T+163: Suborbital Crew, Virgin Galactic to ISS
NASA recently established the Suborbital Crew office within the Commercial Crew Program, which will focus on developing a plan to fly personnel on suborbital spaceflights. At the same time, Virgin Gal...
3 Juli 202018min
T+162: Grant Bonin, SVP of Business Development at Spaceflight
Grant Bonin, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Spaceflight joins me to talk about everything they’ve been up to lately, including being acquired, signing deals with SpaceX for rideshare...
26 Juni 202046min
T+161: Mark Wiese, Manager of NASA’s Gateway Deep Space Logistics
Mark Wiese, Manager of NASA’s Gateway Deep Space Logistics, joins me to talk about the logistics architecture for Gateway and, specifically, the selection of SpaceX and Dragon XL for missions in the f...
22 Juni 202040min
T+160: Lueders Leads HEO, Northrop Grumman Awarded HALO Contract
Northrop Grumman was awarded $187 million for the Gateway Habitat design, which caps off NASA’s 2020 budget work for Artemis components. Additionally, Kathy Lueders was named head of human spaceflight...
17 Juni 202024min
T+159: SpaceX Demo-2 Carries Crew to ISS
It happened! American astronauts on American rockets from American soil. Bob and Doug successfully launched, docked to the ISS, and joined Expedition 63. I talk about what this means for SpaceX, NASA,...
5 Juni 202029min
T+158: Doug Loverro Resigns, and a Bit About the Artemis Accords
The head of human spaceflight at NASA resigned last week, just before the most important crewed launch the agency has seen in a decade. However, it appears as though the resignation is related to the ...
26 Maj 202020min
T+157: Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX Win NASA Lunar Lander Contracts
NASA announced three contract awards for the Artemis Progam’s Human Landing System—a Blue Origin-led team, Dynetics, and SpaceX’s Starship. I talk through some thoughts on each landing system and what...
5 Maj 202036min
T+156: Sean Mahoney, CEO of Masten Space Systems
Sean Mahoney, CEO of Masten Space Systems joins me to talk about everything they’ve been up to lately, from flights of their terrestrial vehicles out in Mojave, NASA’s Lunar CATALYST program, their re...
30 Apr 20201h 4min
