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 162: Harmony

    Episode  |  October 23rd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 9 secs
    discovery, harmony, iss, peggy whitson, space station, star wars

    Download today's episode to learn about the Harmony Module and the mission that installed it at the International Space Station... it is your destiny.

  • Episode 161: LAGEOS

    Episode  |  October 22nd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 1 sec
    lageos, lasers, space shuttle, sts 52

    Happy Sunday!

  • Episode 160: The Missile Gap

    Episode  |  October 21st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 42 secs
    cia, cold war, corona, debate, icbm, jfk, missile gap, missile gap debate, nixon, ussr

    That was one crazy Saturday. I've done a lot of reading about the "missile gap" over the past few days and didn't have time to record today's episode until this evening. Have a great weekend!

  • Episode 159: Six Scrubs and a Launch

    Episode  |  October 20th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 46 secs
    blue origin, columbia, potato, shuttle, space shuttle, spacex, sts 73

    Rocket engines, space potatoes, and scrubbed launches. This episode has it all!

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    Episode 158: Various and Sundry

    Episode  |  October 19th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 45 secs
    aristotle, crs, eugene cernan, falcon 9, poetics, space news, spacex, ss cernan

    News, reading, and catching up.

  • Episode 157: Galileo

    Episode  |  October 18th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 24 secs
    atlantis, comet, comet shoemaker levy 9, comets, galileo, jupiter, space shuttle, sts34

    It has been a crazy awesome day, and the podcast is finally done. Thanks for your patience and for listening!

  • Episode 156: Air Ambulances

    Episode  |  October 17th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 37 secs
    air ambulance, medevac, norway, textron

    I'm switching it up a bit today, enjoy!

  • Episode 155: GOES-1

    Episode  |  October 16th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 14 secs
    goes 1, goes satellite, iss, weather satellite, weather satellites

    Weather satellites!

  • Episode 154: Cassini

    Episode  |  October 15th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 17 secs
    cassini, grand finale, saturn, titan

    Today would have been Cassini's 20th birthday. Happy birthday to the incredible spacecraft that gave us a front-row seat at Saturn for 13 years.

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    Episode 153: The Bell X-1 (and a Farmer's Market)

    Episode  |  October 14th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  3 mins
    aerospace history, bell x 1, supersonic

    A quick episode today because I'm having a pretty bad allergies day. Sneezing every 30 seconds or so isn't conducive to podcasting.

  • Episode 152: Benjamin Franklin and Science Fiction

    Episode  |  October 13th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 4 secs
    benjamin franklin, history, invention, sci fi, science, science fiction, scifi

    We go way back in time for today's episode, enjoy!

  • Episode 151: A Falcon Has Landed, plus My Thoughts on Podcasting and Free Time

    Episode  |  October 12th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 8 secs
    podcasting, spacex, writing

    A landed Falcon is a beautiful thing!

  • Episode 150: Pioneer 1, Apollo 7, and STS-92

    Episode  |  October 11th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 19 secs
    apollo 7, nasa history, pioneer 1, space shuttle discovery, sts92

    150 episodes!!! Thanks to everyone that listens to the show!

  • Episode 149: A Quick Update :)

    Episode  |  October 10th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  2 mins 27 secs

    Do me a huge favor and write a review for The Space Shot and one for The Cosmosphere Podcast after you give it a listen. Thanks!

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    Episode 148: Of Coffee and Morning Rocket Launches

    Episode  |  October 9th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  3 mins 5 secs
    coffee, high energy transient explorer

    The best part of waking up is RP1 in your cup. Well, maybe not in your cup. Probably just in the rocket now that I think of it. Coffee. Stick with coffee.

  • Episode 147: My Conversation with Ka Chun Yu

    Episode  |  October 8th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  32 mins 22 secs
    ar, augmented reality, denver, dmns, planetariums, science, science education, space science, virtual reality, vr

    VR, AR, Visualizations, Science Education, Space Science, check out my wide-ranging conversation that I had with Ka Chun Yu, Curator of Space Science at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.