Date Aired: Sunday 17 Apr 2005
Dr. Simon Mitton, Cambridge University astronomer and author of the new book about the life of Fred Hoyle, Conflict In The Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life In Science, was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Mitton began the interview by telling us how he ended up at Cambridge as an astronomer and about his early experiences meeting Fed Hoyle. Dr. Mitton then talked about some of the very significant and important scientific contributions by Dr. Hoyle including the coining of the term "Big Bang...
Date Aired: Tuesday 12 Apr 2005
Alfred Zaehringer returned as the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Zaehringer focused on rocket economics during the program, explaining in detail why it is difficult and maybe impossible to substantially lower the cost of getting to LEO, the Moon, or anyplace in space using chemical rockets. In response to his earlier appearance on the program Jan. 4th of this year, Mr. Zaehringer was asked a series of follow up questions exploring possibilities for reducing launch costs to the next...
Date Aired: Monday 11 Apr 2005
This program is a special presentation by Drs. John Jurist, Sam Dinkin and myself at the University of North Dakota Department of Space Studies on April 12, 2005. This two hour presentation was in the form of a two hour interactive workshop with faculty and students both present for the workshop and on the internet as UND presented the program as a webcast to their alumni, distant learning students, and to the Space Show family of listeners. The audio only is archived on The Space Show website...
Date Aired: Sunday 10 Apr 2005
Henry Vanderbilt returned to The Space Show for this program to discuss the upcoming Space Access Conference in Phoenix, Arizona April 28-30, 2005. In addition to Henry giving us details about this year's conference and impressive list of speakers and topics, we discussed Space Ship One and the XPRIZE, the new Bigelow prize, the Commercial Space Launch Amendment Act signed in December by President Bush and the new developments regarding suborbital space tourism and the alt.space community....
Date Aired: Wednesday 30 Mar 2005
Dr. Alan Binder returned to the The Space Show last night to discuss his new book, Lunar Prospector: Against All Odds. He began the interview by telling us the Lunar Prospector story, the challenges he faced technically as well as from NASA, Lockheed, and individuals. This story includes interesting reflections regarding the upcoming NASA Administrator, Dr. Mike Griffin as Dr. Binder did not have very good experiences with him when he was the AA of NASA and working with him on Lunar Prospector...
Date Aired: Tuesday 29 Mar 2005
Dr. David Schrunk returned to the Space Show to discuss his new book and the need for quality of laws. We discussed the need for quality of laws as applicable to space, but also to us here right now in our society. Dr. Schrunk made the point that we expect and demand quality control and quality in every aspect of our lives, why not law. He proposes no law be made unless it is has been designed by quality law professional designers specifically trained to design laws and that it is evaluated to...
Date Aired: Monday 28 Mar 2005
Nathan Horsley was the guest for this particular Space Show program. We discussed many legal issues pertaining to space tourism, launch vehicles, and space development. We explored the very nature of informed consent and how it might hold up in a legal action to protect a company using it for space flight participants. We also discussed if informed consent would be sufficient protection or if companies should plan on going to additional layers of protection for possible legal claims against...
Date Aired: Sunday 27 Mar 2005
Dr. Sam Dinkin returned to The Space Show for this program. We began the interview by asking Sam about his space journalism prize and the creation of the Space Journalism Association. The prize has a deadline for submittals of the end of March 2005 so make sure you listen to this discussion and if you have a qualifying article, submit it before the deadline passes! We also talked about Dr. Dinkin's new business venture, SpaceShot, Inc., an opportunity that we are certainly all to hear more...
Date Aired: Tuesday 22 Mar 2005
Sy Liebergot returned to The Space Show for this program to discuss his book, "Apollo EECom: Journey of a Lifetime" as well as timely topics regarding space development. Among the topics discussed was the International Space Station (ISS), the Space Exploration Vision program, the new NASA Administrator, Congress, budgets, and the NASA culture. Return to flight was discussed as was the CEV, heavy lift, and the time table for getting back to the Moon and going on to Mars. Mr. Liebergot was not...
Date Aired: Sunday 20 Mar 2005
Dr. John Jurist, scientist and commercial space investor returned for this Space Show program. We began the discussion with a detailed look into the human factors that will likely apply to both space flight participants and crews per AST guidelines now under consideration. Dr. Jurist pointed out some reasonable medical risks that space flight participants might encounter and how to best screen for them in the application process for a ride to space. We talked about non-space flight doctors...
Date Aired: Tuesday 15 Mar 2005
Theron Lutz was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Lutz began the interview by talking about some of his experiences in the Navy while observing radar and its impact on seagulls. From these observations, he considered the effect of these beams on propulsion and the discussion then pointed to the devices and technologies referenced below. Mr. Lutz was able to give us good definitions and explanations of these devices and potential energy sources. We then discussed the application for...
Date Aired: Sunday 13 Mar 2005
Terry McNeeley and Bruce Behrhorst from www.nuclearspace.com were the guests for this Space Show program. We began the interview by having Terry tell us why he formed this website, what the purpose was, how it has been received so far, and the issues addressed on this site. We then began a rather detailed discussion about the types of nuclear propulsion for space, its use in a launch vehicle here on Earth versus using it for deeper space travel, going to and from the Moon, the risks, the...
Date Aired: Tuesday 08 Mar 2005
Ed Buckbee, author of the new book, "The Real Space Cowboys," was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Buckbee described his book which will be available from Apogee Publishing in May and which has contributions in it by former astronaut Wally Schirra. We talked with Ed about many subjects stemming from the Mercury Astronaut period. One of the more fascinating parts of the discussion was the surprising information on the competition between the astronauts and the chimps in the early space...
Date Aired: Sunday 06 Mar 2005
George Whitesides, the Executive Director of the National Space Society (NSS) returned to be the guest for this Space Show program. During the first part of the program, George discussed the work of the National Space Society and the upcoming annual conference, ISDC, which will be held in Washington, DC from May 19-22. Space Show listeners are encouraged to attend this important conference and you can learn more about it at http://www.nss.org/ or the special conference site http://isdc.nss.org/...
Date Aired: Tuesday 01 Mar 2005
Dr. Pascal Lee returned to The Space Show tonight for an active discussion covering a wide range of topics reaching as far out as Titan and as close in as places here on Earth. We discussed Mars, the rovers, and methane on the Red Planet, what it all means, and its potential impact on our space program. We discussed possible life on Mars, views about the subject within NASA, ESA, and among other science and academic groups. Additional subjects discussed included the new Moon-Mars Initiative,...
Date Aired: Sunday 27 Feb 2005
Tom Hill, author of "Space: What Now? The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of Activities in Space," was the guest for this Space Show program. He began the interview by discussing how he met Buzz Aldrin and how he got Buzz to write the Forward for this book Tom then discussed some of the more salient chapters and conclusions in his book. Tom Hill did a stellar job in providing us with a condenses history of how we started, how we got to where we are today in space development, and events...
Date Aired: Tuesday 22 Feb 2005
Ian Brewster, author of "The Simple Universe," was the guest on this edition of The Space Show. "The Simple Universe" is an excellent book in breaking down complex physics, cosmological, and astrophysics concepts and theories to a level easily understood by us all. We started the interview by asking Ian how he was able to do this, taking the complex and making it so simple. From there, Ian started discussing subjects covered by the book and responding to listener questions. We covered many...
Date Aired: Sunday 20 Feb 2005
Mark Whittington was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview by talking about his book, "Children of Apollo." He explained the alternate history theme, how he came up with the idea to have Pres. Nixon continue with the Apollo program through Apollo 23 which lands on the Moon with a woman astronaut. As a result of questions from listeners, Mark explained how he portrayed famous people in the book at various times in their careers including Bill Clinton, Sen.. Proxmire, and...
Date Aired: Wednesday 16 Feb 2005
Robert Zimmerman returned for this special Space Show broadcast to discuss with listeners the results of the recent AST Conference held in Washington, DC, the ISS, the NASA budget, Hubble, the situation with replacing the NASA Administrator and more. In updating us on the AST meeting, Bob told us about some of the recommended guidelines including the setting of medical standards for space tourists. This proved to be very controversial, sparking lots of questions and interaction with Bob...
Date Aired: Tuesday 15 Feb 2005
Michael Laine, president and founder of LiftPort, Inc., was the guest for this edition of The Space Show. Mr. Laine began by discussing the space elevator concept, explaining the basics about it, then moving on to discuss the basic plan behind LiftPort. Mr. Laine fielded numerous questions during the that enabled him to explain specific technical aspects of the space elevator to his own capital acquisition plans and the business plan for LiftPort. We discussed carbon nanotubes, specifics about...
Date Aired: Sunday 13 Feb 2005
Wayne White returned to The Space Show today to discuss in an extra long Space Show program exciting developments in space law and space property rights. Mr. White began his discussion with a presentation on the history and current state of space law. We opened the lines for questions and comments after the first break and Wayne continued his discussion and update, answering and commenting on questions, and helping us to understand many of the complexities of space law and property rights...
Date Aired: Tuesday 08 Feb 2005
Dr. Ira Sharlip was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview talking about his desire to be a space tourist in the late 1980's when he escrowed his $5,000 deposit with the former Society Expeditions for the Project Space Voyage Program. Had the program actually taken place, he would been on the second tourist flight that orbited Earth from five to eight times before returning eight to twelve hours later. Dr. Sharlip said the vision that he had back then still burned bright...
Date Aired: Sunday 06 Feb 2005
Dr. David P. Miller, Professor of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Miller began the discussion by talking about the Sooner Lunar Schooner, the plan for Oklahoma University to launch a robotic mission to the Moon that place two robots on the surface of the Moon. One robot will conduct a materials study of the Apollo 17 LEM and the other will start on a traverse to Lunakhod 2's last known position about 140 km...
Date Aired: Tuesday 01 Feb 2005
Rusty Schweickart was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the discussion looking back at history and talking to Rusty about his astronaut and NASA experiences. In response to a question, he related to us that his EVA was the most memorable of his time spent in space. We talked at length about his EVA experience and what it was like to be outside the vehicle orbiting Earth. Rusty was also asked about ordinary people going to space as tourists given the rigors of his physical and...
Date Aired: Sunday 30 Jan 2005
Steven Wolfe has returned for this special two hour program to lead an introspective discussion about the nature of humanities yearning to explore and ultimately move out into the cosmos. This program is part of The Space Show’s continuing exploration and theme regarding our spiritual connection to space. . With this special program, The Space Show and Steven Wolfe are breaking new ground together as we bring to The Space Show audience a "virtual" live format designed to stimulate introspective...
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