Podcasts about Commercial Crew Program

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 24:25 Transcription Available

In 2025, we're predicting a BIG year for human space progress! In this episode we're breaking down what we're looking forward to, and adding some of our own predictions as well. It's going to be a wild year with so much to follow, like SpaceX, Starship, NASA Artemis, the New pick for NASA Administrator, Crew Dragon, Boeing Starliner, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, space stations and more! Not to mention our thoughts on other Global space programs, including Russia, India, and China. This year will be one for the record books, we can feel it. Let's enjoy history as it's happening and dive into 2025 the year of human space progress! Happy New Year & May you find Mental and Physical Wealth this year Get 45% off the Magic Mind bundle with with my link: https://www.magicmind.com/SPACEJAN #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance Alex G. Orphanos Topics: human space progress, SpaceX Starship, stainless steel, orbital refueling, mental wealth, NASA Artemis, Crew Dragon, Boeing Starliner, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX launches, NASA strategy, space stations, space exploration, space technology Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:40 SpaceX's Starship and Its Impact on Human Space Progress 05:33 NASA's Role and the Commercial Crew Program 12:50 NASA Artemis and Future Space Missions 15:04 Global Space Programs and Predictions for 2025 19:41 AG3D Printing, The Part Detective, and Future Plans -------------------------- Here's to building a fantastic future - and continued progress in Space (and humanity)! Spread Love, Spread Science Alex G. Orphanos We'd like to thank our sponsors: AG3D Printing Follow us: @todayinspacepod on Instagram/Twitter @todayinspace on TikTok /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook Support the podcast: • Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop - ag3dprinting.etsy.com • Get a free quote on your next 3D printing project at ag3d-printing.com • Donate at todayinspace.net #space #rocket #podcast #people #spacex #eva #science #3dprinting #nasa #vanallenbelts #spacetravel #spaceexploration #spacecraft #technology #aerospace #spacetechnology #engineer #stem #artemis #polarisprogram #3dprinting #polarisdawn #astronaut #3dprinted #spacewalk #crewdragon #falcon9 #elonmusk #starship #superheavybooster #blueorigin #newglenn #rocket #jaredisaacman #nasaadministrator #nasahistory #spaceshuttle

October Space Update | SpaceX, Crew 9, Starlink, Starship & a Visible Comet growing a tail!

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 16:04 Transcription Available

We're back to start October for a Space Update! This week on Episode 359: Crew-9 successfully docked with the space station, marking a significant milestone for the Commercial Crew Program as Crew Dragon acts as backup to bring Suni & Butch home in Early 2025 Astronomy news | Comet C/2023-A3 Atlas is now visible, with its brightness increasing as it approaches perihelion (best time might be the last two weeks of October!) SpaceX's Starlink is aiding hurricane-affected areas (Hurricane Helene) with free internet services. Starship is assembled for Test Flight 5 and awaiting FAA approval for its fifth test flight. My thoughts on SpaceX & the FAA Heading to NYCC to compete in Veefriends TCG Championship! Topics: Crew 9, Starliner drama, Commercial Crew Program, visible comet, Comet a3, Starlink satellites, Hurricane Helene, SpaceX Starship, FAA approval, Mars mission, New York Comic Con, VeeFriends TCG, trading cards, cosplay, space update Sources: https://earthsky.org/space/comet-c-2023-a3-sep-oct-2024-tsuchinshan-atlas/ https://www.space.com/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-brightening-perihelion-how-to-see https://www.instagram.com/veefriendscards/p/DAYzKQeOdcJ/ https://www.spacex.com/updates/ https://x.com/ELGR3CO/status/1842607356611563936 Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:47 No more 'stranded Astronauts' Crew 9 at Space Station! 02:49 Astronomy news: Comet Atlas (A3) Visible in October! 05:40 SpaceX's Starlink and Hurricane Helene Releif 07:56 Starship and FAA Regulations 13:50 New York Comic Con and VeeFriends TCG Championship! -------------------------- Here's to building a fantastic future - and continued progress in Space (and humanity)! Spread Love, Spread Science Alex G. Orphanos We'd like to thank our sponsors: AG3D Printing Follow us: @todayinspacepod on Instagram/Twitter @todayinspace on TikTok /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook Support the podcast: • Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop - ag3dprinting.etsy.com • Get a free quote on your next 3D printing project at ag3d-printing.com • Donate at todayinspace.net • Try Magic Mind for added productivity & more well-balance and long lasting caffeine intake https://www.magicmind.com/TODAY20 #space #rocket #podcast #people #spacex #eva #science #3dprinting #nasa #vanallenbelts #spacetravel #spaceexploration #spacecraft #technology #aerospace #spacetechnology #engineer #stem #artemis #polarisprogram #3dprinting #polarisdawn #astronaut #3dprinted #spacewalk #crewdragon #falcon9 #elonmusk

A Stellar Human Spaceflight Summer with Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver 08/30/24

Closing Bell

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 27:27

From astronauts stuck at the I.S.S. to Blue Origin's latest suborbital spaceflight, it's been a big week for human spaceflight. Commercial players have dominated the skies since the development of the Commercial Crew Program—helping to kick off a new era of public-private partnerships in space. Lori Garver, NASA's former Deputy Administrator, was a key architect in the program. She joins Morgan Brennan to parse through how Boeing can recover from its latest Starliner struggles, Polaris Dawn's prospects of launch, and space policy come the November 2024 election.

A Stellar Human Spaceflight Summer with Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver 08/30/24

Manifest Space with Morgan Brennan

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 27:27

From astronauts stuck at the I.S.S. to Blue Origin's latest suborbital spaceflight, it's been a big week for human spaceflight. Commercial players have dominated the skies since the development of the Commercial Crew Program—helping to kick off a new era of public-private partnerships in space. Lori Garver, NASA's former Deputy Administrator, was a key architect in the program. She joins Morgan Brennan to parse through how Boeing can recover from its latest Starliner struggles, Polaris Dawn's prospects of launch, and space policy come the November 2024 election.

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The Boeing Starliner

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 20:18

This week we talk about the Falcon 9, the Saturn V, and NASA's bureaucracy.We also discuss Boeing's mishaps, the Scout system, and the Zenit 2.Recommended Book: What's Our Problem? by Tim UrbanTranscriptIn 1961, the cost to launch a kilogram of something into low Earth orbit—and a kilogram is about 2.2 pounds, and this figure is adjusted for inflation—was about $118,500, using the Scout, or Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system of rockets, which were developed by the US government in collaboration with LTV Aerospace.This price tag dropped substantially just a handful of years later in 1967 with the launch of the Saturn V, which was a staggeringly large launch vehicle, for the time but also to this day, with a carrying capacity of more than 300,000 pounds, which is more than 136,000 kg, and a height of 363 feet, which is around 111 meters and is about as tall as a 36-story building and 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.Because of that size, the Saturn V was able to get stuff, and people, into orbit and beyond—this was the vehicle that got humans to the Moon—at a dramatically reduced cost, compared to other options at the time, typically weighing in at something like $5,400 per kg; and again, that's compared to $118,500 per kg just 6 years earlier, with the Scout platform.So one of the key approaches to reducing the cost of lifting stuff out of Earth's gravity well so it could be shuffled around in space, in some rare cases beyond Earth orbit, but usually to somewhere within that orbit, as is the case with satellites and space stations, has been to just lift more stuff all at once. And in this context, using the currently available and time-tested methods for chucking things into space, at least, that means using larger rockets, or big rocket arrays composed of many smaller rockets, which then boost a huge vehicle out of Earth's gravity well, usually by utilizing several stages which can burn up some volume of fuel before breaking off the spacecraft, which reduces the amount of weight it's carrying and allows secondary and in some cases tertiary boosters to then kick in and burn their own fuel.The Soviet Union briefly managed to usurp the Saturn V's record for being the cheapest rocket platform in the mid-1980s with its Zenit 2 medium-sized rocket, but the Zenit 2 was notoriously fault-ridden and it suffered a large number of errors and explosions, which made it less than ideal for most use-cases.The Long March 3B, built by the Chinese in the mid-1990s got close to the Saturn V's cost-efficiency record, managing about $6,200 per kg, but it wasn't until 2010 that a true usurper to that cost-efficiency crown arrived on the scene in the shape of the Falcon 9, built by US-based private space company SpaceX.The Falcon 9 was also notable, in part, because it was partially reusable from the beginning: it had a somewhat rocky start, and if the US government hadn't been there to keep giving SpaceX contracts as it worked through its early glitches, the Falcon 9 may not have survived to become the industry-changing product that it eventually became, but once it got its legs under it and stopped blowing up all the time, the Falcon 9 showed itself capable of carrying payloads of around 15,000 pounds, which is just over 7000 kgs into orbit using a two-stage setup, and remarkably, and this also took a little while to master, but SpaceX did eventually make it common enough to be an everyday thing, the Falcon 9's booster, which decouples from the rocket after the first stage of the launch, can land, vertically, intact and ready for refurbishment.That means these components, which are incredibly expensive, could be reused rather than discarded, as had been the case with every other rocket throughout history. And again, while it took SpaceX some time to figure out how to make that work, they've reached a point, today, where at least one booster has been used 22 times, which represents an astonishing savings for the company, which it's then able to pass on to its customers, which in turn allows it to outcompete pretty much everyone else operating in the private space industry, as of the second-half of 2024.The cost to lift stuff into orbit using a Falcon 9 is consequently something like $2,700 per kg, about half of what the Saturn V could claim for the same.SpaceX is not the only company using reusable spacecraft, though.Probably the most well-known reusable spacecraft was NASA's Space Shuttle, which was built by Rockwell International and flown from the early 1980s until 2011, when the last shuttle was retired.These craft were just orbiters, not really capable of sending anyone or anything beyond low Earth orbit, and many space industry experts and researchers consider them to be a failure, the consequence of bureaucratic expediency and NASA budget cuts, rather than solid engineering or made-for-purpose utility—but they did come to symbolize the post-Space Race era in many ways, as while the Soviet, and then the successor Russian space program continued to launch rockets in a more conventional fashion, we didn't really see much innovation in this industry until SpaceX came along and started making their reusable components, dramatically cutting costs and demonstrating that rockets capable of carrying a lot of stuff and people could be made and flown at a relatively low cost, and we thus might be standing at the precipice of a new space race sparked by private companies and cash-strapped government agencies that can, despite that relatively lack of resources, compared to the first space race, at least, can still get quite a bit done because of those plummeting expenses.What I'd like to talk about today is a reusable spacecraft being made by another well-known aerospace company, but one that has had a really bad decade or so, and which is now suffering the consequences of what seems to have been a generation of bad decisions.—Boeing is a storied, sprawling corporation that builds everything from passenger jets to missiles and satellites.It's one of the US government's primary defense contractors, and it makes about half of all the commercial airliners on the planet.Boeing has also, in recent years, been at the center of a series of scandals, most of them tied to products that don't work as anticipated, and in some cases which have failed to work in truly alarming, dangerous, and even deadly ways.I did a bonus episode on Boeing back in January of this year, so I won't go too deep into the company's history or wave of recent problems, but the short version is that although Boeing has worked cheek-to-jowl with the US and its allies' militaries since around WWII, and was already dominating aspects of the burgeoning airline industry several decades before that, it merged with a defense contractor called McDonnell Douglas in the late-1990s, and in the early 2000s it began to reorganize its corporate setup in such a way that financial incentives began to influence its decision-making more than engineering necessities.In other words, the folks in charge of Boeing made a lot of money for themselves and for many of their shareholders, but those same decisions led to a lot of inefficiencies and a drop in effectiveness and reliability throughout their project portfolio, optimizing for the size of their bank account and market cap, rather than the quality of their products, basically.Consequently, their renowned jetliners, weapons offerings, and space products began to experience small and irregular, but then more sizable and damaging flaws and disruptions, probably the most public of which was the collection of issues built into their 737 MAX line of jets, two of which crashed in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people and resulting in the grounding of 387 of their aircraft.A slew of defects were identified across the MAX line by 2020, and an investigation by the US House found that employee concerns, reported to upper-management, went ignored or unaddressed, reinforcing the sense that the corporate higher-ups were disconnected from the engineering component of the company, and that they were fixated almost entirely on profits and their own compensation, rather than the quality of what they were making.All of which helps explain what's happening with one of Boeing's key new offerings, a partially reusable spacecraft platform called the Starliner.The Starliner went into early development in 2010, when NASA asked companies like Boeing to submit proposals for a Commercial Crew Program that would allow the agency to offload some of its human spaceflight responsibilities to private companies in the coming decades.One of the contract winners was SpaceX's Crew Dragon platform, but Boeing also won a contract with its Starliner offering in 2014, which it planned to start testing in 2017, though that plan was delayed, the first unmanned Orbital Flight Test arriving nearly 3 years later, at the tail-end of 2019, and even then, the craft experienced all sorts of technical issues along the way, including weak parachute systems, flammable tape, and valves that kept getting stuck.It was two more years before the company launched the second test flight, and there were more delays leading up to the Starliner's first Crew Flight Test, during which it would carry actual humans for the first time.That human-carrying flight launched on June 5 of 2024, and it carried two astronauts to the International Space Station—though it experienced thruster malfunctions on the way up, as it approached the ISS, and after several months of investigation, the Starliner capsule still attached to the Station all that time, it was determined that it was too risky for those two astronauts to return to Earth in the Starliner.That brings us to where we are now, a situation in which there are two astronauts aboard the ISS, in low Earth orbit, who were meant to stay for just over a week, but who will now remain there, stranded in space, for a total of around eight months, as NASA decided that it wasn't worth the risk putting them on the Starliner again until they could figure out what went wrong, so they'll be bringing Starliner back to earth, remotely, unmanned, and the stranded astronauts will return to Earth on a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft that is scheduled to arrived in September of this year, and which will return to Earth six months in the future; that craft was originally intended to have four astronauts aboard when it docks with the ISS, but two of those astronauts will be bumped so there will be room for the two who are stranded when it returns, next year.All of which is incredibly embarrassing for Boeing, which again, has already had a truly horrible double-handful of years, reputationally, and which now has stranded astronauts in space because of flaws in its multi-billion-dollar spacecraft, and those astronauts will now need to be rescued, by a proven and reliable craft built by its main in-space competitor, SpaceX.One of the key criticisms of NASA and the way it's operated over the past several decades, from the shuttle era onward, essentially, is that it's really great at creating jobs and honorable-sounding positions for bureaucrats, and for getting government money into parts of the country that otherwise wouldn't have such money, because that spending can be funneled to manufacturing hubs that otherwise don't have much to manufacture, but it's not great at doing space stuff, and hasn't been for a while; that's the general sense amongst many in this industry and connected industries, at least.This general state of affairs allowed SpaceX to become a huge player in the global launch industry—the dominant player, arguably, by many metrics—because it invested a bunch of money to make reusable spacecraft components, and has used that advantage to claim a bunch of customers from less-reliable and more expensive competitors, and then it used that money to fund increasingly efficient and effective products, and side-projects like the satellite-based internet platform, Starlink.This has been enabled, in part, by government contracts, but while Boeing and its fellow defense contractors, which have long been tight-knit with the US and other governments, have used such money to keep their stock prices high and to invest in lobbyists and similar relationship-reinforcing assets, SpaceX and a few similar companies have been stepping in, doing pretty much everything better, and have thus gobbled up not just the client base of these older entities, but also significantly degraded their reputations by showing how things could be done if they were to invest differently and focus on engineering quality over financial machinations; Boeing arguably should have been the one to develop the Falcon 9 system, but instead an outsider had to step in and make that happen, because of how the incentives in the space launch world work.One of the big concerns, now, is that Boeing will retreat from its contract with NASA, leaving the agency with fewer options in terms of ISS resupply and astronaut trips, but also in terms of longer-term plans like returning to the Moon and exploring the rest of the solar system.Lacking industry competition, NASA could become more and more reliant on just one player, or just a few, and that's arguably what led to the current situation with Boeing—its higher-ups knew they would get billions from the government on a regular basis whatever they did, no matter how flawed their products and delayed their timelines, and that led to a slow accretion of bad habits and perverse incentives.There's a chance the same could happen to SpaceX and other such entities, over time, if they're able to kill off enough of their competition so that they become the de facto, go to option, rather than the best among many choices, which they arguably are for most such purposes at the moment.And because Boeing seems unlikely to be able to fulfill its contract with NASA, which will necessitate flying six more Starliner missions to the ISS, before the International Space Station is retired in 2030, this raises the question of whether the company will move forward with the reportedly expensive investments that will be necessary to get its Starliner program up to snuff.It's already on the hook for about $1.6 billion just to pay for various delays and cost overruns the project has accrued up till this point, and that doesn't include all the other investments that might need to be made to fulfill that contract, so they could look at the short-term money side of this and say, basically, we're ceding this aspect of the aerospace world to younger, hungrier companies, and we'll just keep on collecting the reliable dollars we know we'll get from the US military each year, no questions asked.We could then see Boeing leave the race for what looks to be the next space-related government contract bonanza, which will probably be related to NASA's smaller, more modular space station ambitions; the ISS may get a second-wind and be maintained past 2030, but either way NASA is keen to hire private companies to launch larger craft into low Earth orbit for long-term habitation, supplies and crew for these mini space-stations shuttled back and forth by companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, the latter of which is a direct competitor to SpaceX owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Boeing has been tapped by Blue Origin to help keep their in-orbit assets supplied under that new paradigm, but it could be that they show themselves incapable of safely and reliably doing so, and that could open up more opportunities for other, smaller entities in this space, if they can figure out how to compete with the increasingly dominant SpaceX, but it could, again, also result in a new monopoly or monopsony controlled by just a few companies, which then over time will have to fight the urge to succumb to the save perverse incentives that seem to be weighing on Boeing.Show Noteshttps://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239132703/boeing-timeline-737-max-9-controversy-door-plughttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Starlinerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeinghttps://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/after-latest-starliner-setback-will-boeing-ever-deliver-on-its-crew-contract/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/science/nasa-boeing-starliner-astronauts.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_(rocket_family)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Vhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit-2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_3Bhttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-earth-orbithttps://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/history/saturn-v-rocket.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_orbiterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusable_spacecrafthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceplanehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9 This is a public episode. 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Il travagliato progetto della navicella Starliner

INSiDER - Dentro la Tecnologia

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2024 5:49

In questa seconda puntata estiva Matteo Gallo, autore del podcast, parlerà del Commercial Crew Program di Boeing e delle problematiche legate alla progettazione e produzione della navicella spaziale Starliner.La programmazione regolare riprenderà a Settembre.--Indice--00:00 - Introduzione00:30 - Il travagliato progetto della navicella Starliner (Matteo Gallo)04:57 - Conclusione--Contatti--• www.dentrolatecnologia.it• Instagram (@dentrolatecnologia)• Telegram (@dentrolatecnologia)• YouTube (@dentrolatecnologia)• redazione@dentrolatecnologia.it

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NASA's Boeing Starliner CFT Success! Astronauts Suni Williams & Butch Wilmore on ISS | Launch Breakdown

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 16:41 Transcription Available

The first week of June went HARD for Space - and for Human Spaceflight it was fully loaded! So many launches, including the success of Boeing's CFT Starliner that brought Astronauts Sunita Williams & Butch Wilmore! We break down what happened, why it was a success, and our thoughts on the Crew Test Flight. We really can't stress how important having TWO human-rated spacecraft for the US to launch from our own soil - and we do our best to tell that story with this episode. For those wondering - this is a good review of my thoughts on EVERYTHING Starliner CFT - so buckle up. Best of luck to Astronauts Suni & Butch on their return trip on 'Calipso' - their Starliner! Let us know what YOU thought about Boeing's Starliner Crew Test Flight - email us at todayinspacepodcast@gmail.com! Topics from the episode: spacecraft, astronauts, space, boeing, spacex, space station, orbit, launch, nasa, program, humans, leaks, space shuttle, test, iss, experienced, decisions, united launch alliance, crew, team We'd love to know your thoughts and questions! Email us at todayinspacepodcast@gmail.com SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/live/HneVxAmYcaA?si=htH7JFLrIH5s5gAJ https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/the-surprise-is-not-that-boeing-lost-commercial-crew-but-that-it-finished-at-all/ https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-helium-leaks-assessment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY96v0OIcK4 The 'Topics from the episode' above and the timestamps below for the episode were generated using AI (otter.ai) by processing the audio file. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:17 Boeing's Starliner launches Astronauts & docks with the ISS, despite challenges and delays. 05:55 NASA's Commercial Crew Program and its benefits for space exploration. 11:35 Boeing's Starliner spacecraft and its impact on space travel. -------------------------- Here's to building a fantastic future - and continued progress in Space (and humanity)! Spread Love, Spread Science Alex G. Orphanos We'd like to thank our sponsors: AG3D Printing Follow us: @todayinspacepod on Instagram/Twitter @todayinspace on TikTok /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook Support the podcast: • Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop - ag3dprinting.etsy.com • Get a free quote on your next 3D printing project at ag3d-printing.com • Donate at todayinspace.net #space #rocket #podcast #people #spacex #moon #science #3dprinting #nasa #tothemoon #spacetravel #spaceexploration #spacecraft #technology #aerospace #spacetechnology #engineer #stem #artemis #lunar #3dprinting #create #astronaut #solarpanel #spacestation

Boeing Starliner SCRUB Update

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2024 38:32

The Boeing Starliner, a next-generation spacecraft developed by Boeing, aims to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Designed to carry up to seven passengers, the Starliner represents a significant step forward in American spaceflight capabilities. Following a series of tests and an uncrewed orbital flight test in December 2019, which encountered some technical issues, Boeing has been working on addressing those problems to ensure a successful crewed mission. The spacecraft is intended to be reusable up to ten times, reducing the costs associated with space travel. As Boeing continues to refine the Starliner, it is poised to play a crucial role in re-establishing the United States' ability to independently send astronauts into space, a capability that was lost with the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

Steve Bowen on Pioneering the New Dawn of Space Exploration EP 448

Passion Struck with John R. Miles

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 59:49

https://passionstruck.com/passion-struck-book/—Order a copy of my new book, "Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life," today! The book was picked by the Next Big Idea Club as a must-read for 2024, the winner of the Business Business Minds Best Book 2024, and a finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award for best debut novel.Steve Bowen, a celebrated NASA astronaut with a background as a United States Naval Submariner, offers a captivating account of his transition from the deep seas to the outer reaches of space. With a career that spans conducting spacewalks to commanding SpaceX Crew 6, Steve emphasizes the crucial roles of teamwork, adaptability, and resilience in successful space missions. Additionally, Steve shares his unique perspective on Earth's fragility viewed from space, underscoring our collective responsibility to preserve our planet.Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://passionstruck.com/steve-bowen-on-the-new-dawn-of-space-exploration/In this episode, you will learn:The importance of challenging oneself and continuously learning to unlock new opportunities.The significance of teamwork, adaptability, and resilience in space exploration.The fragility of Earth from space and the interconnectedness of life on the planet.The experience of spacewalks, including witnessing a meteorite entering the atmosphere and unique observations from space, is discussed.The dangerous situation during Luca Parmitano's spacewalk with Chris Cassidy is highlighted, emphasizing the importance of training and quick thinking in critical situations.The experience of having his crewmates reassigned to Chris Cassidy's mission, showcasing the unpredictability of crew assignments in space missions.All things Astronaut Steve Bowen: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/stephen-g-bowen/SponsorsBrought to you by Indeed. Head to https://www.indeed.com/passionstruck, where you can receive a $75 credit to attract, interview, and hire in one place.Brought to you by Nom Nom: Go Right Now for 50% off your no-risk two week trial at https://trynom.com/passionstruck.Brought to you by Cozy Earth. Cozy Earth provided an exclusive offer for my listeners. 35% off site-wide when you use the code “PASSIONSTRUCK” at https://cozyearth.com/This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/PASSIONSTRUCK, and get on your way to being your best self.This episode is brought to you By Constant Contact: Helping the Small Stand Tall. Just go to Constant Contact dot com right now. So get going, and start GROWING your business today with a free trial at Constant Contact dot com.--► For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to:https://passionstruck.com/deals/Catch More of Passion StruckWatch my interview with Captain 'Chris' Cassidy On The Importance In Life Of Being Present Can't miss my episode with Former Astronaut Wendy Lawrence On How To Dream The Dream You WantMy interview with Astronaut Mike Massimino On Applying Lessons From Space To Daily LifeListen to my interview with Astronaut Kayla Barron On How To Be The Best Version Of YourselfMy solo episode on How Life Lessons From Sailing Lead To Success And GrowthCheck Out my episode with Astronaut Nicole Stott On Back To EarthLike this show? Please leave us a review here-- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally!How to Connect with JohnConnect with John on Twitter at @John_RMiles and on Instagram at @john_R_Miles.Subscribe to our main YouTube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnRMilesSubscribe to our YouTube Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@passionstruckclips

NASA's 1st Crewed Starliner Mission launching May 6th! CST-100 Astronauts Suni Williams & Butch Wilmore to ISS

Discover Daily by Perplexity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 18:00 Transcription Available

In this episode, we prepare for next week's human space launch of Boeing's Starliner, the first Crewed mission for Altas V & the CST-100 spacecraft! This is the culmination of the investment NASA & US taxpayers put into the Commercial Crew Program. Two human-rated spacecraft were given contracts to test & evenutally fly human beings to the ISS. SpaceX Crew Dragon already flies to the ISS regularly with Astronauts & supplies, and Boeing's Starliner is ready to have its first crewed mission! It's been a long road, and much controversy over the years - even beginning at the start of Commercial Crew when only two companies were chosen there was a rift that unfolded in the space industry. I share my thoughts on the whole endeavor in the hopes that we can learn something and be better off for the future. It's also a good time to contemplate how grateful we should be that the US is close to having full redundency for human launch capability to the ISS. In a world where not long ago we relied fully on Russia's Soyuz to send humans to the ISS, what would have happened if NASA and the US never invested in American Spacecraft that launch on American soil in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine? 5-10 years ago, this would have meant the end of the ISS. Let us know what YOU think! We'd love to hear from you. Email us at todayinspacepodcast@gmail.com Topics from the episode: spacecraft, boeing, space, astronauts, spacex, iss, commercial crew program, launch, humans, atlas, crew, 3d printing, orbit, soyuz, nasa SOURCES: https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2024/may/rocket-launch-ula-boeing-crewed-flight-test-cft https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-cleared-launch-crew-flight-test https://www.space.com/news/live/boeing-starliner-oft-2-live-updates https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/boeings-starliner-makes-progress-ahead-of-flight-test-with-astronauts/ https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/what-you-need-to-know-about-nasas-boeing-orbital-flight-test-2-2/ The 'Topics from the episode' above and the timestamps below for the episode were generated using AI (otter.ai) by processing the audio file. Timestamps: 00:00 Boeing's upcoming crewed flight test of the CST-100 spacecraft. 05:04 NASA's Boeing Starliner spacecraft challenging road to the ISS with Crew 11:51 NASA's new human-rated spacecraft, Boeing Starliner, and its significance for America's space program. ----------------- Here's to building a fantastic future - and continued progress in Space (and humanity)! Spread Love, Spread Science Alex G. Orphanos We'd like to thank our sponsors: AG3D Printing Magic Mind (magicmind.com use code TODAYINSPACE20 for 20% OFF or up to 56% off subscription) Follow us: @todayinspacepod on Instagram/Twitter @todayinspace on TikTok /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook Support the podcast: MAGIC MIND (magicmind.com/learn) AND use my code: TODAYINSPACE20 More ways to support us: • Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop - ag3dprinting.etsy.com • Get a free quote on your next 3D printing project at ag3d-printing.com • Donate at todayinspace.net #space #rocket #podcast #spacex #moon #science #3dprinting #nasa #boeing #spacetravel #spaceexploration #spacestation #spacecraft #technology #commercialcrew #boeingstarliner #starliner #iss #aerospace #spacetechnology #engineer #stem #artemis

Episode 1606: Delta 4 Heavy Recap; Coping with Mars Sample Return Budget

Talking Space

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2024 34:37

Welcome to another episode of Talking Space, where we bring you the latest updates on space exploration and technology. In this episode, we're excited to introduce our new team member, Heather Smith, who brings her passion for space to our discussions. Welcome, Heather! The episode kicks off with news about Slovenia signing the Artemis Accords. These accords outline best practices for sustainable space exploration and Slovenia is the third European country to sign them in less than a week, closely following Switzerland and Sweden. Next, we delve into the Mars Sample Return Mission. This ambitious mission aims to bring back samples from Mars to Earth. However, escalating costs and potential impacts on other missions have presented challenges. What will the mission team do to cope with a much lower budget and still retrieve the samples? The answer lies within this episode. We also bring you updates on the upcoming crewed flight test of the Boeing Starliner. The spacecraft, aptly named Calypso, has already participated in the first two orbital flight tests. We eagerly look forward to its launch, planned for May 6th. Talking Space plans to be there! Wrapping up the episode, we present an enlightening interview with Rosa Banuelos, a Boeing Senior Communications Specialist for the Starliner program, and Steven Siceloff, NASA's Commercial Crew Program and ISS Program Lead Public Affairs Officer at Kennedy Space Center. Steven and Mark also provide interesting insights into the Atlas V rocket, the vehicle that will carry Starliner to space. Please be sure to let us know your thoughts on the topics we discuss. You can always reach us at mailbag@TalkingSpaceOnline.com. You now have a way to easily send us a voice recording that we may use on the show: just click on the blue microphone icon at the bottom right of any page at TalkingSpaceOnline.com. Show recorded 04-21-2024. Host: Larry Herrin Panelist(s): Mark Ratterman, Heather Smith (Gene Mikulka, Dr. Kat Robison and Sawyer Rosenstein will return) Podcast Editor: Larry Herrin Delta 4 Heavy NROL-70 poster – website photo credit: NRO

NASA's Crew-8 Mission, Apple's Latest Strategy, and AI's Environmental Dilemma

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 4:12 Transcription Available

In this episode of Discover Daily, we embark on a cosmic journey with NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the ISS, explore Apple's move towards digital product announcements, and tackle the pressing environmental concerns of AI's thirst for resources in Arizona. For more on these stories:NASA Crew-8 mission launchApple may skip spring eventAI depletes Arizona's water sourcesPerplexity is the fastest and most powerful way to search the web. Perplexity crawls the web and curates the most relevant and up-to-date sources (from academic papers to Reddit threads) to create the perfect response to any question or topic you're interested in. Take the world's knowledge with you anywhere. Available on iOS and Android Join our growing Discord community for the latest updates and exclusive content. Follow us on: Instagram Threads X (Twitter) YouTube Linkedin

Boeing Starliner Delayed Again. SpaceX Taking up the slack

Not Your Average Bucket List

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 7:02

In a recent press conference, Boeing's Vice President and Starliner manager, Mark Nappi, announced a potential readiness of their spacecraft by early March. However, he emphasized that this doesn't guarantee a March launch. The forthcoming dates will be finalized in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the International Space Station (ISS), and United Launch Alliance (ULA). The Starliner was initially set for a July 21 launch, intending to transport NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore to the ISS. But an unexpected twist came weeks before the launch when Boeing declared an indefinite postponement, following the emergence of two significant safety challenges. Since these setbacks, both Boeing and NASA have reportedly rectified the capsule's safety issues. Steve Stich, the head of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, conveyed that multiple independent review layers have been established to address and overcome these complications. One of the major concerns was related to the load capacity of Starliner's trio of parachutes. Tests showed that their failure load limits were below expected, suggesting that if one parachute failed, the remaining duo might not slow the spacecraft adequately for its New Mexico landing.

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SpaceX Competitor - Boeings Starliner Faces HUGE Delays

Elon Musk Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 7:02

In a recent press conference, Boeing's Vice President and Starliner manager, Mark Nappi, announced a potential readiness of their spacecraft by early March. However, he emphasized that this doesn't guarantee a March launch. The forthcoming dates will be finalized in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the International Space Station (ISS), and United Launch Alliance (ULA). The Starliner was initially set for a July 21 launch, intending to transport NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore to the ISS. But an unexpected twist came weeks before the launch when Boeing declared an indefinite postponement, following the emergence of two significant safety challenges. Since these setbacks, both Boeing and NASA have reportedly rectified the capsule's safety issues. Steve Stich, the head of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, conveyed that multiple independent review layers have been established to address and overcome these complications. One of the major concerns was related to the load capacity of Starliner's trio of parachutes. Tests showed that their failure load limits were below expected, suggesting that if one parachute failed, the remaining duo might not slow the spacecraft adequately for its New Mexico landing.

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The 10 Best Things To Do In Florida - August 2023

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 9:20

Are you ready for an exciting journey through Florida's beautiful (and HOT) state as we unveil the top ten must-visit attractions and events for August 2023? Whether you're a local resident seeking new adventures or planning a visit to the Sunshine State, this series will serve as your ultimate guide to the most captivating experiences that await you. Florida's diverse offerings, from stunning beaches to vibrant cities and unique natural wonders, promise many activities for everyone to enjoy. So, are you ready to explore the 10 Best Things To Do in Florida in August 2023? Let's dive right.1. Go natural spring hopping around Central Florida.2. Indulge in some of the best Vietnamese food in the state at Tâm Tâm.3. Enjoy a NASA Space Launch for the next Commercial Crew Program - 8/154. Head to the Volcano Bay water park to keep cool!5. Attend Miami Spice month! August + September6. Snorkel or Dive near the Alligator Reef Light House in Islamorada7. Bike Shark Valley in Everglades National Park8. Get ready to feast on Schnitzel at The New Schnitzel House9. Spend some time exploring the beaches of Venice10. Hike or bike the Jungle Trail in Vero BeachFor the full breakdown of all of these events, including when and where to go, check out our feature article on OnlyInYourState: The 10 Best Things To Do In Florida In August 2023.

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SpaceX Crew-7 – Interview with Pilot Andreas Mogensen

Your Space Journey

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2023 10:51

We're just a few weeks away for the Crew-7 mission, the seventh operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX's Crew Dragon is a reusable spacecraft designed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. It is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which aims to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the ISS. Crew Dragon is capable of carrying up to seven astronauts and is equipped with advanced features such as touch screen controls, an environmental control and life support system, and a launch escape system. The spacecraft is launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket and returns to Earth by splashing down in the ocean. Since its first crewed flight in May 2020, Crew Dragon has successfully transported multiple crews to the ISS, including the upcoming Crew-7 mission. This mission will transport four astronauts to the International Space Station: Jasmin Moghbeli from NASA, Andreas Mogensen from ESA (European Space Agency), Satoshi Furukawa from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Konstantin Borisov from Roscosmos. The launch is currently targeted for August 17th and will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this episode I'm pleased to present my recent interview with Crew 7 pilot Andreas Mogensen. This will be his second trip to space, following his 10-day ISS mission in 2015 where he became the first Danish citizen in space. During the Crew-7 mission, Andreas will be responsible for the spacecraft's performance and systems, and will become the first European to serve as the pilot of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. In addition, Andreas will take over as Station Commander of the ISS in September. In this interview, we will discuss Andreas' role in the Crew-7 mission, his passion for space exploration, and some of the experiments that he will conduct on board the International Space Station during the 6-month mission. For more info, visit Nasa.gov Esa.int ——————————————————————

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Dress Rehearsals

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Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023

Dress rehearsals are paving the way for Starliner's first crewed flight, which will carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew program.

Returning Home: Crew-5 Splashes Down Safely After 157 Days in Space

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 8:02

In this episode of The Space News Pod, we cover the safe return of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission, which completed the agency's fifth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of four spent 157 days in orbit, conducting critical science experiments and technology demonstrations that will help pave the way for our return to the Moon and future deep space missions. We discuss the crew's accomplishments during their mission, including the installation of new solar arrays and testing of hydroponic and aeroponic techniques to grow plants without soil. We also touch on the importance of innovation and the development of new technologies to support long-term human space exploration, as well as the role of the Commercial Crew Program in advancing spaceflight. Tune in to learn more about the successful return of the Crew-5 mission and its significance for the future of space exploration.

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NASA SpaceX Crew-6 liftsoff from Kennedy Space Center

Carolina Weather Group

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2023 49:49

WATCH THE LAUNCH: https://youtube.com/live/P18eIyVIuGE?feature=share WATCH OUR ON-LOCATION SPECIAL: https://youtube.com/live/WsSlxaHmh70?feature=share Crew members assigned to NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission are in orbit following their successful launch to the International Space Station at 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The international crew are the agency's sixth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, along with United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, for a science expedition aboard the space station. “Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams for another history-making mission to the International Space Station! The Commercial Crew Program is proof American ingenuity and leadership in space benefits all of humanity – through groundbreaking science, innovative technology, and newfound partnership,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Crew-6 will be busy aboard the International Space Station, conducting over 200 experiments that will help us to prepare for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as well as improve life here on Earth. We look forward to seeing all that they accomplish.” During Dragon's flight, SpaceX will monitor a series of automatic spacecraft maneuvers from its mission control center in Hawthorne, California, and NASA teams will monitor space station operations throughout the flight from the Mission Control Center at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Dragon will dock autonomously to the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module around 1:17 a.m., Friday, March 3. NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website will provide live coverage of docking and hatch opening. NASA TV also will cover the ceremony to welcome the crew aboard the orbital outpost about 3:40 a.m. Once aboard station, Crew-6 will join the Expedition 68, consisting of NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada, as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina. For a short time, the 11 crew members will live and work in space together until Crew-5 members Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina return to Earth a few days later. Conducting new scientific research, Crew-6 will help prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and benefit life on Earth. Experiments will include studies of how particular materials burn in microgravity, tissue chip research on heart, brain, and cartilage functions, and an investigation that will collect microbial samples from the outside of the space station. These are just some of the hundreds of science experiments and technology demonstrations that will take place during their mission.  “For more than two decades, humans have continuously lived and worked aboard the International Space Station,” said Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate in Washington. “Commercial Crew Program missions like Crew-6 are essential so we can continue to maximize the important research possible only in the space station's unique microgravity environment. Congratulations to the NASA and SpaceX teams on a successful launch! I am looking forward to seeing the crew safely aboard the station.” The Crew-6 mission enables NASA to maximize use of the space station, where astronauts have lived and worked continuously for more than 22 years testing technologies, performing science, and developing the skills needed to operate future commercial destinations in low-Earth orbit and explore farther from Earth. Research conducted on the space station provides benefits for --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message

WHAT THE TRUCK?!? EP536 NASA's sustainability takes flight; University of Arkansas supply chain students soar

FreightCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2023 55:24

On today's episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to NASA about its $425 million partnership with Boeing to build, test and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft and validate technologies aimed at lowering emissions.The University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business takes us inside the world of supply chain higher education as we meet the students and educators tasked with creating the next generation of supply chain leaders. You won't want to miss this if you're a student or are looking to get a master's in supply chain management!Plus, trucking moms; AI versus ATA; in-cab kitchens; cotton candy filled with narcotics; and the mystery of the stolen gorilla. With special guests Sarah Waechter, partner manager at NASA's Commercial Crew Program; Brent Cobleigh, chief of staff at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center; and Brian Fugate and David Dobrzykowski of the University of Arkansas. Visit our sponsorWatch on YouTubeSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

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NASA's sustainability takes flight; University of Arkansas supply chain students soar

What The Truck?!?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2023 55:24

On today's episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to NASA about its $425 million partnership with Boeing to build, test and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft and validate technologies aimed at lowering emissions.The University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business takes us inside the world of supply chain higher education as we meet the students and educators tasked with creating the next generation of supply chain leaders. You won't want to miss this if you're a student or are looking to get a master's in supply chain management!Plus, trucking moms; AI versus ATA; in-cab kitchens; cotton candy filled with narcotics; and the mystery of the stolen gorilla. With special guests Sarah Waechter, partner manager at NASA's Commercial Crew Program; Brent Cobleigh, chief of staff at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center; and Brian Fugate and David Dobrzykowski of the University of Arkansas. Visit our sponsorWatch on YouTubeSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

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The Crew-5 Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 48:35

The Crew-5 astronauts discuss their individual journeys that brought them together on the upcoming fifth crew rotation of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 259.

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Ep. 259: The Crew-5 Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022

The Crew-5 astronauts discuss their individual journeys that brought them together on the upcoming fifth crew rotation of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 259.

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The Crew-5 Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022

The Crew-5 astronauts discuss their individual journeys that brought them together on the upcoming fifth crew rotation of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 259.

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The Crew-5 Astronauts

Faster, Please! â€” The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022

The Crew-5 astronauts discuss their individual journeys that brought them together on the upcoming fifth crew rotation of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 259.

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 31:36

Almost 50 years ago, in December 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of the Apollo program. In the half-century since, no crewed mission — not Americans nor anyone else — has ventured beyond low Earth orbit. Despite a series of presidential promises, NASA has yet to return to the Moon, let alone venture to Mars. And despite recent declines in launch costs, thanks in large part to SpaceX, NASA remains in many ways committed to the old, Apollo-style way of doing things. To learn more about why NASA's manned missions always seem to run over budget and behind schedule — and to get a sense of the way forward with commercial space companies — I'm speaking with Lori Garver.Garver was previously Deputy Administrator of NASA during the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2013. Previously, she worked at NASA from 1996 to 2001 as a senior policy analyst. Garver is the founder of Earthrise Alliance, an initiative to better use space data to address climate change. She also appears in the 2022 Netflix documentary Return to Space. Her fascinating memoir, published in June, is Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.James Pethokoukis: In December of this year, it will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 splashdown and the end of the Apollo program. Humanity has been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since. And for a while, the United States couldn't even get to low Earth orbit on its own. What happened to all the dreams that people had in the ‘60s that just sort of disappeared in 1972?Lori Garver: I think the dreamers are still out there. Many of them work on the space program. Many of them have contributed to the programs that we had post-Apollo. The human space flight program ended and took that hiatus. [But] we've been having, in the United States a very robust and leading space program ever since Apollo. For human space flight, I think we got off track, as I outline in my book, by really trying to relive Apollo. And trying to fulfill the institutions and congressional mandates that were created for Apollo, which were too expensive to continue with more limited goals. The Nixon administration actually had the right idea with the Space Shuttle. They said the goal was to reduce the cost of getting to and from space.Money was no object for a while.When you have your program tied to a national goal, like we did in Apollo of beating the Russians and showing that a democratic system was a better way to advance society and technology and science, we built to a standard that tripled the budget every couple years in the early days. We [NASA] then had to survive on a budget about half the size of the peak during Apollo and have never been able to really readjust the infrastructure and the cost to sustain it. So I'd say our buying power was greatly reduced.We'll talk about government later in the interview, but to some degree, isn't this a failure of society? If politicians had sensed a yearning desire from the American public to continue moving out further in space, would we have done it?It's hard to know how we measure public support for something like that because there's no voting on it per se. And there are so few congressional districts whose members are really focused on it. So the bills that come up in Congress are funding bills. NASA is buried among many other agencies. And so I think the yearning on the part of the public is a little more diffuse. What we want to see is the United States being a leader. We want to see us doing things that return to our economy, and we want to see things that help our national security. Those are the ways space contributes to society. And I think what we got off track in doing is delivering hardware that was built in certain people's districts instead of being a purpose-driven program as it was in Apollo.Even though the Space Shuttle wasn't going to fly to the Moon, people were really pretty excited by it. I'm not sure polls always capture how interested people are in space.We don't really gauge based on people who are attending launches. As someone who's been to a lot of launches, there are lots of people enthused. But that's not 300 million people in the country. I think that polls tend to show, as compared to what? And NASA tends to be at the bottom of a list of national priorities. But, of course, its budget isn't very large. So these are all things that we try to evaluate. I think if you believe that network news was able to track public interest, by the time of the Challenger accident — which was only the 25th shuttle launch — they weren't showing them live anymore. So that's the kind of thing that you can look into. We really like things the first time. And those first couple missions were very exciting. Or if we did something unique, like fix the Hubble Space Telescope, that was interesting. But we had 134 missions, and not every one of those got a lot of publicity.I saw you in the fantastic Return to Space documentary, and you had a great statistic saying that basically it cost about a billion dollars for every astronaut that we sent to space. Was there just fundamentally not an interest in reducing that cost? Did we not know how to do it? Was it just how government contracts [worked]? Why did it stay so expensive for so long?A combination of all those things plays into it. It's about the incentives. These were government cost-plus contracts that incentivize you to take longer and spend more, because you get more money the longer it takes. If you've worked in any private sector, they want to expand their own profits. And that's understandable. The government wasn't a smart buyer. And we also really like to focus on maybe doing something exquisite or a new technology instead of reducing the cost. [It's a] really interesting comparison to the Russian program where they just kept doing the same thing and it costs a little less. The Space Shuttle, we wanted it to be reusable. But it cost as much to refurbish it as it would have to rebuild. It wasn't until recently that we've had these incentives reversed and said, “We will buy launches from the private sector, and therefore they have the incentive to go and reduce the cost.” That's really what's working.If you look at what presidents were saying, they certainly still seem to be interested. We had the George H.W. Bush administration: He announced a big plan to return us to the Moon and Mars. I think it was like about a $500 billion plan. What happened to that? That was the Space Exploration Initiative?SEI, yes. I go into this in the book because, to me, it is really important that we not forget how many times presidents have given us similar goals. Because you come in, and I was the lead on the Obama transition for NASA. I was outgoing in the Clinton administration for NASA, leading the policy office, and supported lots of those Republican presidents in between in their space proposals. Never met a president who didn't love NASA and the human space flight program. They have various levels of success in getting what they want achieved. I think the first President Bush tried very hard to reduce the cost and to be more innovative. But the NASA bureaucracy fought him on that quite vociferously.Why would they? Wouldn't they see that it would be in NASA's long-term interest for these missions to be cheaper, more affordable?It was not dissimilar to my time at NASA in that the administrator was a former astronaut. And they didn't really come there with a mandate to do much other than support the existing program and people at the agency. When you're at NASA and you just want to do the same thing, you don't want to take a risk to change what you're doing. You want to keep flying your friends, and you have really come to this position because other people did the same thing as well. I call it, in the book, the “giant, self-licking ice-cream cone,” because it's this sugar high that everyone in it has. But it doesn't allow for as much progress.So no one anywhere really had an incentive to focus on efficiency and cost control. The people in Congress who were super interested, I imagine, were mostly people who had facilities in their districts and they viewed it as a jobs program.Yes. And they want contracts going to those jobs. Really, the administration, the president, is the one who tends to want a more valuable, efficient, effective space program. And within this, throughout the last decades, they've had a bit of tension with their own heads of NASA to get them to be more efficient Because Congress wants more of these cost-plus contracts in their district, the industry likes making the money, and the people at NASA tend to say, “Well, I might be going to work in one of those industry jobs down the road. So why do I want to make them mad?”It's really a fairly familiar story, despite sort of the interesting, exotic nature of space. It could be … banking and financial regulation, where you have the sort of a revolving door…That's what's difficult. And for me, I think writing the book was challenging for some of the people within the program to have this out there, because NASA is seen as above all that. And we should be above all that. What's a little ironic is to the extent that we're above all that, it's because we've now finally gotten to a point where there are some private-sector initiatives and there's more of a business case to be made for human space flight. Whereas previously, it was just the government so the only reason was this self-licking ice-cream cone.So we had the first Bush administration, they had this big, expansive idea. Then … canceled— right? —by President Clinton?Really by Congress. Congress did not fund president H.W. Bush's Space Exploration Initiative. But the tension was between what his space council wanted to do — which was led by Vice President Quayle — and what NASA wanted to do. A couple years in, he fired his head of NASA, brought in someone new, Dan Goldin. Dan Goldin was the head of NASA then for 10 years. The Clinton administration kept him, and the second Bush administration kept him for the first year. He drove a lot of this change. And as I talk about in the book, I worked there under him and eventually was his head of policy. And really, he was trying to infuse these incentives well before we were successful in doing this with SpaceX.So then we had the second Bush presidency, and we had another big idea for space. What was that idea, and what happened to that?We had the Columbia accident, which caused the second President Bush to have to look at human space flight again and say, "You know, we need to retire the shuttle and set our sights, again, farther." And this was the Moon-Mars initiative, it was referred to as the Vision for Space Exploration. Again, we had a change of NASA administrator under him. And I truly believe if you look, the changes aren't as much driven by presidents as they are heads of NASA. So it's who do you appoint and how long do they last? Because President Bush, it changed with his second administrator to be this program called Constellation, which was a big rocket to take us back to the Moon. Government owned and operated.So we were talking about how the legacy of Apollo has just loomed large over the program for decades. And this is another good example of that?This was referred to as “Apollo on steroids.” That is what the head of NASA wanted to do, and for a lot of good reasons, including because he knew he could get the congressional support for the districts, for the contracts that were typical for the time. You could use the NASA centers that already existed. This was never going to be efficient. But this was going to get a budget passed.Was there a real expectation that this would work? Or was this fundamentally a way of propping up this sort of industrial jobs complex infrastructure?I struggle with this question because I believe that the people creating these programs are very smart and are aware that when they say they're going to be able to do something for this amount of money and so forth, they know they can't. But they clearly feel it's the right thing to do anyway, because if they can get the camel's nose under the tent, they can continue to spend more money and do it.“Let's just keep it going, keep the momentum going.”Yes.When did we decide that just kind of redoing Apollo wasn't going to work and we need to do something different and we need to try to bring in the commercial [sector]?I take it back to the 1990s under Dan Goldin. As head of NASA, he started a program that was a partnership with industry. It was going to be a demonstration of a single-stage reusable launch system. Lockheed Martin happened to win it. It was called the X-33. They planned to develop a fully reusable vehicle that would be called VentureStar, but it ran into technical problems. They were trying to push doing more. And the Space Shuttle was still flying, so there weren't these incentives to keep it going. They canceled the program. Lockheed wasn't going to pick it up. The dot-com bubble burst. The whole satellite market that was going to be where they got most of their money — because the premise is “NASA just wants to be one customer, not pay for the whole system.” So really, the second Bush administration in the same post-Shuttle Columbia accident policy initiative said, “We are going to …” — again, very consistent with previous presidents, but again said — “… use the private sector to help commercialize and lower costs.” And the first Bush administration did that with a program — not for people, but for cargo — to the International Space Station. SpaceX won one of those contracts in 2006. So when I came back in 2008, and then 2009 with our first budget request, we asked for money for the crew element, meaning taking astronauts to the space station to also be done privately. Most people hated that idea at first.I've seen a video of a hearing, and a lot of senators did not like this idea. Apollo astronauts did not like this idea. Why did people not like this idea?Well, let's see: There were tens of billions of dollars of contracts already let to Constellation contractors. And this meant canceling Constellation. Because the first part of that, although it was designed (at least in theory) to go back to the Moon, it was going to take us to and from the space station. But the program in the first four years, had slipped [to] five years. It was costing a couple billion dollars a year. And again, we're still sort of doing that program. And maybe we'll get to that.I don't think it ever really goes away.The Commercial Crew Program, we were able to carve out enough dollars to get it started. And this was not something that was easy. It was not something I think most people in the Senate, or the former Apollo astronauts who testified against us, thought was possible. I think there was just this sense — and again, Elon and SpaceX was very, very likely to be the winners of these competitions. People just didn't believe he could do it.They thought only government could do something this spectacular. Elon Musk encountered a lot of skepticism from astronauts. And he found this personally and emotionally really hurtful, to see these astronauts be skeptical. To be charitable, they were skeptical.I did too. I knew them, and I knew that they thought the policies I was driving were wrongheaded. Gene Cernan said it would lead to the end of America as we know it, the future of his grandchildren were at stake. So these were not easy things to hear. And I'm often asked, why did I even believe it would work? Well, let's face it, nothing else had worked. It had been 50 years since Apollo! And we hadn't done it, as you said in the opening of the program. We also know that in every other aspect of transportation or large initiatives that the government takes on, the idea isn't to have the government own and operate them. We didn't do that with the airlines. So this was inevitable, and the private sector was launching to space. They had been since the '90s. We had turned over management of the rocket systems. So I didn't necessarily know SpaceX was going to make it, but I knew that was the way to drive innovation, to get the cost down, and to get us to a place where we could break out of this giant, self licking ice-cream cone.But now we have a system that's sort of betwixt and between. The next sort of big thing is this moon mission, Artemis, that is a little bit of the old way and a little bit of the new way. We're going to be using a traditional Apollo-style developed rocket, the SLS. I think a SpaceX lander. Why aren't we going to launch this on a very big SpaceX rocket? Why are we still doing it a little bit of the old way?Because I failed, basically. This grand bargain that we made with Congress, where we got just enough money to start a commercial crew program, kept the contracts for Constellation.SLS is Constellation, for the listeners.It is. It's the same. They protected the contracts and the rocket changed a little bit, but the parts — again, the money; follow the money — all are still flowing to Lockheed, Boeing, Aerojet. The Space Launch System is often called the “Senate Launch System.” I don't happen to agree, because it wasn't just the Senate that did this. The call, as I say, was coming from inside the house: NASA people wanted to build and operate a big rocket. That's why they came to NASA. They grew up seeing Apollo. They wanted to launch their version of the Saturn V. And they ultimately were willing to give up low Earth orbit to the private sector, if they could have their big rocket. So that's back in 2011 that this is established, this bifurcated system. They were supposed to launch by 2016. It's now 2022. They haven't even launched a first test flight. This first test flight, now at $20 billion-plus — the capsule on top, called Orion, is exactly from Constellation, so it's been being funded at more than a billion a year since 2006. This is not a program that should be going forward, and we are about to do a big test of it, whether it works or not. We'll have a bigger decision, I think, when it's over if it's successful than if it's not. I think if it's not successful, we ought to just call it.Even if it's successful, is this the last gasp of this kind of manned space exploration? I mean, even if we get to the Moon by … when? I'm not sure when the current moving target is.Well, I believe we're continuing to say now, 2025, the current NASA administrator.Any program that expensive is not going be sustainable, even if it should work technically.This is my view. This is the whole premise of Escaping Gravity, is we have to get out of not just our gravity well of Earth, but the system that has been holding us back. And I'd love to say it's the last gasp, but I thought that about Constellation. And it should have been true about the shuttle.Can you give me a sense of the cost difference we're talking about?The Space Launch System with Orion, which is the rocket and capsule, together have cost us over $40 billion to develop. Each launch will also cost an additional $4 billion, and we can only launch it once every two years. So in Apollo, we launched I think 12 times in five years, once we started the program. If we start now with the program, in next five years the most we can launch is three times. This is not progress. And those amounts of money, compared to the private sector… It hasn't launched something bigger than SLS yet, but let's just take the Falcon Heavy, which launches about 80 percent of the size of payload that the SLS can. SpaceX developed that without any public money. And the per launch costs are in the $100-150 million range. It's just not comparable.Does the current head of NASA understand these cost calculations?Well, he recently said — Administrator Bill Nelson, former Florida senator — that he thinks that this cost-plus system that NASA has been using is a “plague” on the agency. So this is fascinating, because he's basically patient zero. He required us to do the SLS. He's very proud of that to this day. So he can brag about the monster rocket, he calls it that, and yet still say the way we are doing it is a plague. So you'd think he doesn't want to do things this way anymore. And as you said, SpaceX is developing the lander for the Moon program. So it's really hard to know what the outcome will be because, like you, I don't believe it's sustainable to spend so much for something we did 50 years ago that isn't going to be reusable, the costs aren't coming down, we aren't going to be able to do it more often. All the things that mean “sustainable.” But yet, that is the government's plan.It just seems hard to believe that that plan is not just sustainable to go to the Moon and develop a permanent moon facility … and then to Mars, which obviously is going to cost even more. It seems like, if as a country we decide this is something we want to do, that inevitably it's going to be a private-sector effort.You know, it's really related to, as a country deciding what we're going to do. Because if there was some compelling reason, as there was in the ‘60s, the nation's leaders felt to go to the Moon for the first time. If that came together for Mars, maybe the public would be willing to spend trillions. But if you can reduce the cost through the private-sector use of vehicles, you can still advance US goals. I try to make the case. This isn't an either/or. This can be a NASA-led and industry-developed program, just as we have done with so much of our economy. And to me, that is inevitable. It's just, how much are we going to waste in the meantime?Is the threat of China enough of a catalyst to give more momentum toward American efforts in space?China is certainly a threat to the United States in many ways — economically, politically, and so forth — and therefore, I think, seen as a big reason for us to return to the Moon. (We say it's a race with China. I'm like, “Okay, for the 13th person. Because don't forget, we won.”) But doing that in a way that drives technology and leaves behind a better nation, that's how you win in these geopolitical races. And so to me, yes, we are making the case (I think NASA, in particular) that we need to beat China, in our case, back to the Moon. It's about leadership. And I don't think we lead or help our nation by protecting industries that then aren't competitive. I still see the need to evolve from the system, and I fully believe we will be back on the Moon before the Chinese. But they are someone we have our eye on. They are really the only other nation right now with an advanced human space flight program.One of my favorite TV shows, which I probably write too often about, is the Ronald D. Moore show For All Mankind. And for listeners who don't know, the premise is that the space race never ends because the Soviets get there first. They beat us to the Moon, and then we decide that we're going to keep going. And the race just keeps going through the ‘60s, the ‘70s, and the ‘80s. I'm sure somewhere in NASA there were great plans that after Apollo we were going to be on the Moon. … Can you imagine a scenario where all those plans came true? Was it inevitable that we were going to pull back? Or could we at this point already have Mars colonies or Moon colonies? That the wildest dreams of the people in the ‘60s, that we actually could have done it, there was a path forward?Of course. I could be on a much longer show about For All Mankind, because I, too, am really invested in it.We did a great podcast with Ronald D. Moore.Oh good. I know of the astronauts who advise. And of course, I find it hilarious what they take out of it. And the astronauts' perspective about how things are actually run in Washington is just hilarious. And one of the reasons I wrote Escaping Gravity, all astronauts should understand that presidents don't sit there at their desk, wondering what NASA's doing today.If I was president, I would be wondering that.And they have, of course, a former astronaut becoming the president. They want it to go well. Like I said, all presidents love it. But of course NASA's plan, and really from von Braun, was Moon on the way to Mars and beyond. Science fiction really wrote this story. And I think people who were drawn to NASA are all about trying to make that a reality. And in many ways we're doing it.What would things look like right now without SpaceX? I'm sure you know that SpaceX, as well as Blue Origin, there's a certain criticism that this is some sort of vanity effort by billionaires to take us to space. But I'm assuming that you don't view this whole effort as a vanity effort.Yes. My book is called Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age. And I'm very clear in it that there wouldn't be much transformation going on without SpaceX. So yes, they are absolutely critical to this story. It would've taken longer without them. We don't even have Boeing, their second competitor, taking astronauts yet to the station. But we would've had competitors. There were people before Elon. I think Bezos, and Blue Origin, is making progress and will do so. There are other companies now online, the Dream Chaser, to take cargo to the space station, private sector. But make no mistake, without them, without Elon and his vision and his billions, Artemis wouldn't be even more than a great name for a human space flight program. Because we didn't have the money for a lunar lander that anyone else bid, except for SpaceX. They have overachieved. They have set the bar and then cleared it. And every time they compete, they end up getting less money than the competition and then they beat them. So it's impossible, really, to overstate their value. But I still believe that the policies are the right ones to incentivize others in addition to SpaceX. And if they weren't here, we would not be as far along for sure.I am now going to ask you to overstate something. Give me your expansive view of what a new space age looks like. Is it just humans going out into deep space? Is it a vibrant orbital space economy? What does that new space age look like?To me, it is a purpose-driven space age so we are utilizing fully that sphere beyond our atmosphere. So that's in lower Earth orbit, using that to help society today, we can measure greenhouse gases in real time, the emissions. We can, as we look forward, go beyond certainly Mars, to places where humanity must go if we want to be sustained as a species. I think the purpose of space is like saying, “What was the purpose of first going into the oceans?” It's for science. It's for economic gain. It's for national security. Similar to the atmosphere and now space. It's a new venue where we all can only just imagine what is possible today, and it we will be there. I personally like that Jetsons future of living in a world where I have a flying car on another planet.Lori, thanks for coming on the podcast.Thank you for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

New Spacesuits for a New Era of Exploration: The Ex Terra Podcast

Ex Terra: The Journal of Space Commerce

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 32:56

NASA recently awarded two contracts for the development of new spacesuits for a new era of exploration.On this edition of The Ex Terra Podcast, Tom Patton talks with Dan Klopp, Director of Marketing & Business Development for Space Systems at ILC Dover, which is part of the Collins Aerospace team which wan one of those contracts. According to NASA, the companies selected were chosen from the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contract solicitation. The contract enables selected vendors to compete for task orders for missions that will provide a full suite of capabilities for NASA's spacewalking needs during the period of performance through 2034. The indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity, milestone-based xEVAS contract has a combined maximum potential value of $3.5 billion for all task order awards. The first task orders to be completed under the contract will include the development and services for the first demonstration outside the space station in low-Earth orbit and for the Artemis III lunar landing. On the podcast, Klopp goes in-depth about some of the design changes for these new spacesuits from the Apollo-era suits made by ILC Dover for the Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. ILC Dover will provide the pressure garment, while Collins Aerospace, the prime contractor, will supply the portable life support system (PLSS) and Oceaneering will supply the tools. ILC Dover tailored their Astro spacesuit for NASA to provide a unique pressure garment that offers improved comfort and mobility, fewer components while accommodating a broader range of astronaut sizes, and reduced mass. ILC Dover has also been named by Boeing as one of two providers for their Ascent/Entry Suit (AES) for the company's Commercial Crew Program developing an AES suit for CST-100 Starliner crews. How does what happens in space affect your everyday life? The Ex Terra podcast is dedicated to introducing you to many of the interesting people involved in the commercial space industry, and taking you behind the scenes with many of the companies making significant contributions to the new space economy. The podcast is available on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Breaker, Overcast, Pocketcasts and Radio Public.

Thu. 05/19 - In Defense of "Like"

Kottke Ride Home

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2022 15:52

Why do we judge each other so harshly for saying “like,” even though most of us say it way more often than we'd admit to? Plus, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is launching mere hours after recording… probably. Here's everything you need to know about the second contender in NASA's Commercial Crew Program. And introducing Pepsi™-Roni Pizza.Sponsors:Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottkeI Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcastLinks:Why do people, like, say, 'like' so much? (The Guardian)Boeing Is Ready to Launch Starliner, a Rival to SpaceX's Dragon (Wired)What You Need to Know about NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (NASA)How to Watch Boeing Launch Its Beleaguered Astronaut Capsule to the ISS (Gizmodo)Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Launch (Official NASA Broadcast) (NASA, YouTube)Landmark Mars robot will run out of power, ending historic mission (Mashable)NASA's InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Diminish (NASA)Just When We Settled Our Differences About Pineapple on Pizza, Pepsi Entered the Chat With Pepsi-Roni (The Mary Sue)Finally, a New Pepsi Flavor We Can Get Behind (The Takeout)Pepsi™-Roni Pizza in NYC (Pepsi, Eventbrite)Jackson Bird on TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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#SpaceX: Musk bets the house repeatedly. John Tamny @johntamny , Real Clear Markets; and director, Center for Economic Freedom; and Toreador Research & Trading; Forbes; author, The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job.

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2022 9:38

Photo: HAWTHORNE, Calif. - SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk unveils the Dragon V2 during a ceremony for the new spacecraft inside SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. The spacecraft is designed to carry people into Earth's orbit and was developed in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program under the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement. SpaceX is one of NASA's commercial partners working to develop a new generation of U.S. spacecraft and rockets capable of transporting humans to and from Earth's orbit from American soil. Ultimately, NASA intends to use such commercial systems to fly U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis KSC-2014-2727 #SpaceX: Musk bets the house repeatedly. John Tamny @johntamny , Real Clear Markets; and director, Center for Economic Freedom; and Toreador Research & Trading; Forbes; author, The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musk-made-us-all-richer-virtual-banking-peter-thiel-paypal-wealth-billionaire-millionaire-investments-cash-online-11651696244

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Today: Is Automation the Key to Exceptional Results

Today in Health IT

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 6:18 Transcription Available

What can we learn from SpaceX busy month? "SpaceX has also launched three other rockets during the last month; two Starlink satellite missions and a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Additionally, SpaceX has a Starlink launch planned for Friday morning at 5:42 am ET (09:42 UTC), just five hours after the Crew-3 landing. So, is this too much for the company to handle in a safe manner? NASA officials that SpaceX has assigned enough people to different teams to handle all of the work. NASA's Steve Stich, who manages the Commercial Crew Program, also said SpaceX stands out from other space companies in the amount of work it automates, particularly when it comes to reviewing data from launches and landings." Dedicated teams and automation. Can we accomplish more in Health IT with this formula? Something to think about as we go into the weekend. #healthcare #healthIT #automation #cio #cmio #chime #himss #hlth

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Blue Origin grows. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2022 8:20

Photo: VAN HORN, Texas – The sun sets over a test stand at Blue Origin's West Texas facility. The company used this test stand to fire its powerful new hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled American rocket engine, the BE-3, on Nov. 20. The BE-3 fired at full power for more than two minutes to simulate a launch, then paused for about four minutes, mimicking a coast through space before it re-ignited for a brief final burn. The last phase of the test covered the work the engine could perform in landing the booster back softly on Earth. Blue Origin, a partner of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, or CCP, is developing its Orbital Launch Vehicle, which could eventually be used to launch the company's Space Vehicle into orbit to transport crew and cargo to low-Earth orbit. CCP is aiding in the innovation and development of American-led commercial capabilities for crew transportation and rescue services to and from the station and other low-Earth orbit destinations by the end of 2017. For information about CCP, visit www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew. Photo credit: NASA/Lauren Harnett KSC-2013-4197 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Blue Origin grows. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com. RV. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/blue-origin-expands-its-rocket-engine-factory-in-alabama/

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Ep 219: The Crew-3 Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021

The Crew-3 astronauts discuss their individual paths that brought them together on the third crew rotation mission of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 219.

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The Crew-3 Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 57:50

The Crew-3 astronauts discuss their individual paths that brought them together on the third crew rotation mission of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 219.

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The Crew-3 Astronauts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021

The Crew-3 astronauts discuss their individual paths that brought them together on the third crew rotation mission of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 219.

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The Crew-3 Astronauts

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021

The Crew-3 astronauts discuss their individual paths that brought them together on the third crew rotation mission of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. HWHAP Episode 219.

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Space Systems Engineering, Human Lander and Commercial Crew Programs - GEORGE SALAZAR | EP.124

Space Explr

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2021 65:33

Mr. George Salazar received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston and his Masters of Science in Systems Engineering from Southern Methodist University. He has over 38 years of experience in telemetry, communications, speech control, command and data handling, audio, displays and controls, intelligent lighting, project management, and systems engineering. He has been involved with the design of advanced telemetry, speech recognition, and intelligent systems of which he has received various patents. He is currently serving at NASA's Johnson Space Center as the Human-Computer Interface Technical Discipline Lead to develop advanced human interfaces as well as serving as the Displays and Controls Subsystem Manager for the Commercial Crew Program. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. Also, he has Expert Systems Engineer Professional certification through the International Council on Systems Engineering. He is also the co-founder of the NASA/JSC Human Systems Integration (HSI) Employee Resource Group with the key goal of infusing HSI into the NASA development process. He enjoys reading, scuba diving, woodworking, leatherworking, and speaking to students about his journey to NASA and real-world engineering. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spaceexplr/support

1571: Starliner down. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2021 5:30

Photo: Boeing's new spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts flying on the CST-100 Starliner. Seen here being worn in the same manner as it will on launch day for the walk to the spacecraft at Space Launch Complex 41, the suit is lighter and more flexible than previous spacesuits but retains the ability to pressurize in an emergency. Astronauts will wear the suit throughout the launch and ascent into orbit as well as on the way back to Earth. Starliners will launch atop Atlas V rockets from United Launch Alliance on missions including flights to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Starliner down. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/starliner-launch-scrubbed-rescheduled-for-tomorrow/

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Astronaut Handovers

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021

Now that the Commercial Crew Program has begun flying crews of four on U.S. commercial spacecraft, the full crew of the International Space Station has expanded to seven people.

15. Commercialization - Crew | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

The Invisible Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at space communications support of the Commercial Crew Program.

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15. Commercialization - Crew | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

The Invisible Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at space communications support of the Commercial Crew Program.

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'The Invisible Network' Podcast - Episode 15: Commercialization | Crew

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Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021

NASA is fostering a commercial space economy. In this episode of "The Invisible Network" podcast, we look at space communications support of the Commercial Crew Program.

Interview with NASA's Deputy Program Manager for the Commercial Crew Program at the Kennedy Space Center, Dana Hutcherson

Spacechams

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 50:06

In this episode, we sit down with Dana Hutcherson and discuss everything from the Atlantis Shuttle Orbiter, Crew-2, the North pole, and even tiki Boats. Listen in on her work with the Crew-2 mission that is going to launch four astronauts to the ISS on April 22! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jim-murphy4/support

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Episode 27: Being Black in the NASA Family, Finding Inspiration, and Becoming More Inclusive

The Rocket Ranch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021

The Rocket Ranch welcomes Sheldon Lauderdale, Program Analyst for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, to share where he draws inspiration and talk about his role supporting NASA's efforts to expand diversity and inclusion to empower the next generation of explorers.

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Episode 27: Being Black in the NASA Family, Finding Inspiration, and Becoming More Inclusive

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021

The Rocket Ranch welcomes Sheldon Lauderdale, Program Analyst for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, to share where he draws inspiration and talk about his role supporting NASA’s efforts to expand diversity and inclusion to empower the next generation of explorers.

Four to Launch

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021

As the first certified launch system in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the Crew-1 mission marked a series of firsts for crew transportation.

38 - Sorry, I Got Too Itemized

Off-Nominal

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 63:32

With our beloved JB on his way out, Jake and Anthony have been appointed NASA autocrats for five years with $25 billion per year to spend. They have done the homework, mostly, and will now unveil their grand plans.DrinksSci-Fi Hamster Wheel - Thin Man Brewery - UntappdPolaris Hazy Northeast Ipa - Mariner Brewing - UntappdTopicsOff-Nominal - YouTubeAnthony’s Budget (Numbers, Excel)Jake’s Budget (Excel)Final FY2021 NASA Funding Provides Only 25 Percent of HLS Request – SpacePolicyOnline.comNASA's FY 2021 Budget | The Planetary SocietyNASA's Commercial Crew Program is a Fantastic… | The Planetary SocietyPicksMars 2020 Mission VisualizationSuperstore - NBC.comTerraforming Mars | Stronghold GamesPARKS Board Game – Keymaster GamesFollow JakeWeMartians Podcast - Follow Humanity's Journey to MarsWeMartians Podcast (@We_Martians) | TwitterJake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit) | TwitterFollow AnthonyMain Engine Cut OffMain Engine Cut Off (@WeHaveMECO) | TwitterAnthony Colangelo (@acolangelo) | TwitterOff-Nominal MerchandiseOff-Nominal Logo TeeWeMartians Shop | MECO Shop

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A Revolutionary Collaboration

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2020

American rockets, American spacecraft, American soil. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is enabling safe, reliable, and cost-effective crew transportation to and from the International Space Station.

UFO Buster Radio News – 430: Crew-1 Go, Super Heavy Starship Booster, NASA Chief Stepping Down, and Bacterium Survived A Year in LEO

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 48:38

Subscribe to the YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP SpaceX Crew Dragon rolls out to pad for Crew-1 astronaut launch for NASA Link: https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-1-dragon-capsule-rocket-rolls-out The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will carry four astronauts to the International Space Station this weekend has made it to the launch pad. The capsule, named Resilience, and its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolled out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Monday into early Tuesday (Nov. 9-10), NASA officials said. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Saturday evening (Nov. 14), sending four astronauts — NASA's Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japan's Soichi Noguchi — to the orbiting lab on Crew-1, SpaceX's first operational astronaut mission for NASA. NASA's Commercial Crew Program awarded SpaceX a $2.6 billion contract in 2014 to fly at least six operational crewed missions to the space station. The six-month-long Crew-1 is the first of those contracted flights, but it won't be SpaceX's first-ever astronaut mission. That distinction goes to Demo-2, a test flight that sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the station for two months this past summer. SpaceX Kicks-Off Assembly on First Super Heavy Starship Booster in South Texas SpaceX's Super Heavy might be effectively complete in one month, and we couldn't be more excited. Link: https://interestingengineering.com/spacex-kicks-off-assembly-on-first-super-heavy-starship-booster-in-south-texas SpaceX kicks-off Starship Super Heavy assembly in South Texas Technically, SpaceX could build much smaller booster prototypes for the initial test flights into orbit — this might be done via modifying the tank design of Starship — but rocketry isn't an exceedingly modular enterprise, Teslarati reports. However, whether the move comes via confidence or contingency, SpaceX is jumping directly into Starship prototype development, toward a full-scale Super Heavy booster production and testing platform. Super Heavy could be one of SpaceX's easiest projects Indeed, in an inversion of the typical relationship, the next-gen rocket's booster will probably be much simpler than the upper stage — which would be the largest spacecraft with reusable parts and upper stage in the world. Lacking a need for a tiled heat shield, aerodynamic control surfaces (discounting Falcon-style grid fins), a conical nose, and possibly even internal header tanks, the only serious challenge Super Heavy faces for the first time is developing an engine section capable of feeding and supporting up to 28 Raptor engines. Jim Bridenstine will step aside as NASA chief when President-elect Biden takes over: report Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-bridenstine-step-aside-president-biden NASA will apparently be getting a new leader after president-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine won't remain in the agency's lead role in the Biden administration even if asked, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report reported on Sunday (Nov. 8). "You need somebody who has a close relationship with the president of the U.S. ... somebody trusted by the administration …. including OMB [Office of Management and Budget], National Space Council, National Security Council," Bridenstine told Irene Klotz, space editor for Aviation Week, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report's parent publication. "I think I would not be the right person for that in a new administration." "There is a political agreement that America needs to do big things in space exploration, that we need to lead the world ... There have been lessons learned from the past, and I think Congress is in a good position to make sure that we have sustainable programs going forward," he said in one of the tweeted snippets. And in another one, he stressed that "there are a lot of people that can do great work as the NASA administrator." This Bacterium Survived on The Outside of The Space Station For a Whole Damn Year Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-bacterium-survived-on-the-outside-of-the-space-station-for-a-year A year in space is no walk in the park. Just ask Scott Kelly, the American astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. His long-term stay in space changed his DNA, telomeres, and gut microbiome, he lost bone density, and he still had sore feet three months later. So, it's quite a feat that a species of bacterium first found in a can of meat, Deinococcus radiodurans, was still alive and kicking after a year spent living on a specially designed platform outside the pressurised module of the ISS. Researchers have been investigating these mighty microbes for a while; back in 2015, an international team set up the Tanpopo mission on the outside of the Japanese Experimental Module Kibo, to put hardy bacterial species to the test. Now, D. radiodurans has passed with flying colours. This isn't the longest time D. radiodurans has been kept in these conditions – back in August we wrote about a sample of the bacterium being left up there for three whole years. But the team weren't trying for a world record, instead they were trying to uncover what makes D. radiodurans just so good at surviving in these extreme conditions. So, after a year of radiation, freezing and boiling temperatures, and no gravity, the researchers got the spacefaring bacteria back down to Earth, rehydrated both a control that had spent the year on Earth and the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) sample, and compared their results. The survival rate was a lot lower for the LEO bacteria compared to the control version, but the bacteria that did survive seemed to be doing okay, even if they had turned a little different to their Earth-bound brethren. Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com Mail can be sent to: UFO Buster Radio Network PO BOX 769905 San Antonio TX 78245 For Skype Users: bosscrawler

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UFO Buster Radio News – 430: Crew-1 Go, Super Heavy Starship Booster, NASA Chief Stepping Down, and Bacterium Survived A Year in LEO

The Reality Revolution Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 48:38

Subscribe to the YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP SpaceX Crew Dragon rolls out to pad for Crew-1 astronaut launch for NASA Link: https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-1-dragon-capsule-rocket-rolls-out The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will carry four astronauts to the International Space Station this weekend has made it to the launch pad. The capsule, named Resilience, and its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolled out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Monday into early Tuesday (Nov. 9-10), NASA officials said. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Saturday evening (Nov. 14), sending four astronauts — NASA's Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japan's Soichi Noguchi — to the orbiting lab on Crew-1, SpaceX's first operational astronaut mission for NASA. NASA's Commercial Crew Program awarded SpaceX a $2.6 billion contract in 2014 to fly at least six operational crewed missions to the space station. The six-month-long Crew-1 is the first of those contracted flights, but it won't be SpaceX's first-ever astronaut mission. That distinction goes to Demo-2, a test flight that sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the station for two months this past summer. SpaceX Kicks-Off Assembly on First Super Heavy Starship Booster in South Texas SpaceX's Super Heavy might be effectively complete in one month, and we couldn't be more excited. Link: https://interestingengineering.com/spacex-kicks-off-assembly-on-first-super-heavy-starship-booster-in-south-texas SpaceX kicks-off Starship Super Heavy assembly in South Texas Technically, SpaceX could build much smaller booster prototypes for the initial test flights into orbit — this might be done via modifying the tank design of Starship — but rocketry isn't an exceedingly modular enterprise, Teslarati reports. However, whether the move comes via confidence or contingency, SpaceX is jumping directly into Starship prototype development, toward a full-scale Super Heavy booster production and testing platform. Super Heavy could be one of SpaceX's easiest projects Indeed, in an inversion of the typical relationship, the next-gen rocket's booster will probably be much simpler than the upper stage — which would be the largest spacecraft with reusable parts and upper stage in the world. Lacking a need for a tiled heat shield, aerodynamic control surfaces (discounting Falcon-style grid fins), a conical nose, and possibly even internal header tanks, the only serious challenge Super Heavy faces for the first time is developing an engine section capable of feeding and supporting up to 28 Raptor engines. Jim Bridenstine will step aside as NASA chief when President-elect Biden takes over: report Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-bridenstine-step-aside-president-biden NASA will apparently be getting a new leader after president-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine won't remain in the agency's lead role in the Biden administration even if asked, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report reported on Sunday (Nov. 8). "You need somebody who has a close relationship with the president of the U.S. ... somebody trusted by the administration …. including OMB [Office of Management and Budget], National Space Council, National Security Council," Bridenstine told Irene Klotz, space editor for Aviation Week, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report's parent publication. "I think I would not be the right person for that in a new administration." "There is a political agreement that America needs to do big things in space exploration, that we need to lead the world ... There have been lessons learned from the past, and I think Congress is in a good position to make sure that we have sustainable programs going forward," he said in one of the tweeted snippets. And in another one, he stressed that "there are a lot of people that can do great work as the NASA administrator." This Bacterium Survived on The Outside of The Space Station For a Whole Damn Year Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-bacterium-survived-on-the-outside-of-the-space-station-for-a-year A year in space is no walk in the park. Just ask Scott Kelly, the American astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. His long-term stay in space changed his DNA, telomeres, and gut microbiome, he lost bone density, and he still had sore feet three months later. So, it's quite a feat that a species of bacterium first found in a can of meat, Deinococcus radiodurans, was still alive and kicking after a year spent living on a specially designed platform outside the pressurised module of the ISS. Researchers have been investigating these mighty microbes for a while; back in 2015, an international team set up the Tanpopo mission on the outside of the Japanese Experimental Module Kibo, to put hardy bacterial species to the test. Now, D. radiodurans has passed with flying colours. This isn't the longest time D. radiodurans has been kept in these conditions – back in August we wrote about a sample of the bacterium being left up there for three whole years. But the team weren't trying for a world record, instead they were trying to uncover what makes D. radiodurans just so good at surviving in these extreme conditions. So, after a year of radiation, freezing and boiling temperatures, and no gravity, the researchers got the spacefaring bacteria back down to Earth, rehydrated both a control that had spent the year on Earth and the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) sample, and compared their results. The survival rate was a lot lower for the LEO bacteria compared to the control version, but the bacteria that did survive seemed to be doing okay, even if they had turned a little different to their Earth-bound brethren. Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com Mail can be sent to: UFO Buster Radio Network PO BOX 769905 San Antonio TX 78245 For Skype Users: bosscrawler

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Interview With Dennis & Jessica Stone

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 34:00

This was an interview with Dennis Stone and Jessica Stone, Dr. Robert Stone's son and granddaughter. It was wonderful to go behind the scenes to learn about the family life and legend of Robert Stone, how he became one of the great ambassador's for the silva mind control method and masters of metaphysical power. Stone was author and co-author of over 80 published books, most notably on self-help and powers of the mind. His most best-selling book was “Martinis & Whipped Cream” (1966) with coauthor, hypnotist Sidney Petrie. That book was significant in the history of dieting. Dr. Stone was an internationally known lecturer on the human potential. He taught for many years at the University of Hawaii on activating the powers of the mind. A MENSA member and graduate of MIT, Dr. Stone was elected to the New York Academy of Science. A Silva Method lecturer for 20 years and Ambassador-at-Large, he introduced the Silva Method to five nations and was honored with many Silva awards. Dennis Stone is a management, finance, and technical professional with 40 years of experience. During over 30 years at NASA, he helped manage nearly $1B in investment by NASA in commercial space capabilities. He helped start and execute NASA's successful Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program which invested in SpaceX and Orbital to carry cargo between Earth and Low Earth Orbit. He led the business team in both COTS investment rounds, in the first rounds of the Commercial Crew Program, and recently on Commercial Space Capabilities. Today as Project Executive he manages NASA support to SpaceX, Orbital ATK, United Launch Alliance, and Final Frontier Design. Before COTS, Mr. Stone had two decades of International Space Station (ISS) experience, including as Chief System Engineer of the Assured Crew Return Vehicle, Manager of Avionics Integration, and ISS Commercialization Working Group Chair. He began his space career designing flight avionics and ground systems at McDonnell Douglas and Ford Aerospace and supporting Shuttle/payload integration with Rockwell. He is CEO of Ion Biotechnology which has an therapeutic family of compounds which is hypothesized to target cancer at the cellular level. These agents may also show efficacy against a range of infectious disease. The company is conducting tests on this technology which is in the post-discovery/pre-clinical phase. Mr. Stone is volunteer President of World Space Week Association, a non-profit which globally coordinates UN-declared World Space Week, the largest space event on Earth each October 4-10. In 2018, WSW was celebrated with 5,000 events in 90 nations. He earned two Bachelor of Science degrees, in Physics and Electrical Engineering, from the University of Hawaii and is Associate Fellow of the AIAA. Jessica Stone is an Esthetician/Owner at Stone Specialty Skincare and has used her grandfather's techniques with great success. You can also learn more about Dr. Stone at www.robertbstone.com. BUY MY BOOK! https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Revolution-Mind-Blowing-Movement-Hack/dp/154450618X/ Listen my book on audible https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Reality-Revolution-Audiobook/B087LV1R5V All my Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_Y78_zt_zv9TI1AGx-WimT All my guided meditations in one place https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_BfNnb5vLcwouInskcEhqL All my short meditations (you have 10 minutes) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo-Mc0SiXK8Ef0opJeahwgfM For all episodes of the Reality Revolution – https://www.therealityrevolution.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RealityRevol... Join our facebook group The Reality Revolution https://www.facebook.com/groups/40312... Subscribe to my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgX... Contact us at media@advancedsuccessinsitute.com #robertbstone #metaphysics #realityrevolution

Looking at The End of The Universe

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2020 36:44

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 91*Looking at the end of the universeA new study claims the universe will end not with a bang but with a whimper facing a heat death from a black dwarf supernova*The Pentagon looking at Shooting Star military space stationThe Pentagon is looking at using Sierra Nevada’s Shooting Star cargo module as the basis for a military space station.*NASA to begin operational Commercial Crew Program flights next monthNASA’s first operational Commercial Crew Program flight to the International Space Station has been tentatively slated to launch on October 23rd.*September SkywatchSeptember marks the spring equinox south of the equator and the autumnal in the northern hemisphere as well as the annual Aurigids and Epsilon Perseids meteor showers. For more SpaceTime visit https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com (mobile friendly). For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotesGet immediate access to over 200 commercial-free, double and triple episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.comTo receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist or visit https://www.bitesz.com/astronomy-daily Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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NASA ScienceCast 309: A Growing Market at Gravity’s Edge

NASA ScienceCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2020 4:27

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77: SpaceX Starship SN4 explosion

SPEXcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 23:45

This week on SPEXcast, we discuss SpaceX's historic Demonstration Mission 2 for NASA as part of the Commercial Crew Program. We dive into how this mission will change NASA going forward, as well as the challenges and achievements SpaceX worked through over the past 10 years. Finally we look forward to the next big milestones for commercial spaceflight.

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Paul Wizikowski: The One with Space & Dinosaurs

Casually Creative

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 71:15

Narrative and story have always been a powerful part of Paul Wizikowski's life. Since discovering in elementary school theatre how people can be transported and connected through impactful moments, he has made it his mission to create, capture, and share those tales. Currently, in his position as Video Production Advisor to the NASA Administrator, Paul has been consistently tasked with telling some of this nation's most hopeful and awe-inspiring stories. Most recently, he led the team responsible for Launch America. As NASA ushered in a new era of human spaceflight, American astronauts once again launched on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program and Paul and his team shared the launch with millions. We sat down with him to talk about connecting the dots, flying planes, and how to successfully launch 9' dinosaurs into space. Curiously Creative WE ARE NASA- Narrated by Mike Rowe WE ARE GOING- Narrated by William Shatner WE GO, TOGETHER WE GO: THE ARTEMIS GENERATION SPACE IS HARD DREAMED OF THIS– Led by NASA astronaut Nicole Mann HOW WE ARE GOING TO THE MOON- Narrated by Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars) NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Broadcast Please remember to rate, review & subscribe! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/casuallycrtve/message

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T+163: Suborbital Crew, Virgin Galactic to ISS

Main Engine Cut Off

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 18:04

NASA recently established the Suborbital Crew office within the Commercial Crew Program, which will focus on developing a plan to fly personnel on suborbital spaceflights. At the same time, Virgin Galactic signed an agreement with NASA to provide private orbital spaceflights to the ISS.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 38 executive producers—Brandon, Matthew, Simon, Kris, Pat, Matt, Jorge, Brad, Ryan, Nadim, Peter, Donald, Lee, Chris, Warren, Bob, Russell, John, Moritz, Joel, Jan, Grant, David, Joonas, Robb, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Frank, Julian and Lars from Agile Space, Tommy, Adam, and seven anonymous—and 385 other supporters.TopicsNASA Developing a Plan to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Spacecraft | NASAVirgin Galactic to fly Italian Air Force research mission - SpaceNews.comVirgin Galactic Signs Space Act Agreement with NASA for Private Orbital Spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) - Virgin GalacticThe ShowLike the show? Support the show!Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to anthony@mainenginecutoff.comFollow @WeHaveMECOListen to MECO HeadlinesJoin the Off-Nominal DiscordSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn or elsewhereSubscribe to the Main Engine Cut Off NewsletterBuy shirts and Rocket Socks from the Main Engine Cut Off ShopMusic by Max Justus

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Episode 1202: Suborbital, Orbital, and Interplanetary

Talking Space

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2020 63:42

The “band” is back together to review some breaking news on the launch date for NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. We talk about the activities on the International Space Station, where NASA Astronauts Chris Cassidy performed a 6-hour 7-minute spacewalk to replace a set of lithium-ion batteries on the facility’s S6 truss. Completing this work will leave the ISS in an exemplary power configuration for the remainder of its operational life. Attention turns to a Pre-spacewalk briefing NASA’s Kenny Todd, and Steve Stich had good words on how well the SpaceX Crew Dragon is performing for its first-time on-orbit and information on when perhaps the Crew-1 mission could fly. Also included was a status on where Boeing was with remediation work on the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. There was an abrupt “changing of the guard” at NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations office. Kathy Lueders, the Director of the Commercial Crew Program, was promoted to Associate Administrator for the Human Operations and Exploration Directorate replacing Douglas Loverro. He resigned under a ‘dark cloud’ for what he called ‘a mistake’ in his final letter to the HEO organization. That “mistake” is now under the microscope of the NASA Inspector General’s office. The NASA Headquarters Building in Washington DC has a new name; we tell you who it is and why that honor was bestowed, plus give you a little hint about another historical figure of note we’re going to discuss on a future show. Our grand ‘pundit of podcasts’, Mark Ratterman has a NASA Podcast that you may wish to add to your diet of space news and information: NASA Johnson’s “Houston We Have a Podcast.” Want all of the Earth Observation satellite data that NASA, Europe and Japan have gathered about how the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted socioeconomic activity all in one place? There’s now an appfor that! Introduced by all three space agencieson June 24th2020, it aggregates all of the data tracking air and water quality plus agricultural and economic activity all in one place. Show recorded 6-28-2020 Host: Sawyer Rosenstein Panelists: Gene Mikulka, Mark Ratterman, Kat Robison

76: SpaceX DM-2 and the Impact of Commercial Crew

SPEXcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 59:03

This week on SPEXcast, we discuss SpaceX's historic Demonstration Mission 2 for NASA as part of the Commercial Crew Program. We dive into how this mission will change NASA going forward, as well as the challenges and achievements SpaceX worked through over the past 10 years. Finally we look forward to the next big milestones for commercial spaceflight.

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RADIO3 SCIENZA - Space taXi

Radio3 Scienza 2019

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2020 30:00

La Crew Dragon di SpaceX è in partenza: per la prima volta nella storia sarà un'azienda privata a portare gli astronauti sulla Stazione spaziale internazionale

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Launch America

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Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2020

The countdown has begun as we prepare to launch American astronauts from American soil for the first time since the end of the shuttle era.

74: Jennifer Inman Helps Spacecraft Reenter Earth with SCIFLI

Casual Space

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 66:35

Jennifer Inman helps spacecraft enter the atmospheres of other worlds. She and the Scientifically Calibrated In-FLight Imagery (SCIFLI) team use a bunch of instruments on board a plane while it’s flying, follow a space vehicle’s reentry that’s traveling thousands of miles an hour (think Mach 25) from space back to Earth and find it through a field of view as small as a straw. Then, the SCIFLY team has to observe and keep the spacecraft in the middle of the field of view to gather the data necessary to study. Together on the podcast, Beth and Jennifer talk heat shields, re-entry, Orion, Artemis, Hollywood film makers, and heat imaging and the surprising fact that parachutes on reentry vehicles can be quite challenging, and where she’ll be watching the historic spaceflight mission scheduled for May 27, 2020! About NASA’s Forward to the Moon 20204 Mission: “As we talk about going back to the moon, it occurs to me WE haven’t been to the Moon… our generation has not been to the Moon..it’s important for US to figure out how we’re going to go to the Moon.” -Jennifer Inman on the Casual Space Podcast Did you always know you would work for NASA one day? “When I was 6 years old, I knew I wanted to be an astronaut, a Mom, a teacher, and a waitress on roller skates. If it can’t be MY boots on the Moon, I’m going to daydream and work towards getting others there.” About studying space and science in school: “I took physics on a whim and fell in love with it. It was all the beauty of calculus with answers that had connections to the real world. Once I got to quantum mechanics and relativity, I was hooked! I just loved the way I could look at the universe around me and have my understanding expanded, and just be in awe of the understanding of the universe we find ourselves in.” Where to find Jennifer and her work at NASA: https://www.innovationnow.us/index.php/2019/03/25/meet-jennifer-inman/ You’ve GOT to learn about SCIFLI: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/how-the-perfect-picture-advances-spaceflight https://scifli.larc.nasa.gov/team-members-organizations/ The SCIFLI team is based at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. In 2007 the HYTHIRM team was formed at the NASA Langley Research Center through the support of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center in order to determine the feasibility of obtaining high quality thermal imagery data of the Space Shuttle during hypersonic atmospheric reentry flight. The outcome of that study convinced the Space Shuttle Program Office to fund the HYTHIRM team to attempt to accomplish the goal of acquiring a single thermal image of the Space Shuttle during reentry. After returning with hundreds of thousands of frames of imagery acquired over an eight minute period of reentry, and after processing that thermal imagery to show that high quality measurements were not only possible but could provide unique and unexpected results, the HYTHIRM team conducted imaging operations on six more Shuttle reentries, the SpaceX C1 Dragon capsule reentry, and more. Every mission has been successful in meeting or exceeding the acquisition and processing of the desired data. SCIFLI for Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery. The goal is to pursue the development and deployment of state of the art remote thermal, visual and spectral imaging capabilities from land, sea and airborne platforms over a multi-band spectrum. How the Perfect Picture Advances Spaceflight The researchers working on the Scientifically Calibrated In-FLight Imagery (SCIFLI) team acquire engineering quality data images of spacecraft launches, reentries, flight tests, and parachute tests from aircraft- and ground-based imaging systems. The SCIFLI team comprises members from multiple NASA centers, industry, academia, Department of Defense, and international and commercial partners, and together they support human spaceflight, improve aerodynamic models, and ultimately reduce mission risk. “Our job is to get engineering data using telescopes on the ground or in the air,” said Dr. Jennifer Inman, SCIFLI project manager. “The imagery acquired during a test, launch, or re-entry yields flight-truth data.” The team's core capability is quantitative thermal and hyperspectral imaging using state-of-the-art imaging systems with high spatial, spectral, and/or temporal resolution. “We close the gap between ground testing in wind tunnels, computational fluid dynamics, and flight truth,” Inman said. “Even with the best ground testing, we can’t match every parameter of flight. A flight test allows us to interpret our ground testing data and improve our computational models.” The team has been continuously improving their techniques since starting work in 2007 and has made more than 28 observations in 2019 alone, including parachute drop tests, spacecraft reentries, and rocket launches. “Not just anyone with a high-resolution camera can do this work. We’re sometimes trying to acquire a target at horizon break, when the vehicle is hundreds of kilometers away; you have to get it right the first time because there are no do-overs,” Inman said. Part of mission planning involves determining the best possible optics and lenses specific to the mission; in addition, radiance modelling is sometimes required to predict optimal sensor settings. To help sensor operators make these kinds of informed decisions, researcher Richard Schwartz created a virtual environment tool that takes into account parameters like focal length, relative angles between imaging target and imaging platform, exposure time, and aperture setting, to enable pre-configuration of the sensors which provides the sensor operators with a baseline plan for acquisition and tracking. He then incorporates mission-specific information like aircraft and/or test vehicle geometry, velocity, latitude, longitude, and altitude to generate synthetic imagery to allow the team to get the data every time. The needs of the customer dictate the type of datasets the researchers pursue. The team has imaged seven Space Shuttle reentries, the return of JAXA's HAYABUSA spacecraft, the launch of several SpaceX rockets, the return of SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1, the return of three Commercial Resupply Services capsules, and dozens of tests of SpaceX Crew Dragon parachute systems required for crewed operation certification. Over the last two years, the team has been conducting observations for Orion and both of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program partners -- SpaceX and Boeing. Many of these tests have occurred in the Mojave and Great Basin deserts, and have involved testing to qualify parachutes for returning crewed vehicles to Earth. During these tests, darts, weigh sleds, Parachute Test Vehicles (PTV, a lower fidelity version of the Crew Dragon capsule), or boilerplate capsule models, are dropped from helicopters, balloons, or out the back of a cargo aircraft. The SCIFLI team is charged with capturing imagery that reveals intricate details of how the parachutes behave. “Parachute performance is incredibly reliable under the loads and speeds involved in something like skydiving, but spaceflight occurs at higher speed and is much more challenging. The dynamic pressures are higher, so you need parachutes that can withstand higher impulse forces, and the air is thinner, which makes parachute inflation a less predictable process,” Inman said. “In addition, this higher performance requires parachute systems that are far more complex, with multiple parachutes deploying in several stages.” The SCIFLI team is slated to do more work in 2020 with the Commercial Crew Program as it prepares to once again launch astronauts from US soil, with JAXA on the return of Hayabusa II from asteroid Ryugu, and with the Space Launch System and Orion Programs in preparation for Artemis and NASA’s return to the Moon in 2024 and journey to Mars. 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UFO Buster Radio News – 372: New York Times Loving UFOs, Kecksburg Cancelled, and NASA Shakeup

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 49:54

Will The New York Times Ever Stop Reporting on UFOs? By far the weirdest thing about this story is that it keeps on showing up. Link: https://www.wired.com/story/will-the-new-york-times-ever-stop-reporting-on-ufos/ IN DECEMBER 2017, The New York Times published a front page story about a ”shadowy” UFO Pentagon program that investigated encounters between Navy fighter pilots and mysterious, gravity-defying objects. Illustrated with several grainy cockpit videos posted to the Times' website, the scoop was captivating. ABC News called it a “bombshell.” Brett Baier of Fox News said, “a lot of people are taking this revelation seriously.” A lot of journalists, that is. Many news consumers did lap up the story like a new X-Files episode but nobody ran for the hills, and nobody in Congress called for hearings about the “revelation” and its seemingly huge implications for civilization. As one observer on Twitter noted: “I mean the New York Times literally just gave us proof of UFOs and the world didn't skip a beat.” The latest installment documents other “close encounters” between Navy pilots and “unidentified aerial vehicles” that date back to 2013 and 2014. The takeaway from this story and the others has been unmistakable: Some kind of unknown, super-advanced form of aviation technology is encroaching on US military air space and outmaneuvering top-gun pilots. If true, this would appear to expose an alarming national defense vulnerability. To understand the Times' sustained interest in UFOs requires an appreciation of Elizondo's central role in its coverage. His willingness to resign from the Pentagon in 2017 and then reveal the existence and details of the UFO program he'd purportedly run, supplied the gravitas at the center of the initial Times account. Without him, it's likely the story would not have gotten so much traction. In appearances last year with Tucker Carlson, Elizondo said that he and the private company that now employs him were studying pieces of a possible extraterrestrial craft. Elizondo also told Carlson that he believed the US government was in possession of an actual UFO. Kecksburg UFO Festival canceled Link: https://www.latrobebulletinnews.com/covid19/kecksburg-ufo-festival-canceled/article_d9d4e589-c63a-5695-bb51-b1a4c2bc3751.html The Kecksburg UFO Festival became the latest annual event to be put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. The festival, started up 14 years ago as a fundraiser for the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department and to commemorate the Dec. 9, 1965, event in which several area residents spotted an acorn-shaped unidentified flying object land near the Mount Pleasant Township village. This year's UFO Festival was scheduled for July 24-26, but uncertainties regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on social gatherings prompted organizers to call off the event. The 2021 festival is slated for July 23-25. The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States in North America, when a fireball was reported by citizens of six U.S. states and Canada over Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada. The unidentified flying object that came down Dec. 9, 1965, they say, was a General Electric Mark 2 Re-entry Vehicle that had been launched by the Air Force as a spy satellite, but fell out of orbit. NASA human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigns on eve of historic SpaceX launch Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-doug-loverro-resigns.html Doug Loverro, NASA's chief of human spaceflight, resigned from his post Monday (May 18) after less than a year on the job, the agency announced today (May 19). Loverro's resignation as Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate is a stunning development, as the agency counts down to the first orbital crew launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade, which will take place on May 27. Loverro's former deputy, former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox, has taken over HEO in an acting capacity and will therefore oversee Demo-2, the first crewed mission of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. Demo-2, which will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS), is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week. No crewed mission has launched to orbit from the United States since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011. If all goes well with Demo-2, SpaceX will be clear to start flying operational missions to and from the orbiting lab for NASA. Elon Musk's company holds a $2.6 billion contract with the agency's Commercial Crew Program for six such operational flights. Show Stuff Join the fan chat on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

UFO Buster Radio News – 372: New York Times Loving UFOs, Kecksburg Cancelled, and NASA Shakeup

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Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 49:54

Will The New York Times Ever Stop Reporting on UFOs? By far the weirdest thing about this story is that it keeps on showing up. Link: https://www.wired.com/story/will-the-new-york-times-ever-stop-reporting-on-ufos/ IN DECEMBER 2017, The New York Times published a front page story about a ”shadowy” UFO Pentagon program that investigated encounters between Navy fighter pilots and mysterious, gravity-defying objects. Illustrated with several grainy cockpit videos posted to the Times' website, the scoop was captivating. ABC News called it a “bombshell.” Brett Baier of Fox News said, “a lot of people are taking this revelation seriously.” A lot of journalists, that is. Many news consumers did lap up the story like a new X-Files episode but nobody ran for the hills, and nobody in Congress called for hearings about the “revelation” and its seemingly huge implications for civilization. As one observer on Twitter noted: “I mean the New York Times literally just gave us proof of UFOs and the world didn't skip a beat.” The latest installment documents other “close encounters” between Navy pilots and “unidentified aerial vehicles” that date back to 2013 and 2014. The takeaway from this story and the others has been unmistakable: Some kind of unknown, super-advanced form of aviation technology is encroaching on US military air space and outmaneuvering top-gun pilots. If true, this would appear to expose an alarming national defense vulnerability. To understand the Times' sustained interest in UFOs requires an appreciation of Elizondo's central role in its coverage. His willingness to resign from the Pentagon in 2017 and then reveal the existence and details of the UFO program he'd purportedly run, supplied the gravitas at the center of the initial Times account. Without him, it's likely the story would not have gotten so much traction. In appearances last year with Tucker Carlson, Elizondo said that he and the private company that now employs him were studying pieces of a possible extraterrestrial craft. Elizondo also told Carlson that he believed the US government was in possession of an actual UFO. Kecksburg UFO Festival canceled Link: https://www.latrobebulletinnews.com/covid19/kecksburg-ufo-festival-canceled/article_d9d4e589-c63a-5695-bb51-b1a4c2bc3751.html The Kecksburg UFO Festival became the latest annual event to be put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. The festival, started up 14 years ago as a fundraiser for the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department and to commemorate the Dec. 9, 1965, event in which several area residents spotted an acorn-shaped unidentified flying object land near the Mount Pleasant Township village. This year's UFO Festival was scheduled for July 24-26, but uncertainties regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on social gatherings prompted organizers to call off the event. The 2021 festival is slated for July 23-25. The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States in North America, when a fireball was reported by citizens of six U.S. states and Canada over Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada. The unidentified flying object that came down Dec. 9, 1965, they say, was a General Electric Mark 2 Re-entry Vehicle that had been launched by the Air Force as a spy satellite, but fell out of orbit. NASA human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigns on eve of historic SpaceX launch Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-doug-loverro-resigns.html Doug Loverro, NASA's chief of human spaceflight, resigned from his post Monday (May 18) after less than a year on the job, the agency announced today (May 19). Loverro's resignation as Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate is a stunning development, as the agency counts down to the first orbital crew launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade, which will take place on May 27. Loverro's former deputy, former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox, has taken over HEO in an acting capacity and will therefore oversee Demo-2, the first crewed mission of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. Demo-2, which will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS), is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week. No crewed mission has launched to orbit from the United States since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011. If all goes well with Demo-2, SpaceX will be clear to start flying operational missions to and from the orbiting lab for NASA. Elon Musk's company holds a $2.6 billion contract with the agency's Commercial Crew Program for six such operational flights. Show Stuff Join the fan chat on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Launch Date Set for Crew Flight on SpaceX Rocket to International Space Station

Elon Musk Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2020 8:27

A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:32 p.m. EDT on May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida, for an extended stay at the space station for the Demo-2 mission. The specific duration of the mission is to be determined. As the final flight test for SpaceX, this mission will validate the company’s crew transportation system, including the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and operational capabilities. This also will be the first time NASA astronauts will test the spacecraft systems in orbit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/elonmusknewspod/support

NASA + SpaceX Set Demo 2 Launch Date to International Space Station

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2020 8:43

A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:32 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida, for an extended stay at the space station for the Demo-2 mission. The specific duration of the mission is to be determined. As the final flight test for SpaceX, this mission will validate the company’s crew transportation system, including the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and operational capabilities. This also will be the first time NASA astronauts will test the spacecraft systems in orbit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

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104. BEHIND THE SCENES: Boeing Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test

Your Online Coffee Break

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2020 28:06

In this episode we go behind the scenes of Boeing's Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test. As you may know, this was a milestone launch for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Boeing had previously conducted a successful pad abort test for Starliner in early November 2019. This orbital flight test, on December 20, 2019, was successful in... The post 104. BEHIND THE SCENES: Boeing Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test appeared first on 15 Minutes With Chuck - podcast.

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5. BEHIND THE SCENES: Boeing Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test

Your Space Journey

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2020 30:40

In this episode we go behind the scenes of Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test. As you may know, this was a milestone launch for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing had previously conducted a successful pad abort test for Starliner in early November 2019. This orbital flight test, on December 20, 2019, was successful in...

104. BEHIND THE SCENES: Boeing Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test

Your Online Coffee Break

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2020 28:06

In this episode we go behind the scenes of Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test. As you may know, this was a milestone launch for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing had previously conducted a successful pad abort test for Starliner in early November 2019. This orbital flight test, on December 20, 2019, was successful in... The post 104. BEHIND THE SCENES: Boeing Starliner CST-100 Orbital Flight Test appeared first on Your Online Coffee Break podcast.

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Boeing Cited for Overcharging NASA by Millions

IEN Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2019 2:02

There is perhaps no company in the world that will be happier to put 2019 behind them than Boeing. The aerospace giant started the year with a number of unanswered questions related to the crash of their 737 Max jet in Indonesia, along with increased competitive pressures from Airbus. Then in March another 737 crashed in Ethiopia, which led to a near-global grounding of the plane and subsequent safety-related delays in delivering new models. Now, just as the company is hoping to resume plane deliveries, the inspector general for NASA has released an audit criticizing Boeing’s charges for a fixed contract to develop a ship capable of shuttling astronauts to the International Space Station. Under scrutiny is a $287 million upcharge that Boeing levied to offset potentially higher costs down the road. These costs stemmed from the company anticipating a gap in flights due to the spacecraft’s development running about two years behind schedule. Boeing has received a $4.3 billion contract as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The auditor felt that as much as $187 million of this total was “unnecessary” because such a gap could be solved by NASA buying seats on Russian spacecraft during this stretch. Which is exactly what Boeing proposed, serving as a broker for five seats at a cost of $373 million. The U.S. has relied on Russia for rides to the ISS since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. The auditors also managed to slide in a not-so-subtle dig at Boeing by citing that SpaceX, which has a $2.5 billion contract related to the same Commercial Crew Program, was not provided an opportunity to address this potential shortage of missions, even though Elon Musk’s company had said it might be able to provide the desired craft sooner than Boeing. NASA contested the auditor’s findings, as did Boeing, stating that its fees accounted for additional flexibility and schedule resiliency.

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RIP Starship MK1 and WHY SpaceX is disruptive in the Space Industry | TIS#173

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2019 29:26

On this episode, which I have recorded for a third time, covers the latest on SpaceX's Starship testing as well as some news on the costs of the Commercial Crew Program for NASA's options on sending humans into space again, without the aid of Russia and their Soyuz capsule (which costs $87 million per Astronaut). I also talk about my thoughts on WHY SpaceX is so disruptive in the Space Industry and how they make it possible to be immune to the ever-changing winds of government funding and political parties in charge. I have recorded this multiple times because so much happened on the same day of recording, we just had to scrap it and start over. With Thanksgiving coming up next week, we've got a longer episode to help tide you over until December, when I will be in Florida capturing the CRS-19 mission for SpaceX thanks to the NASAsocial program. Enjoy your holiday America! Stay safe everyone - we'll see you in December! If you'd like to learn more about the history of the Space Program get these two books! I've read both and highly recommend them. Here are some affiliate links for them - and we get a small portion from Amazon when you buy and it helps support the podcast. Chasing the Moon by Robert Stone and Alan Andres https://amzn.to/2L318l1 Failure is not an Option - by Gene Kranz https://amzn.to/33dcYPu Reference Links from this week's episode: Live footage of Starship MK1 failure courtesy of LabPadre https://twitter.com/LabPadre/status/1197278770203373569 Multiple Starships created to do A-B testing https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/spacex-plans-to-ab-test-its-starship-rocketship-builds/ NASA IG report for concerns and costs of commercial crew program https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-20-005.pdf Elon Sending tweet from operational prototype starlink https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1186523464712146944 How many more satellites is SpaceX planning to use vs what they originally said https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/science/spacex-starlink-satellites.html https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/spacex-intends-to-offer-starlink-satellite-broadband-service-starting-in-2020/ Jack Beyers(twitter) capture of the train of starlink satellites when sun still catches them before sunset https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer/status/1194078953108987904 AMOS-6 Anomaly - TIS#097 http://www.todayinspace.net/podcast/anomaly-slc-40-falcon9-spacex-amos6-dna-space-philae?rq=TIS%23097 SpaceX & Boeing make Progress, Voyager 2's Interstellar Research | TIS#171 http://www.todayinspace.net/podcast/spacex-amp-boeing-make-progress-voyager-2s-interstellar-research-tis171/2019/11/7?rq=TIS%23171 dearMoon, SpaceX, and the BFR | Orbital News | Today In Space podcasthttps://youtu.be/EpYjUw0c6QA

SpaceX & Boeing make Progress, Voyager 2's Interstellar Research | TIS#171

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2019 16:15

On this week's episode we review some important progress in the Commercial Crew Program as both SpaceX and Boeing have had successful tests on their human rated spacecraft. This means the rest of this year will be busy with more testing of the Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner. We also review the general details on what Voyager 2 has found since it exited the Heliosphere of our Sun and entered interstellar space (not all of it is what we expected). Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Pad Abort Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ZoAZuTWh0 Initial NASA Statement about success of CST-100 Test https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1191380326871977989 ULA Atlas V LVOS for Boeing Starliner https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1191495218044055553 Interview with Starliner Crew after first test (Astronaut Mike Fincke) https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1191363439333122050 SpaceX Multi Parachute (MK3) Dragon Test https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1191475073758064640 Commercial Crew Development (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Development All newly released Voyager 2 papers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0942-5 Voyager 2 Results from Interstellar Space https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-2-interstellar-space-mysteries.html?fbclid=IwAR0GKlelptj-rfIohJY3wkG-nVAU2uIOosFKTyZhRVTokcxGAlLkgbbyo58

Boeing Starliner Pad Abort Test Was Successful!

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 7:42

Boeing is preparing to put its #Starliner launch abort system to the test on Monday, Nov. 4 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test will demonstrate the spacecraft’s ability to protect Commercial Crew Program astronauts by carrying them safely away from the launch pad in the unlikely event of an emergency prior to liftoff. Get 2 Free Audio Books at Audible: https://amzn.to/2l7FrWH WATCH: Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers: https://amzn.to/2l8mjYH Become a member of Space News Pod! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX3HDBasMU2qS3svgtuzD2g/join https://anchor.fm/space-news https://patreon.com/spacenewspodcast https://youtube.com/spacenewspod https://twitch.tv/astrowil https://spacenewspodcast.com https://twitter.com/spacenewspod https://facebook.com/spacenewspod https://instagram.com/spacenewspod1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

NASA Introduces Commercial Crew Program

About Space Today

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 4:40

NASA Administrator's introduces the Commercial Crew program along with Starliner Astronauts. America's Return To Space!

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The Balance: NASA & SpaceX - Jim Bridenstein visits SpaceX HQ | TIS#168

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 14:12

This week it's time to discuss the "Balance" in the Space Industry once again as NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein visited SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne, California to get an update on the progress for the Commercial Crew Program. It's the belief of this podcast that our best chance for a fantastic future in space to happen is if there is a balance between how NASA and SpaceX operate. If they can learn from each other to create a leading space industry that has deep standards and knowledge, but can design and iterate quickly with reusable spacecraft and rockets - we may see the first woman and next man on the moon in 2024 for Artemis, including boots on the surface of Mars before 2030. Have a great week! Spread Love - Spread Science Jim Bridenstein tweet https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1177711106300747777?s=20 Tim Dodd Interview w/ NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein in SpaceX HQ https://youtu.be/TU_vOt3wSDg Jim Bridenstein at SpaceX HQ https://youtu.be/DaJ0n0j-UB8 SpaceX Starship Launch Animation https://youtu.be/C8JyvzU0CXU Want to learn more about the latest from the Starship Update? (TIS#167) https://youtu.be/JRJDdOVmgbs

NASA opens ISS to Private Astronauts

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2019 9:23

NASA also is enabling private astronaut missions of up to 30 days on the International Space Station to perform duties that fall into the approved commercial and marketing activities outlined in the directive released Friday, with the first mission as early as 2020. A new NASA Research Announcement focus area issued today outlines the path for those future private astronaut missions. If supported by the market, the agency can accommodate up to two short-duration private astronaut missions per year to the International Space Station. These missions will be privately funded, dedicated commercial spaceflights. Private astronaut missions will use a U.S. spacecraft developed under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The commercial entity developing the mission will determine crew composition for each mission and ensure private astronauts meet NASA’s medical standards and the training and certification procedures for International Space Station crew members. Market studies identified private astronaut missions to low-Earth orbit as a key element to demonstrate demand and reduce risk for future commercial destinations in low-Earth orbit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 11, Commercial Crew

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019

Jon Cowart, a veteran space engineer, discusses NASA's Commercial Crew Program and progress toward launching astronauts from American soil.

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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 11, Commercial Crew

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 22:33

Jon Cowart, a veteran space engineer, discusses NASA's Commercial Crew Program and progress toward launching astronauts from American soil.

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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 11, Commercial Crew

Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019

Jon Cowart, a veteran space engineer, discusses NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and progress toward launching astronauts from American soil.

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What's Next For NASA's Commercial Crew Program?

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019

SpaceX successfully launched its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, docked it to the orbiting outpost, and returned it safely to Earth. So what's ahead for NASA's partnership with SpaceX and Boeing to launch astronauts from U.S. soil?

What’s Next For NASA’s Commercial Crew Program?

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019 20:23

SpaceX successfully launched its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, docked it to the orbiting outpost, and returned it safely to Earth. So what's ahead for NASA's partnership with SpaceX and Boeing to launch astronauts from U.S. soil?

What’s Next For NASA’s Commercial Crew Program?

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019 20:23

SpaceX successfully launched its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, docked it to the orbiting outpost, and returned it safely to Earth. So what's ahead for NASA's partnership with SpaceX and Boeing to launch astronauts from U.S. soil?

What’s Next For NASA’s Commercial Crew Program?

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019 20:23

SpaceX successfully launched its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, docked it to the orbiting outpost, and returned it safely to Earth. So what's ahead for NASA's partnership with SpaceX and Boeing to launch astronauts from U.S. soil?

Trump Says Americans to Return to Space from American Soil in 2019

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2019 13:20

NASA and its Commercial Crew Program providers Boeing and SpaceX have agreed to move the target launch dates for the upcoming inaugural test flights of their next generation American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

What to Expect in Space 2019: Year 5 of Podcast, 2019 Mission Breakdown, Return of American Human Spaceflight

レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2018 20:09

On this episode, Alex talks about entering Year 5 of the Today In Space podcast and looks at how both he and the podcast have evolved since the beginning, as well as plans for what the focus of the podcast will be moving forward in 2019. Alex also previews the planned missions for 2019. These missions are coming up in the new year, and you can preview a whole year of spaceflight in this 10 minute breakdown. 2019 Missions: New Horizons Flyby of Ultima Thule, OSIRIS-REx at Asteroid Bennu, Hayabusa-2 at Asteroid Ryugu, Mars INSIGHT, Boeing CST-100 Starliner, SpaceX Dragon 2, Commercial Crew Program, Virgin Galactic's first space flight, Blue Origin's first crewed flight Finally, Alex discusses the momentum of all-things-space as we enter 2019. The things to look out for are a Space Economy, a Space Culture, and Space Exploration. Here's to a fantastic future! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and Youtube - Spread Love and Spread Science! Happy New Year! Here's to another orbit around the Sun in 2019 This episode's Audiobook Recommendation: Extreme Ownership: How Navy Seals Lead and Win by JockO Willink & Leif Babin. Get this book free and start your free trial by going to audibletrial.com/todayinspace Sources: https://nerdist.com/flyover-of-pluto-shows-beautiful-details-of-our-favorite-former-planet/ http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/hayabusa2/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mars-insight-lander-seen-in-first-images-from-space https://www.asteroidmission.org/20181203_mapcam/ https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-newly-arrived-osiris-rex-spacecraft-already-discovers-water-asteroid http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Ultima/Ultima-Thule.php https://bgr.com/2018/12/14/mars-insight-photos-mro-orbiter/

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NASA to Launch Two New Spacecraft from US Soil

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2018 2:41

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that two spacecraft will be launched from the United States for the first time in seven years. In 2011, NASA retired its space shuttles, citing costs and aging spacecraft as the main reasons. Since then, American astronauts have been sent to space on board the Russian Soyuz /SAW-yooz/ spacecraft, where an individual seat costs over $80 million. The two spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon, were developed by private companies Boeing and SpaceX, respectively. In 2012, Crew Dragon became the first spacecraft made by a private organization to bring cargo to the International Space Station. SpaceX upgraded it, so it now includes an advanced emergency escape system that can carry astronauts to safety. The Boeing Starliner, on the other hand, has similarities with the famous Apollo spacecraft but with enhanced features. It can be docked autonomously, requiring less training for astronauts. The first nine astronauts to fly on the spacecraft have been named, and they consist of both seasoned astronauts and novices. This launch is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which involved American aerospace companies in creating spacecraft and launch systems. Boeing and SpaceX won the contract back in 2014, and both split the $6.8 billion grant. Both Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon will be launched in 2019 from Florida, not from Kazakhstan where the Russian Soyuz spacecraft launches. NASA expressed excitement, saying that the launch will be historic because it involves commercial partners. This milestone can also end America's dependency on Russia for spaceflight.

Watch This Space: Commercial Crew Astronauts Chris Ferguson and Suni Williams

Watch This Space

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2018

During a visit to Johnson Space Center, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine sits down with astronauts Chris Ferguson and Sunita “Suni” Williams for an informal Q&A session about the Commercial Crew Program.

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Launch America

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2018 49:41

Kathy Lueders, Manager of the Commercial Crew Program, gives us a brief history of the program, how it started, and where it is now. Leuders talks about the 2 commercial companies, Boeing and SpaceX, and their space vehicles that will carry astronauts into low Earth orbit. HWHAP Episode 49.

Ep 49: Launch America

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2018

Kathy Lueders, Manager of the Commercial Crew Program, gives us a brief history of the program, how it started, and where it is now. Leuders talks about the 2 commercial companies, Boeing and SpaceX, and their space vehicles that will carry astronauts into low Earth orbit. HWHAP Episode 49.

Launch America

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2018

Kathy Lueders, Manager of the Commercial Crew Program, gives us a brief history of the program, how it started, and where it is now. Leuders talks about the 2 commercial companies, Boeing and SpaceX, and their space vehicles that will carry astronauts into low Earth orbit. HWHAP Episode 49.

Soyuz, astronauti Usa fino al 2020

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Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2018 1:37

La Nasa, ha annunciato che continuerà a utilizzare la navetta Soyuz per il trasporto dei suoi astronauti verso la Iss fino all’inizio del 2020, quando avverrà il debutto del Commercial Crew Program, che prevede l’utilizzo delle capsule Cts-100 Starliner di Boeing e Dragon di Space X

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TIS#114 What to Expect with 2017 - Reusability & New Space

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 36:07

ON THIS WEEK'S EPISODE: 2017, New Year, SpaceX, Blue Origins, Falcon 9, New Shephard, Falcon Heavy, Mars, the Moon, New Space vs. Old Space, Commercial Crew Program, NASA, ESA, ROSCOSMOS, JAXA, Anomaly at LC-40, Iridium NEXT, SUPPORT THE PODCAST BY SHOPPING ON AMAZON WITH OUR LINK: https://www.amazon.com/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=todayinspace-20&linkId=K5SXBICCZE43DJHK Brought to you by AG3D Printing: Bring your ideas into reality! www.AG3D-PRINTING.com SPACE LINKS: SpaceX Anomaly Update (Jan 2nd, 2017): http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates Don't compare New Shephard with the Falcon 9, here's why: http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9793220/blue-origin-vs-spacex-rocket-landing-jeff-bezos-elon-musk SpaceX Lands Rocket for the first time: http://www.space.com/32517-spacex-sticks-rocket-landing-sea-dragon-launch.html 2016 Space Flight Statistics: http://spaceflight101.com/2016-space-launch-statistics/

Episode 806: Objects In Motion

Talking Space

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2016 70:51

On our own return to flight episode, we discuss several upcoming events ; NASA's Osiris Rex, a sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu is scheduled for launch on 8 September 2016. The team looks at the mission objectives and the unique configuration of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) AtlasV carrying the spacecraft. SpaceX too is making news with two upcoming commercial launches out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. OrbitalATK is also returning it's Antares booster to flight next month launching the Cygnus cargo craft from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA Wallops. We also explore a SpaceNews piece indicating that the USAF awarded two National Reconnaissance Office Launch Contracts for the DeltaIV rocket in 2020 and 2023 with SpaceX mysteriously not even filing a protest. The NASA Advisory Council met during the final week of July and issued a warning concerning the Commercial Crew Program and the dangers of the program falling behind schedule. It may impact US ISS crew access. We also explore completely the recent Government Accounting Office Report on NASA's Space Launch System and Orion Exploration Vehicle, criticizing budget estimates and schedule. Don't forget about the Upcoming Pleiades Meteor Shower, peaking on August 11th and 12th If you are inclined, take a look at a Kickstarter project to help restore the observatory at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona where Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto. Show Recorded 08-08-2016 Host: Sawyer Rosenstein Panel Members: Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman

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BLUE: Episode 11 - The Spirit of Exploration

BLUE

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2016

Have you ever dreamed of going into space? In this episode of BLUE, we meet two Air Force astronauts who share their experiences and give us a glimpse into the future of space exploration.

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TIS#012 12/22/14 Beta Angles & Private Space Companies