The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, August 19, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): No show on Monday which is now reserved for special programming.

2. Tuesday, August 20, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): We welcome back Rand Simberg to talk about Planetary Protection and tiny tardigrades having crash-landed on the Moon.

3. Wednesday, August 21, 2019; Hotel Mars. See Upcoming Show Menu and the website newsletter for details. Hotel Mars is pre-recorded by John Batchelor. It is archived on The Space Show site after John posts it on his website.

4. Friday, August 23, 2019; 9:30-11 am PDT (11:30 am -1 pm CDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT): We welcome back Jeff Greason to the show to give an update on developments in advanced propulsion and on Jeff’s new business activities and projects.

5. Sunday, August 25, 2019; 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): Welcome back to John Bucknell to talk more about space nuclear propulsion.

Some recent shows:

** Fri, 08/16/2019 – Dr. Garrett Erin Reisman discussed “his astronaut experiences, human spaceflight from both the engineering and medical perspective. We talked about student interest in HSF and classes, private human spaceflight and SpaceX life support work.”

** Thu, 08/15/2019 – Dennis Wingo discussed lunar industrialization and more.

** Hotel Mars – Wed, 08/14/2019 – John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston interview Dr. Jeffrey Foust of Space News about “SLS, delays, NASA, congressional support, NASA leadership changes, Artemis 1 launch to the Moon, lunar gateway”.

** Tue, 08/13/2019 – Thomas A. Olson talked about “Vector Launch, Skyrora, NewSpace Business Plan Competition, space settlement, small dedicated launchers, lunar landers & returning to the Moon plus much more”.

** Sun, 08/11/2019 – Dr. Craig Hardgrove discussed “NASA planetary missions using CubeSats, lunar water ice at the poles, the LunaH-Map mission, and more”.

See also:
* The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
* The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
* The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

====

Safe Is Not an Option

A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:

• Lunar program:
  • Alabama space center will manage NASA’s lunar lander program | Ars Technica
  • Texas-Alabama tussle heats up over where to locate new moon program – POLITICO
  • Cruz, Cornyn, Babin Call On NASA to Award Lunar Lander Program to Johnson Space Center – Ted Cruz
  • Key Texas Congressional Leaders Object to NASA’s Choice of MSFC to Lead Lunar Lander Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • Virgin Galactic declares Spaceport America ready for SpaceShipTwo – SpaceNews.com
• Trump space:
  • President Trump praises reusable rockets, omits Moon in space remarks | Ars Technica
  • President Trump says these ‘rich guys’ are ‘paying a lot of rent’ to launch rockets – Yahoo.com
• Public interest:
  • Making space exploration cool again | TheHill
• Planetary science:
  • Scientists worry about long-term future of NASA’s Mars exploration program – SpaceNews.com
• Planetary protection:
  • Why stowaway creatures on the Moon confound international space law – The Verge
  • The Lunar Tardigrade Mess | Transterrestrial Musings
• ISS National Lab:
  • NASA to seek independent review of ISS National Laboratory – SpaceNews.com
• US military launch:
  • Four rocket companies are competing for Air Force funding, and it is war | Ars Technica
  • ULA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman submit bids for national security launch procurement contract – SpaceNews.com
  • Air Force soliciting bids for small, medium satellite launch program – SpaceNews.com
• US spaceports:
  • Eastern Range updates ‘Drive to 48’ launches per year status – NASASpaceFlight.com
  • Rockets, Risks, Rewards: A Look At The Economics Of Building Spaceport Camden – WABE
  • ‘Making History Again,’ And The Path Forward For Spaceport Camden – WABE
  • Turtles, Fire and Contamination: Opposition From Spaceport Camden’s Neighbors – WABE
  • Virgin Galactic unveils customer lounge at $220 million spaceport – CNN
• International Space:
  • Canada:
    • Canadian Space Agency Prepares for Busy Six Months of Industry Events – SpaceQ
  • Europe:
    • ExoMars parachute failures could jeopardize 2020 launch date – Spaceflight Now
  • Philippines
    • Duterte signs law creating Philippine Space Agency – rappler.com
  •  Japan:
    • Lead, Japan Space Policy – Astroscale

Webcasts:

** The Space Show – Tue, 08/13/2019 – Thomas A. Olson talked about “Vector Launch, Skyrora, NewSpace Business Plan Competition, space settlement, small dedicated launchers, lunar landers & returning to the Moon plus much more”.

** The Space Show – Thu, 08/15/2019 – Dennis Wingo discussed lunar industrialization and more.

** August 9, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** August 14, 2019 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** Lunar Heritage and Lost Meteorites | Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists on acast

Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson with a TinTin style headline for this month’s podcast: lunar heritage and the lost meteorites of Antarctica. Recorded at the recent Bluedot festival, Space archaeologist and co-deputy chair of Australia’s Space Industry Association, Dr Alice Gorman, explains why we need to think about preserving the Apollo sites before we return to the Moon and Dr Katherine Joy discusses her latest meteorite mission. Bjorn from Sweden provides a jingle, the joys of Lego and the Royal Astronomical Society’s Dr Robert Massey joins the fun to add to a long list of very interesting, we repeat interesting, questions… It will all become clear on the podcast.

==

====

Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA,
and International Partners are Creating a New Space Age

A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:

• Schedule:
  • What’s Happening in Space Policy August 4-17, 2019 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • 6th meeting of the National Space Council on Aug 20 @ Udvar-Hazy Center in VA – Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) Twitter – August 9, 2019
• ISS:
  • NASA planning to keep BEAM module on ISS for the long haul – SpaceNews.com
• SLS/Orion
  • In-space refueling vs heavy lift? NASA and SpaceX choose both | TheHill
• US states space:
  • Volusia wants to be in middle of new growth in Florida’s space industry – Daytona Beach News-Journal Online
  • Virgin Galactic relocates first flight vehicle to Spaceport America | KRQE News 13
• US military space:
  • Blue Origin files protest over ‘flawed’ Air Force launch procurement – SpaceNews.com
  • Congress on verge of creating Space Force after years of delays – NPR
  • Blue Shuttle – How the Air Force influenced the STS design process – The High Frontier
• International Space:
  • Canada:
    • Canadian defence department seeks scientists to tackle orbiting space junk | CTV News
  • India:
    • An Indian Space Odyssey: Security and Economy | Global Risk Insights
  • Japan:
    • US, Japan To Ink Hosted Payload Pact to Monitor Sats – Breaking Defense
  • UK:
    • Opposition to Scottish island spaceport – The Ecologist

Webcasts:

** Constellations, a New Space and Satellite Innovation Podcast: 56 – Interplanetary Internet, “Cloudlets” and the “Inner Cloud”

With us today is Vint Cerf, considered to be one of the founding fathers of the internet, today he is Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist. Vint is still promoting the internet…only this time it’s an interplanetary internet. On Constellations, he discusses the potential impact an interplanetary internet capable of communicating with space stations and satellites, and open the internet to the millions of currently underserved users, would have on privacy, security and the need for an entirely new set of regulations. Vint also discusses cloud computing, specifically the emergence of multiple clouds and the ability to move the data easily from one to another. Listen to this podcast to learn about the inner cloud and cloudlets.

** The Space Show – Fri, 08/09/2019 – Trisha Navidzadeh discussed “marketing and branding for space purposes. We also looked at investor considerations for commercial space activities and NewSpace companies”.

** Introductory Webinar: Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Assessment & Resilience | ARSET – Four episodes for August 6, 2019. August 8, 2019. August 13, 2019. August 15, 2019. Here are the first and second parts:

https://youtu.be/Sv37pGXEdBA

==

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, August 12, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): No show on Monday which is now reserved for special programming.

2. Tuesday, August 13, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): We welcome back Thomas A. Olson for a discussion of commercial space business plans and financial analyses.

3. Wednesday, August 14, 2019: Hotel Mars. Dr. Jeff Foust will provide a SLS (Space Launch System) analysis and more. (The Hotel Mars shows are archived on The Space Show site after John posts it on his website.)

4. Thursday, August 15, 2019; 7:00 PM PDT (9:00 pm CDT, 10:00 pm EDT): We welcome back Dennis Wingo on moving forward with commercial space, lunar return, Mars, and more.

5. Friday, August 16, 2019; 9:30-11:00 AM PDT (11:30 pm – 1:00 pm CDT, 12:30-2:00 pm EDT): We welcome Garrett Erin Reisman, retired astronaut and former Director of Space Operations at SpaceX.

6. Sunday, August 18, 2019; 12:00-1:30 PM PDT (3:00-4:30 PM EDT, 2:00-3:30 PM CDT): Welcome back to Open Lines. We talk about the topics you want to talk about. All space, science, STEM, STEAM calls welcome as are all callers.

Some recent shows:

** Sun, 08/11/2019 – Dr. Craig Hardgrove, Principle Investigator “for the LunaH-Map CubeSat mission that will orbit the Moon to map hydrogen-rich deposits in permanently shadowed regions”, talked about “thermal infrared & nuclear remote sensing of the Moon and Mars”.

** Fri, 08/09/2019 – Trisha Navidzadeh discussed “Commercial and NewSpace branding, commercial space investor community, target companies for space promotion, space media promotion, investing and more”.

** Thu, 08/08/2019 – Ed Wright gave an update on the update for the upcoming Space Studies Institute Seattle conference in early September.

** Tue, 08/06/2019 – Mike Mongo talked about ” The Johnny Appleseed Space Project, Johnny Appleseed history, commercial space, lunar property rights, STEAM, SEDS and lots more”.

** Sun, 08/04/2019 – Dr. Joel Sercel talked about the company “Momentus, its technology, the use of space resources, water as a propellant and much more”.

** Fri, 08/02/2019 – Gordon Dillow talked about his asteroid book Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth and “asteroid impacts, asteroid defense, NASA, FEMA, asteroid pop culture, asteroid mining and much more”.

See also:
* The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
* The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
* The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:

• Budgets:
  • What the recent budget deal means for NASA | The Planetary Society
• Lunar development:
  • The International Lunar Decade: A strategy for sustainable development – The Space Review
• NASA and commercial space:
  • How one CEO is trying to get space companies to talk to each other more – POLITICO
• Space law:
  • The role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in supporting space property rights – The Space Review
  • Healthcare and Aerospace Litigation with Data Intelligence and AI – National Law Review
• US states space:
  • Casey encourages Brownsville to be part of NewSpace economy | Rio Grande Guardian
• US military space:
  • Top SASC Democrat sees momentum building for a space force – SpaceNews.com
  • Griffin: Budget, political support top concerns for Space Development Agency – SpaceNews.com
  • Air Force Suppressed Space Force Debate; Lt. Gen. Kwast Spoke Truth To Power – Breaking Defense
  • ULA’s Atlas V rocket launches Air Force satellite into space — Quartz
  • The commander the Space Force needs | TheHill
• International Space
  • China:
    • China’s grand strategy in outer space: to establish compelling standards of behavior – The Space Review
  • Europe:
    • #SpaceWatchGL Themes: ESPI Brief 33 – EU-ESA Space Council Revival: First step toward a European Space Council? – SpaceWatch.Global
    • #SpaceWatchGL Themes: ESPI Executive Summary – Commercial Space Exploration – SpaceWatch.Global

Webcasts:

** Episode 22 – The Dark Lord | Off-Nominal

Eric Berger of Ars Technica joins Jake and Anthony to talk about his recent trip to Boca Chica for Starhopper’s first hop, propellant depots, NASA policy, Artemis, and the passing of his friend, Chris Kraft.

** Back to the Moon [Part 2]: For Science and Exploration | SETI Institute – Presenters include:

• Doug Caldwell is the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler/K2 Mission and works in the TESS Science Processing Operations Center.
• Dr. Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
• Bruce Pittman has been the Chief System Engineer in the NASA Space Portal Office at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley since 2005.

** Back to the Future: A New Space Age Dawns in Southern California | KCET

“Back to the Future” explores the decline of the industry in Southern California and its resurgence in recent years. We hear first-person testimony from Southern California residents who came of age during the Cold War and Space Race.

** The Space Show – Thu, 08/08/2019 – Ed Wright gave an update on the update for the upcoming Space Studies Institute Seattle conference in early September.

==

====

Shoot for the Moon:
The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11