The Space Shot

A concentrated dose of space awesomeness, delivered right to your podcast feed.

About the show

Subscribe and check out the massive back catalog (Season 1 has 365 episodes) for some excellent bite-sized pieces of space history, pop culture, science, and more. Whether you're into history, science, pop-culture, or current events, there's something for you here at The Space Shot.

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • Episode 7: Luke, I Am Your Podcast Host

    Episode  |  May 21st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 1 sec
    blue origin, spaceshipone, spacex, star wars, the empire strikes back, virgin galactic

    It's the 37th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back coming to theaters in the United States. There's also some coverage of private space industry firsts, since we are one month away from the anniversary of the first flight of SpaceShipOne.

  • Episode 6: Cry HAVOC

    Episode  |  May 20th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 23 secs
    havoc, nasa, opa, space, the space shot, venus

    Pioneer missions helped scientists map out our solar system in the early years of space exploration. Now NASA scientists are working on more exotic mission proposals than plain old orbiters.

  • Episode 5: Corned Beef & Venus

    Episode  |  May 19th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 56 secs
    apollo 10, corned beef, history, snoopy, space, venus

    We've entered the coast phase of Apollo 10, so it's time for some background on the Apollo 10 astronauts. In the second part of the episode, I talk about Venus and how the odds of a probe making it to Venus in the early years of spaceflight weren't exactly in your favor.

  • Episode 4: Apollo 10 & The Smiling Buddha

    Episode  |  May 18th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 10 secs
    apollo, apollo 10, apollo 50, project vela, smiling buddha, snoopy, space history, space history podcast, space podcast, the space shot

    Day 4, Episode 4, #oneaday

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    Episode 3: Weather Satellites and the "Go Fast" Rocket

    Episode  |  May 17th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 49 secs
    amateur rockets, go fast, goes-16, rockets, sms-1, space, space weather, weather satellites

    Early weather satellites and an amateur rocket that really did "Go Fast" on the third episode of The Space Shot.

  • Episode 2: Faith 7 Part 2

    Episode  |  May 16th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 58 secs
    cooper's treasure, gordo, gordon cooper, history, nasa, project mercury, space, space history, space history podcast, space podcast, space shot

    Yesterday I covered some of the background for Cooper’s final Mercury mission. Today we are going to cover exactly what he did while in orbit and what the results of his mission were.

  • Episode 1: Gordon "Gordo" Cooper & Faith 7

    Episode  |  May 15th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 53 secs
    faith 7, gordo, gordon cooper, history, mercury program, nasa history, project mercury, space, space history, space history podcast, space podcast, space shot, spacex

    In the first episode of The Space Shot, I talk about Gordon Cooper's final Mercury flight as well as a recent SpaceX launch.