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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David Sandalow, Wednesday, 10-31-07 (15.95MB; download) -- David Sandalow was the guest today regarding his new book, "Freedom From Oil: How The next President Can End The United States Oil Addiction." This is an off space program of about 40 minutes. David has interesting proposals and concepts for creating energy independence from Middle Eastern oil nations. Having served in the Clinton administration, he politically connected and his book and message are being listened to by those inside the Beltway. David is a Brooking researcher and if you follow the contact information he provided at the end of the show, you can likely send him a comment or question. His book on Amazon can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Oil-President-United-Addiction/dp/0071489061/ref=sr_1_1/102-6246410-8044965?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193861945&sr=1-1. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:45:25 UTC
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Marc Boucher, Tuesday, 10-30-07 (42.29MB; download) -- Marc Boucher, co-founder of SpaceRef.com and The Mars Institute was the guest for this show. Among the many topics we explored together were the results of the recent space elevator climber contests held in Salt Lake City. Marc was there and gave us our first comprehensive report on the events that took place over the climber weekend. We then moved to space elevator technology and plausibility. Marc is bullish but quite practical. You will want to hear his comments regarding the space elevator. We also talked about the locations for the elevator on Mars and the Moon and as it turns out, these might be better locations for it than here on Earth. This discussion led to our talking about returning to the Moon, both from an American and Canadian perspective. Listeners were quite interested in Canadian perspectives. Other subjects that came up were leadership, politics and ITAR. In fact, one listener asked Marc to tell us the difference between ITAR in Canada and our form of ITAR. This was an interesting question with an interesting answer. Marc talked about his exciting new project, On Orbit (www.onorbit.com), project listeners will definitely want to hear about and experience. Marc also spoke about other exciting new projects, including a new space search engine he is developing. His pearls of wisdom for us all were to GET INVOLVED! You can send your comments or questions to him at marc.boucher@onorbit.com. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:59:48 UTC
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Robert Zimmerman, Monday, 10-29-07 (38.48MB; download) -- Robert Zimmerman returned to the program for some updates and new information regarding the space program and related issues. We started out talking about the current shuttle mission. Bob brought us up to speed on issues the shuttle mission is facing, future shuttle missions, the upcoming Hubble repair mission and the politics of space around election time. Listeners asked Bob about the Chinese space program, their ASAT efforts, and space tourism. In fact, we discussed space tourism as a driver for the industry. We switched gears during the show and discussed X Prize Cup and the New Space industry. One listener asked Bob for his choice in space news services. Bob suggested Spacetoday.net by Dr. Jeff Foust, and also Nasaspaceflight.com. Bob mentioned his new book which will be on the market in April 2008, "Universe In A Mirror: The Saga Of The Hubble Space Telescope and The Visionaries Who Built It." If you have a question or comment for Bob, send it to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com or you can contact him at his website, http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3cxxp/zimbib.htm. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:27:14 UTC
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X Prize Cup Program, Sunday, 10-28-07 (78.24MB; download) -- This program is the X Prize Cup 2007 series of interviews readied for the Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007 Space Show. In addition to the introduction to this special program, there are five separate interview tracks/panel discussions. They run continuously for about 2.5 hours without a break. However, you will know when each interview ends as the guest or the panel is appropriately thanked and the next guest or panel is introduced. Several of these tracks were recorded during the X Prize Cup at Holloman AFB so you will hear overhead jet aircraft noise as the Holloman AFB Air Show was going on at the same time as X Prize Cup. In addition, finding an absolutely quiet spot for the interviews, without staff or Air Force personnel working around us was almost impossible so the background noise you will hear from time to time is simply part of the program. The first interview is from the Personal Spaceflight Symposium a few days earlier in Las Cruces and has Dr. Lee Valentine talking with us about an important upcoming conference hosted by the Space Studies Institute, Princeton, NJ. The second interview presents Space Show listeners with the new Rocketplane Global spacecraft. With us for the interview is Chuck Lauer, Dave Faulkner who is the Program Manager, and former astronaut, Navy Commander and Rocketplane pilot , John Herrington. Participating in the interview is Patrick Beatty. The third interview is with Ed Wright who returns to us to give us a Teachers In Space update. The fourth interview has Dr. Sean Casey returning to us to update us on the progress with SOPHIA, the joint German Space Agency and NASA AMES stratospheric infra-red observatory program. The fifth and final interview is another panel discussion conducted late at night back in Las Cruces at the Ramada Inn at the Space Frontier Foundation party. For this panel discussion on Rocketplane, we were fortunate to have George French, CEO of Rocketplane with us, Chuck Lauer, Jeff Krukin, Reda Anderson who will be the first commercial passenger on Rocketplane, and Frank Nuovo. Frank is an award winning industrial designer who will be designing the interior of Rocketplane. I am quite sure you will find his bio fascinating as well as his award winning projects, and his plans for Rocketplane. If you have follow up questions or comments for any of these guests on this X Prize Cup special Space Show program, please send them to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward your note to the person you request. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:28:29 UTC
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Personal Spaceflight Symposium Program, Friday, 10-26-07 (62.89MB; download) -- This is the set of interviews selected from those attending the Personal Space Flight Symposium in Las Cruces, NM. In the following order, you will hear first Jeff Krukin, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation make an important announcement. After Jeff, Reda Anderson serves as co-host in a discussion with Sam Ximenes, President of Exploration Architecture Corporation regarding their upcoming part in the development of Spaceport America. The third discussion also has Reda as my co-host talking with retired Oklahoma State Senator Gilmer Capps who helped create the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority and the tax credit program won by Rocketplane. This is a frank discussion about the Oklahoma Spaceport, Rocketplane, and space development in Oklahoma. the final interview is with Taber MacCallum, Chairman and CEO of Paragon Space Development Corporation in Tucson, AZ. During this discussion, Taber explains the process and many of the considerations in making life support systems for spacecraft with a focus on suborbital craft. He has some interesting challenges to address and I think you will find this discussion most interesting and informative. If you want to follow up with questions or comments for any of these guests, send your note to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward it to the guest.
Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:34:34 UTC
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Richard Glover, Monday, 10-22-07 (35.01MB; download) -- Rich Glover of Microgravity Enterprises was the guest today regarding his space manufactured consumer product mix for sale here on Earth at this time. Please visit the company website, www.microgravityenterprises.com. Rich talked about the marketing, financial, and business aspects of his product line and the overall impact of the product ingredients having been in space.One of the lessons he said he said he learned early on was to pay attention to the traditional business rules and processes because being space based can only go so far and its not far enough. His product line for tangible consumer products consists of Space2O bottled water, Antimatter which is an an energy drink, and Space beer. These products are made with enzymes, yeast and other food ingredients that have flown to space. Rich received several business and marketing questions from the listeners. This is a show you will want to hear as it focus on the business aspects of a consumer business consisting of space products. You can send Rich Glover your questions or comments by emailing him at info@microgravityenterprises.com or visiting the contact page, www.microgravityenterprises.com/VendorDistributors.htm. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:31:02 UTC
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Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari, Sunday, 10-21-07 (35.20MB; download) -- Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari was the guest for this Space Show program. Dr. Puig-Suari is the CubeSat Project advisor at Cal Poly University and this program was devoted to CubeSat projects, both university and otherwise. We started the discussion with the basics of cubesats and the Cal Poly program. Jordi also gave us his personal report on watching their university payload, along with many other universities, destruct on a failed Dnieper launch about 18 months ago. This is a failed launch description you will not want to miss. Much time was spent discussing the cost of a CubeSat program and the needed launches. At this time, such launches are around $40-50L and there is a backlog of 25-50 CubeSat projects that could easily be put together if there was a way to fly them to space. Unfortunately, the rides are scarce. In response to questions, Jordi explained the academic process of going through ITAR which was quite smooth and easy compared to some of the commercial horror stories we all know about. As part of our CubeSat discussion, Jordi explained how a satellite mission is decided upon and implemented. Another listener asked what grade the student has to be in to be involved in these projects and we learned that at least at Cal Poly all students can be involved and sophomores have been involved in some of the actual project management, etc. These programs are opened to a wide variety of students as you will hear. Linda asked a question about being able to launch a small CubeSat on a suborbital rocket given its light weight mass. Again, you will want to hear the answer and explanation. Several listeners and even a Mom emailed in questions about the academic program, how to prepare for such a program if one is still in high school, and even asking what the students are like socially that engage in this type of engineering CubeSat program. This is a comprehensive discussion of student satellite programs, especially cubesats, with crossover information on commercial CubeSat launches and projects. To get more information, visit www.cubesat.org. Click on the contact page to send a question, comment or to ask for information from Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari, http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/pages/home/contact-us.php. Jordi's email address as provided on this page is jpuigsua@calpoly.edu. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:29:05 UTC
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LtCol. Paul Damphousse, Friday, 10-19-07 (55.89MB; download) -- LtCol. Paul Damphousse from the NSSO was the guest for this special Space Show program. We started the discussion by explaining the Space-Based Solar Power Study as an opportunity for Strategic Security and why the National Security Space Office (NSSO) undertook this study. Listeners who have not yet seen the study or heard about the press conference held to announce the results of the study should visit the website of the National Space Society (www.nss.org) as the press conference audio is on their website as is the link to the 75 page solar power study. If you use this link, you will find the report and the audio: www.nss.org/news/releases/pr20071010.html. Col. Damphousse did a superb job in explaining the basics behind the study and in summarizing the findings and recommendations found within the study. Listeners asked many questions about solar power, beamed energy used as a weapon, space solar power economics, private or public sector development and why the U.S. should be involved in this rather than letting other nations spend their money to do it. You will want to hear the answers and the discussions regarding these and other questions as this is an important and must listen to discussion. In the latter half of the program, we switched topics and focus to discuss SUSTAIN which is the Marine Corps Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion concept. This discussion proved comprehensive and technical. While much of what we discussed was theoretical for us in 2007, the time table for SUSTAIN is reasonable and future looking and plausibility is dependent upon advances in engineering, technology, fuels, and more. In addition, the precision mission and operating envelope are yet to be finalized so there is time for input and creative examination to see how to build a space transport vehicle for a rapid insertion of a Marine Squad anyplace on Earth within two hours. Listeners asked hard questions about Delta-V, parachuting into a heavy fire zone, protecting the vehicle on the ground in hostile territory, mass that it can and would be expected to carry and much more. Listeners may want to read the Popular Science article on this concept vehicle from the January 2007 issue. As this is a concept in development, LtCol. Damphousse said he would welcome your feedback and input about the concept. He is clearly an out of the box thinker as you will learn from listening to this program and out of the box suggestions are welcome. So are your comments about the space-based solar power study. You can contact LtCol. Paul Damphousse at scpilot1@yahoo.com. Make sure you reference his appearance on The Space Show if you contact him. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:30:52 UTC
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Frank Sietzen, Thursday, 10-18-07 (42.12MB; download) -- Frank Sietzen returned to The Space Show for this special program. Frank brought us up to date regarding the VSE in a comprehensive discussing ranging from the technical and the engineering to the policy and educational components needed for the VSE to be successful. Many listeners participated in this discussion which is a must listen to show. Frank detailed the budget aspects of the VSE and the state of our nation and brought them both together so we could understand what supporters of the VSE are facing in the coming election. As we continued talking about the VSE, congress, and more, we started discussing science and Frank recommended several science sources to explore to support what he was sharing with us. Here is the link to one of the reports from AAAS, http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy08.htm. In addition, he talked about spin-offs and suggested we explore the NASA spinoff website, http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/. His discussion tells how to make space relevant for everyone. A listener asked about China and other national space programs. You will certainly want to hear what Frank Sietzen has to say about the competing national space programs and what it may mean for America if we fall behind in leading the world on space. There is much more to this discussion which was extended to almost two hours. You can contact Frank Sietzen with your comments and questions by emailing him at fsietzen@yahoo.com. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:15:05 UTC
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Mueller, Villarreal & Van Roy, Tuesday, 10-16-07 (41.48MB; download) -- Dr. Paul Mueller, James Kendall Villarreal, and Brian Van Roy were the guest for this special program to discuss the Intercollegiate Rocket Launch Competition. You can find out more about this exciting competition by visiting http://spacegrant.usu.edu/esra. Dr. Mueller started out with an explanation of the program and then both James and Brian talked about their teams, membership, funding, rockets, and technical issues. Listeners asked several questions ranging from the application of what they learn in these rocket programs on the academic level to what they might do in a career at NASA, ULA, or even a company such as Space-X. Listen to their answers to hear just how good these experiences are for future careers for students. One listener asked them about university and peer acceptance of their work and programs throughout the university setting, including students, administration, and other professors. You will find their responses to this question most interesting. All three talked about the various competitions, how they do their rockets and motors, fuel, and much more. This is an excellent program about college level student rocketry, educational outreach and it clearly makes the case to expand these activities to other schools and even into the upper grade levels of high school. From learning appropriate safety measures to team work, to the engineering and science needed to do this substantial rockets, these are outstanding programs with outstanding students as you will hear. The Space Show looks forward to doing more programming with these guests and other university rocket program. If you want to follow up with comments or questions for our guests, you can reach Dr. Mueller at pmueller@engineering.usu.edu; James Villarreal at 'james.villarreal@asu.edu; and Bran Van Roy at vanroyb@msoe.edu. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:07 UTC
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