This special program is a simulcast of the 62 Mile Club special event, "Space...it's Closer Than You Think" program which was held Oct. 4, 2007 at the Luxe Hotel in Bel Air, California. You will hear all the terrific talks made during this impressive program which promotes the commercial space industry to future customers, investors and the general public. About 140 people attended the event, networking opportunities were awesome for those in attendance, and The Space Show bring all of the excellent speakers and talks to you.

Dr. Roald Sagdeev was the special guest for this Sputnik 1 celebration program live from Moscow, Russia. Dr. Sagdeev provided us with historical and important insights from the Soviet space program and Sputnik. We talked about the cultural impact of Sputnik, space policy issues, returning to the Moon by the US, and going to Mars. Listeners asked questions about comparing the Russian space program with NASA, joint space operations, international cooperation, and ISS management and functions. One listener ask him about risk taking by the Russian Space Agency as opposed to NASA.

Erika Lishock and Matt Bille joined Space Show listeners for this special Space Show program as part of Sputnik Week on The Space Show. We started this discussion by exploring the meaning of the Sputnik anniversary for this time in 2007, from a global perspective as well as from the American point of view. We spent much time during the program discussing various lessons learned and what we should have learned from Sputnik and the early days of the space race and how such lessons can and should be applied to what we are doing in space today.

Ted Spitzmiller was the guest for this special Space Show program. As a space historian and author of the newly published series of books by Apogee, "Astronautics: Book 1-Dawn Of The Space Age" and "Book 2-To The Moon and To The Future," we talked important space history starting with Sputnik 1. As this week is the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, we did focus on the impact of Sputnik on America and the world, plus the early days of the American space program. Many listener questions came in for Ted.

Bruce Damer, CEO of DigitalSpace, was the guest for this Space Show program. Please visit his website while listening to this program as many of the 3D visuals and graphics we talk about are on the site, www.digitalspace.com. We talked about his work with NASA, the challenges in getting NASA to see value in this work and to begin working with Bruce and his company. We talked about using this media to attract new people to the space movement, especially younger members of society.

Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette was the guest for this special and important Space Show program. Dr. Shrader-Frechette spoke with us about radiation, career radiation dosages, what this means for spaceflight, even short suborbital spaceflight. She stressed over and over again during this interview that there is no safe limit for ionizing radiation and that even absorbing a small amount of this radiation in a suborbital flight can cause us health issues depending on our own body chemistry, our lifetime radiation dosages and more.

UND Space Studies Students Beth Reynolds and Driss Takir were the guests for this program which originally aired on Wednesday, Sept. 26 and is archived as of Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. Dr. John Jurist was the co-host for this program as he was one of the guest speakers for this week's class focusing on human factors for space travel and settlement.

Dr. Mike Gaffey and Vishnu Reddy Kanupuru, Ph.D. candidate at UND in Earth System Science and Policy, were the guests for this Space Show program co-hosted with Dr. John Jurist. We began the discussion with Dr. Gaffey updating us on new developments with the Space Studies department at UND. From there, we began a discussion of Earth and Planetary Sciences, telescopes - both Earth-based and space-based, and telescope observing. We asked about the recent possible meteroirte in S. America and impacts and planetary defense in general.

Jay Barbree, NBC'S veteran space correspondent, was with us to talk about our space program from Sputnik to today. His new book, "Live From Cape Canaveral" was the focus of this discussion. As listeners will hear, Jay shared with us not only his thought on the space program then and now, but hilarious stories with the Mercury 7 and the Gemini 9 astronauts. This interview is both very funny and entertaining and also informative and instructive. Listeners asked him many questions comparing the older NASA with today's NASA.

This is the second and final AIAA Space 2007 program and it features Stephen Metschan, CEO of TeamVision and Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises. Stephen was at AIAA promoting and presenting papers re the Direct 2 program which we have discussed on The Space Show. In this segment, he gives his impressions of what is happening at Space 2007 re Direct 2 and the NASA program, plus he compares and contrasts talks given by Dr. Scott Horowitz and Dr. Michael Griffin here at the conference.