The Space Show

We welcomed Eric Berger back to the program to discuss his new book, "Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and The Reusable Rockets That Launched A Second Space Age." We also talked about Starlink, Boeing, Starship and more. Please read the full summary at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

John and I welcomed Eric Berger to address the Boeing Starliner issues, SpaceX Starship testing delay, the SpaceX response to the FAA, SpaceX and bringing back the Boeing astronauts from the ISS and more. Read the full summary of the program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024.

Welcome to our Open Lines program. Our first caller was Dr. John Brandenburg who was our guest for about 75 minutes. John talked about his recent gravity work, professional conference presentations, gravity experiments you can do at home and more. See the blog for much of the material he addressed today. He had callers and emailers asking him questions. John also addressed UAPs and Roswell history re his new book, "Cosmic Awakening." After John left we had a few more callers referring back to Dr. Brandenburg and being self-invited guest on The Space Show. Read the fully summary for this show at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024.

Attorney Michael Listner was with us to talk space policy and law in the context of commercial space and some national security space. Michael focused on the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Chevron deference case, explaining it in detail to us in the context of space matters. Michael cited several examples so that we would be sure to understand the significance of the ruling over NGO's and government agencies which had set policy for the past nearly 40 years. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024.

We welcomed Dr. Mindy Howard back to the show to talk with us about her new work, Cosmic Girls and the Cosmic Girls Foundation (www.cosmicgirls.org). Mindy told us a terrific origin story for the creation of Cosmic Girls so don't miss it. We also talked about guiding young girls and women all over the world toward space, becoming an astronaut, astronaut training and STEM. Don't miss her programming, the upcoming competition, and their plans for global girls from age 14-19 or 20 for their programming and how they intend to reach that market. More details are on the website so check it out. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.

John and I welcomed Dr. Simone Marchi to discuss the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, the type of rock that it was, where is likely came from, its composition and more. Our guest had much to say about the asteroid belt, also what lies beyond Jupiter in terms of big rocks. Our guest said that this could happen to Earth again so we talked about using resources for planetary defense or humans to the asteroids to learn more about them for defense. His response might surprise you. Our guest was also asked how long it took for life to die out over Earth after impact. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesda, Sept. 4, 2024.

We welcomed Dr. Steve B. Howell to the program for our discussion about exoplanets. I started the interview by asking our guest for the latest exoplanet news, trends and if he was satisfied with the rate of discovery since exoplanets came into our knowledge base. We had an excellent conversation about search for life with exoplanets, SETI, even looking for plausible life conditions on an exoplanet moon. We focused on exploration, addressed budgets and private sector exploration, and of course raised the question of the definition of life constituting our search. We had multiple email comments and questions with one call. Dr. Howell is a great guest and for sure will join us again on this topic. Read the full summary at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024.

We welcomed Dr. Sandra Hauplik-Meusburger to the program from Vienna, Austria. We focused on space architecture specifically for human spaceflight and safety. We talked about settlement, habitats, how to make them sustainable plus we talked about why this was important and why humans in space and our space exploration was important. Many specific questions were asked regarding the Moon, orbital human stations and Mars. This was a comprehensive discussion. In addition, Sandra talked about her Executive MBA program, its focus on spaceflight and the upcoming Houston program which she said still had one spot available for interested parties. The Houston program is just around the corner so if you are interested, please contact her. Please read the full summary of this program for August 30, 2024 at www.thespaceshow.com.

Anatoly Zak returned for a four part program on Russian space history regarding the Apollo Soyuz test flight, the process leading up to it and the simultaneous secret Russian military program to their military space station, Alma. You can read more about this at Anatoly's website, https://russianspaceweb.com. The four part program is about 40 minutes in length.

Marshal returned to the program to discuss his space farming ideas, his proposed theory and project, plus he went over many challenges facing a space food supply for space settlements. He fielded multiple relevant and interesting email questions and comments plus he engaged in two comprehensive listener phone calls on the subject. One takeaway was time line Marshall suggested would be reality for his or any other space farming program. Don't miss how he address that time line and the challenges that come with it. Please read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, August 27, 2024.

John and I welcomed back Rick Fisher to discuss China and their lunar plans along with China making available to IRAN state of the art satellite imaging, constellation and data usage, all with a military use in mind. Rick talked about the use of sanctions, the Chinese ILRS and the risks to western countries including Europe, the U.S. and Israel. Read the full summary for this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, August 21, 2024.

Sarah Pousho of Space Bridge Partners (www.spacebridgepartners.com) was our guest today to introduce us to her plan to assist in providing additional funding for science, educational, and exploration missions. Sarah fully explained how their business works, what and how they fund missions, the application process, their due diligence and vetting process plus she provided us with a few examples in their current pipeline. Sarah fielded many email questions on different types of missions plus she had two phone calls. Specific topics mentioned were the gravity RX for humans in space plus childbirth in space, disease research and even planetary and human missions. Please read the full summary for this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, August 25, 2024.

Andrew Rush was with us to introduce us to his new company, Star Catcher. Andrew spent time delving into the technology and his plan to beam power and energy within space to other satellites for additional power/energy. Andrew responded to lots of questions about the technology, the regulations, orbits, and more. He responded fully to both emails from the listeners and to the callers. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, August 23, 2024.

Mark Whittington, author and journalist, returned as our guest for this Space Show program. We talked about multiple topics including space remaining a bipartisan issue with support during this presidential election period. We talk about Artemis lunar missions and expressed a skeptical & concerning attitude. SLS and Starship were part of our discussion. Boeing and Starliner, including crew safety were a big part of our discussion. Musk made the list of topics as did Blue, Jeff, and RocketLab. Near the end Mark mentioned the "Space Cadets for Harris" group. His newsletter email on this subject has been posted on the blog for those of you interested in and in watching the meeting they had as it was live streamed and recorded. Please review the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, August 21, 2024.

Leonard David returned for a two hour program covering many topics. Overall, Leonard expressed a theme throughout the discussion that the commercial space economy was not yet in place and was taking way too long to develop. My opinion was similar but I said I was looking for indicators such as market demand to guide me. Both Leonard and I want to see this economy develop and prosper in our lifetime which is shortening for us both. Leonard had much to say about Starliner and Boeing, Starship, Musk, SpaceX, SLS, Blue and other entrepreneurial companies. He talked about life on Mars and near the end, we had a short UFO/UAP discussion. He said lots regarding NASA along with companies that don't make it. At one point he said he would like to hear a panel of failed CEO's talk about lessons learned. We had emails and phone calls. This was a discussion you must hear. Read the full summary at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, August 18, 2024.

John and I welcomed Dr. David Southwood from the UK to discuss the potential Mars Sample Return Mission. Dr. Southwood was very supportive of the mission but called on getting the finances for the mission in order and committed prior to starting the mission. He explained his reasoning to us and why this was so important for the mission and for the mission to happen and be successful. Please read the full summary of the program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, August 14, 2024.

We welcomed back Michelle Evans to honor the life of the last X-15 pilot, Joe Engle. Joe passed away at 91 in July 2024. Michelle knew Joe personally, had much to say about him, his character, and his accomplishments throughout our nearly 90 minute broadcast.In addition, we talked about the X-15, all the great X-15 pilots, Michelle told us stories about them all and of course about Joe. We had lots of questions, a great call near the end of the show from Tony and Michelle provided us with an excellent closing tribute to Joe Engle. The entire program was dedicated to both Joe's honor and memory. All of us lost a great one with the passing of Joe Engle and one the greatest ever stories in aviation and space lost its last living pilot. As I said to Michelle in closing, X-15 will not die. Michelle told us about the efforts to keep it alive and all about what she is doing along those lines. The Space Show will continue talking X-15 on into our future. If you have not yet read her book or if you do not yet have a copy of it sitting you desk, order it today from our Space Show Amazon link on our home page, "The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space."

We welcomed Isabelle Thibault to the show re her asteroid mining and space property rights paper which you can read/download on our blog. Read the full summary of this excellent discussion at wwww.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, August 14, 2024.

We welcomed attorney Camisha Simmons to the program to discuss private party and commercial space property rights and asteroid mining legal concerns for space development. Ms. Simmons is a speaker on these issues at conferences including ISDC. Read the full summary of the program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, August 11, 2024.

We welcomed Dr. Kevin Hand of JPL to discuss the preliminary results of studying a rock on Mars found by Perseverance, Cheyava Falls, by the SHERLOC instrument. We discussed possible biosignatures and more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, August 7,, 2024.