Embedded below the fold. After John and I finished interviewing Iridium CEO Matt Desch for 10 minutes, we then followed with our normal 20 minute podcast, covering the news for the last week.
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Embedded below the fold. This podcast is a bit different, in that John and I essentially interviewed the CEO of Iridium, asking him questions about the company and their launch contracts with SpaceX. I was especially interested in Desch’s earlier statements saying that Iridium is negotiating with SpaceX about using used first stages, but wanted any use to be accompanied by an acceleration of its launch schedule.
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Embedded below the fold. The first segment, almost ten minutes long, was devoted entirely to the new House commercial space bill.
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Embedded below the fold. Recorded live, from the Grand Canyon.
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Embedded below the fold. A lot of impact stories this time, from ICBMs to ISS to Saturn.
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Embedded below the fold. I spent a large part of the first segment discussing both this week’s Senate hearings on the Outer Space Treaty, and the squealing by pigs over the proposed budget released this week by the Trump administration.
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Embedded below the fold. SLS’s bad week continues.
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Embedded below the fold. The delays with SLS as well as NASA’s failed spacesuit program were points of discussion.
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Embedded below the fold. Still catching up on space news with John.
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Embedded below the fold. John and I had a lot to catch up on. More to come tomorrow.
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Embedded below the fold. I like John Batchelor’s title for this podcast: “Capitalism in space means cheaper, faster, better, cheapest.
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Embedded below the fold. This was the podcast last week where I reported on SpaceX’s success at reusing a first stage. I am posting this a bit late, as I was in the Grand Canyon when John Batchelor posted it online.
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Embedded below the fold. Batchelor’s title: “SpaceX changes the launch game.”
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Embedded below the fold. John wanted to start by talking about the non-story of Budweiser looking at the technical difficulties of brewing beer on Mars. After that, we then spent the bulk of the segment talking about Trump’s budget proposals.
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Embedded below the fold. Batchelor invited me to be the guest on his regular Wednesday Hotel Mars segment with David Livingston of The Space Show to discuss Capitalism in Space.
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Embedded below the fold. Batchelor noted during the interview that the host of commercial space stories highlighted in this podcast did a nice job of underlining the points I have made in Capitalism in Space.
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Embedded below the fold. The entire subject to this podcast was Capitalism in Space. John asked me to review my recommendations in the policy paper, and describe why they make sense if we want to explore and colonize the solar system quickly and at a reasonable cost.
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