Dr. Paul Mueller, James Kendall Villarreal, and Brian Van Roy were the guest for this special program to discuss the Intercollegiate Rocket Launch Competition. You can find out more about this exciting competition by visiting http://spacegrant.usu.edu/esra. Dr. Mueller started out with an explanation of the program and then both James and Brian talked about their teams, membership, funding, rockets, and technical issues.

David Urie was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Urie, recently with the Rocketplane Kistler Group, is now a consultant regarding space business development. With space engineering experience pre-dating Sputnik 1, we talked in detail about rocket engineering, technology, markets, and economics. We discussed the feasibility of suborbital space tourism, orbital space tourism, the $100/lb to LEO cost, the Marine Space Transportation Vehicle and much more. Listeners asked lots of questions about Rocketplane, fuel placement on a passenger vehicle, the need for space suits, and more.

Dr. Joseph Pelton was the guest for this Space Show program. For this program, we discussed the upcoming Reach To Space - Space Commercialization Conference in Washington, DC, Nov. 12-13, 2008, www.reachtospace.org. We started our discussion regarding space tourism and space commerce as part of the conference. This is a good discussion, you will want to hear it. Listeners asked about the future economic potential for the telecommunications industry and for buying risk down with other commercial space ventures. Dr.

Mike Snead was the guest for this special Space Show program live from Grand Forks, ND as I am here teaching at UND Space Studies this week. Our topic was establishing space infrastructure and there is nobody more capable of discussing this topic than Mike Snead. As you will hear during this show, creating and putting into place space infrastructure is essential to becoming space faring. Mike received many listener questions about infrastructure ranging from costs, deployment, public versus private responsibility, technology, etc.

This is the Deep Space Message by Mel Marsh of Covington, GA: Greetings from Earth! I hope this message finds you well. The next time you are in the neighborhood of our Sun (it’s a relatively small middle-aged yellow star), please come to the third planet. You can’t miss it. It’s the small blue planet with a large satellite. While you are here, please come get me and take me back to your home. I would love to learn from you and you can learn from me. I’m an anthropologist, a student of humanity. I am also a student of space and I loved my astrobiology courses.

Dr. David Schrunk and Dr. Madhu Thangavelu were our guests for this program regarding their book, "The Moon: Resources, Future, Development and Settlement," published by Springer/Praxis 2007. This book is available at Amazon.com and other book stores. During or program, both our guests fielded many questions regarding lunar development and why we should be doing it. They even received questions about environmental protection on the Moon and raised the concern of lunar development damaging the Moon's environment.

Dr. David J. Whalen was the guest for this special Space Show broadcast originating from Grand Forks, ND as I am here teaching this week in Space Studies at UND. Dr. Whalen is the new Department Chair for Space Studies at UND and we spoke about the department, future plans, courses offered, competition with other space studies programs at different universities and more. Several students were tuned in and were asking about the start of a Ph.D program in Space Studies, more faculty, changes in the distance program, and tuition. When not talking directly about Space Studies here at UND, Dr.

The Honorable Andrea Seastrand and Janice Dunn, both of the California Space Authority (CSA), were the guests for this program. We started our discussion talking about the upcoming Transforming Space 2007 Conference in Los Angeles, CA, November 5-8, 2007. For Space Show listeners, you can register for a $100 discount by putting "Space Show" in the coupon slot on the online registration form. You will hear Ms. Dunn make this generous offer at the end of the interview.

Space Studies at the University of North Dakota 20th Anniversary Message with Dr. David Webb, one of the founders of the Space Studies program and the first Chairman of the Space Studies Department, and Dr. David Whalen, the current Chairman of The Space Studies Department. Happy anniversary to the UND Space Studies Department, all the professors, staff members, students, and alumni. You are doing a great job and the next 20 years will be better still. A special thank you to Drs. Webb and Whalen for making this important message and short discussion available to The Space Show audience.

Paul Dickson, author of "Sputnik: The Shock of the Century," was the guest for this special Sputnik week program for The Space Show. Mr. Dickson is with us for about an hour without any breaks, discussing the impact of Sputnik from yet several different perspectives. In this discussion, we examine some of the non-space cultural issues such as the beginning of the women's movement, the integration issues of Little Rock, Arkansas and much more. Mr.