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John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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2025/03/14

John and I welcomed back Eric Berger of Ars Technica to discuss the recent Demo #8 test flight for Starship. As everyone knows by now, while the first stage was successfully landed at the pad, the Starship blew up before reaching orbit much at the same interval as Demo #7. Eric talked about the problems which have yet to be confirmed but are likely given recent propulsion system modifications. Also talked about was the wide and very dangerous debris field caused by the rocket's destruction. In

Laura Montgomery, Friday, 3-14-25

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2025/03/14

We welcomed back Laura Montgomery, atty for an action packed discussion on her policy and law wish list for space this year and for the new administration. We talked about two key items on her wish list. The first was for her to see an Executive Order issuing clarification for Article 6 of the OST. She explained the matter at hand and its an important and necessary event needing to happen on her wish list. In addition, we talked about space property rights. Here, Laura suggested we see if we can

Dr. Ajay Kothari, Tuesday, 3-11-25

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2025/03/12

Dr. Kothari was with us to discuss the recent congressional hearing on Artemis and return to the Moon programs as he attended the hearing. You can find the hearing on YouTube if you want to watch. Ajay reported on the two guests, the need for a sustainable program, then he talked about his own ideas for a sustainable program to the Moon using Falcon Heavy. Our guest has put his information on our blog for this show so do check it out, including his PDF on returning humans to the Moon. We got

Wayne White, Atty; Sunday, 3-9-25

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2025/03/10

We welcomed back to the show noted space attorney Wayne White. Be sure to read his papers posted on the blog regarding his work on space property rights. Property right were a main topic for our discussion with Wayne putting forth a way to achieve them. He constantly referred to his previous Space Pioneer Act for related topics plus methos to employ property rights - legally. Wayne received many emails from listeners plus a few detailed phone calls regarding his property rights ideas. I even

Dr. Martin Elvis, Friday, 3-7-25

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2025/03/08

Dr. Martin Elvis returned to discuss the need and his plan to protect essential science locations on the Moon. His recent paper on the subject is on our blog. We talked about voluntary adherence to rules that might be put forth, mandatory, and the wishes of the astronomy community. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, March 7, 2025.

John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 3-5-25

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2025/03/07

Doug Messier was the guest talking about the commercial lunar landers landing on the Moon and about to land on the Moon. Doug talked with us about each one, their missions, the experiments on board, their launchers and the role NASA played with each one, if any. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com when it becomes available for this date, Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Doug Messier, Tuesday, 3-4-2025

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2025/03/05

Doug Messier returned to discuss the current landers that recently put down on the Moon plus one landing in a few days and then a few months from now. We talked about their respective missions, hardware, rovers and the advances they made to enable their successful lunar landings. Doug updated us on Starship and their upcoming flight plus we talked about other launchers including Rocket Labs and Blue Origin. Multiple additional short topics made their way to our discussion. Read the full summary of

Joe Carroll, Sunday, 3-2-25

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2025/03/03

Joe returned with updates on spin and AG. We talked about why NASA does not research this field and what that may suggest about NASA's thoughts on humans BLEO. We had several long lasting calls on various topics. Joe talked about his research per the paper uploaded to our blog for this program. Please read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, March 2, 2025.

The John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 2-19-25

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2025/03/02

John and I welcomed back Dr. Harold Connolly to discuss the most recent findings from the sample return from steroid Bennu. We are learning much from these samples about our early solar system. Read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025.

Charles Chafer of Celestis, Friday, 2-21-25

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2025/02/22

We welcomed Charlie Chafer back to the program for Celestis updates, new missions they offer as memorial spaceflights, lunar missions concerns, potential Mars missions, their deep space mission and more. We talked payloads, rideshare, more and more lunar missions, launch reliability and some on the funeral and cremation side of the business. I do apologize for the poor audio with this program. Read the full summary when it becomes available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, Feb. 21,

Robert (Bob) Zimmerman, Tuesday, 2-18-25

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2025/02/19

Bob was welcomed back to the show and immediately began talking about possible NASA layoffs, the new administrator and his confirmation and how the layoffs would be beneficial given his view of NASA not being efficient in what it does. The cancellation of SLS came up and between layoffs, NASA, the new administrator, the possible termination of SLS and the timing of such a cancellation, that covered most of the program. Near the end, a caller asked about the asteroid being talked about as possibly

Dr. Tom Matula, Sunday, 2-16-25

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2025/02/17

Dr. Matula was back with us to discuss his Space Review article, posted on our blog for this program, focusing on his biological argument in favor of space settlement. We spent considerable time on this subject which included space food agriculture, farming in space, testing ideas and methods here on earth and more. Space communications were also part of the show, talking about narrow beam communication. Tom talked about the work the Texas Space Commission was and is doing plus the new MBA program

Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 2-12-25

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2025/02/15

Eric Berger was our guest to discuss Artemis, SLS up or down for the future, the Boeing Starliner, Starship, alternate Artemis plans plus in Part 2 Eric was asked about the future for Russian Roscosmos, Russian military space, their ILS project and Russian spacesuit development. Read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

Dr. Ed Lu, Friday, 2-14-25

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2025/02/15

Dr. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation was our guest. We started out discussing the asteroid YR-4 which has a chance of hitting Earth around 2030. Ed spent time talking about this rock, how the calculations for a hit are determined, orbits, programs and possible methods plus timing of deflecting it. This discussion was a major part of our program and one you do not want to miss. Other topics talked about including the ADAM Platform (Asteroid Discovery

Col. (ret) USAF Karlton Johnson, Tuesday, 2-11-25

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2025/02/12

We welcomed Karlton Johnson, CEO of NSS and Chairman of the NSS Board of Governors. We started the program with our guest remembering Anita Gayle, former CEO of NSS. Karlton, a caller and myself also honored Anita who recently passed away. I asked Karlton a lead off question about the fate of Artemis and SLS. This started an amazing discussion with great story examples from our guest on leadership, changes, strategy for moving forward and realizing that today, many things given the new

Rachel Tillman, Sunday, 2-9-25

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2025/02/10

We welcomed Rachel Tillman back to the program to continue her story regarding the history of the Viking missions and the saving of copies of the Viking hardware. We talked about the importance of preserving various aspects of space history, even oral history. Also, Rachel did some deep dives with us on Viking stories. We talked about the purpose of space exploration, she fielded listener phone calls and multiple emails. Please see the full archive of the show when it is available for this date,

John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 2-5-25

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2025/02/08

John and I welcomed Charlie Pelligrini to the program to discuss asteroids with hydrothermal layers. Recent discoveries with the sample return from Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid seemed to be confirming this with the finding of traces of salt water and other building blocks of life as reported by NASA. We discussed hydrothermal zones on Earth as well as on asteroids, meteorites and more. Please read the full summary when it becomes available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Feb. 5,

Dr. Hank Alewine, Dr. Jason Greene of UAH re the...

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2025/02/08

Hank returned to the Space Show with first time guest Dean Jason Green of the UAH Business School. We discussed the upcoming Business in Space Conference they host which will be later this month. In addition, we talked about the greater space community in the Huntsville area, both private sector and government space plus Marshall Spaceflight Center and the Redstone Armory. Also, the Space Force. Please read the full program summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, Feb

Dr. Armen Papazian, Tuesday, 2-4-25

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2025/02/05

Dr. Armen Papazian joined us again, this time to discuss his new book, "Financing The Race To Space: How to value, invest and Explore the Universe." Armen makes the case that our monetary and financial systems are not capable to truly take us into space to settle, live, work and stay there in a sustainable manner. He goes after the traditional concept of the time value of money and suggests new ways for determining money, the space value of money. Hint: He draws upon different orbital periods for

Open Lines, Sunday, 2--2-2025

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2025/02/03

Welcome to Open Lines. Multiple topics, multiple callers. We started with a call from John with a list of items to discuss. He posted his list plus URLs on our blog so that we can all follow up on the companies and events. Marshall called about Buzz and his 95th birthday. Since AI was a program topic, I asked Marshal about his use of it given his engineering and physics engagements. Ft. Worth John call with a drone and UAP update. We talked about the recent government release saying the recent drone

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