The Space Show this week – Oct.5.2020

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

1. Monday, Oct. 5, 2020; 7 pm PDT (9 pm CDT, 10 pm EDT: We welcome James Burk of The Mars Society to discuss the virtual Mars Society Conference program and technology for this year’s event, Oct. 15-19.

2. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020; 7 pm PDT (9 pm CDT, 10 pm EDT): We welcome student essay contest winners per our recent discussion with Dr. Harold (Sonny) White. The students presenting their winning papers are Ben Puckett, Shivani Patel, Ishaan Mishra. Their papers will be posted on our blog.

3. Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020: Hotel Mars TBA pre-recorded. See upcoming show menu on the home page for program details.

4. Thursday, Oct.8, 2020; 7-8:30 pm PDT (9-10:30 pm CDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT): No program.

5. Friday, Oct.9, 2020; 9:30-11 am PDT (11:30 am-1 pm CDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT): We welcome back Dr. Geoffrey Landis returns to talk Mars, science fiction, Venus and lots more.

6. Sunday, Oct.11, 2020; 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): Welcome to Open Lines. All callers welcome. We want to hear from you.

Some recent shows:

** Sun. Oct.5.2020 – The Space ShowDr. Robert (Sam) Wilson of The Aerospace Corp talked about his paper, The Value Of Space.

** Fri. Oct.2.2020Grant Bonin discussed “Spaceflight, Inc. launch services, small launchers, commercial payloads, smallsats, cubesats and more”.

** Thurs. Oct.1.2020Dr. Robert Zubrin talked about the Mars Society 2020 virtual conference (Thurs. – Sun., Oct. 15-18, 2020) and more.

** Wed. Sept.30.2020 – Hotel Mars – John Batchelor Show/The Space ShowDr. Harold C. Connolly discussed “the OSIRIS REx mission to asteroid Bennu and the sample return from Bennu”.

** See also:
* The Space Show Archives
* The Space Show Newsletter
* The Space Show Shop

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