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. We also talked about the locations for the elevator on Mars and the Moon and as it turns out, these might be better locations for it than here on Earth. This discussion led to our talking about returning to the Moon, both from an American and Canadian perspective. Listeners were quite interested in Canadian perspectives. Other subjects that came up were leadership, politics and ITAR. In fact, one listener asked Marc to tell us the difference between ITAR in Canada and our form of ITAR. This was an interesting question with an interesting answer. Marc talked about his exciting new project, On Orbit (www.onorbit.com), project listeners will definitely want to hear about and experience. Marc also spoke about other exciting new projects, including a new space search engine he is developing. His pearls of wisdom for us all were to GET INVOLVED! You can send your comments or questions to him at marc.boucher@onorbit.com.
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