directed us to the International Dark-Sky...
Date Aired: Sunday 28 Aug 2005
John Spencer, architect and designer specializing in space tourism, returned to this edition of The Space Show. We began the interview by discussing how the space tourism industry has changed from the mid-90's to the current time. In the context of this discussion, Mr. Spencer explained space tourism, its evolution, orbital versus suboribtal, the time frame for achieving space tourism and how uniting the field is, noting that space in general, especially space tourism has the potential for...
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