The Space Show
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Hotel Mars presents Rahil Makadia on DAWN updates and important new planetary...
28 Mar 2026 at 7:00pmHotel Mars, Tuesday, March 24, 2026
John Batchelor, Dr. David Livingston with guest Rahil Makadia
This episodes of Hotel Mars features Rahil Makadia, who with his team, has been working the DART Mission data regarding the successful planetary defense impactor mission launched back in 2021 intercept...
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The Space Show Presents Phil Swan on building and launching AI data centers o...
17 Mar 2026 at 10:31pmPhil Swan, Sunday, 3-15-25
The Space Show Presents Phil Swan on Launching Orbital Data Centers from The Moon are ready!
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The meeting focused on the feasibility and implications of building data centers on the moon, with Phil Swan as the main speaker discussing the concept and addressin...
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The Space Show Presents Hotel Mars with Dr. Pieter van Dokkum of Yale regardi...
17 Mar 2026 at 9:19pmJohn Batchelor and I welcomed Dr. Peter van Dokkum of Yale to define and discuss runaway black holes which are supermassive objects expelled from galaxies after massive collisions. These objects move at 1,000 kilometers per second, escaping their host galaxies to roam through intergalactic space....
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The Space Show Presents Jim Muncy on Artemis, a commercial lunar base and more.
17 Mar 2026 at 7:58pmThe Space Show Presents Jim Muncy, Sunday, 3-10-26
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Our discussion focused on NASA’s Artemis program changes and lunar development strategy, with Jim Muncy discussing NASA Administrator Jared’s recent modifications to Artemis missions, including standardizing on the Centaur 5 upper st...
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Hotel Mars with Anatoly Zak and Russian space history
15 Mar 2026 at 10:51pmAnatoly Zak was our Hotel Mars guest for March 4, 2026 to once again take us through Russian space history with stories and events that were classified at the time so new to us today. You can follow along on Anatoly's excellent website,
https://www.russianspaceweb.com.
Though many of his stories a...
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The Space Show Presents Karen Jones on spaceports!
11 Mar 2026 at 8:20pmThe Space Show Presents Karen Jones re “SPACEPORTOPIA” Thursday, 2-26-26
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This Space Show program focused on spaceport development and launch forecasting, featuring Karen Jones from Aerospace Corporation to discuss her paper “Spaceportopia: A Primer for Successful Launch Site Planning...
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Hotel Mars with Doug Messier on Starliner.
11 Mar 2026 at 6:41pmHotel Mars, Doug Messier, Weds, 2-25-26
Doug joined John Batchelor and myself to discuss the plight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. He went over the recent problems with the capsule that stranded astronauts on the ISS until SpaceX could bring them safely home using Dragon. Doug described the p...
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The Space Show Presents Trisha Epp, Director of Innovation at Freelancer.com,...
10 Mar 2026 at 7:48pmThe Space Show Presents Trisha Epp. Sunday, 2-22-26
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The Space Show hosted Trisha Epp, Director of Innovation at Freelancer.com, to discuss NASA’s open innovation challenges and Freelancer’s role in facilitating these competitions. Trisha explained how Freelancer works with NASA’s Tou...
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The Space Show Present Dr. Siamak Hesar and Araz Feyzi of Kayhan Space On LEO...
9 Mar 2026 at 8:16pmThe Space Show Presents Dr. Siamak Hesar and Araz Feyzi on the Shenzhou-20 Debris Scare, Tuesday, 2-20-26.
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The Space Show hosted a discussion on the orbital debris problem, focusing on the recent Shenzhou 20 debris scare and its implications for space safety. Araz Feyzi and Siamak He...
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Hotel Mars welcomes Dr. Kishalay De of Columbia regarding "disappearing stars."
28 Feb 2026 at 10:08pmHotel Mas with Dr. Kshalay De, Wednesday, 2-18-26
John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston welcomed Dr. Kishalay De of Columbia University discuss a star collapsing into a black hole without a supernova, challenging established theories about the minimum mass required for such cosmic events. Dr. De...
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