Artemis

Guest:  Dr. Tom Matula; Topics:  Space settlements benefit Earth, lunar settlements, agriculture and food for space, the need for 1 g facilities, families and space settlement and more.

Guest:  Dr. David Brin;  Topics:  Artemis and why our guest deeply opposes the program.  Also, asteroid mining, resource mining the asteroids compared to the Moon, Tic-tac and ET matters, global society history and nefarious forces opposing the U.S. experiment and more.

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.

Guest:  Dr. Haym Benaroya; Topics:  Returning to the Moon with humans, Artemis, lunar development action plan, hardware advancements, regolith and low gravity concerns, large rocket acoustic signatures and challenges, noise abatement blast wave, blast vibrations, low frequency vibrations and more.

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.

Guest:  Rand Simberg;  Topics: Apollo 11 52nd anniversary, suborbital tourism with Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, The Evoloterra.com ceremony, the need for a smart design spacecraft, Artemis, SLS, going to space for the "right' reason and more.

Guest:  Shey Sabripour; Topics:  CesiumAstro, phased array technology and stack, LEO and GEO satellites, R&D, satellite telecommunications now and in the future plus more.

Guest:  Dr. Scott Pace;  Topics:  Space traffic management, Artemis and the Artemis Accords, National Space Councils, Space Policy Directives, bipartisan space policy, commercial space, commercial space station development, China, and lots more.

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.

Guest:  Jim Muncy; Topics: Space policy and the Biden Administration, returning to the Moon, NASA budget, human lunar lander program and selection, Sen. Nelson as the next NASA Administrator, China and space policy plus additional topics.