Dr. Neville Marzwell was the guest for this Space Show program. We began this program asking Dr. Marzwell about the VSE from his vantage point. I mentioned that in recent shows I was caught a bit off guard by guests that were not supportive of the manned mission to the Moon, plus the fact that the VSE does not seem to grab the attention of the non-space public the way going to the Moon did for my generation in the 60's. Dr.

Dr. Jeff Foust was the guest for this Space Show program. We started the discussion by asking Jeff how one submits an article to The Space Review (www.thespacereview.com). After talking about The Space Review, we asked Jeff for his comments on the New Space 2007 conference he attended this past week. Jeff provided a with a day by day accounting of the programming, starting with Thursday which was a commercial-military space plane day.

Dr. Alan Binder was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Binder started the program out by honoring today, July 20, for the Apollo 11 Moon landing and the Viking 1 landing on Mars. The first segment of the show is devoted to his telling us about these programs, especially Viking as he was one of the PI's on the Viking program. You will certainly want to hear his first hand experiences with Viking. In addition, he talks about data analysis and the need for it after a mission but the problems within NASA concerning data. Don't miss this discussion.

This is a Deep Space Message by Michael Belfiore, author, speaker and Space Show guest. Here is Michael's message: Greetings! You've reached the human civilization in the early 21st century on planet Earth. We're the third planet from our sun on the western spiral arm of the galaxy.... Well, you know where to find us. Now, tell us where you are, and we'll send out a probe to meet you. We regret that we cannot meet you in person yet, unless you come to us...and, well, maybe you'd better hold off on that for the moment. Things are a mess down here. They really are.

Donald A. Beattie, author of the Apogee book, "ISScapades: The Crippling of America's Space Program," was the guest for this Space Show program. Given Mr. Beattie's vast NASA, NSF, and related government experience, we discussed in depth decision making, budget and funding, and policy with regards to government programs, specifically those relating to the ISS and our space program.

Dr. Pat Patterson and Robert Meurer were the guests for this Space Show program to discuss the upcoming SmallSat conference in Logan, UT (www.smallsat.org) and the small satellite industry. We started the discussion with Dr. Patterson by having him provide us with general schedule, agenda, and theme information for the upcoming SmallSat conference. This is an outstanding conference and if you can be in Logan or are near there at the time of the conference, August 13-16, I urge you to attend.

Sam Coniglio was the guest for this Space Show program. We began our discussion talking about space tourism and specifically the Space Tourism Society (www.spacetourismsociety.org). Sam told us about the work of the organization and the upcoming Orbital Design Challenge which is designed to be a competition to create interiors and a lifestyle for the Bigelow Aerospace Nautilus orbital habitat. You can get more information about this challenge at the Space Tourism Society website as well as by listening to this discussion.

Dr. Henry Hertzfeld and Dr. Pierre-Alain Schieb were the guests for this special Space Show program to discuss the Space 2030 reports talked about frequently on the program. The Space 2030 reports were issued by the Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) and our two guests were on the team that studied and issued these reports. As Dr. Schieb explained early in the program, the main goals of OECD were to help create a path for needed space infrastructure development and to facilitate a friendly business environment for space development.

Dr. Robert Zubrin was the returning guest for this Space Show program. We began our discussion with Bob with a focus on the upcoming 10th Annual Mars Society Conference which will be held on the UCLA campus over the Labor Day weekend 2007. You can register for the conference and find out more about it at www.marssociety.org. This year the conference is speaker-packed and clearly this is a conference to attend.

Commander Neil Woodward from NASA HQ was the guest for this Space Show program. We started our discussion with Commander Woodward asking him about his aircraft carrier flight and landing experiences. In addition to experiencing night and bad weather traps through this vicarious conversation with Cmdr.Woodward, including learning how much time we had for survival in cold water with various Navy survival equipment, listeners began asking him questions about aircraft pressurization issues and relating his comments to the need for space suits in suborbital flight.