Date Aired: Sunday 25 Nov 2007
Ted Spitzmiller returned to The Space Show to discuss his newly published "Astronautics: Book 2 - To The Moon And Towards The Future, A Historical Perspective of Mankind's Efforts To Conquer the Cosmos." We began our discussion with a bit of history regarding the circumstances that led us to the Moon and then we looked forward to examine our national as well as the international environment of today at a time when we are working to return to the Moon. This proved to be a most interesting...
Date Aired: Saturday 24 Nov 2007
Andrew Chaikin was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview discussing his well-known book, "A Man On The Moon" and his added new "Afterword" in honor of the 50th anniversary of our being in space. The discussion soon expanded to subject of our returning to the Moon and here Andy, the listeners, and I exchanged ideas about our prospects for getting back to the Moon, telling the space story as Andy does in his books, others getting to the Moon before the US and how Andy...
Date Aired: Thursday 22 Nov 2007
Ky Michaelson returned to the program to discuss his new book, "Rocketman: My Rocket-Propelled Life and High-Octane Creations." This book is widely available and I urge listeners to buy and read it, and by listening to this show, you will understand the why of my recommendation. Visit Ky's website at www.the-rockeman.com. His email address is order@kytec.us. During this program, Ky related to us many of his stories and adventures with speed, cars, rockets, and space. Many listeners asked him...
Date Aired: Monday 19 Nov 2007
Hal Fulton, VP of MarsDrive, was the guest for this program. You can follow our discussion by visiting the MarsDrive website, www.marsdrive.com. During this interview, we spoke with Hal about why Mars and the timing for going to Mars, the outreach and educational efforts for MarsDrive, educating teachers first, then students, LEO first, and more. One of the listeners inquired about Hal's book, "The Space Activist's Handbook," and we learned that politicians were rated in the book as to their...
Date Aired: Sunday 18 Nov 2007
Dr. Mark Sundahl was our guest for this most informative Space Show program. How many listeners are familiar with the UNIDROIT working group and the Space Assets Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment? I was not aware of it and in asking many of my UND guest speakers, graduate students, and faculty members, there appears to be far too little awareness of this Convention, a convention that has the potential to facilitate commercial space development...
Date Aired: Saturday 17 Nov 2007
Alan Chan was the guest for this Space Show program. Alan recently completed the movie, "Postcards From The Future." From the description on the film's website, www.postcardsfromthefuture.com, the movie is a "return to space epic large-format feature motion picture that explores our future in space - seen through the eyes of an engineer working to build a base on the moon, and who occasionally sends video postcards back to his wife and family on Earth." Alan received many listener questions...
Date Aired: Friday 16 Nov 2007
DEEP SPACE MESSAGE: Chalbeth Reynolds, graduate student in Space Studies at UND, has provided this Deep Space Message: Here is a short list of tips for any beings who want to visit Earth: - Cows are much more fun to probe than humans are. - We cannot decipher crop circle messages or strange light effects in the sky. Please report directly to the SETI Institute, I know they would love to hear from you. - If there is anything you would like the world as a whole to know simultaneously, avoid the...
Date Aired: Thursday 15 Nov 2007
Pablo DeLeon was the guest for this program which originally aired on Wednesday, Nov. 14 and was archived on Friday, Nov. 16, 2007.This interview focused on discussing exciting, innovative, and adventuresome student projects here at UND Space Studies. During the first hour of this program, we discussed Pablo's spacesuit lab and his student as well as his corporate spacesuit development activities. In this discussion, we also talked about elements needed to make a space tourism spacesuit, an EVA...
Date Aired: Monday 12 Nov 2007
Dr. Vadim Rygalov was the guest for this special two hour Space Show program. Dr. Rygalov continued his discussion from the last time he was a guest on the program regarding mental, emotional, and stressful situations encountered by cosmonauts and astronauts as a result of long term spaceflight. We began the discussion talking about the high stress environment in space and human psychological factors, first with suborbital tourism and future tourist stays of up to a week or so at a space hotel...
Date Aired: Monday 12 Nov 2007
This program featuring Dr. Burton Lee is another from my Space Studies classes at UND . Dr. David Whalen, Department head of Space Studies has permitted me to place this class on The Space Show website archives. This class was recorded with Dr. Lee on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 regarding the financing of space ventures by angels, venture capitalists and others. While Dr. Burton Lee has been a guest on The Space Show several times in the past, he used a special presentation for this class...
Date Aired: Sunday 11 Nov 2007
David Bullock and Nancy Atkinson were the guests for this program to introduce us to the new online space magazine, Space Lifestyle Magazine (see www.spacelifestylemag.com). David started out explaining how he got the idea for the magazine, its purpose and how it is being distributed as well as describing its content. Nancy brought us up to date with the content of the first issue which is already out and available free of charge on their website. The magazine is distributed free of charge but...
Date Aired: Saturday 10 Nov 2007
Dr. Ron Fevig and John Nordlie were the guests for this program which had as its primary topic for discussion the high-altitude balloon launch and payload program here at the University of North Dakota. In addition, note that this program originated from Leighton Broadcasting in Grand Forks, ND. Along with listener questions and answers from Ron and John, this is a comprehensive discussion of student high-altitude balloon programs. We discussed, costs, tracking, finding payloads, mass, types of...
Date Aired: Thursday 08 Nov 2007
Patrick Beatty and David Shiga were the guests for this program originating from Grand Forks, ND and focusing on X Prize Cup and David's "breaking news" interview at Bigelow Aerospace. Please note that this program has audio distortion and problems that cannot be cleared. The audio issues stem from the studio I used in Grand Forks and the fact that Patrick had to use a less than adequate public telephone for the interview. I apologize for these problems and assure all listeners that The Space...
Date Aired: Tuesday 06 Nov 2007
This program is brought to you as a courtesy by the Space Studies Department at the University of North Dakota. It is a recording of my class held here in Grand Forks, ND on Nov. 7, 2007 regarding how to achieve a lower cost to orbit/space. Dennis Wingo was the guest speaker for this class and was speaking by telephone to my class. Special thanks to Dr. David J. Whalen, Department Head of Space Studies here at UND for permission to place this class recording on The Space Show website as an...
Date Aired: Monday 05 Nov 2007
Charles Miller was the guest for this Space Show program. Charles continued our discussion on space based solar power (SBSP) and the recent NSSO report, but this time more from the business case and financial perspective as he was a leading participant in helping to research and provide reliable and useable information for the NSSO in their study. During this interview, Charles was asked many questions by listeners about the global reach and effectiveness of a potential space based solar power...
Date Aired: Thursday 01 Nov 2007
This special two hour Friday Space Show program presents two great programs. The first hour , Kenneth Davis, author, was with us. Ken has many books to his fame but we primarily talked about "Don't Know Much About The Universe." This is a fun and informative program that you will not want to miss. Ken is with us for about 40 minutes and then I pick up and make the announcements I would normally make during the first few minutes of the show. While Ken Davis was with us, we had lots of listener...
Date Aired: Wednesday 31 Oct 2007
Colonel Stephen D. Hargis, Commander, Space Development Group, Space Development and Test Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Kirtland AFB, NM was the guest for this program to let everyone know of the upcoming Space Test Program 40th Anniversary Celebration. This celebration will be November 8, 2007 at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. If you are interested in attending, send me a note to drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will send you the relevant information. Col. Hargis introduced us to the...
Date Aired: Wednesday 31 Oct 2007
Dr. Burton Lee returned to The Space Show to discuss the Space Angels Network. This is a virtual network of angel investors focused on seed and early stage investments for space related ventures. During the first part of this interview, Dr. Lee discussed space related investments and the market opportunities this approach permits over a more narrow definition of space only types of ventures. Make sure you hear this discussion, its important. Dr. Lee received many questions about investing in...
Date Aired: Tuesday 30 Oct 2007
David Sandalow was the guest today regarding his new book, "Freedom From Oil: How The next President Can End The United States Oil Addiction." This is an off space program of about 40 minutes. David has interesting proposals and concepts for creating energy independence from Middle Eastern oil nations. Having served in the Clinton administration, he politically connected and his book and message are being listened to by those inside the Beltway. David is a Brooking researcher and if you follow...
Date Aired: Tuesday 30 Oct 2007
Jeff Roth, documentary filmmaker, was the guest for this show to tell us about his award winning film, "The Wonder of It All." Please visit the film's website for more information, www.thewonderofitallfilm.com. This is the story of 6 Moonwalkers and their feelings, emotions, and experiences walking on the Moon. Jeff received lots of questions including many that were more general about making films, specifically documentaries. Several questions probed the Moonwalker's personality and other...
Date Aired: Monday 29 Oct 2007
Marc Boucher, co-founder of SpaceRef.com and The Mars Institute was the guest for this show. Among the many topics we explored together were the results of the recent space elevator climber contests held in Salt Lake City. Marc was there and gave us our first comprehensive report on the events that took place over the climber weekend. We then moved to space elevator technology and plausibility. Marc is bullish but quite practical. You will want to hear his comments regarding the space elevator...
Date Aired: Sunday 28 Oct 2007
Robert Zimmerman returned to the program for some updates and new information regarding the space program and related issues. We started out talking about the current shuttle mission. Bob brought us up to speed on issues the shuttle mission is facing, future shuttle missions, the upcoming Hubble repair mission and the politics of space around election time. Listeners asked Bob about the Chinese space program, their ASAT efforts, and space tourism. In fact, we discussed space tourism as a driver...
Date Aired: Saturday 27 Oct 2007
This program is the X Prize Cup 2007 series of interviews readied for the Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007 Space Show. In addition to the introduction to this special program, there are five separate interview tracks/panel discussions. They run continuously for about 2.5 hours without a break. However, you will know when each interview ends as the guest or the panel is appropriately thanked and the next guest or panel is introduced. Several of these tracks were recorded during the X Prize Cup at Holloman...
Date Aired: Thursday 25 Oct 2007
This is the set of interviews selected from those attending the Personal Space Flight Symposium in Las Cruces, NM. In the following order, you will hear first Jeff Krukin, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation make an important announcement. After Jeff, Reda Anderson serves as co-host in a discussion with Sam Ximenes, President of Exploration Architecture Corporation regarding their upcoming part in the development of Spaceport America. The third discussion also has Reda as my co-...
Date Aired: Sunday 21 Oct 2007
Rich Glover of Microgravity Enterprises was the guest today regarding his space manufactured consumer product mix for sale here on Earth at this time. Please visit the company website, www.microgravityenterprises.com. Rich talked about the marketing, financial, and business aspects of his product line and the overall impact of the product ingredients having been in space.One of the lessons he said he said he learned early on was to pay attention to the traditional business rules and processes...
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