Ep. 350: Space Ship One

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) SpaceShipOne is the spacecraft created by Scaled Composites to win the $10 million Ansari X-Prize in 2003. It was the first privately built spacecraft to reach 100 km in altitude, twice in two weeks, carrying the equivalent of 3 people. It’s the...

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Ep. 349: Mercury 7 and How the...

Posted by susie on Jul 13, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Before the Apollo Program, there was the Gemini Program, and before Gemini came the Mercury Program. 7 elite astronauts chosen from a pool of military test pilots. How did NASA choose these original 7 men? Ep....

Ep. 348: Places with Numbers: ...

Posted by susie on Jun 23, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Although NASA is spread across the entire US, the headquarters is based right in Washington, DC. And the headquarters building is known as Two Independence Square. This is where past and future space policy for the...

Ep. 347: Live from Balticon!

Posted by susie on Jun 9, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Ep. 347: Live from Balticon! Jump to Shownotes Jump to Transcript Show Notes Sponsors: 8th Light and Swinburne Astronomy Online BaltiCon P.G. Holyfield P.G.’s website “Murder at Avedon...

Ep. 346: Numbered Places: Area...

Posted by susie on Jun 9, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Who knows what mysteries lurk at the military’s Area 51 complex in Nevada? Conspiracy theorists and UFO chasers think it’s a big alien coverup. But it’s probably something more boring, like advanced...

Ep. 345: Numbered Places: Laun...

Posted by susie on May 19, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Almost every historic American launch occurred at one place in Cape Canaveral: Launch Complex 39. Good old LC39 was build for the Apollo spacecraft, and then modified for the Space Shuttle program. And now it’s...

Ep. 344: The Rings of Saturn

Posted by susie on May 12, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (25.7MB) There’s so much we know about Saturn’s beautiful rings, and yet, there’s so much we don’t know. Morgan Rehnberg, a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder and works with the Cassini...

Ep. 343: The Universe is Tryin...

Posted by susie on May 6, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) We always say that the Universe is trying to kill you, but we thought we’d really hammer the point home. Dr. Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy joins Fraser Cain for a very special episode of Astronomy Cast. Join us...

Ep. 342: Sunsetting Spacecraft

Posted by susie on Apr 15, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Everything dies, including our technology. But when we’ve hurtled a few thousands pounds of robotic instrumentation to another planet, it gets a little difficult to shut it down and clean up. What do we do when...

Ep. 341: 45th Lunar and Planet...

Posted by susie on Apr 11, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Pamela has a day job, remember? As an astronomer? Recently the 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference occurred in the The Woodlands, Texas. Pamela and guest astronomer Sondy Springmann will let us know about the...

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Episode List

Ep. 350: Space Ship One

Ep. 349: Mercury 7 and How the US Picked the First Astronauts

Ep. 348: Places with Numbers: 2 Independence Sq (NASA HQ)

Ep. 347: Live from Balticon!

Ep. 346: Numbered Places: Area 51

Ep. 345: Numbered Places: Launch Complex 39

Ep. 344: The Rings of Saturn

Ep. 343: The Universe is Trying To Kill You

Ep. 342: Sunsetting Spacecraft

Ep. 341: 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference