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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Tom Olson, Sunday, 12-31-06 (50.25MB; download) -- Tom Olson was the special end of the year guest to bring 2006 on The Space Show to its conclusion. We looked back at 2006 and did much looking forward to examine the space development potential for 2007 and beyond. Tom fielded many listener questions about the NewSpace company business methodologies, focusing on issues that seem to adversely impact the economic development of New Space. This included financing issues, excessive secrecy of many New Space companies, website and rhetoric claims, and more. Tom provided interesting insights into these issues and did a good job in showing how growth and economic development can be impacted by company and industry behavior or market barriers. Tom also brought us current with developments for a new and more influential Colony Fund. You can find out more about this by visiting www.colonyfund.com. He also announced his new space business consulting company, Exodus Consulting Group. Contact Tom for more information about Exodus. This was an action and information packed Space Show. Tom provided a superb conclusion to a good year for The Space Show. You can email Tom Olson with your comments and additional questions at taocfi@gmail.com. You can also send your comments to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward them to Tom. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:09:44 UTC
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Jeff Greason, Friday, 12-29-06 (62.78MB; download) -- Jeff Greason, CEO of XCOR Aerospace returned for this special Space Show program. Jeff began the interview with an update on XCOR activities progress over the past year and recent times. XCOR has sustained superb growth and has a mix of products its developing for private customers and NASA. From Rocket Racing League rockets to the suborbital space tourism vehicle, the Xerus Multi-function vehicle, along with rocket engines and fuel piston pumps, XCOR is a leading NewSpace company. Now engaged in several business relationships with NASA and ATK, XCOR has moved forward in 2006 and you will want to hear what Jeff says about the company. We spent considerable time with Jeff talking about the regulatory environment and the final rules recently published by AST. We explored how a regulatory environment impacts business, investment, space flight participants, and company actions. Jeff went into some detail about the process of giving AST input as to what regulations should be issued to facilitate business development, not retard it, while still accomplishing the purpose of the regulation. This is a very interesting and comprehensive discussion. We also talked in detail about composite LOX tanks given the XCOR nonburnite technolgy and questions from listeners. The launch license process with AST was discussed, ITAR was a topic of discussion, as was the informed consent concept and forms the industry will be required to use. Jeff Greason provided us with a good and comprehensive look at many aspects of the suborbital tourism and rocket industry from the point of view of company management. In addition, it was clear to see that while Jeff represents company management, he is totally plugged into the consumers and the regulatory side of things as well. For more information, please visit the XCOR website at www.xcor.com. If you have questions or comments for Jeff Greason, please send them to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward them to Jeff. As Jeff said, he is overwhelmed with email and his work load so please be patient if you are expecting a reply email. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:22:05 UTC
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Dr. Burton Lee, Tuesday, 12-26-06 (39.98MB; download) -- Dr. Burton Lee was the guest for this special Space Show program. Dr. Lee successfully guided us through the spaceport world of market studies, economic impact studies, market research and business decisions, and a host of related business, market, and financial issues surrounding space tourism, the making of the space tourism vehicles, and much more. Not only was our discussion interesting and comprehensive, it was most informative about these important subjects and issues. We started the interview with Dr. Lee providing us with a detailed history of the origin of the Southwest Regional Spaceport in southern New Mexico. This spaceport was later renamed Spaceport America. As we learned, Dr. Lee conceived the idea for the spaceport in 1990 as part of the need for a land recovery site for orbital ballistic reentry capsules. Space tourism and launches were not part of the equation or consideration and upon asking Dr. Lee when space tourism came to the forefront, we learned it was when New Mexico was chosen for the X Prize Cup location and Virgin Galactic entered into a relationship with New Mexico to be the anchor tenant for the spaceport. Dr. Lee shared with us many more historical facts that you will want to hear. In response to listener questions, we learned how monies dedicated to seed funding for spaceport development were allocated, we learned about the effort and the need to enter into an agreement with Mexico on over flight, debris, recovery, and other issues. This type of agreement is still needed and now that Mexico has announced the formation of its own national space agency, it is even more important to have such an agreement. We also learned that originally the spaceport was to be much larger and actually regional, extending over to Roswell, into Texas and northern Mexico. In response to a listener set of questions, Dr. Lee talked about state projects offering a return on investment for money its spends and we learned how difficult it is for a state to make ROI determinations in its investment and development expenditures. We also discussed possible spaceport and market dilution given the potential proliferation of spaceports across America and on the international scene. Additional issues were discussed during the interview and you will certainly come away from this program knowing considerably more about these topics than you did before listening to the show. If you have additional comments or questions for Dr. Lee, please email him at Burton.Lee@gmail.com. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:36:42 UTC
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Jim McDade, Sunday, 12-24-06 (42.46MB; download) -- Jim McDade returned to The Space Show for a special tribute program dedicated to Apollo 8, the flight that went around the Moon, Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. Jim discussed the flight in detail, compared it to events taking place today in space and the country and we played many of the actual Apollo 8 cuts including the liftoff, the TLI, TEI pre and post and much more. We also played the crew reading from Genesis as they orbited the Moon. Jim fielded many questions and comments from listeners regarding then and now. Don't miss this tribute program! You can email Jim McDade with your questions or comments at moonshot@uab.edu. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:09:53 UTC
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Dr. Marilyn Dudley-Rowley & Thomas Gangale, Friday 12-22-06 (61.68MB; download) -- Dr. Marilyn Dudley-Rowley and Thomas Gangale were the guests for this special Space Show program to discuss astrosociology and its importance to long term spaceflight. We discussed the need for a paradigm to get the issues we discussed into the engineering and design of spacecraft and policy making. Our two guests also talked about some of the long duration spaceflight issues that we need to be concerned with and how the issues founded in sociology different from typical human factors approaches to humans in space. We talked about the politics of making these changes, we also talked about NASA and why its so hard to get information from then on these subjects, comparing submarine research to space travel research, funding this type of research and lots more. Midway during the program, we shifted our focus to property rights and a treaty discussion with Tom focusing on both the Outer Space Treaty and the Moon Treaty. You will certainly want to hear his comments and analysis regarding the Moon Treat and commercial development as he does not share the typical commercial space viewpoint on these issues. Its important to consider what he shares with us. We also focused on the commercial space lobby, both big and small, and advocate oriented. This is an important discussion, don't miss it. NASA bashing came up and all of us agreed that its nonproductive to engage in it. You can get lots more information about the subjects discussed today by visiting their website which is www.ops-alaska.com. You will also find several papers to download and review. For further comments and questions, please email Tom at teg@ops-alaska.com and Marilyn at md-r@ops-alaska.com. The subjects we discussed today with this show are important and Marilyn and Tom will be back to discuss the subjects again later in 2007. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:02:39 UTC
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Ms. Kathleen Connell, Tuesday, 12-19-06 (39.00MB; download) -- Kathleen Connell, Principal of the Connell Whittaker Group, LLC, was the guest for this special program on The Space Show. We began our discussion by asking Ms. Connell about lessons learned and her cutting edge research based on her work with the award winning videographer Michael Danty in their film about societal impacts from Apollo. Ms. Connell discussed this subject in detail in three different categories: Culture, technology, and economic. This is an important discussion based on solid research and analysis. Don't miss it! We also embarked upon a detailed and very thorough discussion regarding benefits from the space program and space in general. For example, we explored the concept generating societal returns from space including far more than just economic or ROI returns. This generated many listener questions for Kathleen. Its a discussion you will certainly want to hear. Furthermore, we broadened this discussion to include more than just the US space program. I think many of you will be surprised by some of the comments about this subject regarding space in other countries. Later in the show we explored the relationship of society and space with Apollo, then other public, private, and foreign space programs. While we all have the sense of the Apollo program being a strong driver for our space interests and space programming, we asked Ms. Connell if her research had shown other space program drivers that could be useful for society or even a leader for society and its future space presence. We discussed the latest NASA program for returning to the Moon including the lunar outpost and the time table of 2024 in reaching the Moon. I shared some of the stories regarding audience participation from the recent Houston AIAA conference on the VSE, especially some of the feedback from the excellent panel chaired by Pete Worden at the end of the conference. We had a listener email in his comments from Denver as he too was at the AIAA conference. This listener strongly supported our emerging discussion thread that people want to see real benefits, even more so than OMB Johnson talked about in his recent speech on the subject. Also, the listener pointed out the extreme negative opinion of people regarding the proposed timeline of getting back to the Moon by 2024. Ms. Connell supported the listener comments from what her friends and associated reported from the conference. I believe her word for it all was "underwhelming!" Toward the end of the program, Ms. Connell discussed the term space social entrepreneurship. If this peaks your interest, listen to what she says about it and how it is applicable to what so many of us are doing and talking about right now. If you have additional comments or questions for Ms. Kathleen Connell, please forward them to me at drspce@thespaceshow.com and I will pass them on to her. In addition, check out her Center for Humanity and Space Exploration (CHASE) website which we talked about during the program as it is full of important information you will want to know about. The URL is www.humanityandspace.org. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:46:25 UTC
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Jane Reifert & Derek Webber, Sunday, 12-17-06 (49.84MB; download) -- Jane Reifert and Derek Webber were the two special guests for this program to discuss the "The Adventurers' Survey" regarding space tourism sponsored by Spaceport Associates and Incredible Adventures. We began the interview with the basics behind this space tourism survey, how it differed from the study Derek did for Futron several years ago and the significance of many of the findings in this survey. Listeners should listen to this program for the full details and scope of the survey, the conclusions and the relevant suggestions for tourists as well as space plane manufacturers. The study probed for people's likes and dislikes for how they might fly to space, vertical or horizontal and then of course land back here on Earth, horizontal or vertical. Space hotels, EVA's and spaceports were also discussed as was the market for orbital versus suborbital tourism. We talked about risk and questioned Jane about her experiences with risk taking and the regulatory environment in the different countries where her adventures take place. You will want to hear what she has to say about this, especially what is changing about this subject in Russia. We went into detail about how the survey was worded and how the questions were created. We talked about the size of passengers, that is height and weight and what this means for the space tourism vehicle manufacturers and vehicle operators. We discussed age issues and also three relevant points not often discussed. The first was the issue of disposable income versus the willingness of the wealthy to spend disposable income on something like space tourism. The second was the issue of corporate permission for key people to participate in a risk adventure. Here too you will likely be surprised with what you learn. Jane informed us that corporations are even reluctant for their people to be on a Coast Guard approved boat on a shark trip even though the passengers are not in the water and never near a shark! The third issue has to do with taxes. We learned that people probably won't mind paying the price for the suborbital or orbital trip but they are grossly offended paying a sales tax on top of the trip. I received multiple emails on this subject confirming this conclusion. $200K would be ok for the suborbital trip but wow, no way would the person want to pay $14,000 additional in taxes. Also, if the trip is won, there is a tax due on the full price of the trip so while the person may end up with a free trip to space, the tax on what they won may be greater than what the winner can afford. You can learn much about this survey and download the Executive Summary and other important documents from Derek's website which is www.spaceportassociates.com. You can send an email with comments or questions to Derek at the address on his site which is dwspace@aol.com. Check out the Incredible Adventures website for exciting adventure trips, more about space training and space related trips and all around fun, excitement and adventure. Visit www.incredible-adventures.com. You send your email questions or comments to Jane at the website email address, info@incredible-adventures.com. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:20:12 UTC
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NASA DEVELOP PROGRAM, Friday, 12-15-06 (64.24MB; download) -- NASA DEVELOP Project Students Amanda Ross, Jonathan Gleason and Amber Richards were the guest for this Space Show program to discuss the DEVELOP Program. Listeners can follow along with this discussion by visiting the DEVELOP Program website at http://develop.larc.nasa.gov. Amanda, Jonathan and Amber each told us about their respective interest in space studies, how they heard about DEVELOP and what they do as part of the Develop team. They described the DEVELOP Program in detail, answered many listener questions about it, and talked about a variety of the ongoing projects. We learned of the many DEVELOP locations, that this is a paid internship even for high school students, and that many disciplines are represented, not just the sciences and engineering. For example, there are DEVELOP participants from business school, the humanities, and non-space related fields. The three participants explained how DEVELOP integrates with other NASA programs and NASA architecture and how their work has a direct application to benefiting society. The application process was explained in detail they let us know the GPA and other academic requirements for the program. Students are encouraged to apply for DEVELOP and not be put off by the rather detailed and somewhat long application which is on the DEVELOP website. In fact, the application is very similar to a university application. The program is diverse and the students find it of enormous value both for career development and in continuing with their academic studies. For those interested, the spring program has an application deadline coming up in early January so check it out on the DEVELOP website. If you have questions about the program, you can send your email to develop@larc.nasa.gov and one of the students will reply. If you have a follow up question or comment for Amanda, Jonathan or Amber, please send it to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward it to the student you designate or all three per your instructions. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:47:09 UTC
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Brian Feenie, Tuesday, 12-12-06 (47.91MB; download) -- Brian Feeney returned as the guest for this Space Show program. Mr. Feeney, as team leader for the da Vinci Project, discussed with us their new partnership with DreamSpace and their push to develop their new suborbital tourist spaceships, the XF2 and XF3 with the XF1 serving as their technology demonstrator. You can see photos of their vehicle and obtain technical specifications by visiting either www.dreamspacegroup.net or www.davinciproject.com. Brian answered many listener questions about the vehicle including technical questions about mass ratio, reentry profile, heat shielding, g force acceleration in the extreme model and the regular passenger model and much more. We talked about the balloon that would be used to take the vehicle to about 70,000 before the rocket engines are fired. Mr. Feeney discussed the Canadian system for launching and developing spaceports and compared it to the system in place and regulated by the AST. One listener asked Mr. Feeney why he compared his vehicle to the one being built by Virgin Galactic and not one of the many other vehicles being built by New Space companies. His answer to this question is most interesting. Mr. Feeney discussed his plan to have two classes for the passengers for the XF3 and having a flight attendant onboard all flights. We talked about space tourism in general, both orbital and suborbital and you will want to hear Brian's assessment of the market potential for space tourism. We spoke about his rocket engines and various fuel considerations, the weight of the vehicle and much more. He also discussed his spacesuit plans for XF2 and XF3 passengers and crew. If you have additional questions or comments for Brian Feeney, please send him your emails at bfeeney@davinciproject.com. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:03:36 UTC
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Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar, Sunday 12-10-06 (47.51MB; download) -- Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar was the guest for this Space Show program, here to discuss her recent research study, "The Market Study for Space Exploration." As we found out during the program, this study is an important guide to our attitudes toward and perceptions to all aspects of the space program, the VSE, even some segments of the private-sector space program. As much of her research focuses on the 18-25 age group, so did this program. This group is important because if the VSE unfolds on the time table NASA is talking about, this group will be the ones in Congress, working for NASA and other companies, paying the taxes to support the program and keep it going. Understanding the 18-25 age group is vital to the future success of the VSE. Through many listener initiated questions and her own comments, Dr. Dittmar shared with Space Show listeners the important findings about space for the 18-25 age group. For example, 55% of the respondents were somewhat aware of the VSE but this means 45% were not aware. As for supporting our return to the Moon, 29% were interested, 49% neutral, and 23% were disinterested. The study showed opposition to humans on Mars in this group at over 3:1. During the show, Dr. Dittmar shared with us other findings from the survey and many of the conclusions in her work. If you want a copy of this study, check it out at Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Market-Study-Space-Exploration/dp/097888860X/sr=8-9/qid=1165797981/ref=sr_1_9/104-1057169-7389514?ie=UTF8&s=books. In addition, you can search for Dr. Dittmar or the Market Study on SpaceRef.com and find many comprehensive reports about it and the George Mason University workshop on Building and Maintaining the Constituency for Long-Term Space Exploration as the Dittmar Associates Market Study was an important component of this October 2006 workshop. Dr. Dittmar and Dittmar Associates is considering additional survey/research work in this area. Listeners are invited to offer suggestions for areas and important subjects to study, as well as to offer additional comments and questions for Dr. Dittmar based on her guest appearance on The Space Show. Please e-mail her at info@dittmar-associates.com. In the subject line, you need to put The Space Show to avoid their spam filter. As always, you can forward your comments, questions, and suggestions to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will too will pass them on to Dr. Dittmar. Visit www.dittmar-associates.com for additional information about her company. Selected by: David Livingston [ stations ], Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:02:25 UTC
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