Date Aired: Friday 15 Sep 2023
Guest: Bob Werb; Topics: Communicating, selling, explaining space to the public and why it is necessary to do so.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 12 Sep 2023
Guest: Dr. Ajay Kothari; Topics: Multiple topics including the NASA-DARPA DRACO program for small nuclear engines for Mars and elsewhere, thorium, molten salt reactors for power generation, Generation 4 reactors, nuclear fuels and much more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 10 Sep 2023
Tags: Tim Ventura, propulsion history, EV technology, battery development, Ukraine war, AI, robots, rocket technology, space tourism spaceships, fusion, nuclear space power, the Moon as a staging area for the solar system, Mars not now, mitigating gravity, UAP concerns, FTL travel, gravitational lensing, space tourism challenges, NASA, Private Sector , Blue Origin, SpaceX, space leads to unrealistic expectations, race car technology, comparing Ford Explorer to Tesla Model 3, Tesla...
Date Aired: Friday 01 Sep 2023
Guest: Jason Keller; Topics: NASA SBIR grants, SBIR Ignite Solicitation due date Sept. 21, 2023, SBIR rules and requirements, SBIR funding amounts, SBIR Ignite Solicitation for 2024, SBIR solicitation history, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.
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Date Aired: Sunday 27 Aug 2023
Guest: Dr. Alex Layendecker; Topics: Sex in space, pregnancy, fetal development, birth and babies to children in zero to microgravity and in an enhanced radiation environment. We discuss the concerns, implications, and risks for tourists, crew members, and space settlements.
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Date Aired: Sunday 30 Apr 2023
Guests: Dr. David Livingston and Open Line callers; Topics: Multiple topics and discussions starting with the call about the new CO2 scrubber technology. Lots regarding Starship and the environment and new space companies plus more.
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Date Aired: Friday 14 Apr 2023
Guest: Michael Gold; Topics: The Artemis Accords, international participation, the Artemis project, lunar Gateway, commercial space development with PPP, space treaties, bilateral agreements, countering space development naysayers and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 05 Mar 2023
Guest: Dr. Ajay Kothari; Topics: Ajay's perspective on why space is so impossible, having a necessary creative vision, the third dimension policy approach, Ukraine, Congress and the government, global value, Fermi Paradox, Drake Equation and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 12 Feb 2023
Guest: Dr. Livingston with multiple callers & email users; Topics: See the tags but we covered multiple topics, sometimes with fairly long phone calls.
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Date Aired: Thursday 15 Dec 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Orion, Artemis 1 & SLS update with updates on Starship, Raptor engine testing and more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 13 Dec 2022
Guest: John Jossy; Jossy's view of the main events in the space industry in 2022. See his paper linked on our blog at www.thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/J.%20Jossy%20Space%20Summary%202022.pdf.
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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.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 09 Nov 2022
Guests: John Batchelor, Anatoli Zak, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Russian and the Lunar Gateway, Roscosmos, the Orel crewed spaceship.
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Date Aired: Sunday 09 Oct 2022
Guest: Frank Slazer; Topics: The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, government space, commercial space, launcher comparisons with SLS and Starship, market analysis, lobbying with congress, and much more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 13 Sep 2022
Guest: Dr. Ajay Kothari; Topics: Dr. Kothari makes the case of using thorium molten salt reactors for power generation in the U.S. and globally. Ajay also talked about SSP, nuclear power, launchers and related topic. He provided us with numbers and statistics.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 09 Aug 2022
Guest: Dr. Robert (Bob) Zubrin; Topics: Searching for life on Mars, sample returns, planetary protection nuclear energy, student design contests, Mars Society programs and upcoming convention, gravity prescription determination, human spaceflight, NASA, Starship, SpaceX and much more.
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Date Aired: Friday 05 Aug 2022
Guests: Darin Noel, Ton Whitman; Topics: Engineering perspectives regarding the design and making of JWST and comparisons to other space telescopes.
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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.
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Date Aired: Friday 18 Feb 2022
Guest: Greg Klerkx; Topics: Greg follows up on commercial space from his best selling 2004 book, "Lost In Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age." Together we examine commercial space (alt.space) in 2004 to day.
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Date Aired: Sunday 13 Feb 2022
Guest: Joe Carroll; Topics: Joe's Power Point slide presentation posted on our blog re LEO debris. Note the slides called out by Joe. Many related topics, Starship discussion topics, launching Starship near Singapore, debris liability concerns and much more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 11 Jan 2022
Guest: Joe Carroll; Topics: Artificial gravity, Starship as a tanker, space settlement, debris mitigation, solar system surface gravity, Joe's recent Space Review Article, "How to clarify human futures beyond Earth."
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Date Aired: Friday 05 Nov 2021
Guest: Dr. Casey Handmer: Topics: The primary topic was Casey's blog article "Starship is still not understood" at https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-still-not-understood. Later in the show, we talked about his latest blog post, "Scaling carbon capture" at https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/scaling-carbon-capture.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 26 Oct 2021
Guest: Dr. James Dewar; Topics: Nuclear power, propulsion and for space. Jim's ideas and suggestions per his attached paper, "The Nuclear Rocket."
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Date Aired: Tuesday 21 Sep 2021
Guest: Dan Adamo; Topics: Multiple topics focusing on Inspiration 4, debris challenges, Starlink concerns, tourism, settlement, biological economics, rocket fuels and more.
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Date Aired: Sunday 19 Sep 2021
Guest: Dr. Madhu Thangalevu; Topics: Madhu's more than 30 years of teaching his space design studio class at USC noting how things have changed over time.
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