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 201: Hubble Part 1

    Episode  |  December 1st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 16 secs
    astronomy, hubble, launch, russia, soyuz, space science, space shuttle, telescope, telescopes

    Happy December! Be sure to check out the show notes for some links to incredible Hubble videos on YouTube. More on Hubble in tomorrow's episode, plus a bunch of Space Shuttle flights, it's going to be a fun episode, don't miss it!

  • Episode 200: Endeavour. Oh, and 200 Episodes!

    Episode  |  November 30th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 56 secs
    200 episodes, endeavour, shuttle history, space history, space shuttle, space shuttle endeavour, sts

    Episode 200! Wow! Thanks to everyone for joining me on this daily podcasting journey I was crazy enough to start 200 days ago. I appreciate all of you! Here's to another 200 episodes!

  • Episode 199: Enos- Mercury Atlas 5

    Episode  |  November 29th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 36 secs
    chimp, chimpanzee, mercury, mercury atlas, mercury atlas 5, nasa, orbital, orbital flight, project mercury, space race

    I hope everyone has a fantastic week! We are approaching 200 episodes and I would love if we could get some more reviews to maybe match the number of episodes that are out. Go to iTunes or Apple Podcasts and leave a review. I appreciate it!

  • Episode 198: Spacelab 1, Mariner 4, and a Pulsar

    Episode  |  November 28th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 44 secs
    astronomy, columbia, john young, mariner, mariner 4, pulsar, shuttle, space science, space shuttle, spacelab, sts, sts9

    I hope everyone has a fantastic week! We are approaching 200 episodes and I would love if we could get some more reviews to maybe match the number of episodes that are out. Go to iTunes or Apple Podcasts and leave a review. I appreciate it!

  • Episode 197: Mars 2 and "The Q and the Grey"

    Episode  |  November 27th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 41 secs
    celsius, mars, mars 2, memory alpha, q, q continuum, soviet union, star trek, star trek voyager, voyager

    I hope everyone has a fantastic week! We are approaching 200 episodes and I would love if we could get some more reviews to maybe match the number of episodes that are out. Go to iTunes or Apple Podcasts and leave a review. I appreciate it!

  • Episode 196: The Voyage Home

    Episode  |  November 26th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 54 secs
    atlantis, humpback whale, mexican astronaut, mexico, nasa, space, space food, space shuttle atlantis, star trek, star trek iv, sts, the voyage home, time travel, tortilla, whales

    Happy Sunday, I hope you have a fantastic day! If you could do me a huge favor and leave a review if you haven't already done so, I'd be super appreciative!

  • Episode 195: Space Workouts

    Episode  |  November 25th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 27 secs
    colbert, colbert treadmill, iss, running, space station, space workout, space workouts, sunita williams, treadmill, working out, workout

    Change of plans for today's episode. Download and listen if you want to find out a little bit about space workouts and COLBERT. Plus another daily challenge for myself. Subscribe today!

  • Episode 194: Atlantis, Cooking, and Relaxing

    Episode  |  November 24th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 23 secs
    atlantis, food, go flight, iss, reading, space, space food, space shuttle, sts 44, sts44, thanksgiving, turkey

    Happy Friday! I hope you have a wonderful day and weekend, and that your time with family on Thanksgiving was enjoyable. I had a relaxing day today and am thankful I got to spend time working on the podcast!

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    Episode 193: New Shepard and Endeavour

    Episode  |  November 23rd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 45 secs
    blue origin, booster, booster landing, commercial space, endeavour, jeff bezos, landing, new shepard, reusability, rocket landing, space, space shuttle

    I say "booster" a lot in this episode... deal with it haha. Seriously though, today's episode is pretty cool, I talk about the New Shepard booster landing. Please leave a review if you've checked out the show! :)

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    Episode 192: First Contact

    Episode  |  November 22nd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  9 mins 51 secs
    borg, first contact, jfk, kennedy, pop culture, space history, space shuttle, star trek, star trek first contact, story musgrave, uss enterprise

    "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek." ;)

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    Episode 191: The Four-Inch Flight

    Episode  |  November 21st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 35 secs
    four inch flight, gene kranz, mercury, mercury redstone, redstone, rocket launch

    Today we've got some Project Mercury history. Do me a huge favor and take 60 seconds to leave a review, I'd appreciate it.

  • Episode 190: Zarya

    Episode  |  November 20th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 27 secs
    fgb, functional cargo block, gamma rays, grbs, iss, space station, station, zarya

    Happy Monday, make a friend's Monday just as awesome by sharing the podcast with them!

  • Episode 189: A Landing & Rendezvous at the Ocean of Storms

    Episode  |  November 19th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  10 mins 10 secs
    apollo, apollo 12, moon landing, one big step, pete conrad, rendezvous, space race, space shuttle, sts 80, sts 87, surveyor 3

    Please leave a review on iTunes; it takes just a minute to do that. If you've got the podcasts app on an iPhone, just search "Space Shot" then, depending on your iOS version, scroll down until you see "Tap to Rate" :) Thanks!

  • Episode 188: Ranger 2, COBE, and Generations

    Episode  |  November 18th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 21 secs
    cobe, cosmic background radiation, cosmology, data, picard, ranger 2, soren, star trek, universe

    Happy Saturday, have a fantastic weekend!

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    Episode 187: Lunokhod 1 and Luna 17

    Episode  |  November 17th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 3 secs
    luna 17, lunar rover, lunokhod 1, moon, moon lander, robotic rover, rover, soviet moon, soviet moon landing, soviet space program, soviet union

    Some launch updates, Soviet space history, and a birthday in today's episode. I'm back to my morning routine for podcasts. It's been difficult with travel, the joys of being stuck in a car or airplane for the majority of the day.

  • Episode 186: ISS Assembly Flight, Dogs, Space Flight Europe-America 500, & JFK

    Episode  |  November 16th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 31 secs
    astronauts, atlantis, dogs, jfk, russia, space shuttle, sts

    Mr. Tim decided to jump into the podcast at closing today to say hi, I hope you don't mind :)