ESA

Guests:  Darin Noel, Ton Whitman; Topics:  Engineering perspectives regarding the design and making of JWST and comparisons to other space telescopes.

Guest:  Dr. Patrick Collins;  Topics:  Space Tourism, Space Solar Power, markets, snow melting satellites, SSP interest around the world, climate change including a possible ice age and much more.

Guest:  Dr. John Horack; Topics:  The increasing value and wealth of LEO plus additional commercial/NewSpace activities and sectors, economic growth and national security.

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.

Guest:  Brian Dunn;  Topics:  Brian's hard sci-fi book "Tube-Town-Frontier" plus what he says will be plausible lunar development for establishing humans on the Moon and select commercial businesses.  During this program Brian detailed his book which again as hard sci-fi, is based on real science and could happen.

We welcomed Doug Messier back to the program for a 94 minute discussion starting out with the success of the Perseverance Mars rover landing earlier in the day.  Most of the first segment was devoted to Perseverance, the various science experiments plans, the onboard hardware and instruments such as the helicopter, microphones, advanced cameras, MOXIE to make O2 out of the Martian atmosphere plus more.  Listen as Doug and callers/emailers discuss the instrument package, the experiments and the search for possible past life on Mars.  Also discussed was the landing site, Jezero Crater, plus t

Guest:  James Bennet;  Topics: Space policy, commercial segments, financial stability for the space industry, the importance of US space leadership and more.

Guest:  Dr. Namrata Goswami; Topics:  We talked about the new book authored by our guest, “Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space” along with multiple other topics ranging from the US space policy to international space policy with a focus on China, the Asia Pacific Countries, commercial space, public private partnerships, developing space resources and more.  Please follow the tags/key words as they provide a quick and accurate summary of topics discussed during our time with Dr. Goswami.

Guest:  John Blincow; Topics:  Orbital assembly, the tools being used, space hotels and tourists, investing and funding plus lots more.  Check out orbitalassembly.com, voyagerstation.com and https://gatewayspaceport.com.

Guest:  Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston; Topics:  Robert Jacobson's book "Space Is Open For Business," The Alliance For Space Development, Comet Neowise, Hope Mission to Mars launch, Covid-19 reports, small nukes for Trident sub, and more.