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Guest:  Dr. Dana Andrews; Topics: We featured Dana's new book, "Chasing The Dream".  The books details Dana's decades of aerospace experience along with his 33 years at Boeing and ten years at Andrews Space and Technology, plus more.

Guests: Dr. William Gaubatz, Cathy Harper, Nino Polizzi, Chris Orwoll. Topics: We discussed the DC-X SSTO rocket & its 20th anniversary celebration. 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. David Livingston; Open Lines. Topics: SpaceX and Mars, Israel Brain Gain, heavy lift, congress, human spaceflight, U.S. economy. Tonight's program was a two hour fifteen minute wide ranging Open Lines program covering numerous topics and issues. During the first hour long segment, we covered my opening agenda of 13 items, most of which were discussed in some detail during this program. It seems the favorite was the Israeli Brain Gain program I mentioned based on an Aviation Week and Space Technology article.

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.