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 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.

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    Episode 146: CRS-1

    Episode  |  October 7th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  3 mins 48 secs
    dragon, ice cream, luna, luna 3, moon, nasa history, project mercury, spacex

    SpaceX history, Luna 3, and Project Mercury.

  • Episode 145: Ulysses and The Halkans

    Episode  |  October 6th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins
    mirror mirror, space history, space shuttle discovery, star trek, ulysses

    Thanks to everyone that's subscribed. I'd appreciate it if you could do me a huge favor and share the podcast in a Facebook post, Instagram post, or Tweet. Thanks!