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T+75: March Roundup
Episode 75
A few interesting documents have been released: the late-but-final 2018 appropriations, NASA’s lunar cargo lander request for information, and the pu…
8 years ago
T+74: Stagnation and Opportunity
Episode 74
NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot appeared in front of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee to discuss the 2019 NASA budget…
8 years ago
T+73: Commercial Crew Contingency Plans, and the End of ISS
Episode 73
NASA recently began talking about some contingency planning for potential Commercial Crew delays, and the end-of-ISS discussion is heating up.
This e…
8 years, 1 month ago
T+72: SpaceX’s Motivation for Falcon Heavy
Episode 72
SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy last week and shook up the space launch world. I spend some time thinking through SpaceX’s motivations for building Falc…
8 years, 1 month ago
T+71: Commercial Crew, Congress, and the GAO
Episode 71
The Commercial Crew program—NASA, SpaceX, Boeing, and more—went in front of Congress to discuss the current status of the crew launch systems in deve…
8 years, 2 months ago
T+70: Polar Launches from Cape Canaveral
Episode 70
The US Air Force has developed a viable corridor for launching to polar and other high-inclination orbits from Cape Canaveral. I spend some time thin…
8 years, 2 months ago
T+69: Robin Seemangal
Episode 69
Robin Seemangal joins me for a free-flowing discussion on the stories we found most important in 2017 and what we’re looking forward to in 2018, incl…
8 years, 3 months ago
T+68: Mike Lewis, CTO of NanoRacks
Episode 68
Mike Lewis, CTO of NanoRacks joins me to talk about what they’re working on today, as well as their big plans for the future, including their upcomin…
8 years, 3 months ago
T+67: Special Preview of MECO Headlines, December 1–8, 2017
Episode 67
A special preview of the MECO Headlines shows: Elon Musk kinda-sorta-maybe announces the Falcon Heavy demo payload, Russia and China carry out succes…
8 years, 3 months ago
T+66: A Visit to NanoRacks, and Virgin Orbit Books a Department of Defense Launch
Episode 66
I was in Houston last week and I visited NanoRacks for a bit. And Virgin Orbit piqued the interest of the Department of Defense, which has some inter…
8 years, 4 months ago