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 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!

  • Episode 144: STS-41G A Mission of Firsts

    Episode  |  October 5th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 16 secs
    challenger, erbs, robert goddard, shuttle challenger, space science, sts 41g

    First beard, first Canadian, and the first time two women flew on the same flight. Check out today's episode!

  • Episode 143: Sputnik and Space Law

    Episode  |  October 4th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  16 mins 5 secs
    interview, michael listner, space history, space law, space law podcast, sputnik

    Listen in for the first interview episode of The Space Shot. Thanks to Michael Listner for taking the time to chat!

  • Episode 142: Sigma 7

    Episode  |  October 3rd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 7 secs
    podcast, sigma 7, space podcast, space shot, the space shot

    I'm so excited for the episodes in the coming days, y'all are going to love them!

  • Episode 141: Untitled Episode

    Episode  |  October 2nd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  1 min 23 secs
    space podcast

    My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims of the horrific terrorist attack in Las Vegas.

  • Episode 140: Epcot & NASA

    Episode  |  October 1st, 2017  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 44 secs
    disney, disney world, epcot, futurism, history podcast, nasa, nasa history, space, space history podcast, space podcast, space shot, spaceship, spaceship earth, the space shot, walt disney

    A short pre-flight episode today. Enjoy!

  • Episode 139: Serenity and Goooood Morning Discovery!

    Episode  |  September 30th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 7 secs
    discovery, firefly, history podcast, nasa, nasa history, on this day, pop culture, robin williams, scifi, serenity, serenity now, shuttle discovery, space, space history podcast, space podcast, space shot, space shuttle, space shuttle abort, space shuttle discovery return to flight, the space shot, wake up calls, wakeup calls

    Serenity now. Serenity now. Serenity now!

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    Episode 138: SpaceX, CASSIOPE, and Discovery

    Episode  |  September 29th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 39 secs
    bfr, big falcon rocket, canadian space agency, cassiope, history podcast, mars, mars podcast, moon, moon podcast, science, science history, shuttle discovery, space, space history, space podcast, space science, space shot, space shuttle, spacex, spacex history, spacex podcast, stem, stem history, the space shot

    Happy Friday!