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 233: Luna 1

    Episode  |  January 2nd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  3 mins 51 secs
    falcon heavy, falcon rocket, luna 1, soviet space history, spacex

  • Episode 232: Happy New Year's Day

    Episode  |  January 1st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 9 secs
    birthday, mr rogers

  • Episode 231: My Favorite News Stories of 2017

    Episode  |  December 31st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 42 secs
    2017, new years, news, news roundup, space news

    Happy New Year's Eve!

  • Episode 230: My Favorite Episodes of 2017

    Episode  |  December 30th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 30 secs
    2017, yearly wrap up

    Well, this was one heck of a week. It's hard to believe 2017 is coming to a close! Bring on 2018!

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    Episode 229: The Trouble with Tribbles & Schedules: Hannah Arendt, Part Two

    Episode  |  December 29th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 18 secs
    arendt, communication, hannah arendt, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, pop culture, sci comm, science communication, space history, star trek, stem, theory, tribbles

    Apologies for the late release today!

  • Episode 228: Hannah Arendt- The Conquest of Space

    Episode  |  December 28th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 59 secs
    arendt, communication, communications, hannah arendt, philosopohy, sci comm, science communication, speaking, stem, writing

    I'm mixing it up today with some political philosophy. Enjoy!

  • Episode 227: Kepler

    Episode  |  December 27th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  10 mins 19 secs
    apollo 8, astronomy, kepler, kepler laws, keplers laws, keplers three laws, planetary motion, space history

    Kepler and some Apollo history for today's episode!

  • Episode 226: Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

    Episode  |  December 26th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 23 secs
    book, book review, endurance, kelly, memoir, scott kelly

    Happy Tuesday!

  • Episode 225: Christmas in Space

    Episode  |  December 25th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 6 secs
    apollo 8, christmas, christmas in space, christmas tree, iss, skylab 4

    Merry Christmas!

  • Episode 224: Christmas Eve with Apollo 8

    Episode  |  December 24th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 33 secs
    anders, apollo, apollo 8, apollo program, borman, christmas, christmas eve, christmas in space, earthrise, genesis, lovell

    Happy Christmas Eve!

  • Episode 223: A Nuclear Alien UFO From North Korea

    Episode  |  December 23rd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  3 mins 51 secs
    bruce mccandless, elon musk, eva, in memoriam, mccandless, mmu, rocket launch, spacewalk, spacex, ufo

    Happy Saturday!

  • Episode 222: Blackbirds and a Lifting Body

    Episode  |  December 22nd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 33 secs
    aerospace, aerospace history, blackbird, cold war, hl10, lifting body, mach, nasa, planetary science, science, solar system, sr71, sr71 blackbird, titan

    I can't believe we are just days from Christmas, this month has been nuts!

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    Episode 221: The Launch of Apollo 8 and The Falcon Has Landed

    Episode  |  December 21st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 24 secs
    apollo, apollo 8, bill anders, earthrise, elon musk, falcon, falcon 9, falcon has landed, falcon heavy, frank borman, jim lovell, landing, landing zone 1, landing zone one, lunar, lz 1, rocked launch, rockets, saturn v, saturn v rocket, space history, space race, space sickness, spacex, tli, translunar injection

    Today's episode has Apollo and SpaceX history, listen in!

  • Episode 220: So, About That New Star Wars Movie…

    Episode  |  December 20th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 16 secs
    andy weir, artemis, books, science fiction, scifi, star wars

    Happy Tuesday! I've got an amended review of The Last Jedi plus a little bit about Artemis.

  • Episode 219: Mercury Redstone 1A

    Episode  |  December 19th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 18 secs
    cape canaveral, ccafs, launch complex, lc 5, lc5, mercury, mercury capsule, mercury redstone, project mercury, redstone, spacex news, sts103

    Thanks to everyone that's subscribed to the podcast. If you could do me a favor and leave a review for the podcast, I'd appreciate it!

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    Episode 218: Project SCORE

    Episode  |  December 18th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 7 secs
    communications, communications satellite, eisenhower, epimetheus, ike, project score, satellite, saturn

    Happy Monday! The new release schedule means that the Monday-Friday episodes will release at 3 a.m. CDT.