The Space Show
The Space Show
The Space Show focuses on timely and important issues influencing the development of outer-space commerce, space tourism,space exploration and space development. The Space Show is committed to facilitating our becoming a space-faring nation and society with a growing and self-sustaining space-faring economy. The Space Show also focuses on other related subjects of interest to us all.
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Created on: 12 May 2005 Language: English |
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Chris Carberry, Sunday, 4-19-09 (46.33MB; download) -- Guest: Chris Carberry. Topics: Mars Society, NASA Administrator, terraforming Mars, life on Mars, commercial missions to Mars, Mars advocacy. Chris Carberry, Executive Director of The Mars Society, was the guest today to discuss the upcoming Mars Society Conference at College Park, MD on the campus of the University of Maryland from July 30-August 2, 2009. To find out more about the conference, please visit www.marssociety.org/portal/c/Conventions/2009. In addition, the Call for Papers is still outstanding so if you are interested in submitting a paper for this conference, please visit www.marssociety.org/portal/c/Conventions/2009/news/2009ConventionCallForPapers/. During our discussion, Chris went over the key note speakers and some of the major conference themes. As the show progressed, we talked about terraforming Mars, methane and possible life on Mars, the next NASA Administrator and what would be a good way for NASA to facilitate a humans to Mars mission as soon as possible. See if you agree with what Chris Carberry said NASA should do. Another topic that came up for discussion was effective advocacy. We talked about having a unified space advocacy approach rather than lots of space advocate organizations pursuing their own agenda. Comparisons were made to national lobby and advocacy organizations such AARP and the NRA. I think you will find Mr. Carberry's comments on this issue to be most intereesting. Student programming for The Mars Society was discussed as well as student pricing and dorm space for the upcoming conference. Chris also told us that this year's conference would make use of lots of panels, more so than in the past. Toward the end of the program, Chris was asked about joint projects with environmental groups and the alleged conflicts space advocacy organizations have with environmental groups. Listen to what Chris has to say about this and some upcoming Mars Society projects. If you have a question or comment for Chris Carberry or want to know more about The Mars Society and the 2009 convention, please email Chris at carberry@marssociety.org. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:17:17 UTC
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Pharis E. Williams, Friday, 4-17-09 (57.31MB; download) -- Guest: Pharis E. Williams. Topics: fusion, Superluminal Space Craft, science funding, propulsion. Our guest today was Pharis E. Williams and our subject was out of the box scientific and propulsion theories. We started our discussion with the two papers Pharis delivered at this year's SPESIF conference. The first was "Fusion for Earth and Space." Here, Pharis talked about the potential of fusing deuterium nuclei in helium nuclei to create a different model of fusion. Pharis discussed this theory in detail and he answered lots of questions about how mainstream science sees and treats such theories, how his theory could be validated, and more. Its a comprehensive discussion you will not want to miss. His other paper delivered at SPESIF was "Superluminal Space Craft" and here Pharis discussed the potential for faster than light propulsion and how it might work. He introduced us to the Five Dimensional World and the theory that mass is independent of space and time. As with before, we talked about his theories in the mainstream science world and then in the out of the box world represented by the excellent SPESIF Conference and before it, STAIF. I'm sure you will find his physics discussion quite interesting. We also talked about unified theories and how to know what or which out of the box theory to pay some attention to since there is no shortage of people coming up with theories representing everything under the sun. This is another must listen to discussion but briefly, his guidance hinged around making sure that the author of the theory had his facts and grounding in science and engineering correct, in addition to making sure the math being used was correctly being used. As someone who receives up to a dozen requests a month to be on this show from authors and others that claim to have THE theory of everything, I found the suggestions of Pharis to be most helpful but clearly something else is needed to help discern something that is potentially real from the crackpot side. In fact, I am working on a show to help us identify crackpot science and if it comes together, I will start announcing it right away. The subject of the old Senator Proxmire Golden Fleece Awards came up during our conversations about the process used for funding science projects and interestingly Pharis noted that one impact of the awards was to dry up funding sources for unusual science projects given the risk and the fear of being given a Golden Fleece. If you don't remember or know what a Golden Fleece Award was, check it out here or on lots of other internet sites: http://dekerivers.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/senator-proxmire-would-give-golden-fleece-award-to-abstinence-programs/. Pharis Williams has written a new book, "Physics Against The Odds" and you can find it online or at your local bookstore. His website is http://www.physicsandbeyond.com/. If you have questions or comments for Pharis Williams, please contact him through his website at http://www.physicsandbeyond.com/contact.htm. Make sure you note that you are contacting him from his appearance on The Space Show. In addition, you can send your email to him through me and I will be glad to forward it to him. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:54:11 UTC
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Dr. Frans G. von der Dunk, Thursday, 4-16-09 (43.44MB; download) -- Guest: Dr. Frans G. von der Dunk. Topics: space & telecom law programs, space tourism, NEO's, ITAR, space debris. First, I apologize for my rough and raspy voice as I am still recovering my cold, coughing, and virus whatever. Thanks for your patience and tolerance. Our guest tonight, Dr. Frans von der Dunk, started our discussion by describing the new University of Nebraska - Lincoln LL.M Space and Telecommunication Law program (please see http://law.uni.edu/spacelaw). We talked about the students attending, their backgrounds the national versus the international mix of students, the focus of the program, and the law subjects covered. If you are a law school graduate and interested in a graduate law program, space and telecommunications law just might be your ticket. Listen to what Dr. von der Dunk says about the program and more important, the career opportunities that await graduates of the program. After discussing the law school program, we moved on to many important issues ranging from liability and space debris to space tourism. A caller asked about UNIDROIT and the Cape Town Convention dealing with space financing and more. You will want to hear this discussion. Our caller also asked about liability issues for space flight participants both in the U.S. and the likelihood that other nations will follow the U.S. model. Our guest discussed the appropriateness of the liability waivers and the legislation now in place but subject to change upon expiration of existing regs or if specific events take place. Again, you will want to hear what Dr. von der Dunk had to say on these issues and the modeling of the American regulations and policies by European nations. Later in the program we discussed liability issues for NEO mitigation and the market situation for the European GPS system, Galileo. ITAR was discussed as was international space law compliance by China, North Korea, Iran, and other nations. Our discussion did address the recent missile launch by the North Koreans. Toward the end of the show, the issue of space property rights came up and a listener asked a question about her deed she bought giving her ownership of property on the Moon. Dr. von der Dunk discussed the buying of lunar or other space property in some detail and did not believe it to be valid or legal. You can contact Dr. Frans G. von der Dunk with your questions or comments at fvonderdunk2@unl.edu. You can learn more about his space consultancy, Black Holes BV by visiting www.black-holes.eu. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:11:25 UTC
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Michelle Evans, Monday, 4-13-09 (42.10MB; download) -- Guest: Michelle Evans. Topics: Orange County Space Society (OCSS), X-15, NASA, outreach. Michelle Evans, President of the OCSS, was our guest for this Space Show program. We began our discussion by looking at the OCSS (www.ocspace.org), its programs, outreach, and focus toward inspiring both members and the public to value and participate in space development. Some of the issues that were talked about in this segment included NASA outreach and PR, NASA TV and the NASA Digital Learning Network (http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/), among a wide variety of other non-NASA subjects. In the second segment, we focused on Michelle's research and upcoming book on the X-15. She described her approach to writing the book, interviewing people still with us today who were involved in the X-15 project, and even visiting the famous Edwards AFB X-15 crash site. As you will hear in the discussion, her perspective is from the personal level of those involved rather than the technical and engineering side of the project. He book, "X-15: Wings Into Space, Flying the First Reusable Spacecraft," is scheduled for release in late 2011 and is being published the University of Nebraska Press. Her book is part of the Outward Odyssey series covering human spaceflight history. We hope to feature Michelle and her book on The Space Show when it is available. During our final program segment, Michelle was asked about the OCSS and its participation in Yuri's Night celebrations and why there always seemed to be lots of focus on museums for outreach with the listener wondering if the blue collar part of our economy was somehow ignored. You will certainly want to hear her response to this listener question. She also talked with us about her business, Mach 25 Media (www.mach25media.com). Mach 25 Media specializes in aerospace and other photography, writing, video and related educational programming, fashion design, and more. Not only will you want to hear what she has to say about her business and what she does for her prestigious list of clients, you will want to visit her website. After spending some time discussing her business, Michelle was asked how she finds the time to run OCSS, her Mach 25 Media business, and write and X-15 book with detailed research supporting the book. You will definitely want to hear how she does this as many of us juggle lots of things and Michelle appears to have the formula for doing so down pat! As we approached the end of the program, I asked Michelle about her own space fairing timeline and what it meant in her lexicon to be space fairing. Again, you will want to hear her response to this question. Other important topics were part of this discussion so this is a must listen to program. In addition, as you will hear, membership in the Orange County Space Society is global, certainly not limited to Orange County, California. You might consider joining the organization as its an outstanding way to stay connected with many important aspects of space advocacy, development, and more. I'm a new member, I hope you too will sign up by visiting their website. If you want to ask Michelle Evans a question or give her comments about this discussion, please email her at mach25@sbcglobal.net. One final note. As usual, I asked her for concluding Pearls of Wisdom or special concluding thoughts. Please pay attention to what Michelle Evans offered Space Show listeners as her Pearls of Wisdom. Thank you, Michelle. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:07:57 UTC
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Avinash Siravuru, Sunday, 4-12-09 (46.72MB; download) -- Guest: Avinash Siravuru. Topics: Indian space program, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), SEDS in India, space entrepreneurism. Avinash Siravuru was our guest today from India to tell us about space development and exploration in his country. We learned about many of the ISRO programs, the student and advocate organizations such as SEDS, and we even received a good answer as to why so many Indian students study the STEM courses and do so well while we here in the United States lag behind in STEM education and engineering. You will want to hear what our guest said about these subjects and see if you agree. Other subjects that we discussed were the Indian lunar program, the Indian launchers, low cost space access as a goal of the ISRO, the military side of the Indian space program, and entrepreneurism in the Indian space community. As you will hear, entrepreneurism is not present but as Avinash suggested, perhaps in a few years it will start to show up. A listener also asked him about business classes for those in the space program. As this subject is now addressed on many Space Show programs, you will appreciate the comparison with America and India on this issue. We talked about space advocate organizations and which ones have a presence in India, our guest told us about the latest Yuri's Night Party, and we even listed the classes our guest has taken so far as a junior majoring in mechanical engineering. For those of you familiar with the American engineering curriculum, compare the two and let me know how they differ. Avinash provided us with the following websites which might interest you: SEDS-VIT's website...http://vit.ac.in/student_Chapters/seds_vit/index.html. The SEDS-INDIA website is :http://india.seds.org/. If you have questions or comments for our guest, please email him at sirneonash@gmail.com.
Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:15:11 UTC
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Charles Pooley & Iain Finer, SAS 09, Tuesday, 4-7-09 (36.65MB; download) -- Guests: Charles Pooley and Iain Finer. Topic 2009 Space Access Society Conference, rockets, suborbital and orbital flight, space tourism. This program consists of three separate reporting segments from Charles and Iain who were at Space Access in Phoenix, AZ . They kindly phoned in three reports to The Space Show. Charles and Iain talked about the speakers and comments, mostly from what caught their attention and interest, but also from an overall perspective of the conference this year. All three segments will play together without any breaks but there will be about a 5-7 second pause before starting each new report. If you have questions or comments for Charles or Iain, please send them to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward to both of these guests. We appreciate Charles and Iain being available to The Space Show for these reports. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:21:27 UTC
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Dr. Jim Wertz - Responsive Space, Monday, 4-6-09 (46.22MB; download) -- spaceflights, launch economics, rocket parts. Dr. Jim Wertz, President of Microcosm, Inc. was our guest for this program to discuss the upcoming Responsive Space Conference to be held at the Westin Hotel near the Los Angeles Airport, April 27-30, 2009. Please note that during this program, Dr. Wertz offered a special conference registration price for regular and student Responsive Space registration, but you have to call Julie at Microcosm, Inc. by the close of business April 6, 2009 California time to request the special price. For regular registration, there will be a $100 discount if you mention The Space Show and this program. Student registration prices have been reduced from $350 to $325 just by calling Julie and saying you want The Space Show special registration offer. To take advantage of these special prices, please call (310) 219-2700. Please note that this offer expires at the close of business on Monday, April 6, 2009. As for our discussion, Dr. Wertz talked about the Responsive Space Conference, the keynote speakers, the conference amenities, the live Space Show program that will take place Tuesday evening and the fact that The Space Show might be able to broadcast video for that show, so stay tuned for announcements on this potential new feature for The Space Show. In addition to talking about the conference and the speakers plus the agenda, we talked about what responsive space means, how to achieve it, and what some of the realistic ideas are to achieve it. We also talked about crossover technology to the commercial sector for Responsive Space R&D. The USMC SUSTAIN vehicle concept came up and we discussed it, plus the Microcosm Scorpius launch vehicle. Dr. Wertz explained how by minimizing the working parts in a rocket, lower launch costs could be obtained so you will want to hear this discussion. He went into some detail about the high speed turbo pump and what that has meant for rocket development. We discussed low cost satellite development and missions as well as the problems created by regulatory creep. Numerous other topics were discussed as well, so you will want to hear this full show. Please give serious consideration to attention the Responsive Space Conference in Los Angeles. It’s a fact based, highly influential conference that you do not want to miss. If you have questions or comments for Dr. Jim Wertz about this discussion or the Responsive Space Conference, please contact him at Microcosm with the above phone number, the Responsive Space website, www.responsivespace.com , or by email at jwertz@smad.com ( http://www.responsivespace.com/cont.asp ). Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:00:24 UTC
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Dr. Adam Frank, Friday, 4-3-09 (54.83MB; download) -- Guest: Dr. Adam Frank. Topics: Science vs. Religion, spirituality, space travel, the night sky, science education, faith. Dr. Adam Frank was our guest in this continuation of the Space Show series, "Our Spiritual Connection To Outer-Space." Dr. Frank discussed his new book, "The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate." We began our discussion talking about spirituality, religion, and science. Dr. Frank told us how he came up with the title for his book as it refers to the human aspiration to know what is real and true. He then framed the traditional science vs. religious debate for us and then we talked about reframing the debate outside the tradition. We covered many topics including spirituality, mythology, science, God, faith, and more. I believe you will find this to be a most interesting discussion and consider his book to be a superb read. For more information about the book, visit http://www.amazon.com/Constant-Fire-Beyond-Science-Religion/dp/0520254120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238786985&sr=1-1 . During our discussion, Dr. Frank merges science together with religion and spirituality in many different ways and shows us different ways of seeing and relating to these disciplines. He takes back centuries to early Irish Neolithic monuments and we talked about how early people observed much more in the night sky more easily merged science, life, and their religion with myths and rituals. Visit Dr. Frank's website, http://www.constantfire.com/ where you will find links to his blog for comments and discussion. If you want to send Dr. Adam Frank comments or questions, please do so at afrank@pas.rochester.edu .
Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:06:06 UTC
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Les Johnson, Tuesday, 3-31-09 (45.18MB; download) -- Guest: Les Johnson. Topics: solar sail, space propulsion, interstellar space travel, environmental organizations. Les Johnson was our guest for this program for our discussion of solar sail technology and deployment, interstellar space travel and propulsion ideas, and the space advocacy community relationship with environmental organizations. Our first segment focused on solar sail technology and the efforts so far to have a successful solar sail demonstration flight. Les described the size of the sail needed, the challenges, the material for the sail, and the formulas that support the solar sail theory. We also talked about scientific and commercial uses for solar sail propulsion, its usefulness in space and the limits of its usefulness which appear to be at Jupiter. In explaining the solar sail, we talked about light with momentum and pushing and why we cannot experience it here on Earth but how it’s proven in the vacuum chambers and in space. During the second segment, we spoke about his new book which will be out in early fall, "Paradise Regained: The Re-greening of Planet Earth," which explains why space advocates and environmentalist have so much in common and should be working together. This resulted in a very interesting and diverse conversation with good listener questions and comments. You won't want to miss it! During our final segment, we focused on the out-of-the-box aspects of interstellar propulsion. Among the technologies that may be useful are solar/laser sails, fusion, antimatter, and maybe folding space with worm holes. However, all of these are beyond current engineering, physics, and financial means. This is also a most interesting reality based discussion that you will want to hear. Toward the end of the program, we talked about careers in out-of-the-box physics, what academic subjects or fields to pursue and more. If you want to send a question or comment to Les Johnson, you can do so at http://www.lesjohnsonauthor.com/contact_les or les.mail@lesjohnsonauthor.com . Visit his website at http://www.lesjohnsonauthor.com/ . Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:05:55 UTC
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Dr. Richard Kirby, Monday, 3-30-09 (47.35MB; download) -- Guest: Dr. Richard Kirby. Topics: Kepler Space University, space and liberty, Theory of Money, citizen astronomer. Dr. Richard Kirby returned to The Space Show today regarding his new book, "The People's Astronomer,"(Please visit http://www.keplerspaceuniversity.com/ to purchase your copy) and a discussion about space wealth creation for the people. We spoke about breaking many conventional paradigms on economics, scarcity, the theory of money, and more and Dr. Kirby explained how by observing the night sky and being part of the cosmos we can change our way of thinking and our situation. Several listeners asked Rich questions and one listener, Kristine, asked specifically how we can remove ourselves from our usual toxic environment to be able to engage in the consciousness that Rich was talking about during the show. You will want to hear his reply to Kristine. Dr. Bob Krone, Provost of Kepler University, called in and Rich and Bob discussed the program and teaching methodology at Kepler Space University. If you are interested in this university which is a graduate level university, please contact Dr. Krone at BobKrone@aol.com . Other listener questions addressed the need for cultural changes in the US and elsewhere, so you will want to hear how Rich replied to those listeners and how to apply space to model our cultural changes. Traditional economic and financial concepts were discussed and Rich then enabled us to see alternatives fitting with the theme of this show and for his planned, upcoming television series, "The People's Cosmos TV." Toward the end of the program, Rich introduced an alternative perception and plan to the business plan and we talked about the role of truth in advertising and representation. For more on this, visit his website, http://www.newgenius.com . If you have a question or comment for Dr. Kirby, please send it to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward it to him.
Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:54:58 UTC
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