The Space Show

Mark Whittington was our guest but the audio for his program is poor quality. You can understand everything but it caused problems during the broadcast. Mark talked Artemis, the Gateway, the status of different commercial ventures and more while I tried to compensate for the listening difficulties that we were hearing about from the listeners. We will reschedule Mark for the near future for a proper program with him. In the meantime, read the summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

Steve Kwast return to the program, filling in for Dennis Wingo who had a last minute conflict. We very much appreciate Steve filling in at the last minute. We discussed the exciting plans of their new company, www.spacebilt.com, both operationally, plus their values, their goals and broad big vision. Be sure to read the full written summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, 5-3-24.

Anatoly Zak of Russian Space News was our guest to report on the successful Angara launch, the Russian return to the Moon plan, Russian's history making lunar efforts earlier in the space race and more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, May 3, 2024.

Chris was back with us to discuss space and national security, including Russian nukes in space intentions. Chris talked about the Space Force, our military and its readiness as he sees it, adversaries and the use of space plus much more including congressional and federal space and security policy making and strategy. Please read the summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, April 28, 2024.

We welcomed back Dr. Harold Connolly to discus the latest with Osiris REx, Hayabusa2, the asteroid Ryugu, their respective sample return findings and more. Read the full summary for this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

We welcomed back both Dr. Matt Weinzierl with Brendan Rosseau to discuss big vision commercial space economics, the soon to be published book by our two guests, "Space To Grow," space markets, using the space economy to avoid national and global economic stagnation and more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, April 26, 2024.

Aggie and Rod described and talked about the upcoming NSS ISDC 2024 event to be held late in May of this year. We talked conference organizing, upcoming special guests, tracks and more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Dr. Ahmed discussed AI and space in a comprehensive discussion. We crossed over into general medical pus additional fields. Read the full review at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, April 21, 2024.

Eric Berger was our guest to talk about SpaceX, their current launches, Starship, launch history and record, the Human Lunar Lander, helping to return to the Moon and Mars plus more. Read the full summary of the program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

Bob Werb returned for Part 2 regarding his Sept. 2023 program focusing on better communications and giving the general public a space program that want to support. Lots of topics and issues were discussed. Give us your feedback on the blog. Read the full summary at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, 4-19-24.

Logan Smith joined us to discuss mental health issues for astronauts and private spaceflight participants. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, April 16,2024.

Chris Carberry of Explore Mars joined us to discuss the upcoming Humans 2 Mars event early in May 2024. In addition, he talked about his new book documenting and talking about the music and composers for space and scientific films. We concluded by talking about the new documentary film based on the book Chris wrote documenting the use of alcohol in and related matters in space.

Dr. Bechtol was back with us for a detailed discussion of the N. Korean space and nuclear with ICBM analysis. We talked about their launching capability, missiles, nuclear weapons, satellites and imaging and more. Toward the end we talked about the Russian and Iranian relationships with N. Korea. Also China. We talked about the space and missile program of Iran. Please read the full review of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, April 9, 2024.

Tom returned as the guest to do a special solar eclipse show plus we talked about Tom's upcoming books regarding making money on the Moon and with commercial space. Tom also talked at length what would be necessary for making money on the moon and what industries hold the most commercial promise. Read our summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for Monday, April 8, 2024.

Chris follows SpaceX, has written about SpaceX and posts regularly with SpaceX news on his Substack. Chris had lots to say during this interview about all aspects of SpaceX, their competitors, policy and more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, April 7, 2024.

Dr. Goswarmi returned to do an in-depth discussion regarding her Space Review article posted on the blog for this program. In addition, we talked national security and space policy, policy makers, international players, the Moon, Mars, cislunar security and more. Read the full summary for this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday,April 5, 2024.

Dr. Haym Benaroya was our guest to discuss future food, nutrition, and farming on the Moon. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, April 3, 2024.

Dr. Pascal Lee returned to the program for a nearly 2 hour discussion. Our topics included Mars sample return, the discovery of a new very large Mars volcano and Artemis. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

We covered multiple topics including Starship, the upcoming total eclipse, SLS, Artemis, orbiting fuel depots and more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, March 19, 2024.

Lauren from Beyond Earth Institute was with us to discuss her report on commercial space stations. We discussed all aspects of private space stations including liability, centralized regs with the Dept. of Commerce and more. Please read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, March 17, 2024.