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Dr. Armen Papazian joined us again, this time to discuss his new book, "Financing The Race To Space: How to value, invest and Explore the Universe." Armen makes the case that our monetary and financial systems are not capable to truly take us into space to settle, live, work and stay there in a sustainable manner. He goes after the traditional concept of the time value of money and suggests new ways for determining money, the space value of money. Hint: He draws upon different orbital periods for different planets and celestial bodies He calls for a reworking of financial mat, monetary architecture, and moving past financial value to space value. His examples included SpaceX and Mr. Musk but also others suggesting that traditional economics won't get the job done other than with the usual footsteps and flag types of missions. Armen does want your feedback so do share it with him on our blog. Read the full program summary when it becomes available on our website, www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Feb. 4, 2025.
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Welcome to Open Lines. Multiple topics, multiple callers. We started with a call from John with a list of items to discuss. He posted his list plus URLs on our blog so that we can all follow up on the companies and events. Marshall called about Buzz and his 95th birthday. Since AI was a program topic, I asked Marshal about his use of it given his engineering and physics engagements. Ft. Worth John call with a drone and UAP update. We talked about the recent government release saying the recent drone sightings over NJ were "approved." None of liked that clarification. More comments were made re AI and then I mentioned the recent Bob Zubrin article on how to go to Mars. Michael Listner called to point out areas where Zubrin was wrong re the private sector going to Mars. I suggest you read the Zubrin article - I told listeners how to find out and then listen to Michael's call. Tell us what you think. Tim from Huntsville was our final caller and he posted a video about his call and the drone mission on our blog. Read the full program summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.
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We welcomed back Dallas Bienhoff to update us on the projects undertaken for advanced lunar rovers by Offworld. Dallas discussed the Offworld plans in detail, including testing, missions, customers and more. we also talked about the very successful Artemis Accords with Finland being the latest company to join them. Dallas brought up recent NASA competition and award program that Offworld participated in but was not selected. Read the full summary when it becomes available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.
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We welcomed John Jossy back to the show, especially at the last minute when the planned guest cancelled due to illness. John brought us current on space settlement matters as we start the new year with a new administration. Our topics in the mentioning of a new space film documentary, the Gerald Black Space Review article on phasing out SLS and Orion, Starship impact, the new Dr. Joel Sercel of TransAstraYouTube video on creating civilizations in space, plus John's own list of special items including links to the relative subjects and materials. John also posted a short agenda items list of his discussion point on the blog for this program. Read the full summary when it becomes available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025.
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Dr. Southwood returned as our guest to discuss he latest updates to the Mars Sample Return mission being planned for Mars. David went through the latest options put forth last week by NASA plus we talked about potential private sector options. Read the full summary of this program when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.
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Noted space attorney Michael Listner returned to the program to discuss the early days of the new administration, property rights, resource mining, China, Artemis, key space policy issues for 2025 and more. Read the full summary of the program when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
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Derek Webber returned to the program to discuss his excellent new book, "Lunar Commerce: A Primer." During the hour and 45 minutes we engaged in a detailed discussion about lunar commerce from what we can do now to a long time in the future. Part of this discussion centered on going to Mars, the Moon as a digression, then new Trump Administration lunar and/or Mars policy, cislunar, launchers, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and so much more. We had several listener calls plus multiple emails with a few listeners sending us multiple emails as extensions of their first one. Derek's book names companies, policies, all sorts of good items are jam packed into the nearly 200 pages jammed pack with excellent information. Read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.
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Noted space journalist Leonard David returned to take a look at top space issues for 2025. In addition we talked about recent news re the UAP issue per a recent News Nation whistleblower broadcast. Leonard talked about Artemis, SLS and Starship, China, human spaceflight, what we should do when getting back to the Moon plus we both took a look at the commercial space industry with markets and customers. Read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.
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Phil Swan returned to talk about the physics plus economics of using a Variable-Pitch Screw Architecture Mass Driver from Earth to the Moon or Mars. Phil has two papers posted and/or linked through the blog on this subject. Phil spent lots of time going over the physics of his concept, explaining the Variable-Pitch Screw drive, comparing it to rockets and even talking logistics and location for the mass driver on Earth. He is thinking anchored to the ocean floor floating about 20 meters below surface. He got several questions asking him about big ideas that never see the light of day. Others suggested modifications to his screw drive mass driver. Listen to what he had to say about energy transference and kinetic energy. Phil was asked about size and launch location which would maybe polar but also within 22 degrees of the equator north or south. Read the full summary of this program when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Friday, January 17, 2025.
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Dr. Phil Metzger was our guest on multiple topics. We started out talking about landing pads on the Moon and for Artemis. This proved to be a lengthy and detailed discussion the subject, information about how rocket exhaust spreads lunar dust, the adverse impact of lunar dust on hardware and more. We also talked about building a cislunar economy, policy making, space settlement, influencing the public and other important issues for our community including commentary on the book, "A City On Mars." Read the full summary when available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Tuesday, Jan. 14 2025.
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We welcomed Dale back to the program for a multi-topic discussion ranging from the a short commentary on the new Trump administration space transition team to a wide ranging space settlement discussion around the book "A City On Mars." We had many email listeners asking Dale about space settlement issues plus several listener calls engaging our guest on aspects of space settlement from the perspective of the book's authors and what our guest had to say about those perspectives. Please read the more detailed summary when it becomes available at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.
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John and I welcomed Doug Messier back to Hotel Mars to discuss the upcoming launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket from the Cape plus the seventh test flight for Starship from the Boca launch site. Doug also talked about the two companies, Mr. Musk, and more. Read the full summary of both parts of this program at www.thespaceshow.com when it becomes available and for this date, Wednesday, 1-8-25.
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The first ever Zoom Space Show program, deemed a demo and it was that, was held on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 with members of our Advisory Board. See our blog for the names of the participants. We discussed space 2025 through multiple topics and a free for all discussion with 13 participants including myself. Multiple topics, some of which don't get much airtime on Space Show programs plus other topics that get a huge amount of airtime on the show. Find out what Space Show advisors think about the space projects and news that gets discussed not just by us but by space news in general. Read the summary that will be posted on www.thespaceshow.com as soon as possible and dated for this date, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.
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Dr. Kothari was with us to talk about his soon to be published paper on going to the Moon without SLS and the special halo orbit selected due to SLS. Ajay went through his plan and its architecture and worked at being very persuasive for his suggested program. He had many email listeners asking him challenging questions and the final call from Ft. Worth John was disagreement call. Don't miss what they had to say. Ajay's paper will be posted to our blog upon publication, probably in The Space Review. Read the written the summary at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.
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Joe Carroll was with us for an important discussion about human spaceflight safety, artificial gravity plus a realistic assessment of where we are with these matters today and where we need to be to accomplish our goals. Joe started off by asking everyone a question. He then went step by step through the issues outlines in his two Space Review papers posted on our blog for this program. We had good email listener participation and two good phone calls. Joe hopes for the archive listeners to answer his opening question which he repeated toward the end of the program. Post your response on our blog. Joe plans to continue working for the program or a variation of the program outlined in his two Space Review articles. He welcomes your comment on the blog or to his email address which he gave out on air toward the end of our discussion. Please read the full summary of this program when made available at www.thespaceshow.com for his date, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025.
