The Space Show

We welcomed back Dr. Doug Plata go give us a summary of this year's ISDC 2017 Conference held last month in St. Louis. Doug talked about his two presentation, one in the Lunar Track and the other in the Cislunar Transportation track. He talked about several key presentations, the release of the new version of the Integrated Space Plan and then later some of the progress on his lunar projects plus plans for the Cape at the time of the Falcon Heavy launch...

We welcomed back Gwynne Shotwell of Spacex for a 64 minute discussion about all things SpaceX, their rockets, Mars plans, engines and much more. Read the full summary of this show at www.thespaceshow.com for Thursday, June 22, 2017

John Batchelor and I welcomed back Dr. Linda Spilker, Projet Scientist for the Cassini Mission. During our single segment ten minute show, we talked about the upcoming Grand Finale tour of Cassini as this very special orbiting satellite of Saturn comes up upon the end of its life. Read the full summary of this show at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, June 21, 2017.

We welcomed the return of Dr. Jason Reimuller to the show for updates with Project PoSSUM. During our 89 minute two segment discussion, our guest talked about researching the Mesosphere, noctilucent clouds, citizen science, and much more. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, June 20, 2017.

We welcomed back Chris Stone to talk national security and DOD space with with updates. How topics for this 1 hour 40 minute program covered theidea of a Space Guard and the USAF position on establishing the Space Guard. We also talked about the revision of the National Space Council, wondering when it would actually be put in motion and who might be on it. Other topics included using space as a war fighting medium, weapons in space, kinetic kill weapons, EMP and much more...

Welcome to Hotel Mars with Dr. Scott Gaudi discussing KELT-9b, the hottest exoplanet found so far. Please read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

We welcomed back Frank White for updates with The Overview Effect activities. During this 92 minute one segment program, Frank talked about the upcoming Overview Effect Symposium this fall in the Netherlands, his upcoming 4th edition of his classic Over Effect book, issues relating to leaving Earth for Mars or beyond and seeing Earth only as a small dot and much more. Please read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, June 16, 2017.

We welcomed back Dr. Mike Griffin for this 65 minute one segment Space Show program. We discussed many issues with Mike including the benefits of heavy lift, what constitutes a great space program, returning to the Moon, Mars, space advocacy, NASA, Congress, and what can be said beyond the framework of the program of record. I also asked Mike about the proposed new National Space Advisory Council. Listeners asked big vision questions and one even asked for his opinion on airship to orbit...

We welcomed back to the program Tracey Knutson, an attorney specializing in adventure travel, risks, and legal matters. Our 1 hour 46 minute discussion was in one segment. Tracey went over legal and regulatory issues and requirements, including new documentation that will be needed to be signed by spaceflight participants. We talked about risks, the assumption of risk, risk to a family member and much more...

Welcome to our Open Lines program. During our two hour discussion, we covered many topics related to space, space conferences, commercial space, news clips and more. Be sure to read the full summary of this two hour program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, June 11, 2017.