The Space Shot

Episode 352: Landing a Falcon

Episode  |  May 1st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  9 mins 11 secs

block 5, drone ship, elon musk, falcon 9, falcon 9 block 5, falcon heavy, landing, landing zone 1, orbital class booster, rocket landing, spacex

Just two weeks until the one year anniversary of the podcast! A huge thanks to everyone that listens!

Episode 351: New Shepard

Episode  |  April 30th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 30 secs

blue origin, new glenn, new shepard, research and development, rocket launch, shepard, suborbital, testing

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you have a fantastic week and thanks for listening each day!

Episode 350: Of Challenger and Difficult to Pronounce Names

Episode  |  April 29th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 53 secs

challenger, dutch astronaut, holland, jsc, jsc oral history project, nasa history, oral history, oring, orings, space shuttle

350 episodes! That's nuts! Well, here we are, thanks for listening in :)

Episode 349: CALIPSO, Discovery, and Tito

Episode  |  April 28th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 18 secs

a train, calipso, dennis tito, discovery, earth science, nasa, science, shuttle history, space shuttle, tito

It's Saturday, which means a lot of you are probably lounging around at home. Take a minute and leave a review for the podcast on iTunes, reviews really do help more people find out about the podcast. Thanks! :)

Episode 348: Lots of Launches

Episode  |  April 27th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 39 secs

ariel 1, explorer 11, falcon 9, launch anniversary, spacex

Happy Friday everyone! Today was awesomely busy, hence the later release.

Episode 347: Cassini and Ham

Episode  |  April 26th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 30 secs

columbia, germany, ham, ham radio, nasa, radio, radio experiments, shuttle, space shuttle, space shuttle columbia, spacelab, sts55

Today we go from Venus with Cassini to Earth with Ham. Ms. Daisy meowed a bit in today's episode. I've spent the day catching up on some work around the house and have neglected her, I had to pay for this neglect with her cries during today's episode ;)

Episode 346: Catching Up With Apollo 16

Episode  |  April 25th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 49 secs

apollo, apollo 16, apollo program, john young, lrv, lunar rover, moon, moon landing, rover

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.