Michael Mealling was the guest for this Space Show program. Michael began the interview discussing the Masten Space Systems development of their VTVL launch vehicle, the XA 1.0. He described the market for this vehicle for carrying cargo to 100 km., specifically cargo from K-12 school age children competing for science fair projects with a 100- 300/kg payload capable of flying multiple times per day for a very low price of about $25,000.

Rick Tumlinson returned to The Space Show to discuss space vision, The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) and its coming conference in Los Angeles from Oct. 21-23, and much more. While discussing the SFF conference, Rick was joined by Krysta Paradis who is managing and coordinating the conference. For more information about the conference, visit www.space-frontier.org/. In addition to promoting the conference, Mr. Tumlinson explained why space development is important for everyone, not just for NASA and a few interested advocates.

Gary Hudson joined The Space Show for a fascinating 90 minute interview. I urge listeners to listen carefully to what Gary has to say about so many of the topics and subjects that we "spacers" are interested in and want to see develop into reality. We began the interview by discussing with Gary his thoughts on what it will take to build an SSTO. Hearing what he has to say based on his experience is a must as he talked about both an expendable and reusable SSTO.

Dr. Michael Gruntman, Chair of Astronautics at the Viterbi School Engineering of USC was the special guest for this Space Show program. As author of the superb book, "Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry," we started our discussion with questions pertaining to the history of rockets starting with Asia and moving to Greece and Egypt. We talked about rockets and their development by military's and wars throughout the centuries up to the current period. I asked Dr. Gruntman where we would be in the development of rocketry if we did not have wars and armies.

Gerry Zeitlin was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Zeitlin discussed the Open SETI Initiative and the information on his Open SETI website, www.openseti.org. Gerry explained the difference between Open SETI and regular SETI and why this difference is important. We also talked about projects which all of can get involved with to support Open SETI such as the Pulsar Project (see www.openseti.org/Docs/planw1.htm). If this interests you, please contact Mr. Zeitlin and me.

Gene Meyers of The Space Islands Group returned to The Space Show for this program. Sir Charles Shultz, an associate of The Space Islands Group was also on the show with Gene to participate in the discussion about new Space Islands projects. We focused considerable attention on SPS and hurricane deflection. In addition, Gene explained the Space Islands approach to working with external tanks and a cloned shuttle to deliver an operating SPS to orbit within a few years. We discussed the economics of his program, capital acquisition, technology, engineering, and AST approval.

Eric Westling was the guest for this Space Show program. One field of expertise for Mr. Westling is the space elevator and we began the interview with a comprehensive discussion on the subject. This discussion took us into economics and from there to a discussion about our energy problems, how the space elevator might help resolve them, other possibilities including helium, hydrogen, SPS, etc. We discussed Eric's economic axioms and interested listeners can get a copy of them by sending an email to me.

Dr. John Jurist returned to The Space Show to discuss human factors for commercial space travel, specifically for suborbital space tourism flights. The discussion focused on what happens to a human body under acceleration, the type of G force a person can handle without problems, radiation issues, decompression in the space vehicle, shirt sleeve environments versus pressure suits for the passengers, AST space flight participant guidelines, and more.

David Urie, Executive Vice President of Rocketplane, Ltd, was the guest for this Space Show program. At the start of the interview, I asked Mr. Urie several questions regarding his work at Lockheed and Skunk Works with the National Aerospace Plane, the SR-71, SSTO's, X-33, and more. Mr. Urie provided not only interesting insights and information to these projects, the timing, the company, and the politics of the day, but he also shared with us his fresh perspectives regarding these and future government space programs.

Rosanna Sattler was the guest for this Space Show program. Ms Sattler began the interview by discussing the source of international law and existing space property rights under the Outer Space Treaty. As a result of the property rights discussions, several questions were received from listeners that addresses questions relating to protecting a possible business claim on the Moon. The issues of guns, poaching, claim jumping, self and property defense all came up and Ms. Sattler explained why it was likely international regimes would not be supportive of such activities.