Daniel Bateman, the Community Outreach Manager for the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center was the guest for this program. Mr. Bateman began the show by discussing the various educational and outreach programs sponsored by the Center, the adult and younger astronaut training programs, and the curriculum support offered by the museum. He also discussed their program to lease artifacts from their collection and how interested parties can avail themselves of speakers from the Center for their own educational and outreach programming. Mr.

Brian Enke joined The Space Show as the guest for this special program. Mr. Enke discussed his new science fiction mystry book, "Shadows of Medusa." In discussing this book and its plot, issues relating to sending humans to Mars came up as the book is about three people going to Mars, but with substantial intrigue and secret agendas. In terms of talking about Mars, we discussed water, methane, and the possibility of life on Mars, the culture of risk aversion in our society, engineering, humans versus robots and lots more.

Tim Ventura, CEO of American Antigravity, was the guest for this special Space Show program. Mr. Ventura's specialty is antigravity research and making sure that American Antigravity serves as a community and web based resource for antigravity and gravity modification research. During this program, we discussed the prospects of antigravity research resulting in tangible methods to allow a different quality of space access than what we now have with rockets. Mr.

Dr. Alan Hale was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Hale, founder and director of the Southwest Institute for Space Research, spoke to us about his coming event, A Comet's Tale party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of discovering the Hale-Bopp comet. Dr. Hale also updated us about his Earthrise Project, an online book he has available consisting of all is writings and editorials for the past ten years, and his radio program on an FM station in Alamogordo, New Mexico. In response to listener questions, Dr.

David Ashford, Managing Director for Bristol Spaceplanes in the UK, was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Ashford addressed many of the issues relating space planes, why NASA and the aerospace industry do not build them, and how they could be built, using the Bristol model, for lower cost space access. Visit the Bristol website at www.bristolspaceplanes.com to see the evolutionary step by step approach Mr. Ashford has designed to go from a basic suborbital space plane to a mature orbital space plane.

Chuck Walker, author of "Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon," was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Walker began the interview by letting us know why the Atlas ICBM was the ultimate weapon and why it was so important for both the military and the early days of our space program, including Project Mercury. We talked about the various versions of the Atlas, its stainless steel components and construction, it safety record, Mercury astronauts and their flights, the use of a Russian engine in a 90's version of the Atlas, and much more.

Leonard David, the senior writer for Space.com was the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. David shared his thoughts, perspectives, and research with us on many topics. The discussion included updates on Mars, Mars rovers, Mars planetary and astrobiology science, Hubble, the Space Shuttle, the new Nasa Administrator, Dr. Mike Griffin, and energy. Regarding energy, we talked about the need for effective government and space agency policy, far out technologies that may be useful to us, the politics of oil, and solar and lunar power and satellites. Mr.

Jeff Feige was the guest for this special Monday night Space Show program to discuss the coming Return to the Moon (RTM) Conference in Las Vegas, NV. RTM is sponsored by The Space Frontier Foundation and will take place from July 21-23, 2005. Mr Feige shared with us the importance of the agenda for the conference and the relationship that the conference is striving to build with Nasa and the alt.space community. We discussed various speakers, panels, and topics, as well as displays that will be presented at RTM.

Dr. Jim Pass was the guest for today's Space Show. Dr. Pass, through his website www.astrosociology.com, is promoting the development of the field astrosociology for space development. As this subject is new to most of us, Dr. Pass began the interview with an in-depth explanation what astrosociology is about, its origin, and most importantly, its significance for our space development program, both public and private. Dr.

Dr. Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society, was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Friedman began the interview by explaining the origins of The Planetary Society and its present day uniqueness as a space advocate organization. We then discussed their project, Cosmos 1, a solar sail mission which launches in two weeks from a Russian submarine. For details on this mission and to follow its progress, visit http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/index.html. Listeners asked Dr.