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Guest:  Dr. Robert (Bob) Zubrin; Topics:  Mars Society Conference Oct. 14,19, 2021, why space, why Mars, Mars exploration, space exploration and our culture, drivers for a Mars settlement and more.

Guest:  Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, USAF;  Topics: Creating a U.S. Space Force, economic protection and power, lunar industrialization, China in space plus much more.

Guest:  Johannes Torpe;  Topics:  How to speak space to the general population, attack them to the industry and keep them interested in space.  Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com.   Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program.

Guest:  Dr. Madhu Thangalevu;  Topics: Creating a U.S. Cabinet Level Dept. of Space, government as the regulator and more.  Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com.   Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Guests:  Chris Stone, Lt. Col. Peter Garretson (USAF);  Topics: Space based solar power (SSP), D3 competition and more.  Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com.  Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Guest: Dr. Paul Davies. Topics: Interstellar travel, microbiology, cosmology, Mars, and much more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Guest: Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards was our guest for this Space Show program. We started our discussion with an update on the Optech meteorological lidar unit flown aboard the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander. As Bob reported to us, all worked to their complete satisfaction with the unit. We then discussed the Odyssey Moon Limited venture which was the first contestant in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition. To learn more, visit http://www.odysseymoon.com.

Guests: ISDC 2008 Taped Interview #1 with Robert Zimmerman, Dr. Sean Casey, David Faulkner, Reda Anderson, Dr. Haym Benaroya. The first interview features Bob Zimmerman, followed by Dr. Sean Casey with important updates for the NASA SOFIA Project, then David Faulkner who is the Program Manager and CTO for Rocketplane Global. Bob Zimmerman shares his view of the Investment Summit and several important space current events that we discussed. Reda Anderson and Dr. Benaroya were with me for these interviews and also asked questions for these featured guests.

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.

Professor Howard McCurdy was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the discussion with a critical view of the Vision for Space Exploration from the public policy perspective. This discussion paved the way for an examination of the relationship with the Vision, the Shuttle, ISS, science program funding within NASA, NASA management, and much more. We talked about the survivability of the Vision program based on the coming mid-term elections and the 2008 presidential elections. As a result of a listener question regarding a future Hilary Clinton as president, Dr.