The Space Show this week – Feb.27.2023

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

1. Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Namrata Goswami on national security space, China and more.

2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Eric Berger will give John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston an update on Starship and other matters of importance, urgency, and interest.

3. Friday, Mar.3, 2023; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): Laura Montgomery returns with news and updates for commercial space plans and more for 2023.

4. Sunday, Mar.5, 2023; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Ajay Kothari to explain why space is so important and valuable to us all plus more

Some recent shows:

** Sunday, Feb.26.2023Joe Carroll came “this time to talk seriously about orbital debris issues“.

** Hotel Mars – Webnesday, Feb.22.2023Anatoly Zak of  RussianSpaceWeb.com gives John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston an update on

the Russian space station plans for 2027. In addition, we talked about U.S. commercial stations, the use of LEO and competition in LEO, Russia’s focus on a polar orbit and why for its station, the commercial station science park model, government subsidies and what that might do to support or hinder commercial station growth and commerce.

** Tuesday, Feb.21.2023Clayton Mowry described the

Evolution of commercial launch and satellite industry, transformational changes, volume to orbit, mass, fairing size makes a difference, commercial space stations, BLEO commercial applications in cislunar, space hotel economics and more.

** Sunday, Feb.19.2023Daniel Suarez

joined us to discuss in detail his book Critical Mass [Amazon commission link]. plus he often referred to his earlier book Delta-v [Amazon commission link]. We discussed the ideas, methodology and science fiction used in Critical Mass plus Daniel talked about why going into space was so important.

** Friday, Feb.17.2023Dr. Peter Hague

discussed several of his blog posts plus extending humanity to space and those protesting it. We talked SpaceX, Artemis, the Moon and much more.

** Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Feb.15.2023 –  Dr. Bruno Morgado talked with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the discovery of a dwarf planet with rings.

** Sunday, Feb.12.2023 – An Open Lines program covered multiple topics including “SpaceX, Starship, timeline for Musk to Mars, the spy balloons appearing over the U.S. and Canada plus a few other prime topics“.

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

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