Category Archives: SpaceCasts

Space on the John Batchelor Show this week: Bob Zimmerman & Hotel Mars

During his two visits on the John Batchelor radio program this week, Bob Zimmerman spoke about the following topics:

Tues 8/13/13 Hr 2 Batchelor

  • Air Force to shut part of its orbital space tracking system.
  • ATK joins Stratolaunch.
  • Serious problems with SpaceShipTwo?

Thurs 8/15/13 Hr 4 Batchelor:

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And on the weekly Hotel Mars segment, David Livingston and Batchelor talked with Dr. David Brain about the  NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), which will launch to the Red Planet in November:  John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 8-14-13 | Thespaceshow’s Blog

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Here are videos of the recent Grasshopper test that Bob mentioned:

 

 

The Space Show: Rick Boozer and the Plundering of NASA

Rick Boozer is currently on The Space Show.  He will discuss his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Exposé, How pork barrel politics harm American spaceflight leadership, in which he presents the case that NASA’s SLS super heavy lifter project is a huge waste of taxpayer money and that space development and exploration with competitive commercial space transportation would be vastly more cost effective and would greatly accelerate progress in space.

The Space Show this week

The guests on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, August 12, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome RICK BOOZER, astrophysics researcher, public speaker and author, to the program to discuss his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Exposé, How pork barrel politics harm American spaceflight leadership.. His website is at http://astromaven.blogspot.com.

2. Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): We welcome back DR. HAYM BENAROYA of Rutgers University to update us on more lunar engineering and habitat options, a discussion on the latest effort to promote Mars first as the Moon is only a digression, and much more.

3. Friday, August 16, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PDT (11:30- 1 PM CDT, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EDT): I will be uploading interviews from the Small Sat Conference. The interviews will be available today with listener access as soon as they appear on the website and our blog.

4. WEBINAR: SPECIAL TIME: Sunday, August 18, 2013, 1-3 PM PDT (4-6 PM EDT, 3-5 PM CDT). The topic of this webinar is “Near Earth Object (NEO) impacts and what’s being done to deal with the threat. ” Our panel of experts includes DR. RAY WILLIAMSON of the Secure World Foundation,DR. MARK BOSLOUGH who is a Caltech-trained experimental and computational physicist whose research interests range from nuclear explosions to climate change, and DR. TIMOTHY SPAHR, Director, Minor Planet Center Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. You can hear the audio as you would with any Space Show program. To view the live video stream, use our Space show UStream channel, www.ustream.tv/channel/the-space-show.

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.

Spacecasts: Bob Zimmerman, Alan Hale, Jeff Foust, Bob Zubrin, and Blaze Sanders

Here are a list of Spacecasts of interest from this week:

Bob Zimmerman spoke on the John Batchelor radio program on Thursday: Thurs 8/8/13 Hr 2 – John Batchelor Show

Topics included Curiosity’s first year on Mars, the effort to bring Kepler back to life, and the Dawn spacecraft’s journey from the asteroidsVesta to Ceres.

And Bob came on the show again on Friday: Fri 8/9/13 Hr 1 – John Batchelor Show.

Topics included the solar cycle and the poor reporting about the periodic flipping of the sun’s magnetic field.

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On the Hotel Mars segment this week, Dr. Alan Hale talked with Batchelor and David Livingston about the comet ISON: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 8-7-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog

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The Space Show this week began with Jeff Foust talking about a wide range of space policy and NewSpace related topics: Dr. Jeff Foust, Monday, 8-5-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog

On Tuesday, Bob Zubrin of The Mars Society spoke about the upcoming 16th Annual International Mars Society Convention at the University of Colorado in Boulder on August 15-18: Dr. Robert Zubrin, Tuesday, 8-6-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

On Friday, Blaze Sanders spoke about his company Solar System Express (Sol-x) and their Gravity Development Board (GDB), Do It Yourself Space, and NASA Internships: Blaze Sanders, Friday, 8-9-13 | Thespaceshow’s Blog

Video: This Week @ NASA – One Year on Mars!

The latest This Week @NASA video focuses first on Curiosity’s first year on Mars:

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So what can a planetary rover do with a year on Mars? All NASA’s Curiosity rover did was beam back over 190 gigabits of data, more than 36-thousand images and zap 75-thousand-plus laser shots at science targets … and oh by the way, it also completed the mission’s main science goal by finding evidence that life was possible on Mars in the past. The agency celebrated the one year anniversary of Curiosity’s landing on Mars with live events from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory — featuring rover team members. And at NASA Headquarters — a discussion about how Curiosity and other robotic projects are benefitting future human space exploration. Also, Maven Arrives, Garver Leaving NASA, Great Ball of Fire, Supply Ship Arrives Safely, Carbon Copy, The First Barrel Segment and more!