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Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.
The podcast Off-Nominal is created by Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo. The podcast and the artwork on this page are embedded on this page using the public podcast feed (RSS).
Jake and Anthony are joined by Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau to talk about their new book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier. Supply! Demand! Subsidies! Probably dunking on the commercial space station market!
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Jake and Anthony catch up on some news, stories they haven’t covered yet like Rocket Lab’s Mars Sample Return architecture, and discuss the glory of Super Bowl LIX. It’s Anthony’s birthday, so he will not be stopped by Jake. Go Birds.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Kristin Fisher to talk about her journey into independent journalism with her new YouTube channel, and we’ll probably kick around some news, too, because there’s been a lot, huh?
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Stephen Clark, space reporter at Ars Technica, to talk about Starship Flight 7, New Glenn Flight 1, and let’s be real, probably space policy.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Swapna Krishna to talk about the Mars Sample Return non-update…since they only gave it about 5 minutes of last week’s show. And hey, there are some big rockets on launch pads right now.
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Jake and Anthony take a look back at their 2024 predictions, make a few for 2025, and check in on Mars Sample Return announcements.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to present the 2024 Off-Nominees: the most bizarre space news stories of the year.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by journalist and author Tim Fernholz to talk about the election aftermath, the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator, and whether Anthony is a space warmonger.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gialich, Founder and CEO of AstroForge, to talk about asteroid mining. Yep, we’re doing the asteroid mining show.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Adrian Beil of NSF (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord) to talk about Starship Flight 6.
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Jake and Anthony sit down for an election-week palate cleanser and explore some fun discussion prompts from Anomalies just like you!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, to talk about the 2024 US elections, the return of President Trump, Musk’s role in the next administration, and what space policy looks like over the next four years.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Mission Pilot of Polaris Dawn, retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and former Thunderbird #4 Demonstration Pilot, to talk about his recent flight to space.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and leader of ETH Zurich Space, to talk about some of the big stories in science at NASA—Mars Sample Return, cost growth in missions across the board, and more.
Note: Dr. Z cited the Europa Clipper solar arrays at 100 yards across, as in one football field, but clarified via email that they are actually 100 feet. He is European, so the football field mix up is understandable. Go Birds.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Jack Beyer, Content Manager for NSF, to talk about SpaceX doing the dang thing! They caught the booster!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Handmer, Founder of Terraform Industries, to talk about Mars Sample Return, and the general state of government projects, NASA, and so much more.
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Jake arrives sad about space, and Anthony tries to cheer him up. We talk ISS, Artemis, budgets, and government strategy and goals.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to air their grievances with the FAA.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, to talk about his newest book, Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age.
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Jake is joined by Emma Louden and Tanya Harrison to talk about their new children's book Mia and the Martians and how distilling space down to a child's level is a fascinating and challenging topic.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Gerard van Belle, Astronomer at Lowell Observatory, to talk about the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis, which is about to do some crazy stuff that it does every 78 years and honestly, we really need help understanding it.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to share the Good News about Human Spaceflight.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by John Conafay, founder of Integrate, to talk about what they’ve been up to lately, his time at SmallSat, all the space news of late, our bizarre JSC theories, and probably a review of Salt Lake City favorites in advance of the conferences’s move next year.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Logan and Alan from MSI DFAT to talk about blasting satellites and spacecraft with sound. Seriously, that is their job.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Christian Davenport of The Washington Post to catch Jake up on what he missed while on vacation. Just a Falcon 9 failure, the ongoing Starliner saga, and a brand new Presidential race.
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Anthony is joined by his two favorite LGs—Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, and Loren Grush of Bloomberg—to talk about an absolutely chaotic run of space news.
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Anthony is joined by Joey Roulette of Reuters and Jacqueline Feldscher of Payload to talk about the Falcon 9 failure and its fallout, and the ongoing communications debacle that is Starliner.
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Jake and Anthony are back! We catch up mostly about spacesuits, space stations, spaceships, and probably Dragon XL.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Laura Delgado López, Visiting Fellow at the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to talk about Latin American space policy.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Peller, VP of Vulcan Development at United Launch Alliance, to talk about…well…Vulcan development!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Peter Beck, Founder, President, and CEO of Rocket Lab, to talk about making rocket bikes, why he would do such a thing as make rocket bikes, what it was like to ride rocket bikes, and why he stopped making rocket bikes.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium, to talk about what they’ve been up to lately, the state of the satellite communications industry, and to tell some stories from his career.
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Jake and Anthony catch up on the news, and Anthony returns from vacation with a few reviews of some recent Smithsonian Air and Space Museum changes.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Caleb Henry (Director of Research) and Justin Cadman (Co-CEO) of Quilty Space, to talk about their financial analysis of Starlink.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to figure out what’s up with the Orion heat shield, SLS layoffs, commercial Mars studies, and the ISS deorbit vehicle.
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Erin Edwards joins Jake and Anthony to talk about flying helicopters, making the leap from the military to space, and being a Canadian CAPCOM at NASA.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Aria Alamalhodaei, reporter at TechCrunch, to talk about valves, getting footage of Astra’s explosions, Mars Sample Return, and everything else that has been going on lately, including cursed eclipses.
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Jake and Anthony catch up after some travels, unfortunate events, clouds, news, and hijinks.
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Jake is joined my Simon Stähler from ETH Zürich to talk about the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Paul Niles, CLPS project scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, to talk about the science side of CLPS.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Michael Sheetz, space reporter from CNBC, to talk about Starship’s third flight, recent earnings calls, whatever Astra is up to, and…there’s way too much on our list.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Swapna Krishna to catch up on space science news, and to talk about her projects like Ad Astra, Stargazing, and more.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by journalist and author Tim Fernholz to talk about some of his recent stories on the Space Force, Kam Ghaffarian, and let’s be honest, we’ll probably get distracted by Intuitive Machine’s first lunar landing attempt.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to talk about the latest on Mars Sample Return, JPL layoffs, and everything space policy.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Elizabeth Frank to talk about the future of the CLPS program, JPL’s Mars-focused Commercial Services Studies, and a whole bunch more, including Elizabeth’s epic travel photos.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Rae Paoletta of The Planetary Society to pour one out for Ingenuity, breakdown the epic SLIM landing, and do some eclipse planning.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by John Conafay to talk about what he’s been up to since founding Integrate, and we’ll probably dish out some hot takes, too.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Will Francis, Chief Commercial Officer at Agile Space Industries, to talk about his path through the industry—from co-founding Roccor, to being acquired by Redwire, to joining Agile—and what he’s learned along the way.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger to lay out our predictions for 2024!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to present The Off-Nominees: the most bizarre space news stories of the year. We’ll debate what went the most comedically wrong this year, crown a winner, and also score some 2023 predictions.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Tom Marotta of The Spaceport Company to talk about what they’re working on, spaceport operations, and the FAA licensing process.
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Jake and Anthony check in on Starship, Artemis, spreadsheets, and a lost tomato on the ISS.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by photographer Andrew McCarthy to talk about his journey into astrophotography, his process, and let’s be real, to gawk at his work. And also to convince Jake to buy telescopes.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Tom Mueller, founder, CEO, and CTO of Impulse Space and former Propulsion CTO at SpaceX. We’ll talk about what Impulse Space is up to, including their literally-just-launched first mission to space.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Tanya Harrison to talk about the Earth and Planetary Institute of Canada that she—along with very-recent guest, Dr. Gordon Osinski!—founded and announced just a few weeks back.
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Planetary Scientist Stefano Nerozzi joins Jake and Anthony to talk about science on Mars, from Sample Return to mapping Mars’ Ice!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Gordon Osinski from the University of Western Ontario and member of the Artemis 3 Geology team which will develop surface science plans for the first lunar EVAs since Apollo.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Stephen Hackett, co-founder of Relay FM and fellow space nerd, to talk about the ever-present SLS drama of the day, how Relay’s St. Jude fundraiser went, and partake in the first Terrible Space Movie Review Show™ in which we try to convince Stephen to watch our favorite of a bad batch of movies we watched.
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Jason Davis of The Planetary Society makes his long-awaited return, to hang out with Jake and Anthony and talk about Psyche, OSIRIS-REx, solar eclipses, and surely a bunch of other stuff, too.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Brendan Byrne, of WMFE and Are We There Yet?, to talk about watching spaceships return to Earth, talking to astronauts, a change of leadership at Blue Origin, and what’s been up in the Florida space scene of late.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Alec Maestas, OSIRIS-REx Systems Engineer and Real-Time Operations, to talk about the asteroid sample return mission on the eve(ish) of sample arrival.
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Jake and Anthony check in on human spaceflight with a bit of a roundup—Axiom-3, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and more.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to talk about her new book, The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts.
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Jake and Anthony talk about recent financial news in the world of spaceflight and add some predictions to the 2023 list.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Panning from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and PI of the Farside Seismic Suite to talk about the Chandrayaan-3 and Luna-25 Moon landings and what we can look forward too from CLPS coming soon.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Karan Kunjur, Co-Founder of K2 Space, to talk about what they’re building, and what it means to build for a post-Starship future.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by space artist and illustrator Paul Fjeld to talk about his career and to hear some stories from interesting projects and programs he’s worked on.
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Anthony is joined by Jonathan Vaughters, Founder and CEO of EF Education-EasyPost, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about space and cycling, who knows in what amounts. Sorry, Jake.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Phil Metzger to talk about his research into launch and landing pad debris.
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Jake is back, so Anthony will help get him caught up on the news, including the Mars Sample Return Hot Drama.
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Anthony is joined by Loren Grush (Bloomberg) and Rachael Zisk (Payload), to talk about Loren’s recent trip to see Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight, to catch up on some news, and to do a mid-year check in on our 2023 predictions.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceFlight.com (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord) to talk about how he got his start via an epic spreadsheet, and to tell some stories from his trip to Boca Chica for Starship.
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Jake and Anthony check in on the ongoing planetary missions around the solar system.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Grant Bonin to talk about his new venture, gravityLab, focused on partial gravity research.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Joey Roulette of Reuters to talk about the state of NASA’s fixed-price contracts in the face of the Starliner situation and lunar lander awards.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to talk about what he’s up to and to engage in some alt-history what-ifs.
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Jake and Anthony catch up on the news, including Blue Origin’s Lunar Lander award!
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Jake and guest host Casey Dreier are joined by Paul Byrne to talk about NASA’s planetary science budget and the trials and tribulations that it is experiencing today.
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Jake and guest host Debarati Das are joined by Jaime Green, author of the new book The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Sarah Al-Ahmed, host and producer of Planetary Radio, to talk about her new gig running one of the longest-tenured space podcasts.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg to talk about his new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.
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Anthony cracks open a beer and talks about the news from Space Symposium with Jacqueline Feldscher of Payload and Jeff Foust of SpaceNews.
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Anthony is joined by Caleb Henry of Quilty Analytics to talk about his recent trip to India for a OneWeb launch, and to talk about all the acquisitions and mergers going on in the satellite communications market right now.
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Anthony is joined by Eric Berger of Ars Technica and Matthew Russell of the The Interplanetary Podcast to talk about Starship, the future of European spaceflight, and the Artemis II crew.
Announcement: Off-Nominal and MECO Live Shows at Space Symposium 2023
More details coming soon, but Anthony will be at Space Symposium 2023 and will be hosting MECO and Off-Nominal live at the Redwire booth on April 18 and 19. We’ll have wonderful guests such as Lori Garver, Peter Beck, Masami Onoda, Karina Drees, Loren Grush, Michael Sheetz, Jacqueline Feldscher, and more to be named soon! Come hang out, watch some live shows, and say hello to Anthony in real life.
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Anthony is joined by Chris Carberry and Dr. Tanya Harrison to discuss Chris’ upcoming documentary version of his Alcohol in Space book, the upcoming Humans to Mars summit, and the state of humans to Mars in the Artemis era.
Announcement: Off-Nominal and MECO Live Shows at Space Symposium 2023!
More details coming soon, but Anthony will be at Space Symposium 2023 and will be hosting MECO and Off-Nominal live at the Redwire booth on April 18 and 19. We’ll have wonderful guests such as Lori Garver, Peter Beck, Masami Onoda, Karina Drees, and more to be named soon! Come hang out, watch some live shows, and say hello to Anthony in real life.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Christian Davenport of The Washington Post to catch up on all the space news, and to celebrate 100 episodes of Off-Nominal.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Albrecht, executive secretary of the National Space Council from 1989 to 1992, and President of International Launch Services from 1999 to 2006, to talk about his career in space and space policy, the new era of the National Space Council, and more.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Michael Sheetz, space journalist from CNBC, to talk about recent earnings calls, ULA for sale, and other space business!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Howard Mostrom, Audio Director for Kerbal Space Program 2, to talk about how he recorded audio for the latest in the hit franchise of space video games.
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Jake and Anthony are joined once again by Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, to talk about the newest class of Brooke Owens fellows, what she’s been up to lately, and who knows, maybe we’ll randomly argue about commercial space stations on this one, too.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about Super Heavy’s static fire, Progress doing its best Soyuz, and to somewhat randomly argue about Commercial LEO Destinations.
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Jake and Anthony talk about the Chinese balloons that floated over the Americas in the last few weeks, balloons in space history, UFO shit, and do a random follow-up news segment.
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Jake and Anthony talk about Jake’s decision to end WeMartians, and what goes on behind the scenes of Making Stuff™.
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Jake and Anthony talk about the state of smallsat launch and tell some stories from Anthony’s trip to Virginia to see an Electron launch.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Ben Feist, Data Visualization & Informatics Software Engineer and Historian at NASA Johnson Space Center, to talk about his work, including the amazing Apollo in Real Time experience.
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Brendan Byrne, of WMFE and Are We There Yet?, hosts the first edition of The Off-Nominallyweds, a game to find out if Jake or Anthony knows the other one better.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to talk about and predict what’s to come in space this year.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Miriam Kramer of Axios to talk about the weirdest and funniest space news of the year, to announce the Off-Nominees, and to crown the winner of the 2022 Off-Nominal Award.
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Marina Koren of The Atlantic joins Jake and Anthony to talk about her recent viewing and reviewing of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Jake and Anthony catch up on Artemis I and everything else going on in space news lately.
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Mat Kaplan, host of Planetary Radio for The Planetary Society, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about the 20th anniversary of the show, his upcoming retirement, and what it’s been like to cover space in this way for all those years.
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Somehow, it’s almost time for Artemis I. Again. Yes, again. And then we break down some hot planetary drama from this week.
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Photographer Roland Miller returns to the show to talk to Jake and Anthony about his newest book, The Space Shuttle: A Mission-by-Mission Celebration of NASA's Extraordinary Spaceflight Program, out next week.
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With Jake away, Swapna Krishna and Caleb Henry join Anthony for a very Philadelphia-themed episode.
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Elizabeth Howell of Space.com joins Jake and Anthony to talk about her new book, Why Am I Taller, with astronaut Dave Williams.
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Ben Brockert joins Jake and Anthony to tell stories from his various adventures in the space industry.
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Anthony took a trip to Pittsburgh to visit Astrobotic this week, and he’s back to talk about it with Jake.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Kristin Fisher of CNN to talk about Artemis I, and the coverage out there in the world in all the places us space nerds aren’t.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Matthew Russell of the The Interplanetary Podcast to talk about his trip to French Guiana to commentate the first launch of Vega C.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Rae Paoletta, Editorial Director at The Planetary Society, to tell some stories from their trip to Artemis 1, the Off-Nominal meetups, and Rae’s encounter with a snake owner, licensed in the state of Florida.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Emily Calandrelli, speaker, writer, and Emmy-Nominated Host of Emily's Wonder Lab, to talk about the Brooke Owens Fellowship, which is just about to start recruiting the next class of students, and everything else she is up to lately.
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With just a single weekend remaining between us and Artemis 1, Jake and Anthony pregame the launch, mission, and meetups, and talk about the Artemis program overall.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Gary Jordan, NASA Public Affairs Officer and host of the official podcast of Johnson Space Center, “Houston We Have a Podcast.”
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Dr. Justin Walsh, co-PI of the International Space Station Archaeological Project, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about how to do archaeology on a space station and what they’re up to on the ISS.
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Anthony is joined by Christian Davenport of The Washington Post and Loren Grush of The Verge to talk about Loren’s JWST birthday present, Artemis 1 getting its initial launch dates, the occasional Long March 5B reentry, and everything else that has been going on in the world of space news.
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Nadia Drake joins Jake and Anthony to obsess over the JWST images released this week and to talk about the telescope’s first few months of operation.
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Anthony is joined by Joe Barnard of BPS.Space and Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!) to talk about how to cook meat with a very fast rocket, what life is like in Boca Chica lately, and…what has NASA been doing with those chickens?
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Eric Berger of Ars Technica joins Jake and Anthony to discuss Administrator Bill Nelson a year into his tenure and whether he’s been good or bad for NASA.
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Chris Gebhardt from NASA Spaceflight.com joins Jake to talk about the FAA’s approval of the Boca Chica launch site.
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Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, champion of commercial spaceflight, and longtime space pirate, joins Jake and Anthony to discuss her upcoming book “Escaping Gravity” and to tell some stories from her incredible career.
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Jake and Anthony catch up on the news, from Starliner’s flight to NASA’s announcement of new spacesuit contracts for ISS and lunar missions.
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Engineer, Consultant and STEM evangelist Lauren Lyons joins Jake and Anthony to talk about her diverse career at SpaceX, Blue Origin and Firefly, and the unique and interesting paths the space industry can take you on.
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Space potter Amy Rae Hill joins Jake and guest host Debarati Das for a discussion on space and art.
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Pamela Gay, astronomer and podcasters, joins Jake and guest host Anna from But It Is Rocket Science to talk about black holes, making space podcasts, and more.
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Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about the recent ASAT testing ban announced by Vice President Harris, and the effects the space industry has been having on the war in Ukraine.
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Jake and Anthony talk about the best/worst/most cursed rockets of all time, why they love them so much, and why you should, too.
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Casey Dreier, Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy Adviser at The Planetary Society, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about the NASA budget, the recently-released decadal survey, and other space policy storylines.
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Brendan Byrne, of WMFE and Are We There Yet?, joins Jake and Anthony talk about Artemis 1 and its “Wet” Dress Rehearsal, Axiom-1 on the ISS, and other goings-on in space.
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Caleb Henry of Quilty Analytics joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Amazon’s Kuipermania launch contract, and what it was like to moderate panels at the 2022 Space Symposium.
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Philip Sloss of NASASpaceflight joins Jake and Anthony to talk about the rollout and wet dress rehearsal for Artemis 1, and to go behind-the-scenes on how he does his incredibly-in-depth reporting and coverage of SLS.
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Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about how he got into space, his background in engineering, the shift from engineering to management, and the future of ULA and the rest of the space industry.
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Matt Brealey joins Jake and Anthony to talk about martian terrain data and imagery, and to go behind the scenes on his incredible creation, AreoBrowser.
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Jake returns from LPSC 2022 and shares some stories with Anthony. #TacoGate2022
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Anthony is joined by Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, and Roland Miller, a photographer who has spent years documenting space hardware of all varieties. We’ll talk about Roland’s work, and go behind the scenes on his two published books (Abandoned In Place, Interior Space) and his next book (Orbital Planes) coming out this spring.
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Scott Tilley, an amateur satellite tracker, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about tracking Chang’e-5 back to the Moon and into a Distant Retrograde Orbit, how he and the wider community of amateur satellite trackers do what they do, and what else he’s been tracking lately.
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Michael Sheetz of CNBC and Eric Berger of Ars Technica join Anthony to talk about the latest in the finance side of space—what’s up in the world of funding, which businesses look steady and which look shaky, and of course, how you can’t spell space without SPAC.
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Jake and Anthony talk about some (really good) changes coming to the show, Jared Isaacman’s privately-funded Gemini program, and SpaceX’s Starship…update.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dylan Taylor, Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, founder of Space for Humanity, and commercial astronaut on Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-19.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Matthew Russell of the The Interplanetary Podcast to talk about the wackiest space news of the year and to crown the winners of the 2021 Off-Nominees.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian to talk about Russia’s latest endangerment to the ISS—their anti-satellite operationthat resulted in a huge debris field—and about how Jonathan does all the excellent work he does tracking launches, satellites, and where everything in space is going.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by two returning favorites, Loren Grush and Miriam Kramer, to talk about Loren’s time away from the space news grind, and Miriam’s excellent podcast following Inspiration4.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard of BPS.Space to talk about what he’s been working on lately, what it’s like being a creator online these days, and various other topics like Firefly’s first launch, Virgin Galactic’s Kobayashi Maru, and what Chuck E. Cheese has been up to during the pandemic.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Chelsea Gohd from Space.com to talk about the rarest of space events: double hot drama! Nauka, after a tumultuous week of its own, almost destroyed the ISS, and Blue Origin wrote an open letter while simulatenously losing its protest.
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Jake is moving, and has left Anthony alone with the keys to the show. Chris Gebhardt of NASASpaceflight and Jason Davis of the Planetary Society return to the show to talk about our newest Venus armada, China’s new space station, and the space politics cold war of Artemis vs China & Russia’s International Lunar Research Station. And bizarrely, an entire segment about Ares I-X.
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This month, Anthony and Jake are taking it bit easier. It’s summer, everyone is excited about getting back in to the world again, and space news will be winding down a bit.
It’s just the two of us, and we go through a potpourri of topics from random space stories that have caught our attention, some stray conspiracy theory talk, then talk shop about our plans for the show, our work, our lives, and more.
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Miriam Kramer joins Jake and Anthony to talk about space tourism. From Inspiration4, to Axiom-1, to suborbital flights, to some future adventures we’d like to go on. And some we wouldn’t.
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Leo Enright, the guy from Irish TV, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about covering space from a non-traditional space country, how he got started covering space, some current topics including Perseverance, ESA’s new Director General, and to generally have a great time.
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With our beloved JB on his way out, Jake and Anthony have been appointed NASA autocrats for five years with $25 billion per year to spend. They have done the homework, mostly, and will now unveil their grand plans.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, to talk about Starship SN8’s epic flight test, Tim’s trip to Boca Chica, and to unveil the 2020 Off-Nominees and crown the winner.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger of Ars Technica to talk about the space policy fallout of the 2020 US election, Eric’s upcoming book, and Jake’s bad decisions.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Caleb Henry, formerly of SpaceNews and now of Quilty Analytics. We talk about SpaceX’s new satellite contract, OneWeb’s new lease on life, Caleb’s new gig at Quilty, and what it’s like transitioning away from capital-J journalism.
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With Anthony off on parental leave, Jake is joined by guest host Emilee Speck and guests Anna and Henna from But It Is Rocket Science to talk about making space podcasts and Life on Venus?!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush to catch up on a wild few weeks—from VR tours of spaceships, the Doug Loverro situation, Mars mayhem, Starship hops, and of course, the DM-2 boating fiasco.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Lord British himself, Richard Garriott de Cayeux. Richard is a storied video game designer/developer, an entrepreneur, an astronaut who flew to the ISS for a week, and an adventurer with so many tales it’s hard to keep up. Richard is also the son of Owen Garriott, a NASA astronaut who flew on Skylab II and STS-9.
Richard joins us to talk about growing up as the son of an astronaut, to tell tales of spaceflight and undersea adventures, to ruminate on the commercial spaceflight industry, and to blow our minds with stories of dodgy Russian safety protocols.
Also, our fundraiser is over and we’ve made a significant impact on two organizations working hard to bring racial equity to STEM and space. We raised nearly $35,000!
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Jake and Anthony are joined by John Johnson. John is an expert on exoplanet research at Harvard University, having done work for NASA on Kepler but also as Principal Investigator for the MINERVA project. He also founded the Banneker Institute at Harvard, an organization dedicated to helping people of color enter astronomy and the subject of our current fundraiser.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine joins Jake and Anthony for the first episode of Off-Nominal Origins. We talk about how he got interested in space and aviation, his time at Rice University, his years as a Navy pilot, his continuing fascination with the Rocket Racing League, and a whole lot more.
And yes, obviously, we talk about the time Jake and Anthony started a weird little sideshow at IAC 2019 with The Jim Bridenstine Fan Club.
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Jake and Anthony stop by with a quick update on our donation campaign to help two wonderful organizations, Black Girls Code and the Banneker Institute. The response has been incredible so far, so let’s keep it up!
Here at Off-Nominal, we've been following the demonstrations against racial inequality and police violence in the United States, Canada, and around the world with concern. These events have highlighted deep problems with how we treat each other in many domains, and space exploration is not exempt.
While we have been processing this in real-time, it has become obvious that we must do our part and use our platform to speak up against these inequalities and take action to stop them. We have been engaging with our Discord community this past week to come up with a plan.
Many of these initiatives were developed not just by Jake and Anthony, but in partnership with the Patrons and listeners of our three podcasts. We’re proud that this is a community-led effort.
Together, we're putting on a fundraiser to support Black organizations whose missions we believe in.
Both Jake and Anthony will be matching contributions our community makes to both of these organizations through July 10 up to the total of this month’s revenue from Patreon (WeMartians, MECO).
Donate directly to the organizations below, then email us your donation receipt to [email protected] so we can match it.
Thank you for helping us work together to make space better.
BGC empowers girls of colour ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. Code plays such an integral role in both aerospace engineering and science that it’s hard to overestimate how important organizations like BGC is.
Banneker provides ten week summer research and study experiences to undergraduate students of colour to prepare them for graduate programs in astronomy. As one of the least diverse of the sciences, anything we can do to give underrepresented peoples an edge will pay off.
Jake and Anthony are joined by Jason Davis of The Planetary Society to talk about NASA’s human landing systems, SpaceX’s upcoming DM-2 launch, and to debate whether or not Tom Cruise will make a cool movie on the ISS.
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Jake and Anthony take on a long-standing debate: worm or meatball? The NASA Worm is back, so in honor of that, we talk about our most and least favorite logos in space, including missions, organizations, and companies. And some Soviet propaganda.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by fellow space podcaster Brendan Bryne for a self-quarantine edition of the show. Jake developed a new bit for this grab bag episode with talk of Schrödinger’s Gateway, SpaceX’s DM-2, and a whole bunch more, including (obviously) COVID-19 and its impact on space. Also how Brendan’s cat almost ruined OSIRIS-REx.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Laura Forczyk to talk about all the drama, from the NASA Authorization bill making its way through the House, the latest in Starliner anomalies, and Laura’s new book, Rise of the Space Age Millennials.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Chris Carberry of Explore Mars to discuss his new book Alcohol in Space, and pitch themselves as the perfect test subjects.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Marina Koren of The Atlantic to discuss the very Off-Nominal-esque Apollo 12 mission, regional Pennsylvania sayings, and to deliberate on and announce the 2019 Off-Nominal Award winner!
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Jake and Anthony tell the tale of IAC 2019—meetups, making connections at the conference, trolling around the expo hall, and the much-anticipated-and-surprising meeting with JB.
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Jake predictably apologizes for Canadian Thanksgiving, and we’ve got some IAC business to discuss.
Upcoming meetup! Hang out with Jake, Anthony, and other fellow Anomalies in Washington, DC on October 20! Details at events.offnominal.space.
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Jake and Anthony talk about their plans for IAC 2019, Chandrayaan-2, Starhopper, KSP 2, and the special place that Jake secretly holds in your space-loving heart.
Upcoming meetup! Hang out with Jake, Anthony, and other fellow Anomalies in Washington, DC on October 20! Details at events.offnominal.space.
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Eric Berger of Ars Technica joins Jake and Anthony to talk about his recent trip to Boca Chica for Starhopper’s first hop, propellant depots, NASA policy, Artemis, and the passing of his friend, Chris Kraft.
Upcoming meetup! Hang out with Jake, Pat (creator of RocketLaunch.Live), and other fellow Anomalies in Kent, WA on August 31! Details at events.offnominal.space.
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On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Jake and Anthony talk about the aftermath of Apollo and alternate histories we could have seen—the Apollo Applications Program, a crewed Venus flyby, and more Skylab.
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Chris Gebhardt of NASASpaceflight joins Jake and Anthony to talk about space media in modern pop culture, the way its made and received, and what stands the test of time.
Upcoming meetup! Hang out with Jake and other fellow Anomalies in Kent, WA on June 29! Details at events.offnominal.space.
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Jake and Anthony try and figure out what’s going on with all this Artemis talk and where we’re headed.
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Kate Howells of the Planetary Society joins Jake and Anthony to talk all things Canadian space policy.
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Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about DM-1, the future of the ISS, Shuttle and Starship aborts, and imagine what Boeing livestreams will look like.
Meetup! March 17 in Houston!
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Jake and Anthony talk about New Horizons’ recent flyby, Chang’e 4, and take on a handful of questions from listeners.
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Jake and Anthony discuss what 2018 will mean to future space historians, and announce the winner of The 2018 Off-Nominal Award.
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Gary Napier joins Jake and Anthony to discuss doing communications for Lockheed Martin, dodging flat-earthers, and Dean Martin.
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Elizabeth Howell joins Jake and Anthony to talk about her trip to Baikonur, the recent Soyuz situations, the politics of the ISS, and Canadian space.
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Loren Grush joins Jake and Anthony to talk about whatever the hell SpaceX is going to announce, Opportunity’s troubles, the masterpiece that is Space Craft, and why you never start in Mexico.
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Eric Berger joins Jake and Anthony to talk about his recent trip to Kourou, the European launch sector, Commercial Crew announcements, and the social eating segment of JAXA launch streams.
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Shannon Stirone joins Jake and Anthony for a deep dive into the history, present, and future of the Deep Space Network.
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Jason Davis joins Jake and Anthony to discuss when and why—but not how—humanity will go to the Moon and Mars. Okay, maybe a little how. And also some space policy talk.
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While Anthony is away in Europe, Jake is joined by fellow space podcasters Matt and Jamie from the Interplanetary Podcast to discuss Jake's trip to California to see InSight and what's going on in the UK Space Industry.
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Tanya Harrison joins Jake and Anthony to discuss the James Webb Space Telescope delays, planetary missions and their ability to stay under budget and on time, and the benefits and drawbacks of decadal surveys.
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Brendan Bryne joins Jake and Anthony to discuss the National Space Council, the 2019 NASA Budget Request, and the wonders of Jai Alai.
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Jake and Anthony discuss the few days they spent together in Florida last week to see Falcon Heavy launch, tell a few stories, and work through their feelings on Starman.
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Jake and Anthony drink a beer that has been to space, discuss the recently-announced New Frontiers finalists, and propose their own flagship-class missions.
Huge thanks to Ninkasi Brewing Company for powering this episode!
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Note: Please listen to Episode 3 before listening to this podcast!
A companion podcast to follow Episode 3. Jake tells the story of Polynesian Celestial Navigation. Originally produced for a class in sound design but published here for your enjoyment.
Covert art courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/ESA/Hubble)
Jake tells us the story of Chinese spaceflight, and Anthony gets us ready for their future in space.
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Anthony and Jake dive into Gravitational Wave astronomy, salute a passing interstellar traveler, and pour one out for a lost rock legend.
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Anthony and Jake unpack the National Space Council’s inaugural meeting, SpaceX’s BFR update from IAC, and the future of Falcon Heavy.
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