Category Archives: SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week – June.10.2019

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

1. Monday, June 10, 2019; 2-3:30 pm PDT (4-5:30 pm CDT, 5-6:30 pm EDT): No show for today. Monday is for special and timely programs only.

2. Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): We welcome David Chudwin, author of I Was a Teenage Space Reporter: From Apollo 11 to Our Future in Space.

3. Wednesday, June 12, 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, June 14, 2019; 9:30-11 am PDT (11:30 am -1 pm CDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT): We welcome back James A. M. Muncy to the show for space policy, news and much more.

5. Sunday, June 16, 2019; 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): No show due to Father’s Day.

Some recent shows:

** Sun, 06/02/2019 – Science fiction author and professional space historian, Gideon Marcus talked about his Galactic Journeys. website, “a portal to 55 years ago in science fact and fiction, covering the Space Race, the books, the movies, and the culture of the early 1960s”.

** Fri, 05/31/2019 –  Dr. Greg Matloff and C. Bangs “discussed their book, Stellar Engineering, terrestrial & possible alien megastructures & concepts for advanced civilizations outside our solar system”.

** Tue, 05/28/2019James Donovan talked about his new book, Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11, and about “space policy, returning to the Moon, lessons learned, space and humanity plus 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.

The Space Show - David Livingston
The Space Show – David Livingston

 

The Space Show this week – June.3.2019

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

This week David Livingston is attending the National Space Society‘s annual conference – ISDC 2019 – in Washington, D.C. So there will be no Space Show webcasts until next week. 

Some recent shows:

** Sun, 06/02/2019 – Science fiction author and professional space historian, Gideon Marcus talked about his Galactic Journeys. website, “a portal to 55 years ago in science fact and fiction, covering the Space Race, the books, the movies, and the culture of the early 1960s”.

** Fri, 05/31/2019 –  Dr. Greg Matloff and C. Bangs “discussed their book, Stellar Engineering, terrestrial & possible alien megastructures & concepts for advanced civilizations outside our solar system”.

** Tue, 05/28/2019James Donovan talked about his new book, Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11, and about “space policy, returning to the Moon, lessons learned, space and humanity plus more”.

** Fri, 05/24/2019 – Dr. Gilbert Levin and Dr. Patricia Ann Straat talked about the “Viking Labeled Release experiment, life detection on Mars, From Mars With Love by Dr. Straat 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.

The Space Show - David Livingston

The Space Show this week – May.27.2019

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

1. Monday, May 27, 2019; 2-3:30 pm PDT (4-5:30 pm CDT, 5-6:30 pm EDT): No show for today. Monday is for special and timely programs only. Also, this is Memorial Day in the United States.

2. Tuesday, May 28, 2019; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): We welcome noted author James Donovan for his new book, Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11.

3. Wednesday, Wednesday, May 29 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, May 31, 2019; 9:30-11 am PDT (11:30 am-1 pm CDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT): We welcome Dr. Greg Matloff and C. Bangs, authors of the award winning book, Stellar Engineering, which looks at the possibilities of advanced civilizations building enormous structures in space.

5. Sunday, June 2, 2019; 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): We welcome Gideon Marcus of Galactic Journeys. This program will be a walk through space history and time like none other.

Recent shows:

** Fri, 05/24/2019 – Dr. Gilbert Levin and Dr. Patricia Ann Straat  talked about the “Viking Labeled Release experiment, life detection on Mar, the book, From Mars With Love, by Dr. Straat and more”.

** Mars Hotel/The Space Show – Wed, 05/22/2019 – John Batchelor & Dr. David Livingston talked with William Harwood of CBS News about “Jeff Bezos and the Blue Moon Lander project, his recent press conference & returning to the Moon”.

** The Space Show – Tue, 05/21/2019Dr. Philip Metzger discussed “starting space industrialization, establishing Cislunar transportation, lunar development, asteroid development, thinking big, Mars and more”.

** Sun, 05/19/2019Emily Carney talked about Space Hipsters, which she co-founded, “and lots more regarding space programs, education, outreach, policy, and getting young women interested in space”.

** Tue, 05/14/2019: Dr. Robert Zubrin talked about his new book, The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility and about “the Gateway, lunar return, Mars, policy, China, Pell Grant funding 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.

The Space Show - David Livingston
The Space Show – David Livingston

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Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report – May.26.2019

The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** Use NASA’s Spot the Station to get updates on when the ISS will fly over your location:

**  Expedition 59 – CSA In-Flight Event with Astronaut David Saint-Jacques C2 – Montreal May 24, 2019 –

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 59 Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency discussed research and technological breakthroughs aboard the orbital laboratory during an in-flight question and answer session May 24 with innovators and technology devotees gathered at a conference in Montreal, Canada. Saint-Jacques is the final month of six-and-a-half month mission on the complex.

** NASA Administrator Speaks at Florida Institute of Technology Event:

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Outpost in Orbit:
A Pictorial & Verbal History of the Space Station

Videos: “Space to Ground” report on the ISS – May.10.2019

Here is the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** NASA Johnson also posts the longer SpaceCast Weekly – May 10, 2019:

SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA’s work in human spaceflight, including the International Space Station and its crews and scientific research activities, and the development of Orion and the Space Launch System, the next generation American spacecraft being built to take humans farther into space than they’ve ever gone before.

** Here is the latest episode of This Week @NASA reports on “Supplies, Research and Equipment Delivered to the Space Station”

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Outpost in Orbit:
A Pictorial & Verbal History of the Space Station