Category Archives: SpaceCasts

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week

Here’s the schedule for guests and topics on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome back BRUCE PITTMAN for commercial space updates, perspectives and more.

2. CLASSROOM: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): We welcome back DR. JIM LOGAN AND DR. JOHN JURIST to discuss human spaceflight and space radiation for Mars and deep space HSF. Prior to this Classroom program, Dr. Jurist will post a special radiation PPT on both The Space Show Blog & The Classroom blog (see website newsletter for URLs). We will be referring to some of these slides during our program but we will not be going through the PPT slide by slide. This PPT is for information and educational purposes.

3. Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PST (11:30- 1 PM CST, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EST): We welcome back DR. JASON CASSIBRY [Univ. of Alabama at Huntsville] for updates on his fusion work and more.

4. Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PST (3-4:30 PM EST, 2-3:30 PM CST). OPEN LINES AND 2014 SPACE PREDICTION SHOW. All space & stem comments welcome. Also, call in with your space industry predictions for 2104. This is our first ever New Years prediction show! Be a part of it!

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.

Space Science, SpaceCasts

Western Worlds – weekly podcast about planetary science and exploration

Check out the Western Worlds radio/podcast program from the Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration at Western University in Canada.

The weekly program will feature an interview with an expert – a researcher, engineer, scientist, or educator – in the planetary science and exploration community. The interview will focus on the guest’s expertise as well as anything else that may be of interest. This will be followed by a round-table discussion involving several Western Worlds co-hosts, who have a wide-variety of educational and professional backgrounds.

The most recent two episodes:

* Western Worlds # 409 – Tue Dec 10, 2013

Co-host Raymond Francis talks to Matt Bamsey about new strategies for life support systems on spacecraft, and how long-duration exploration missions may push us to use biological systems as part of the solution. Join co-hosts Raymond Francis, Parshati Patel and Melissa Battler in the round table discussion after the interview.

* Western Worlds # 408 – Thu Nov 28, 2013

Co-host Raymond Francis talks to Ryan Kobrick about the surprising challenges lunar dust poses for astronauts on the lunar surface, and what goes into designing a spacesuit to handle that and other challenges. Join co-hosts Raymond Francis, Parshati Patel and Melissa Battler in the round table discussion after the interview.

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Find more space related programs on the web in the HobbySpace SpaceCasts section.

 

Activism, Mars, SpaceCasts

Mars Quarterly, Fall 2013 + Opportunity rover on Hotel Mars + Bob Zimmerman on Batchelor show

The Mars Society opens access to the latest issue of the  The Mars Quarterly (Fall 2013).

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Dr. William Farrand of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado talked with David Livingston and John Batchelor on this week’s Hotel Mars segment about the history of the Mars rover Opportunity and what it has been doing lately:  John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 12-11-13 –  Thespaceshow’s Blog

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Bob Zimmerman also spoke about various Mars topics and news from several other space related areas this week on the Batchelor show:

 

Education, Space Science, SpaceCasts

Virtual SpaceTV 3D – December 2013

Here is the latest 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 the following topics:
01:32 — 03:40 SpaceX launches its first big commercial satellite
03:41 — 05:17 Cubesat Swarms
05:18 — 05:58 Comet ISON comes and goes, comes and goes
05:59 — 06:59 Curiosity explores while waiting for NASA’s MAVEN and India’s MOM
07:00 — 08:00 China launches rover to the Moon

Other Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows are available on the  HobbySpace Youtube Channel.

These videos are intended as educational programs and as demonstrations of an experimental technique for generating animated presentations. The show was generated autonomously by software according to a text script. The project is described in the Virtual Producer whitepaper (Release 1.1, Oct.2013, pdf). For further information contact info@binary-space.com.