Guests: Reda Anderson; Linn LeBlanc , and Lisa Schott. Reda Anderson was the guest for the first of hour of this special two hour Space Show television program filmed in Cape Canaveral to talk about her adventure travel, including being the first person to sign up to ride on Rocketplane. Though this discussion was supplemented with pictures which we are unable to show you at this time, the discussion remains very important and valuable. We started our discussion by asking Reda "Why do you want to go to space?" As it turns out Reda is an adventurer and she loves to do things.

Guests: Linda Strine and Wil Simon were the guests for this special Space Show program addressing issues related to space news reporting, science journalism, broadcast and other forms of media/journalism. We began the discussion by defining the different types of media, how they are used, and often how news is filtered through each format. During the program we covered all forms of media, both for general reporting, space, and science. It's an in-depth discussion about how news and facts are presented, distorted, manipulated or glossed over.

Guests: Lee Tinker, Capt. Charles Hammond, Steven Benoit, and Nate Ambler, all graduate students in my Summer 2008 UND Space Studies class were our guests for this program nicknamed "Are you as smart as a Space Studies graduate student?" Each student focused in on the subject of their class paper or research.

Guest: Al Globus returned as a guest for this Space Show program. We started our discussion with a comprehensive overview of the NASA Space Settlement Contest that Al helped start several years ago. As we learned, the contest is open to those in grades 6-9 and 10-12 or their foreign equivalent. Each group is judged separately other than for the grand prize. Learn about this contest and if you have a child or know someone who is eligible to compete, share the information with them.

Guests: Andrea Seastrand and Janice Dunn with Matt Everingham of the California Space Authority (CSA), followed by Ken Davidian of NASA, followed by Jim Buenrostro of the team Technology Ranch at the NASA Lunar Regolith Challenge at Cal Poly were our guests for this set of taped interviews. We start this set of interviews with a message from me, your host of the Space Show, regarding the Falcon 1 launch attempt and my comments about it. As you will hear, I relate these comments and events to the Challenge which took place at Cal Poly this weekend.

Guest: Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz from the University of Mississippi School of Law returned for this program. We started our discussion with updates regarding remote sensing and the disaster reporting component of the global remote sensing network. This information is available on the Res Communis Blog located at http://rescommunis.wordpress.com. In fact, this blog should be required reading for everyone on a daily basis for its factual content impacting the space world, civil, government, military, foreign, and NewSpace.

Guest: Darel Preble was the guest for this Space Show television segment filmed on June 11, 2008 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. As Chair of the Space Solar Power Workshop at Georgia Tech, (See www.sspi.gatech.edu for more details), Darel explained Space Solar Power (SSP), its technology and history .He also discussed current developments in the SSP industry which seems to have much energy associated with it today compared to years ago.

Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston. The first segment of this Open Lines program was not space related as I summarized my experiences on my son's movie set in the Santa Barbara, CA area two weeks ago using a tiger in the movie. During this segment, I discussed what it was like working with a wild animal, how the actors and those on the set were trained to behave with the tiger, what the trainers do, how shots are filmed, and what it's like to work, play, and handle a tiger.

Guests: Dr. Robert Zubrin and Chris Carberry of The Mars Society were our guests today to discuss the upcoming Eleventh Annual Mars Society Conference to be held in Boulder, Colorado from August 14-17 (Please see www.marssociety.org/portal/c/Conventions/2008 for more details). Both Dr. Zubrin and Chris took us through the list of major speakers and programming and we elaborated on many, including the unusual religion and space panel which will be held on Saturday, August 16th.

Guests: Dr. Brian Hart and Larry Bock were the guests for this Space Show program to bring to our attention the SoCal Science Cafe (please see their website: www.socal-sciencecafe.org) and the San Diego Science Festival for 2009 (more information can be found www.sdsciencefestival.com).