Joel Powell was the guest for this Space Show program. As the focus was on his book about the history of Cape Canaveral, "Go For Launch: An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral" published by Apogee, we began with a brief history of the Cape. For history buffs, you will certainly enjoy this program as Joel takes us through the history with military rockets, test rockets, commercial efforts and NASA launches over the 56 year history of this rocket center.

Col. Rick Searfoss returned to The Space Show for this Tuesday evening program. We began the interview talking about the commercial space industry and primarily his experience and relationship with XCOR Aerospace. We talked about flying rockets, the Rocket Racing League, suborbital space tourism, safety issues, test flights, and more. As a result of a listener question, Col. Searfoss addressed competition in the suborbital tourism industry and safety given the pressure of competition. Col.

Bryan Palaszewski was the guest for this Sunday Space Show program. We began the discussion talking about advanced space propulsions, experimental, exotic, and new fuels, and space ship and engine design. Bryan fielded many questions from listeners on a variety of related subjects. We talked about not only advanced and experimental fuels, but methane, nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion, green rocket fuels and engines, frozen hydrogen, water, and much more.

Dr. Paul S. Hardersen returned to this Space Show program. Dr. Hardersen began the interview by discussing important changes happening in the Space Studies Dept. at UND. One of the new developments is that the department has started a search for a new department head. You can read the description for the department head at this location, http://www.space.edu/aerospace/documents/2090%20-%20Space%20Studies%20C….

Eric Lerner returned for this Space Show program to continue discussing cosmology and alternative theories. In addition to the cosmology discussion, we also talked about the politics of publishing, getting funded, and the peer review process. This is a powerful discussion that will not want to miss. This special show is a one hour program, all commercials are at the end of it. You can learn more about Eric Lerner and his at the websites listed in his bio and also at www.cosmology.info.

Dr. Robert Hoyt was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview with Dr. Hoyt telling us the basics about tethers. Tethers are either momentum exchange tethers or electrodynamics propulsion tethers working with Lorentz force interactions and the Earth's magnetic field. Dr. Hoyt then described these types of tethers in greater detail and the type of applications for each tether. In response to a listener question, he talked about being able to use tethers to move the ISS to another orbit though it would take about 18-24 months.

Dr. S. Fred Singer was the special guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Singer began the interview with a detailed discussion of his Ph-D Project, going to Mars via the moon Deimos with a base on Deimos and working from the other Martian moon, Photos. Dr. Singer explained why it is easier, less costly, and much faster to go to Deimos than to Mars. This is one of the discussions you must hear as it makes scientific, engineering, and economic sense to launch Mars exploration with this type of plan. Dr.

Eric Lerner returned for this Space Show program. We began the interview with Eric updating us on his fusion work and an AFRL report on propulsion using similar technology to what Eric researches. We then turned our attention to cosmology with an in-depth discussion of black holes and new theories that impact the Big Bang theory. I must say that Eric Lerner is brilliant and amazing and you must hear this program. He was so interesting that we are continuing this discussion Aug. 3, 2006 from 9:30-10:30AM PDT. Don't miss it.

Rand Simberg and Bill Simon joined the program to again honor July 20 with their Evoloterra ceremony and the importance of our having gone to the Moon. You can download the ceremony at www.evoloterra.com. To get the .pdf ceremony, click on the helmet of the astronaut. Evoloterra takes us from the beginning of time through the steps of science and human development that enabled us to walk on the Moon.

Robert Zimmerman returned to The Space Show to give us new insights and updates regarding all things happening with space. We started by discussing Bigelow Aerospace and then we discussed the successful launch of the Shuttle Discovery. This took us deeper into NASA and related discussions such as COTS, the Vision, science funding or the lack of it, and more. We also discussed the newly released Space Frontier Foundation White Paper regarding the Vision for Space Exploration.