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 313: Gemini 3 and the Immolation of Mir

    Episode  |  March 23rd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 10 secs
    chinese space station, corned beef, enterprise, gemini, gemini 3, gus grissom, john young, mir, mir deorbit, molly brown, pop culture, space podcast, space podcasts, space race, space station, star trek, the next generation, titan ii, titan missile

    Happy Corned Beef Sandwich Day! A.k.a, John Young's flight on Gemini 3.

  • Episode 312: STS-3: No More White External Tanks

    Episode  |  March 22nd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 24 secs
    ariel mission, exoplanets, lousma, mir, shannon lucid, shuttle mir, space podcast, space podcasts, space shuttle, white sands, william shatner

    Two Shuttle flights, plus a birthday and a mission announcement. Download today's episode and get to listening!

  • Episode 311: Red Canyon- My Conversation With Barry Hamilton Part 2 (the Centennial Series Episode 1)

    Episode  |  March 21st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 51 secs
    aerospace, barry hamilton, centennial series, centennial state, colorado aerospace, colorado aerospace companies, conversation, interview, red canyon, space podcast, space podcasts

    I really enjoyed talking with Barry Hamilton, CEO of Red Canyon Engineering and Software today. Today's episode is part 2 of our conversation, I hope you've enjoyed this two-part series.

    Don't forget; you can reach me through email, [email protected]. Send questions, ideas, or comments to this email, and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 310: Red Canyon- My Conversation With Barry Hamilton (the Centennial Series Episode 1)

    Episode  |  March 20th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 31 secs
    aerospace, barry hamilton, centennial series, centennial state, colorado aerospace, colorado aerospace companies, conversation, interview, red canyon, space podcast, space podcasts

    I really enjoyed talking with Barry Hamilton, CEO of Red Canyon Engineering and Software today. Today's episode is part 1 of our conversation, so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss tomorrow's episode. Don't forget; you can reach me through email, [email protected]. Send questions, ideas, or comments to this email, and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 309: I’m Headed to Aerospace Day (Plus, a Demon and the ER-2)

    Episode  |  March 19th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  3 mins 42 secs
    airplanes, dodge demon, er2, high altitude, nasa, nasa er2 research plane, space podcast, space podcasts, u2

    Check out the show notes for today's episode. High altitude planes and wicked fast cars. It's a perfect combination. Happy Monday! Don't forget; you can reach me through email, [email protected]. Send questions, ideas, or comments to this email, and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 308: MESSENGER Enters Orbit

    Episode  |  March 18th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  7 mins 57 secs
    alexei leonov, eva, leonov, mercury, messenger, planetary science, rocket explosion, soviet space history, space history, space podcast, space podcasts, spacewalk

    Happy Sunday! Don't forget, you can reach me through email, [email protected]. Send questions, ideas, or comments to this email and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 307: Irwin, Mattingly, and Vanguard 1

    Episode  |  March 17th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 49 secs
    apollo 13, apollo 15, apollo 16, birthdays, cold war, geodesy, irwin, ken mattingly, mattingly, satellite, space podcast, space podcasts, vanguard, vanguard 1

    We've got some birthdays to celebrate today! Plus, an early mission that sent a satellite into space, that's still in orbit, sixty years later. Don't forget, you can reach me through email, [email protected]. Send questions, ideas, or comments to this email and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 306: Gemini 8- A Close Call

    Episode  |  March 16th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 52 secs
    agena, agena target vehicle, archival audio, armstrong, david scott, docking, falcon 9, first docking, gemini, gemini 8, gemini launch, mission audio, neil armstrong, project gemini, rendezvous, space podcast, space podcasts, spacex, titan ii

    The crew of Gemini 8 had a very close call. Check out today's episode for mission audio and for more detail about this flight. Don't forget, you can reach me through email, [email protected]. Send questions, ideas, or comments to this email and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 305: Discovery Delivers the Power and Forbidden Planet

    Episode  |  March 15th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 48 secs
    bat, bats, flying saucer, forbidden planet, iss, joe acaba, movie, movies, pop culture, scifi, scifi movies, solar array, solar panel, space bat, space podcast, space podcasts, sts 119

    Never forget Space Bat.

    You can reach me through email, [email protected]. Don't be shy, send questions, ideas, or comments to this email and I will respond to you! Thanks for reaching out :)

  • Episode 304: Hawking, Pi, and Schiaparelli

    Episode  |  March 14th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  9 mins
    discussion, hawking, mars, pi, pi day, pop culture, question, schiaparelli, space podcast, space podcasts, stephen hawking

    In Memoriam- Stephen Hawking.

  • Episode 303: The Fresh Prince of Voyager

    Episode  |  March 13th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  6 mins 1 sec
    crown prince, discovery, jordan, nasa history, protein crystal growth, science, science officer, shuttle, shuttle discovery, shuttle launch, shuttle program, space podcast, space podcasts, star trek, star trek voyager, tdrs, tdrs satellite, uss voyager

    Listen in to today's episode and find out about a member of a royal family that appeared on Star Trek: Voyager on this day in 1996. Have a great Tuesday!

  • Episode 302: The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle

    Episode  |  March 12th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 59 secs
    b52, drop test, falcon 9, iss, lifting body, nasa history, new glenn, parafoil, paraglider, space podcast, space podcasts, spacex, x38

    Happy Monday everyone! Lifting bodies are super cool, so check out today's episode and learn about a lifting body that landed with an uncommonly large parafoil parachute!

  • Episode 301: Pioneer 5 and Dextre

    Episode  |  March 11th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 43 secs
    space podcast, space podcasts
  • Episode 300: 300 Episodes!

    Episode  |  March 10th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 43 secs
    300 episodes, history, ice giant, ice giants, neptune, podcasting, space podcast, space podcasts, uranus, voyager, voyager 2

    Hey there, share The Space Shot with your friends and family and let me know about it. We're on a mission to share the wonders of space, history, and pop culture, so I've got something that will go along nicely since you're part of the podcasting crew ;) Check out Facebook for a picture of the mission patch for The Space Shot.

  • Episode 299: From Gagarin to Columbia

    Episode  |  March 9th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 21 secs
    birthday, gagarin, space history, space podcast, space podcasts, space race, yuri gagarin
  • Episode 298: International Women’s Day, Discovery, and Expedition 2

    Episode  |  March 8th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  5 mins 42 secs
    computer, computers, eva, hidden figures, iss, katherine johnson, peggy whitson, shuttle fllight, space podcast, space podcasts, space station, stem, stem education, susan helms, tereshkova, women in space, women in stem

    From today until Saturday, March 10th, share The Space Shot with your friends and family and let me know about it. I've got something fantastic for those of you that share the podcast and let me know you've done so. We're on a mission to share the wonders of space, history, and pop culture, so I've got something that will go along nicely since you're part of the podcasting crew ;)