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 345: Hubble Launches

    Episode  |  April 24th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 2 secs
    astronomy, exploration, hst, hubble, hubble space telescope, nasa history, shuttle, shuttle launch, space shuttle, sts, sts 31

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched 28 years ago today! Listen in to hear a little bit about that mission and one of the astronauts that flew on STS-31.

  • Episode 344: World Book Day

    Episode  |  April 23rd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 38 secs
    books, columbia, nasa, nasa history, reading, science fiction, scifi, stoic, stoicism

    Happy Monday everyone! I hope all of you are doing well and had a great weekend!

  • Episode 343: Storytelling in the Space Age- Part 2

    Episode  |  April 22nd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 43 secs
    history, pop culture, space, space history, storytelling

    Happy Sunday! Here's part 2 of my speech, Storytelling in the Space Age.

  • Episode 342: Storytelling in the Space Age- Part 1

    Episode  |  April 21st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 34 secs
    history, pop culture, space, space history, storytelling

    I will have links to what I talked about in the speech in tomorrow's show notes. Thanks to everyone that came out to the event, it's was a lot of fun and mildly terrifying because I'm used to speaking with all of you here on the podcast and not in a live setting in front of people.

  • Episode 341: Road Tripping, Audio Issues, and My First Live Event

    Episode  |  April 20th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  2 mins 27 secs

    No summary for this one. Too much driving and not enough time ;)

  • Episode 340: Long Duration Human Spaceflight- Part 3

    Episode  |  April 19th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 26 secs
    exercise, exercise science, eyesight, health, human spaceflight, interview, long duration human spaceflight, microgravity, physiology, science, stem
  • Episode 339: Long Duration Human Spaceflight- Part 2

    Episode  |  April 18th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 4 secs
    exercise, exercise science, eyesight, health, human spaceflight, interview, long duration human spaceflight, microgravity, physiology, science, stem
  • Episode 338: Long Duration Human Spaceflight- Part 1

    Episode  |  April 17th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  13 mins 15 secs
    exercise, exercise science, eyesight, health, human spaceflight, interview, long duration human spaceflight, microgravity, physiology, science, stem
  • Episode 337: Apollo 16, TESS, and a Programming Note

    Episode  |  April 16th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 35 secs

    Happy Monday everyone! I'm enjoying my vacation and spending it reading, writing, and preparing for a talk I'm giving on Thursday at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.

  • Episode 336: In the Pale Moonlight

    Episode  |  April 15th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 14 secs
    avery brooks, dart, deep space nine, ds9, mission failure, nasa, podcast, quark, scifi podcast, sisko, space podcast, star trek

    I hope all of you have a wonderful Sunday. I see that many of my listeners in the U.S. have had a fair amount of snow the past few days, I hope that all of you are warm and safe. Don't mind me while I enjoy an iced coffee out on a patio here in Colorado ;)

  • Episode 335: Dry Lakes and Columbia

    Episode  |  April 14th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  4 mins 42 secs
    columbia, dry lake, dry lakes, edwards afb, rogers dry lake, shuttle landing, shuttle program, space podcast, space shuttle

    Happy Saturday! Apologies for the delay getting yesterday's episode out. I'm not sure what was wrong, but everything worked alright today, so maybe it was just a weird Friday the 13th thing.

  • Episode 334: Apollo 13- Part 2

    Episode  |  April 13th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 54 secs
    apollo, apollo 13, apollo history, apollo mission, fred haise, history, jack swigert, jim lovell, ken mattingly, moon shot, nasa, nasa history, safety, space podcast, space podcasts

    Happy Friday/Saturday. I experienced some issues uploading on Friday the 13th, go figure, but it's available now. Check it out!

  • Episode 333: Vostok 1 and STS-1: First Flights

    Episode  |  April 12th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 27 secs
    astronauts, cosmonauts, first flight, gagarin, historical, history, john young, orbital, orbital spaceflight, parachute, r7, robert crippen, russia, shuttle flight, space history, space podcast, space podcasts, space race, space shuttle, sts1, vostok, vostok 1, yuri gagarin

    Apologies for how I sound today, my allergies are epically bad today. We've got some massive space history milestones, so check out today's episode!

  • Episode 332: Apollo 13- Part 1

    Episode  |  April 11th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 19 secs
    apollo, apollo 13, apollo history, apollo mission, fred haise, history, jack swigert, jim lovell, ken mattingly, moon shot, nasa, nasa history, space podcast, space podcasts

    I've got some background on Apollo 13 plus about 22 minutes of mission audio at the end of today's episode, give it a listen and send me any questions you have.

  • Episode 331: Commercial Space Roundup

    Episode  |  April 10th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 12 secs
    beam module, boeing, commercial cargo, commercial crew, commercial resupply, crs8, dragon, drone ship landing, falcon, falcon 9, nasa, nasa commercial partnership, ocisly, space podcast, space podcasts, spacex, starliner, virgin galactic, vss enterprise, vss unity

    Happy Tuesday! The audio at the end of the episode has a little noise, apologies for the temporary issue.

  • Episode 330: The Mercury Seven

    Episode  |  April 9th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  12 mins 58 secs
    alan shepard, astronaut group 1, astronauts, crewed spaceflight, deke slayton, gordon cooper, gus grissom, human spaceflight, john glenn, mercury, mercury seven, nasa history, press conference, project mercury, scott carpenter, space podcast, space podcasts, space race, wally schirra

    Happy Monday everyone! Check out today's episode for some cool historical audio :)