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.

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.

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.

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 for the industry.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Puig-Suari is the CubeSat Project advisor at Cal Poly University and this program was devoted to CubeSat projects, both university and otherwise. We started the discussion with the basics of cubesats and the Cal Poly program. Jordi also gave us his personal report on watching their university payload, along with many other universities, destruct on a failed Dnieper launch about 18 months ago. This is a failed launch description you will not want to miss.

LtCol. Paul Damphousse from the NSSO was the guest for this special Space Show program. We started the discussion by explaining the Space-Based Solar Power Study as an opportunity for Strategic Security and why the National Security Space Office (NSSO) undertook this study. Listeners who have not yet seen the study or heard about the press conference held to announce the results of the study should visit the website of the National Space Society (www.nss.org) as the press conference audio is on their website as is the link to the 75 page solar power study.

Frank Sietzen returned to The Space Show for this special program. Frank brought us up to date regarding the VSE in a comprehensive discussing ranging from the technical and the engineering to the policy and educational components needed for the VSE to be successful. Many listeners participated in this discussion which is a must listen to show. Frank detailed the budget aspects of the VSE and the state of our nation and brought them both together so we could understand what supporters of the VSE are facing in the coming election.