The Space Shot

Episode 345: Hubble Launches

Episode  |  April 24th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 2 secs

astronomy, exploration, hst, hubble, hubble space telescope, nasa history, shuttle, shuttle launch, space shuttle, sts, sts 31

The Hubble Space Telescope launched 28 years ago today! Listen in to hear a little bit about that mission and one of the astronauts that flew on STS-31.

Episode 344: World Book Day

Episode  |  April 23rd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 38 secs

books, columbia, nasa, nasa history, reading, science fiction, scifi, stoic, stoicism

Happy Monday everyone! I hope all of you are doing well and had a great weekend!

Episode 343: Storytelling in the Space Age- Part 2

Episode  |  April 22nd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 43 secs

history, pop culture, space, space history, storytelling

Happy Sunday! Here's part 2 of my speech, Storytelling in the Space Age.

Episode 342: Storytelling in the Space Age- Part 1

Episode  |  April 21st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 34 secs

history, pop culture, space, space history, storytelling

I will have links to what I talked about in the speech in tomorrow's show notes. Thanks to everyone that came out to the event, it's was a lot of fun and mildly terrifying because I'm used to speaking with all of you here on the podcast and not in a live setting in front of people.

Episode 341: Road Tripping, Audio Issues, and My First Live Event

Episode  |  April 20th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  2 mins 27 secs

No summary for this one. Too much driving and not enough time ;)

Episode 340: Long Duration Human Spaceflight- Part 3

Episode  |  April 19th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 26 secs

exercise, exercise science, eyesight, health, human spaceflight, interview, long duration human spaceflight, microgravity, physiology, science, stem

Episode 339: Long Duration Human Spaceflight- Part 2

Episode  |  April 18th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 4 secs

exercise, exercise science, eyesight, health, human spaceflight, interview, long duration human spaceflight, microgravity, physiology, science, stem

Episode 338: Long Duration Human Spaceflight- Part 1

Episode  |  April 17th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  13 mins 15 secs

exercise, exercise science, eyesight, health, human spaceflight, interview, long duration human spaceflight, microgravity, physiology, science, stem

Episode 337: Apollo 16, TESS, and a Programming Note

Episode  |  April 16th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 35 secs

Happy Monday everyone! I'm enjoying my vacation and spending it reading, writing, and preparing for a talk I'm giving on Thursday at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.

Episode 336: In the Pale Moonlight

Episode  |  April 15th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 14 secs

avery brooks, dart, deep space nine, ds9, mission failure, nasa, podcast, quark, scifi podcast, sisko, space podcast, star trek

I hope all of you have a wonderful Sunday. I see that many of my listeners in the U.S. have had a fair amount of snow the past few days, I hope that all of you are warm and safe. Don't mind me while I enjoy an iced coffee out on a patio here in Colorado ;)

Episode 335: Dry Lakes and Columbia

Episode  |  April 14th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 42 secs

columbia, dry lake, dry lakes, edwards afb, rogers dry lake, shuttle landing, shuttle program, space podcast, space shuttle

Happy Saturday! Apologies for the delay getting yesterday's episode out. I'm not sure what was wrong, but everything worked alright today, so maybe it was just a weird Friday the 13th thing.

Episode 334: Apollo 13- Part 2

Episode  |  April 13th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 54 secs

apollo, apollo 13, apollo history, apollo mission, fred haise, history, jack swigert, jim lovell, ken mattingly, moon shot, nasa, nasa history, safety, space podcast, space podcasts

Happy Friday/Saturday. I experienced some issues uploading on Friday the 13th, go figure, but it's available now. Check it out!

Episode 333: Vostok 1 and STS-1: First Flights

Episode  |  April 12th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 27 secs

astronauts, cosmonauts, first flight, gagarin, historical, history, john young, orbital, orbital spaceflight, parachute, r7, robert crippen, russia, shuttle flight, space history, space podcast, space podcasts, space race, space shuttle, sts1, vostok, vostok 1, yuri gagarin

Apologies for how I sound today, my allergies are epically bad today. We've got some massive space history milestones, so check out today's episode!

Episode 332: Apollo 13- Part 1

Episode  |  April 11th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 19 secs

apollo, apollo 13, apollo history, apollo mission, fred haise, history, jack swigert, jim lovell, ken mattingly, moon shot, nasa, nasa history, space podcast, space podcasts

I've got some background on Apollo 13 plus about 22 minutes of mission audio at the end of today's episode, give it a listen and send me any questions you have.

Episode 331: Commercial Space Roundup

Episode  |  April 10th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 12 secs

beam module, boeing, commercial cargo, commercial crew, commercial resupply, crs8, dragon, drone ship landing, falcon, falcon 9, nasa, nasa commercial partnership, ocisly, space podcast, space podcasts, spacex, starliner, virgin galactic, vss enterprise, vss unity

Happy Tuesday! The audio at the end of the episode has a little noise, apologies for the temporary issue.

Episode 330: The Mercury Seven

Episode  |  April 9th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  12 mins 58 secs

alan shepard, astronaut group 1, astronauts, crewed spaceflight, deke slayton, gordon cooper, gus grissom, human spaceflight, john glenn, mercury, mercury seven, nasa history, press conference, project mercury, scott carpenter, space podcast, space podcasts, space race, wally schirra

Happy Monday everyone! Check out today's episode for some cool historical audio :)