Episodes
65: Commercial Crew Takes Flight to LEO and Beyond
SpaceX DM-2 launches Friday night and NASA's NEXTSTEP-2 opens a pathway to commercial lunar landers
SpaceX
Episodes
64: SpaceX Raptor Breathes Fire and Virgin Galactic Takes Flight
Layoffs hit both companies despite huge milestones in commercial space
SpaceX
SpaceX Raptor Hits 268.9 Bar - The Highest Operating Pressure of Any Flight Engine
The Russian RD-170/180 is eclipsed, 30 years after its initial design, paving the way to Mars
Articles
Falcon 9 Acrobatics Highlight Impressive Control System in Landing Mishap
Falcon 9 misses its LZ-1 landing, but mission success is unaffected
Articles
SpaceX will launch Yusaku Maezawa and a band of artists to the Moon in 2023
A billionaire's grand artistic gesture appears to be the financial catalyst for development of SpaceX's mega rocket towards the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
SpaceX
SpaceX announces plan to send tourists to the Moon on new BFR
SpaceX will ferry a private citizen to lunar orbit, returning humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972
Episodes
61: Unlocking the Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar with ICEYE's Pekka Laurila
A constellation of radar imaging microsatellites could enable new insights for business and science
Articles
What is Moon Direct?
Renowned engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin unveiled his ambitious plan to send humans back to the Moon more cheaply, quickly, and most importantly permanently. Is his plan possible and will we see it put into action?
Episodes
60: SpaceX Flight Control, CRS-15 Payloads, and Chinese Lunar Missions
The dark side of the moon will soon be getting company from a Chinese lander, and Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to build their own Avengers style tower.
Articles
SpaceX doubles down on Mars Timeline at Humans to Mars Summit
While NASA carefully measures how to fit manned Mars exploration into current budgets, SpaceX reaffirms their goal of humans on Mars within a decade
Episodes
54: SpaceX's New Mars Rocket Factory and a Fully-Reusable Falcon 9
SpaceX is making strides in developing its next-generation launcher while exploring the boundaries of reusability with Falcon 9.
Opinion
Op-Ed: A Response to Old Space
Old Space is under attack from all sides, and to assume they will continue to dominate government-funded space may be a step too far
