The Space Show this week – Sept.12.2022 | Space-for-All at HobbySpace

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

1. Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2022; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Ajay Kothari to continue his advocacy for the use of thorium reactors for power generation.

2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Eric Berger talks with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston, about the SpaceX Starship and NASA’s SLS [Space Launch System] prep work and more.

3. Friday, Sept.16, 2022; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): This program is TBD due to a last minute change by our planned guest.

4. Sunday, Sept.18, 2022; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Armen Papazian from London regarding his new book, The Space Value of Money: Rethinking Finance Beyond Risk & Time [Amazon commission link].

Some recent shows:

** Sunday, Sept.11.2022 – Dale Skran, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Space Society, discussed “SSP [Space Solar Power], settlement, the human gravity RX, Starship plans, NASA and much more“.

** Friday, Sept.9.2022 – Dallas Bienhoff talked about “his joining with OffWorld (see www.offworld.ai) in addition to talking about other timely topics impacting space development, our efforts for a lunar return, new rockets and spaceships, human spaceflight, policy, adversaries and much more“.

** Hotel Mars – Dr. Michael Hecht, principle investigator of the MOXIE experiment on the Perseverance rover on Mars, spoke with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the latest results in extracting oxygen from the CO2 in the Martian atmosphere. “Michael explained Moxie, talked about the results, we talked about its future for Mars visitors and explorers, scaling it up for humans and much more.”

** Tuesday, Sept.6.2022 – John Bucknell discussed “SSP [Space Solar Power] and business development for John’s company Virtus Solis Technologies, SSP tech advances, orbits, solutions for our current energy problems and more“.

** Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Aug.31.2022 – Rand Simberg spoke with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the Space Launch System (SLS) and the attempts to launch it for the first time.