Mars Talk

Scott J. Gill, producer and director of The Mars Underground talks with Chris and Lucinda about the news of the day. This is definitely a fun one.

We talk with Mat and Lucas about The European Rover Challenge and they highlight our chapter in Poland. Really Good Stuff. The Poland chapter has won our University Rover Challenge multiple times and is one of our hardest working chapters.

In part 1 of Episode 9 we have Kevin Sloan talking about the top 3 new stories of the day, and the University Rover Challenge. In part 2 we'll have Lucas and Matt from Poland talk on the European Rover challenge.

We go through last week's honorable mention news, and talk to Gerry about San Diego Mars Society and his Mars Movies

Part 1 of Ep. 8 of Mars Talk, We talk with Gerry Williams about Collins, Aldrin, & Trump in the oval office, Apollo 11 50th anniversary, SpaceX Crew Dragon Anomaly, and Elon wants to put an implant in your brain. Part 2 will come out on Friday, Aug 9, 2019.

Episode 7 of Mars Talk is all about Virtual Reality and using it for the Exploration of Mars, with our two amazing experts: James Burk is our host this week, he's the IT Director of the Mars Society and leads our MarsVR project, and Ali Zareiee who heads up our Scandinavian chapter and is a 360 camera designer and videographer. We also review the week's news and have some fun. For more details, visit https://marstalk.org

Episode 6 of Mars Talk features Kent Nebergall talking with Christopher Tarantola about the latest Falcon Heavy Launch, NASA’s projected budget for Artemis, Elon talking about the cost of Raptor engines, Methane detection on Mars, and a sneak peak at Kent’s colony submission to the Mars Colony Contest. For more details, visit https://marstalk.org

We had a couple of fantastic guests in Mike Newberg and Greg McCauley both of the Link Observatory Institute, located in Indiana. They join our host Christopher Tarantola, and our regular crew member James Burk of the Mars Society. We cover news of the past two weeks, aliens, space war, and tons more. For more information on the Mars Talk podcast, visit https://marstalk.org

Our most entertaining podcast yet, with special guest Dr. Robert Zubrin who is promoting his new bestseller The Case for Space.  Dr. Zubrin is the Founder and President of the Mars Society and is joined by debate partner Craig Davidson, our regular contributor James Burk, and host Christopher Tarantola.  The crew debates and discusses multiple topics including the Lunar Gateway, NASA's Artemis Program to return to the Moon, Zubrin's Moon Direct plan, and much more!

The third episode of Mars Talk features the usual suspects of Lucinda Offer and James Burk from the Mars Society, joined by our host Christopher Tarantola. The crew discusses the week's space news including the major Moon announcements by NASA & Blue Origin as well as a recent debate on the definition of a planet, and the results of NASA's 3-D Printed Habitat competition. This episode also features the Marspedia online encyclopedia project and Mars Society's Seattle chapter. For more information on Mars Talk and to reach us on social media, visit marstalk.org

The second episode of Mars Talk features Dr. Jonathan Clarke who is a professional astrobiologist and the President of Mars Society Australia.  Christopher, James, and Dr. Clarke discuss the week's space news, recent space agency & chapter activities in Australia, and a debate of the 2020s Space Race documented in James' recent LinkedIn article.  For more information on Mars Talk and to reach us on social media, visit marstalk.org

Billed as “A community discussion about humanity’s future in space”, the biweekly Mars Talk podcast features Mars Society chapter leaders and other guests to discuss the Society’s activities and those of individual chapters. The podcast will also provide commentary on recent space news, such as commercial space activities and those of the worldwide space agencies. The first episode of Mars Talk was recorded on Friday, April 12th and is hosted by Christopher Tarantola from the Mars Society’s Chapter & Outreach team. Christopher is joined by two co-hosts: James Burk, the Society’s IT Director and organizer of the Seattle chapter, and Lucinda Offer, the Society’s Executive Director and organizer of the UK chapter. Christopher, James, and Lucinda provide commentary on the recent NASA return to the moon announcements, SpaceX & Boeing’s commercial crew activity, the recent Falcon Heavy launch of ArabSat-6A, Israel’s SpaceIL mission to land on the Moon, India’s anti-satellite test and its aftermath, and several other current space-related news items. In addition, Lucinda provides an introduction to the Mars Society and the recent projects and activities done by our worldwide network of chapters. For more details on Mars Talk, visit marstalk.org