Tag: John Batchelor Show

Embedded below the fold. The primary focus this time was India, its space effort, and the status of American policy in connection to it.
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Embedded below the fold. The main topic was the idiotic suggestion by NASA’s acting administrator that they put astronauts on the first launch of SLS, and send them to the Moon. John tried to encourage me to call the suggestion “unwise.” I insisted on calling it plain “stupid.”
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Embedded below the fold. Lots of discussion about the Mars rovers, present and future.
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Embedded below the fold. I once again love John Batchelor’s title, which is quoting me: “Making the Moon Great Again.”

Saturday I am off on my third lifetime hunting adventure, hunting javelinas using a pistol. Should be most interesting.
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Embedded below the fold. Batchelor’s title: “Van Gogh goes to Jupiter.”
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Embedded below the fold. A second podcast should also be posted later tonight, though Batchelor might delay its release until tomorrow.
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Embedded below the fold. This was originally supposed to air late last week, but got missed in the scheduling.
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Embedded below the fold. A look at what I see are the first real hints at Trump’s NASA policy, both in terms of space exploration and climate.
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Embedded below the fold. Gene Cernan’s achievements as an astronaut, as well as other matters.
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Embedded below the fold. Unlike most of my Batchelor podcasts, this one was not a review of all the most recent and important space stories. Instead, the first eleven minutes or so John allowed me to review and discuss the launch trends that I uncovered in compiling the worldwide launches since 1998.
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Embedded below the fold. Strange astronomy and planetary geology was the focus tonight.
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Embedded below the fold. Funding astronomy, what is working and what is not.
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Embedded below the fold. The focus here was the Sun’s solar cycle and the Earth’s magnetic field, among other things.
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Embedded below the fold. I began to talk very fast near the end, not because I am a New Yorker but because I feared we would soon be cut off. Listen and find out why.
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Embedded below the fold. This was a short 10 minute podcast, something we haven’t done in more than a year. We focused mostly on two topics, the lobbying going on in the press to influence future Trump space policy and a review of my most recent Mars rover update.

This will also be the last podcast this year. Batchelor is off next week, but he will be replaying many of the podcasts I’ve done with him during the week.
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Embedded below the fold. We spent some time talking about the James Webb Space Telescope, and the terrifying possibility that it might not work.
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Embedded below the fold. We spent the first half of this podcast discussing the changes to Trump’s NASA transition team, trying to get a handle on what those changes might mean.
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Embedded below the fold. I like John’s title for this podcast: “Trump Administration Will Make the Moon Great Again?”
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Embedded below the fold. We spent the first entire segment talking about John Glenn.
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Embedded below the fold. Talked a lot about science and climate.
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Embedded below the fold. The first half was devoted almost entirely in a discussion of the sad state of the Russian space program.
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Embedded below the fold. We talked a great deal about the failure of Schiaparelli, and the apparent dispute within ESA about it.
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