T+212: NASA’s Budget, Commercial LEO, and the Sustaining Lunar Development Contract
The White House has finally submitted its fiscal year 2023 budget request, which has big implications for NASA’s Commercial LEO program, and their newest announcement, the upcoming Sustaining Lunar De...
29 Mar 202238min
T+211: Political and Industrial Fallout of the War
A follow-up on my last show with Debra Werner about the war in Ukraine and all the fallout from it, both political and industrial. Everything from the NASA budgets for 2022 and 2023, NASA telling astr...
17 Mar 202226min
T+210: Ukraine, Russia, and the Space Industry (with Debra Werner)
Debra Werner of SpaceNews joins me to talk about Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the ways that it is affecting the space industry, how their last invasion had similar effects, and how the situat...
3 Mar 202233min
T+209: Off-Nominal 50 (with Michael Sheetz and Eric Berger)
A special feature of a very-MECO episode of my other podcast, Off-Nominal, that I did this week with Michael Sheetz of CNBC and Eric Berger of Ars Technica. If you have yet to check out Off-Nominal, f...
25 Feb 20221h 2min
T+208: The Polaris Program
Jared Isaacman, commander of Inspiration4, announced the Polaris Program—a privately-funded development program to “rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities” via flights on SpaceX’s Dragon and S...
14 Feb 202214min
T+207: 2022 Preview, Predictions, and Things to Watch (with Eric Berger)
Eric Berger of Ars Technica joins me to talk about what’s on our radar in 2022, to predict when the big new rockets will fly, and to generally catch up on what’s going on in the space industry.This ep...
21 Jan 202253min
T+206: Going Independent
Last week I left my full-time gig at Big Cartel. I’m going independent to do more Main Engine Cut Off and Off-Nominal, and to make these space-focused projects the primary work that I do. I’m also goi...
23 Des 20216min
T+205: Phil McAlister, Director of Commercial Spaceflight at NASA
Phil McAlister, Director of Commercial Spaceflight at NASA, joins me to talk about the history of and lessons learned from the Commercial Cargo and Crew programs, what things went well and not so well...
16 Des 20211h 1min
