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.
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...
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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Date Aired: Friday 27 Aug 2021
Guest: Charles (Charlie) Precourt; Topics: Artemis, SLS, solid rocket boosters (SRBs), SRB propellant, lunar return timelines, human lunar lander, Gateway, Gateway lunar orbits, plus much more.
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Date Aired: Friday 30 Jul 2021
Guest: Avi Shabtai; Topics: Ramon Space, space computer systems and storage, Ramon Space track record, hardware and software descriptions, market influence, known customers, future plans and more.
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Date Aired: Friday 16 Jul 2021
Guest: John Strickland; Topics: John's two new book, "Developing Space" and "Settling Space," space policy, sources of energy and power, challenges, policies and human spaceflight, Mars, the Moon, NASA, commercial space, reusability and more.
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Date Aired: Tuesday 13 Jul 2021
Guests: Dr. Bruce Damer. John Jossy co-hosted this program; Topics: Dr. Damer's SHEPHERD project and the Origin of Life Hot Springs theory.
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Date Aired: Friday 09 Jul 2021
Guest: Dr. Matthew Weinzierl; Topics: Space economics, why commercial space is exciting, government risk factors, private sector strengths, space tourism importance and much more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 26 May 2021
Guests: John Batchelor, Marcia Smith, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Russian ISS space tourism, US Crew Dragon space tourism and more. See "Space Tourism Hitting Its Stride" from SpacePolicyOnline dated May 13, 2021.
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Date Aired: Sunday 02 May 2021
Guest: Open Lines with Dr. Livingston; Topics: Multiple callers and email questions from listeners on multiple topics. We certainly missed hearing from you and learning what was on your mind regarding space. Next time, give us a call.
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