Category Archives: SpaceCasts

Activism, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week

The schedule for The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, April 1, 2013: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome DR. ROBERT SACKHEIM commercial space insights, progress & more. See website newsletter for details at www.thespaceshow.com/newsletterfinal.htm.

2. Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): No show this evening. See Thursday schedule instead.

3. Thursday, April 4, 2013:, 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5::30 PM CDT). We welcome back ELIZABETH (LIZ)KENNICK for Teachers In Space updates.

4. Friday, April 5, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PDT (12:30-2 PM EDT, 11:30AM-1PM CDT): We welcome back DR. JOAN VERNIKOS to discuss the human factors aspects of the Inspiration Mars flyby mission recently announced.

5. Sunday, April 7, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PDT, 3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT. We welcome back CHRIS CARBERY, Executive Director of Explore Mars to discuss the upcoming Humans 2 Mars Program and their recent next generation Mars survey poll which is on the Explore Mars website, www.exploremars.org.

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.

Activism, Space Systems, SpaceCasts

Spacevidcast 6.09: XCOR’s new piston rocket engine

Spacevidcast posts the latest live episode, which included guest Andrew Nelson from XCOR Aerospace who talked about the tests of their piston rocket engine, the Lynx suborbital spaceplane and other topics: XCOR’s new Piston Rocket Engine – 6.09 – Spacevidcast

Activism, General, SpaceCasts

Spacecasts: Bob Zimmerman on JBS, Hotel Mars with comets, Bruce Cordell and waves of the future

Bob Zimmerman spoke on the John Batchelor Show on the Thursday program about the following topics:

1. Three astronauts on the way to ISS.
2. Musk confirms that SpaceX will do tests of a powered return of its first stage on future Falcon 9 launches.
3. Sequestration and big science (see the post on Behind-the-Black)
4. The ice ages and CO2: In the past temperature changes caused changes in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, rather than CO2 causing changes to the climate’s temperature.

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Alan Hale of The Earthrise Institute and co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995, talked on the Hotel Mars segment of the John Batchelor Show on Wednesday about Comet PANSTARRS and other comets in the sky this year: The John Batchelor Show “Hotel Mars,” Wednesday, 3-27-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.

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Bruce Cordell of 21st Century Waves spoke on the Space Show on Friday about “space trends for 2013 and the coming period of Ebullience for grand space projects” : Dr. Bruce Cordell, Friday, 3-29-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog