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Anthony is joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and Joe Barnard to talk about crewed spaceflight in the 2030s, what options exist if and when Dragon stops flying, and what we should do about it. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 252 - Paying Now and Later (with Eric Berger and Joe Barnard) - YouTube A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew…
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dan Rasky, Charles Miller, and Charlie Camarda—the sources of the heat shield discourse!—to talk about Starship Flight 13 and thermal protection systems overall. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 251 - Yada Yada Yada (with Dan Rasky, Charles Miller, and Charlie Camarda) - YouTube Some Thoughts on Starship V13 Flight — Starship’s Current TPS is a “Dead-end” to…
Jake and Anthony talk about Starship Flight 13, the heat shield discourse, Dragon beyond 2030, and shockingly, Jake was the one to say “Let’s talk about the National Security Space Launch program.” Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 250 - Tile Enthusiast - YouTube SpaceX on X : “The Starship Recovery team has continued gathering imagery of the vehicle, which is still afloat in the Indian Ocean”…
Jake and Anthony are joined by Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer, co-founders of Icarus Robotics, to talk about—what else?—robots in space! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 249 - Peeing Out Your Bones (with Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer) - YouTube Icarus Robotics Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s 'warehouse work' with embodied-AI robots | TechCrunch Voyager and Icarus Team Up on ISS…
Jake and Anthony are joined by Outpost Co-Founder and CEO Jason Dunn to talk about their Earth return vehicles across national security, in-space manufacturing, and other industries. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 248 - Earth Quality (with Jason Dunn) - YouTube Outpost Follow Jason Jason Dunn | LinkedIn Follow Off-Nominal Subscribe to the show! - Off-Nominal Support the show, join the…
Jake and Anthony talk about the PROMISE rover, the state of decisions in NASA’s Isaacman era, Rocket Lab buying Iridium, and they give Jeremy Hansen a clap out. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 247 - RTGs Don’t Grow on Trees - YouTube NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon - Ars Technica NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities - NASA We managed to…
Jake catches Anthony up on the news he missed while on vacation, and also how expensive stage adapters have become. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 246 - Stock Tips - YouTube Did Rocket Lab's Suborbital Rocket Reach Orbit? SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next? - Ars Technica 13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA…
Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan Goff, Director of Advanced Concepts at Gravitics, and Mike Loucks, CEO at SEE, to talk about where to put orbital depots, trajectories from there to the Moon and Mars, and to otherwise set the record straight on their papers after Anthony’s poorly-remembered-and-even-more-poorly-explained mention. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 245 - Polar Bears and…
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Principal Investigator of Psyche, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Leadership on big NASA missions in her new book Mission Ready. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 244 - Helen from Everywhere (with Lindy Elkins-Tanton) - YouTube Mission Ready by Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Hachette Book Group NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid | NASA Jet…
Miles O’Brien joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Starship Flight 12, the NASA Moon Base updates on LTVs and landers, and Miles’ trip to Antarctica. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 243 - Ducktricity (with Miles O’Brien) - YouTube NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter" - Ars Technica SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on…
