Here is a sampling of recent space related audio webcasts:
- The Pale Red Dot: A Planet Called Proxima b – “The announcement was made just days ago. Co-discoverer Michael Endl tells us about the discovery of a roughly Earth-mass planet orbiting in the habitable zone of the closest star to our own”
- Could the Soviet Union Have Won the Space Race? – “Space historian and policy expert John Logsdon joins Mat Kaplan for a fascinating conversation about how the US could have lost the race to the moon.”
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- Tue, 08/23/2016 – 19:00 – Dr. Robert Zubrin spoke about the upcoming “Mars Society Convention [Washington, D.C. September 22 – 25], humans to Mars, technology, artificial gravity & more”.
- Sun, 08/21/2016 – 12:00 – Dr. Doug Plata talked about using spinning systems to provide artificial gravity that would lower the costs of missions to the Moon and Mars by extending crew time. He talked about some very low cost Gravitron experiments at 11rpms.
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- Voices From L5 – The Ethics of Terraforming – This Orbital Life – “Chris McKay, a NASA expert, joins us this week to share his views on ethical terraforming. We discuss how humanities desire to grow and explore could butt heads with an ethical responsibility to the solar system and what can be done to overcome these issues.”
- Voices From L5 – Voices From Mars – This Orbital Life – “An amazing special episode this week – Sheyna Grifford, the chief health and safety officer on the NASA-Ames HI-SEAS Mars analogue mission joins us for a time-delayed interview live from the HI-SEAS Mars simulation. Sheyna is currently involved in a long term Mars analogue and has graciously given us her time to discuss the mission, health and crew selection. Honestly we cover so much ground and Sheyna has so many amazing stories about her experiences in analogues – this is an unmissable episode!”
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- Episode 72: DOWNLINK–Copenhagen Suborbitals — The Orbital Mechanics – A conversation with with Mads Wilson of Copenhagen Suborbitals about their recent launch and plans for the future.
- Episode 68: DOWNLINK–Firefly Space Systems II — The Orbital Mechanics – Young engineers from Firefly Space Systems talk about the company’s development of a rocket for putting small satellites into orbit.
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- The John Batchelor Show – SPACEX Static Test Fail at Cape Canaveral: the investigation begins, everything else in train for launch slows down – Bob Zimmerman talks about the SpaceX Falcon 9 pad explosion and other space news.
- The John Batchelor Show/Hotel Mars – Seven-Year Mission to Asteroid NEO Bennu & Return – in partnership with David Livingston of The Space Show, Scott Sandford of NASA is interviewed about the upcoming launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu.
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