Talking Space returns after a hiatus to discuss the landing attempts by the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. First a successful soft landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost 1 mission on the plans of Mare Cr...
This time, our entire on-air team (as it existed on Sept. 19, 2023) again reminisces in Part 2 of the Talking Space retrospective about audience feedback, launch anomalies, podcast burnout, and more!
This time, our entire on-air team (as it existed on Sept. 19, 2023) reminisces about how Talking Space got started back in the earliest days of podcasting. Plus, much more!
EPA, TCEQ cite SpaceX with Starbase Clean Water Act violations. Talking Space has an in-depth analysis of the CNBC story and the SpaceX response.
NASA has tried to get Extra Vehicular Activity Number Ninety underway since June 13th. The first attempt was thwarted by a space suit comfort issue, the second by a water leak that created a blizzard of ice inside the Quest ...
Truly a GOES fest, with GOES-U Falcon Heavy launch audio and a total of FOUR launch day interviews by our own Mark Ratterman at KSC, including the NWS director.
“Starliner Stuck In Space!!!”, “Starliner Stranded at the ISS!!”, “Space-X To Rescue Starliner Crew!!!” These were the various outrageous headlines being thrown around by various space media outlets this week, concerning the ...
A quick special report on the status of the joint NASA/Boeing Starliner Mission based on a Blog Post prepared by NASA and Boeing for our listeners.
After years of development, testing, disappointment, and perseverance, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Willams took Boeing's CST 100 Starliner to the International Space Station for its first flight with a human crew. The team discusses all f...
This episode's got it all: geomagnetic storms causing brilliant auroras in equatorial latitudes, Starliner valve causing both delays and controversy -- and more! Have a listen, won't you?
In this episode: Two GEARS scientists discuss the recent GEARS experiment, space hygiene, and coping with the health challenges of long-duration missions.
We have a new Talking Space team member, Heather Smith; an update of the Mars Sample Return mission status from NASA as a response to the IRB; and the latest on the final Delta 4 Heavy flight.
Is the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) system becoming unglued? During the NAC Science Committee meeting on March 21st, there were significant questions about the Primary NAC and its ability to deliver recommendations to NASA's leadership expeditiously.
We have all the latest on Starship Flight 3, the last Delta IV Heavy and the fate of LC-37, and the upcoming April 8th total solar eclipse. And much more!
We review the successful Intuitive Machines IM-1 lunar lander mission, and Mark interviews award-winning artist Agnes Garbowska for her impressions of the IM-1 launch -- her first in-person launch experience. And, mucho space news...
Join us for a rollercoaster of emotions as we discuss the joy of the successful launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 Lunar Lander, as well as the heartache of the massive layoffs of employees and contractors at JPL.
Welcome to the First Talking Space of 2024! The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission is the second flight of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions. Its purpose is to have commercial entities be responsible for sending NASA science paylo...
First off, apologies are in order for our extended absence from your podcast-hungry ears. We try our best to record on a consistent basis, but sometimes there’s a perfect storm of Life Events getting in the way for the Talking Space team when it come...
There’s a lot going on this time around, as usual. First, in the news roundup: Starship: The Lawsuit pitting the Center for Biological Diversity against the FAA and SpaceX proceeded mostly as expected (with a notable exception). The FAA awaits the US...
So much has happened so fast in the last couple of weeks related to SpaceX’s pursuit of Starship’s Flight 2 launch license. Look at all these goings-on: September 10, 2023: The list of 63 corrective actions specified in the Mishap Investigation Repor...
This episode brings lots of Space news from around the globe, as well as from our own back yards. Literally. First off: both Sawyer and Mark witnessed the plasma trail from the latest Crew Dragon reentry from their own back yards. A photo that looks...
How many people outside the space community know about the Artemis Moon to Mars program? What do people who don’t follow spaceflight think of the current program? If given a chance, would YOU go to the Moon or Mars? Our guest, Nathan Price, is attemp...
ESA’s Aeolus earth observation satellite, launched in August 2018, ended its primary mission on July 28, 2023. It still had one final mission: a safe, fiery, controlled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere conducted by the European Space Agency flight c...
SpaceX’s effort to launch its second integrated test of Starship is likely facing a triple whammy of delays, including a new one that should really be of no surprise to the company. It certainly is no surprise to Eric Roesch, who joins us on this epi...