T+297: Firefly Blue Ghost 1, Intuitive Machines IM-2, SpaceX Starship Flight 8 (with Josh Dinner)
Josh Dinner of Space.com joins me to talk about a wild week in space—Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8, Rocket Lab announcements, and more.This episode of Ma...
7 Mar 202552min
T+296: Jim Bridenstine on Space Policy
Former Congressman and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine joins me to talk space policy, then and now: CLPS, Commercial Space Stations, Artemis, international partnerships, and more.This episode of Ma...
3 Mar 202525min
T+295: The Economics of Space (with Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau)
Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau join me to talk about their new book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier. We talk about the economics driving the space industry today, how trad...
19 Feb 202541min
T+294: Elon Musk and the Trump Administration, Potential SLS Cancellation (with Eric Berger)
Eric Berger of Ars Technica joins me to talk about Elon Musk and the whirlwind start of the second Trump administration, and what the future may hold for SLS.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is bro...
10 Feb 202542min
T+293: Jonathan’s Space Report Library Transition (with Jonathan McDowell)
Jonathan McDowell—astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the namesake of the McDowell Line at 80 kilometers—joins me to talk about his fundraiser to move his epic space libr...
24 Jan 202514min
T+292: New Glenn Flight 1, Starship Flight 7
Blue Origin flew New Glenn successfully for the first time, and SpaceX flew Starship for the seventh time. Both featured failures at different points of the flight, with the impacts on Starship being ...
21 Jan 202522min
T+291: Axiom Updates Station Plans, Firefly Wins Another CLPS Mission
Axiom Space announced changes to their station build out plan, bringing free-flying capability forward in their timeline and switching to a berthing port at the ISS to avoid the US Deorbit Vehicle. Fi...
21 Des 202420min
T+290: Jared Isaacman Nominated NASA Administrator
Jared Isaacman, the man with a private space program, has been nominated NASA Administrator, to run the nation’s space program.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 32 executive pro...
6 Des 202421min
