Category Archives: SpaceCasts

Activism, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week

The guests on The Space Show this week include:

1. Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome CHARLES MILLER to the back to the program. Charles Miller is the President of NexGen Space LLC, which provides client-based services at the intersection of commercial, civil, and national security space and public policy. He is also a strong advocate of public/private partnerships to achieve low cost space access.

2. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): We welcome back DR. JAMES HANSEN to discuss his book of Astronaut John Young, Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space.”

3. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PDT (11:30- 1 PM CDT, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EDT): We welcome ROBERT WALKER from the UK. He is an inventor and the author of several interesting Mars and space papers. You can find his papers at www.science20.com/robertinventor. I urge listeners to review his Mars articles prior to our program as we will be talking about them.

4. Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT). We welcome ADAM CROWL from Australia regarding his chapter in Starship Century, “Starship Pioneers.

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.

Events, Rockets, SpaceCasts

Soyuz launch this afternoon with three crew members for the ISS

A Soyuz rocket is set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2058 GMT (4:58 p.m. EDT). It will carry with a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian commander Oleg Kotov and cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy on board. It will follow “an express six-hour journey to the space station, with docking to the Poisk module at 0248 GMT (10:58 p.m. EDT)” .

More at

[ Update: Here is a video of the successful launch:

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SETI, SpaceCasts

Video: Freeman Dyson joins a discussion of Dyson sphere searching

The video below is of a SETI Institute Google Hangout  devoted to a discussion of

the potential for the WISE telescope to detect extraterrestrial super-civilizations that acquired a large energy supply by building a mega-structure to harvest the energy of their star (“Dyson sphere“) or their entire galaxy.

The participants include

SETI Institute researchers Jill Tarter and Franck Marchis (host & moderator) will hangout with Jason Wright, professor of astronomy at Penn State, Matt Povich, professor of astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona and Freeman Dyson, theoretical physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advance Study.

– Searching for Kardashev Type II and III Civilizations with WISE – SETI Institute

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week

The guests on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome DR. DAVID BRIN to the program regarding his chapter in “Starship Century,” his scientific work, his books, and more. See davidbrin.blogspo.com for more information.

2. Tuesday, Sept.24,, 2013, 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): We welcome back DR. PASCAL LEE, NASA Ames scientist, SETI, Mars Institute Chairman and more.

3. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PDT (11:30- 1 PM CDT, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EDT): We welcome DR. JAMES BENFORD, editor or “Starship Century.” For more information, visit jamesbenford.com.

4. Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT). We welcome back DR. PAT HYNES to discuss this years Personal Spaceflight Symposium in Las Cruces, NM. Visit www.ispcs.com for more information.

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.

Education, General, SpaceCasts

Virtual SpaceTV 3D – September 2013

Here is the September 2013 episode of The Virtual SpaceTV 3D show with Amanda Bush. The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com.

Amanda reports on four different launches this month of new or almost new commercial rockets:

  • The Orbital Sciences Antares launch of the Cygnus cargo module to the ISS
  • Orbital’s Minotaur V launch of NASA’s LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) probe to the Moon
  • The second powered flight of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
  • The expected launch of the SpaceX Falcon version 1.1 from Vandenberg

And there is also a  segment about the science of the LADEE mission.