T+181: Falcon 9 Fleet, ABL in the UK, Firefly to the Moon
SpaceX broke their turnaround record and is racking up quite the flight history across their Falcon fleet. Lockheed selected ABL for a launch from the Shetland Islands. Firefly shook up their board, i...
10 Feb 202129min
T+180: Christian Davenport, The Washington Post, on the SLS Green Run, Axiom Ax-1, Virgin Orbit
Christian Davenport, reporter at The Washington Post, joins me to talk about the aborted SLS Green Run hot fire, the space policy landscape as we enter a new administration, Axiom’s Ax-1 mission and i...
28 Jan 202137min
T+179: Meagan Crawford, SpaceFund
Meagan Crawford, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SpaceFund and host of the Mission Eve podcast, joins the show to talk about the financing side of space. We talk about recent rounds of fundraising,...
18 Jan 202144min
T+178: Andrew Jones, on China’s Chang’e-5, 2021 Plans, and More
Andrew Jones returns to the show for the third time to talk about China’s current missions and future plans, including Chang’e-5, Tianwen-1, the Chinese Space Station, and the international politics s...
11 Jan 202146min
T+177: NASA VCLS 2, Relativity, Astra, and Firefly
NASA awarded Venture Class Launch Services contracts to Astra, Firefly, and Relativity. Astra almost made orbit with its most recent test flight of Rocket 3.2. And something is up at Firefly, but I do...
21 Dec 202019min
T+176: The Flight of Starship SN8
Starship SN8 took flight last week on a mostly-successful mission to test its final descent phase. I share some thoughts on the test, the state of Starship development, and what that all means for the...
14 Dec 202026min
T+175: Delays
A lot of big, long-running projects have faced delays recently, and it seems like as good a time as any to check in and share some related thoughts. I cover a lot in this one: the Orion PDU issue, Ari...
5 Dec 202025min
T+174: SpaceX Crew-1 Kicks Off New Era for ISS
SpaceX Crew-1 successfully launched and docked last week, kicking off a new era of the ISS. It’s a good time to zoom out and look at the ISS program overall, and what it means for the future of space ...
25 Nov 202025min
