T+19: SpaceX’s Manifest, Flight-Proven Hardware, Blue Origin Updates, and Antares’ Engines
SpaceX has a busy manifest as they close out 2016, including SES-10 which will fly with a “flight-proven” first stage. A few bits of info have come out regarding Blue Origin’s future plans—including f...
31 Aug 201630min
T+18: Robert Zubrin on Mars Exploration and Colonization Internationally, within NASA, and at SpaceX
Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of The Mars Society, creator of Mars Direct, and author of The Case for Mars is on the show this week to discuss Mars exploration and colonization internationally, within ...
24 Aug 201634min
T+17: NextSTEP Habitat Prototypes, and the Zombie Centaur
NASA selected six companies, as part of the NextSTEP program, to develop ground prototypes of deep space habitats, and the Centaur could live on as a wet workshop. Orbital ATK pushed OA-5 to late Sept...
17 Aug 201629min
T+16: Moon Express Licensing, and NASA’s Disdain for Artificial Gravity
Moon Express gained government approval for their upcoming mission to win the Google Lunar X Prize. And I go on a rant about artificial gravity and how NASA shrugs it off as unnecessary. Moon Express...
10 Aug 201627min
T+15: More SLS Roadmap Details, and Landed Falcon 9 Static Fires
The roadmap for SLS got a little murkier this week thanks to some additional details in the GAO report regarding its cost and schedule. SpaceX test fired a landed core three times in three days last w...
3 Aug 201617min
T+14: The Post-EM-1 Roadmap for SLS, and Potential Uses for SpaceX’s BFR
Before Mars and exploration-centric talk, I talk about Orbital ATK’s agreement for exclusive use of LMP-103S. Then I take a hard look at the post-EM-1 roadmap for SLS, and theorize some potential uses...
27 Juli 201626min
T+13: SpaceX’s CRS-9 Success, Senate Hearing Recap, and US-Russian Plans for the Moon
SpaceX had a great night launching the CRS-9 mission, and it’s all good signs for their future. The Senate hearing, as I predicted, was focused on maintaining the status quo. US and Russian engineers ...
20 Juli 201625min
T+12: The Competition of Reusability Between Falcon 9, Vulcan, and Ariane 6
Ted Cruz called a hearing on NASA’s space exploration policy in the next president’s administration. The president of France’s CNES discussed some policy statements, and I went on a rant about his tho...
13 Juli 201623min
