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The Space Show by Dr. David Livingston

The Space Show® focuses on timely and important issues influencing the development of outer-space commerce and space tourism, as well as other related subjects of interest to us all. doctorspace.substack.com

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Tom Olson, Sunday, 12-29-24

The Space Show by Dr. David Livingston ·

2024/12/30

Welcome to our final broadcast of 2024 featuring Tom Olson with his annual review of the space industry and commercial space for 2024. This was a comprehensive review but focused on much with SpaceX and Elon. Blue Origin progress was mentioned. Tom talked about successes for the year as well as highlighted disappointments. I provided some of my input on the same. Other topics included fusion, nuclear propulsion, SSP,. lunar spacesuits and a lunar rover, Artemis, SLS, Starliner and more. We had

Dr. Angie Bukley, Colleen Stover, Friday, 12-27-24

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2024/12/28

Angie and Colleen were with to discuss the two papers they wrote which are linked on the blog for this show. We talked about the end of the ISS, the different commercial space stations underway and the need to develop cislunar space. Included in this discussion was a focus on the need to ascertain the gravity RX for human spaceflight, lunar settlement, microgravity and radiation, lunar water ice, LEO and its importance and much more. Please read the full summary when available at

Bill Gowan, Monday, 12-23-24

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2024/12/23

Listeners, this is a special message for you from :Bill from Raleigh" asking you to help support The Space Show in this year's annual campaign. Bill says it all and makes it very clear why its important to support and help The Space Show. You too can send in a supportive message which I will archive as a Space Show program just like this message from Bill from Raleigh. Read the details at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Monday, 12-23-24. Don't forget, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and Happy

Open Lines, Sunday, 12-22-24

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2024/12/23

Welcome to our last Open Lines program for 2024. I announced plans for a Zoom program change for when I travel but also for Friday programs. More details will follow as the program launches but the basics are spelled out on this program. Several listeners called in with their 2025 space resolutions or wish lists. See if what the callers said matches your 2025 wish list. Please post on the blog. Ft. Worth John called about the drone situation and both John and myself put forth some ideas as to who is

John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 12-18-24

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2024/12/21

John and I did our annual review of the space industry. We each selected five events representing the best of space for the year and five events representing the worst of space each year. Both of us then presented our selections to the audience. Be sure to listen, see if you agree with us. Were you surprised by any of our selections? Read the full summary of this program when it becomes available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024.

Tom Marotta, Friday, 12-20-24

The Space Show by Dr. David Livingston ·

2024/12/21

Tom Marotta was back with us to discuss the progress being made with his company, The Spaceport Company, regarding mobile launch platforms off shore. We talked about spaceports in general, the demand for them, the advantages with his off short ship based small launcher platform plus his growth and expansion plans. We talked launch competition, SpaceX and others. Tom responded to several email questions and a call from Fremont John posing multiple questions to our guest. Please read the full summary

Robert (Bob) Zimmerman, Tuesday, 12-17-24

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2024/12/18

Bob Zimmerman was back for his final 2024 Space Show program. Bob had much to say about the potential new NASA Administrator, Jarrod Isaacman, and how he might change the focus of the space program. He has a two part series on this on his website, www.behindtheblack.com but he discussed it in detail with us. Comment on it on our blog. We also talked about the private space stations and he ranked them in order of making progress. We talked about other launch vehicles, the international scene for

Dr. Paul Jaffe, Sunday, 12-15-24

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2024/12/16

Dr. Paul Jaffe was back with us for a terrific discussion focusing on power beaming, SSP, grid power, nuclear, thorium, and all forms of energy. Paul made clear the important distinctions between power beaming and SSP. In addition, lots of time was spent looking at the potential economics of SSP which as he said are and will be challenging moving forward. He also made the national security and geopolitical very important point about the benefit of a nation state being to beam power electronically to

Alan Smale, Friday, 12-13-24

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2024/12/14

Alan Smale was welcomed to The Space Show to discuss his latest hard sci-fi alternate history book, "Radiant Sky." We also talked about his first book in the series, "Hot Moon." The story line picks up after Apollo ends with both the US and Russia having their own bases on the Moon. Alan tells the story from Boook 1 to Book 2 and hints at the continued story in the third book which is being written at this time. We talked about reality space, China on the Moon, space policy, technology,

John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 12-11-24

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2024/12/14

Joh and I welcomed Amir Notea from Israel to discuss space activities in Israel. John focused on the attempt by Israel to go to the Moon with the Beresheet project which crashed on the lunar surface in 2019 Beresheet 2 is underway looking for final funding for a second attempt at landing their lunar mission. We also talked about other aspects of Israel's space industry including launch sites, launching to the west and why, commercial space and more. Please read the full summary of this program when

Dr. Doug Plata, Sunday, 12-8-24

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2024/12/08

Dr. Doug Plata returned to share his analysis with us on commercial space company success, startups, government versus commercial customers, markets and more. Doug is interested in additional comments on the blog from archive listeners so don't be shy. Please read the full summary of this program when it appears at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. In addtion, if you like and use our program, please donate to help us broadcast in 2025. See the PayPal button in the upper right

John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 12-04-24

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2024/12/08

John and I welcomed back Anatoly Zak for updates with Russian space news. As we approached the anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Flight and build up to it, Anatoly talked about the Spyuz-16 flight program in April and August of 1974 to practice for the mission. These were mostly secret flights with very little press coverate. Anatoly went through the history, what the Russians did to make sure Apollo could dock with Soyuz, astronaut spacesuits and much more. Anatoly featured this article on his

Dr. Namrata Goswami, Tuesday, 12-3-24

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2024/12/07

We welcomed back Dr. Namrata Goswami to discuss her researh and paper (see our blog) on the current space race, space great and lesser power nations, China, American commercial competition and much more. This was a very thorough discussion with our guest A standout to me was near the end of the program when I asked her to provide us with the strategy to best compete with china given their system advantages as compared ours plus disadvantages. Namrata provided us with what I thought was an excellent

Mark Whittington, Friday, 12-06-24

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2024/12/07

Mark was back with us to talk about space with the new administration. He had much to say with the new proposed NASA Administrator selection which led to commentary about Artemis, SLS, Musk and politics, Musk and conflicts of interest and more. He talked about Artemis, lunar and Mars focused goals for the coming years, when to shut down Gateway bases on Starship success and what should be a simpler regulatory climate moving forward, something that would facilitate Starship testing. Mark had good

Reid Stowe & Maxine Hoover, Monday, 12-2-24

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2024/12/03

We welcomed back Reid and Maxine to discuss their recently completed Mars analog, their Winter Solstice Analog which is the fifth such venture by their company, Mars Ocean Analogs. We discussed this voyage in detail and talked at length about a sailing venture as an analog for a Mars trip and astronaut crew training. Many issues were brought up, we easily saw the relationship to a space voyage to Mars with a sailing cruise in the open ocean. Both Reid and Maxine explained the ocean challenges and

Open Lines, Sunday, 12-1-24

The Space Show by Dr. David Livingston ·

2024/12/01

Welcome to our Open Lines discussion program for Dec. 1, 2024. I opened up with a fundraising appeal as we are now fundraising to support The Space Show for the new year, 2025. Please listen and do support us as we are listener supported live broadcast space radio. Donating details are part of our discussion & in the upper right corner of our home page, www.thespaceshow.com. We covered many topics in today's program starting with a lengthy call with Dr. Doug about two of his projects, then what to

Jim Muncy, Sunday, 11-24-24

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2024/11/25

Jim Muncy returned to share his commercial space and policy thoughts post our presidential election. Multiple topics were discussed but we had a focus on change going forward, big visions, Starship and what it might mean, Artemis, international space relationships, SLS, Musk and politics and more. Another must hear program! Please read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024.

The John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 11-20-24

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2024/11/23

John and I welcomed back Eric Berger of Ars Technica to discuss the Starship demo flight 6 plus the potential for a wild space policy in the new administration given the Musk association with Trump and probably ongoing Artemis issues. We talked about flight #6, remaining test goals for the rocket system and many different policy concerns for the new year including the status of SLS Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.

Dr. Jacob Haqq Misra, Friday, 11-22-24

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2024/11/22

We welcomed our guest to discuss his paper, "A model for economic freedom on Mars" plus his recent book "Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement" We talked quite a bit about a possible Mars economic system, settlement, do's and don'ts, capital usage on Marx, permissions for this or that from Earth and lots more. Toward the end of our hour, Jacob spoke to the UAP matter we have heard so much about. He was also clear that both his paper and his book were really thought

Bob Zimmerman, Tuesday, 11-19-24

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2024/11/21

Welcome to this Tuesday evening-Wednesday afternoon program with Bob. For those that listened live, you know that we had some serious technical glitches during this discussion and that we aborted the program about 30-40 minutes before our planned conclusion. The technical problems were repaired and I repaired the program as best as I could plus I added in the concluding segment from Wednesday after a brief pause and short introduction to this special segment. You will hear some of the technical

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