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Date Aired: Sunday 16 Apr 2023

Guests: Lee Irons, Morgan Irons; Topics: Lee and Morgan discuss their paper, "Pancosmorio (world limit) theory of the sustainability of human migration and settlement in space." You can download and read this paper from our blog, plus you can find additional articles explaining and detailing their Pancosmorio theory. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program...

Guests: Morgan Irons, Lee Irons

Tags: Morgan Irons, Lee Irons, Deep Space Ecology Inc, Norfolk Institute, Soil & Crop Science PhD candidate, Lehmann Lab at Cornell University, Pancosmorio theory, human migration and settlement in space, recreate Earth's ecosystem with gravity and Oxygen for survival in space, self-restoring Earth-lie natural ecosystem, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, sustainability, resilience, The Fermi Paradox, terraforming, thermodynamics, Living In Space, cross disciplines, technofix, bioregenerative components, sustainable Earth levels, Level 1 sustainability, Level 2 sustainability, Level 4 sustainability, TRL 2, localized extinction, backups needed, timeline for development, dissipative structure, inductive reasoning, Cislunar development, ISS as an example, 1st generation gravity, partial gravity, gravity prescription, humans and 1g, imitating 1g with centrifugal force, Mars, spinning for 1g efficiency, gravity and electricity, meteor strikes, a single destructive event, dinosaur killing event 65 million years

Broadcast 3978 Tony Frego

Date Aired: Friday 13 Jan 2023

Guest: Tony Frego, VP of Mission Management of Spaceflight, Inc.; Topics: Tony defined mission management, we talked about Spaceflight services, agnostic launcher preference, Orbital Transit Vehicles (OTV), Sherpa program, launch trends and opportunities, global activities. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and...

Guests: Tony Frego

Broadcast 3954 Tom Gardner

Date Aired: Tuesday 29 Nov 2022

Guest: Tom Gardner; Topics: We talked about the Advanced Space CAPSTONE Project, engineering, lunar missions, CAPSTONE goals and objectives, cislunar development, NASA, Starship, lunar plans from other nations including China, Japan, UAE, ESA and Russia. We welcomed Tom Gardner to the program from Advanced Space to explain and discuss the CAPSTONE Project which is now in a special lunar NRHO orbit. I strongly recommend you visit their website, www.advancedpace.com as...

Guests: Tom Gardner

Broadcast 3953 Brad Bergan (special start time 2:30 PM PST)

Date Aired: Friday 18 Nov 2022

Guest: Brad Bergan: Topics: We discussed Brad’s new book, Space Race 2.0: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Orbit, NASA and the Privatization of the Final Frontier. In addition, Brad was asked for his opinion on the new commercial space personalities, business, the commercial space future, national security concerns with China and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of...

Guests: Brad Bergan

Tags: Brad Bergan, Space Race 2.0, Brad’s introduction to space, the unique Table of Content’s for Brad’s book, Brad’s thoughts on Elon Musk, author’s research into Musk, Bezos and Branson, favorites of the billionaires, Brad’s billionaire descriptions, private space sector, public, Private Partnerships, photographic quality of book, online media editor, rocket reusability, .SpaceX, SLS, Falcon 9 business model, SLS costs, SLS comparison to other rockets, conflicting realities in the last chapter, possible space race with China, space racing itself in Ch. 6, China, Moon, Mars, Earth triangle, Chinese rocket example, SLS and reusability, SLS and economics, SLS sustainability, William Shatner space flight commentary, Shatner impact on space tourism, Bezos and commercial ticket sales, space is inevitable, trillion dollar industry

Broadcast 3950 Keith Henson

Date Aired: Sunday 13 Nov 2022

Guest: Keith Henson; Topics: Space Solar Power, Nubian vault, lunar return, tourism, why go to the Moon, advantages go to Mars, required launch rate for SSP, SSP economics, power generation economics, fusion power and lots more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the...

Guests: Keith Henson

Broadcast 3937 Dr. Charles Cockell

Date Aired: Friday 14 Oct 2022

Guest: Dr. Charles Cockell; Topics: We mainly talked about Dr. Cockell's book, Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe, plus extraterrestrial life from different perspectives. Additional topics included UFOs, UAPs, Mars sample return, & lots more. We welcomed Dr. Charles Cockell to the program for a discussion about his new book, "Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe" This...

Guests: Dr. Charles Cockell

Broadcast 3929: Grant Blaisdell

Date Aired: Friday 23 Sep 2022

Guest: Grant Blaisdell; Topics: Grant introduced us to Copernic Space which is about decentralizing ownership of space assets and creating a Web3 technology base operation for buying and selling commercial space assets. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific...

Guests: Grant Blaisdell

Tags: Grant Blaisdell, Copernic Space, Warsaw Poland, Decentralized ownership of space assets, Lady Rocket Foundation, blockchain, NewSpace business explosion, Web3 technology, decentralization, token based investment, NFT, creating a market for sellers and buyers, satellite data market, physical payload, portal to the new space economy, Spaceibles, SpaceMart, SpacePool, space art, partial interests, fractionalized assets, launch industry, lunar presence, Mars, creating new and additional commercial space markets, digital space payload, regulatory issues, KYC process in finance and banking, small size customers, branding, fashion, Artist Jeff Koons NFT Artworks to the Moon in Celebration of Human Achievement, technology focus, Start Aerospace, financing, five year plan for Copernic Space, public equity, space settlement applications, lunar timeline

Broadcast 3921 Hotel Mars with Dr. Michael H. Hecht

Date Aired: Wednesday 07 Sep 2022

Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Michael Hecht, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The MOXIE experiment on the Mars Perseverance Rover. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for...

Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Livingston, Dr. Michael Hecht

Tags: John Batchelor, Dr. Michael Hecht Dr. David Livingston, MOXIE, Mars, perseverance, making O2 on Mars, photosynthesis, plants, rocket fuel, human needs, chemical breakdown of Martian atmosphere, chemical breakdown of MOXIE output, comparing plants to Moxie, scaling Moxie up, O2 production rate per hour, seasonal and temperature changes impacting MOXIE, living in lava tubes, terraforming Mars, capturing CO2

Broadcast 3884 Dr. John Brandenburg

Date Aired: Tuesday 28 Jun 2022

Guest: Dr. John Brandenburg; Topics: Dr. Brandenburg's new sci-fi book, The War Of The Singularity: The Human Race is Cancelled… and updates for his theory regarding nuclear bombs having destroyed Mars about 180 million years ago due to traces of Xe 129 in the Martian atmosphere. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. ...

Guests: Dr. John Brandenburg

Tags: Dr. John Brandenburg, science fiction, his new book The War Of The Singularity: The Human Race is Cancelled…, AI, robotics, Airian 4 supercomputer, Mars, dark futuristic vision, fusion, humans and staying out of trouble, computer self-expression, elite followers, book reports on catastrophe, Motivate Chat Bot, space colonies, binary algebra, gaming the stock market, AI and the stock market, AI dangers and reality, Turing Test, sentient computers, The Singularity, 2001 Space Odyssey, neutron bomb, Armies of the living dead, early solar system supernova, R process with H Bomb, S process, XE 129 spike, Mars and the Allende Meteorite, XE 132, 180 million year timeline, Xenon spike ratio, Brandenburg criticism, slowness in accepting evidenced backed theories, humanity and the truth, asteroid belt, Iodine decay, Plutonium 244 decay, alternative theories, Mars Polar Lander, polar orbit, The Shergotty meteorite, Richard Hoover, oxidized iron on Mars, U.S. government awareness

Broadcast 3879 Sir Martin Rees, Donald Goldsmith

Date Aired: Friday 17 Jun 2022

Guest: Sir Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith: Topics: Their new book, "The End Of Astronauts: Why Robots Are The Future Of Exploration" which proposes human spaceflight BLEO should be done by the private sector, not by government. Our guests discuss this proposal on this specific program. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www....

Guests: Sir Martin Rees, Donald Goldsmith

Tags: Sir Martin Rees, Donald Goldsmith, The End Of Astronauts: Why Robots Are The Future Of Exploration, human spaceflight BLEO, NASA, risk taking, public risk taking, the private sector, space tourism, space adventurism, Musk and risk, Mars, lunar habitats, humans in space resource consumption, robots, advancing AI and technology, robots improve while humans do not, robots for the future of space exploration, ISS, Artemis, robotic capabilities gap narrowing, Curiosity compared to Perseverance, public sector role in developing space infrastructure, space tourism and settlement, nuclear propulsion changes the argument, faster travel time supports safer humans in space, asteroid mining, O'Neil colonies, government puts people at risk, ET robots, The Fermi Paradox, sentient robots, private sector accidents impact on government HSF, use private space adventure, not tourism, space property rights

Broadcast 3858 Joshua Carlson

Date Aired: Sunday 24 Apr 2022

Joshua Carlson, Sunday, 4-24-22, #3858, Time: 1 hour 29 minutes Guest: Joshua Carlson; Topics: The author used his recent book, “Spacepower Ascendant: Space Development Theory and a New Space Strategy” to discuss national security space, space settlement, space policy, competition, timelines and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www....

Guests: Joshua Carlson

Tags: Tags: Joshua Carlson, space economics, space exploration problems, securing space trade lanes, space expansion cost, space exploitation, our phases of space development, future Chinese Moon base, U.S. Moonbase, leadership needs vision for space, space conflict, space does not change people but people change space, competition, the Russian threat, military theory, Space Force vision, private sector space leadership, Navigation, reconnaissance, timing and communications, Nuclear propulsion, OODA Loop, Chinese space plan discussion, space development timelines, Mars, asteroid belt, Uranus for He3, SLS program, U.S. space allies, Ukraine and Russian ASAT test, space tourism, space settlement, settlement is solid expansion, fitting all space ideas together through leadership and space expansion, Spacepower Ascendant: Space Development Theory and a New Space Strategy by our guest

Broadcast 3850 Mary Roach

Date Aired: Friday 01 Apr 2022

Guest: Mary Roach; Topics: We discussed Mary's new book and first young reader's book, "Packing For Mars For Kids." In addition, our guest fielded questions about settlement, gravity, living on the Moon or Mars, kids and pets in space, a full kids spacesuit and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments...

Guests: Mary Roach

Broadcast 3849 Hotel Mars GEORGE DVORSKY

Date Aired: Wednesday 30 Mar 2022

Guests: John Batchelor, George Dvorsky, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Competition for lunar human landers. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation...

Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Livingston, George Dvorsky

Tags: John Batchelor, George Dvorsky, Dr. David Livingston, Artemis human lunar lander, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, NASA competition, NASA budget, possible other bids, human lander budget allocation, Mars, NASA Mars timeline, SpaceX Mars timeline

Broadcast 3790 Kasper Kubica

Date Aired: Friday 19 Nov 2021

Guest: Kasper Kubica; Topics: The concept put forth by our guest for luxury $10 million condos in free space, the gravity RX, markets and demand, space settlement capital and investments, timelines, lunar and Martian space settlement. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the...

Guests: Kasper Kubica

Broadcast 3770 Dr. Brian Green

Date Aired: Thursday 14 Oct 2021

Guest. Dr. Brian Green; Topics: Our guest discussed his new book "Space Ethics" along with leading us through a more detailed discussion about ethical issues for humans developing and living in space. See the blog post for information about his book and the Table of Contents for his book. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com....

Guests: Dr. Brian Green

Tags: Dr. Brian Green, applied ethics, Space Ethics by our guest, exploring the final frontier, interactions with humans, the Earth and outer space, planetary protection, SpaceX, Elon Musk, space settlement, Mars, the Moon, Article 9 of the OST, aerospace engineering, why Space Ethics, space debris concerns, national security space, weaponizing space, commercial operations, space mining, contamination for Mars or the Earth, searching for ET intelligence, interacting with ET intelligence, China and ethics, space tourism, humans and purposeful meaning, AI and technology ethics, China ethics align with the CCP, ethics vs. rules for space, legislature and ethics, the case against space, private space flight ethics, robotic probes vs. humans as a probe, satellite kill weapons, medical ethics, Bioethics, business ethics, ethics and government, social media ethics

Broadcast 3693 Dr. Namrata Goswami

Date Aired: Friday 21 May 2021

Guest: Dr. Namrata Goswami; Topics: US Space Policy, China and space, the Biden Space Policy, space competition, competing space visions, space race with China, the U.S. Space Force and much more. Note that this was about a 2 hour discussion covering multiple topics with multiple callers plus email questions. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website...

Guests: Dr. Namrata Goswami

Tags: Dr. Namrata Goswami, Sen. Bill Nelson as new NASA Administrator, Chinese competition, Artemis, lunar landers, Chinese space program concerns, cislunar space, Mars, China and the Outer Space Treaty, South China Sea example, lunar south pole ice example, space territory appropriation, space race with China, U.S. view of space race with China, China's space economics compared to U.S. space economics, Chinese innovation, NewSpace sector, Chinese commercial space, Biden space policy, Biden space vision, Biden investment plan for space, tax incentives for US private investment in space, U.S. long term support for projects like Artemis, U.S. Moon program, China public relations, Long March 5B, propaganda, China lack of transparency, Belt and Road Program, China vanquishing NewSpace, National Space Council (NSC), NSC goals, China's space goals, Space Force culture, U.S. space collaborations with China, Wolf Amendment, U.S. strategic thinking around space, critical SLS upcoming date, Biden space speech, Space Force

Broadcast 3652 Hotel Mars with Dr. David Grinspoon

Date Aired: Wednesday 03 Mar 2021

Note: Mr. Batchelor has notified me that this file was lost, thus there will be no archived program. Please use the summary below to reference our one segment Hotel Mars discussion. Thanks. David Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Mars and the new Perseverance rover You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions,...

Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Livingston, Dr. David Grinspoon

Tags: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston, Mars, Perseverance Rover, Mars 2020 mission, nuclear RTG power, Martian rocks, river delta, volcanic material, impact ejecta, Perseverance cameras, Martian color, Martian sounds, ice, maximizing chances for past life discovery

Broadcast 3576 Dr. Les Johnson

Date Aired: Tuesday 22 Sep 2020

Guest: Dr. Les Johnson; Topics: Solar sail propulsion and missions plus his science fiction and his new edited book "Stellaris: People of the Stars" which speculates as to what humans will be like when we go to the stars. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific...

Guests: Les Johnson

Tags: Dr. Les Johnson, solar sail propulsion, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, Solar Cruiser, interstellar flight, interstellar propulsion, private sector new technology development, human spaceflight solar sail propulsion, light reflection, sail material, lightweight reflector, low mass, solar orbit over the poles, dust grains and the solar sail, solar sail development at Marshall and Langley, solar sail, light thrust on the solar sail, interstellar research, fusion, breakthrough propulsion, laser propulsion, solar winds, lack of consistency, Carrington Effect, solar wind charged particles, propulsion through sunlight, electric solar system, solar sail and protons/electrons, effective distance from the sun for solar sail, Jupiter as the useful limit, solar sail costs, solar sail to Venus, solar sails in science fiction, Mission to Methone,, Exoplanets, interstellar flight long timelines, Mars, is spaceflight to the stars inevitable, TheWeek.com

Broadcast 3572 Dr. Ajay Kothari

Date Aired: Tuesday 15 Sep 2020

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...

Guests: Dr. Ajay Kothari

Broadcast 3570 Dr. John Brandenburg

Date Aired: Friday 11 Sep 2020

Guest: Dr. John Brandenburg; Topics: Kepler Aerospace, his company, John's water fueled thruster, new information supporting his Mars large hydrogen bomb hypothesis, science fiction, Woodward and Mach thruster work plus more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the...

Guests: Dr. John Brandenburg

Broadcast 3569 Dr. Lena De Winne of Asgardia Space

Date Aired: Thursday 10 Sep 2020

Guest: Dr. Lena De Winne; Topics: Dr. Winne introduced us to the Asgardia Space Nation (https://asgardia.space/en) plus she described this soon to be four year old nation in great detail. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written...

Guests: Dr. Lena De Winne

Broadcast 3563 Mark Whittington

Date Aired: Friday 28 Aug 2020

Guest: Mark Whittington; Topics: The latest on returning to the Moon, presidential politics and space, space policy, commercial space international space alliances plus many additional topics and issues of interest. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com . Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program....

Guests: Mark Whittington

Broadcast 3540 Dr. James Schwartz

Date Aired: Tuesday 14 Jul 2020

Guest: Dr. James (Jim) Schwartz; topics: Jim's new book, "The Value of Space in Space Exploration" plus a wide ranging discussion on doing science in space as a priority over commercial, mining, resource usage and settlement. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific...

Guests: Dr. James Schwartz

Broadcast 3518 Dr. Joyce Liao

Date Aired: Sunday 31 May 2020

Guest: Dr. Joyce Liao; Eye-brain issues in microgravity, vision issues in space, eye medical instrumentation in space, optic nerve and fluid pressure plus more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a...

Guests: Dr. Joyce Liao

Tags: Dr. Joyce Liao, Stanford University, Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service, eye-brain issues in microgravity, hypoxia, Covid-19, Dept. of Ophthalmology, AIAA, optic nerve issues, fluid distribution, vision loss in optic disc drusen, optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography (OCTA), mice, vision field loss, artificial gravity, lunar gravity, visually dependent, significant human spaceflight issue, visual system changes, blurry vision, ISS data, minimum gravity for mitigation, low gravity prolonged effect, JAXA experiments, variable gravity, biochemistry studies, visual prescreening astronauts, microgravity impact on immune system, radiation as a contributing factor, blood thinners, additional drug therapies, bifocal glasses in space, parallax per each eye in space as compared to Earth, Mars, visual AG protocols (if any), space helmets, ISS eye examining equipment, astronaut cross training for eye problems, astronaut self-care for vision, ISS pressurization, sea level, high altitude an

Broadcast 3511 Michael Listner

Date Aired: Sunday 17 May 2020

Guest: Michael Listner; Topics: Artemis Accords, new E.O on space resources, National Space Policy, commercial space development, lunar return, international accords, and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show...

Guests: Michael Listner