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NewSpace 2010: Lunch with Tom Nugent: The Story of LaserMotive
LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing laser power beaming systems to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. Their first project was to win the NASA-sponsored Power Beaming Challenge, which they did by winning the Level 1 prize of $900,000 in 2009.
Why we should colonize the moon with Dennis Wingo – Live Show 3.24
“Moonrush” author Dennis Wingo joins us from a converted McDonalds where he is converting old Lunar Reconnaissance to digital files for our latest live show. If you think that description sounds impressive, just wait until you see this show!
News from around the universe – Live Show 3.23
Robonaut: to the ISS in 2011 and to the moon in 1000 days! Hayabusa may have brought back some asteroid, just, well, not a lot of it. Hubble has caught the birth of a new baby star. Awww, how cute.
MoonBots with Team Tater Tot – Live Show 3.22
In the news: the final Space Shuttle mission has been pushed back to 2011, NASA is releasing a new game that looks pretty awesome and a Google Lunar X PRIZE team update. Joining us live in studio is MoonBot challenger Team Tater Tot. We talk about what the MoonBots challenge is, how they got involved. [Watch SpaceVidCast]
SpaceX and Iridium, Rocket teeth and more! Live Show 3.21
SpaceX has won a contract to launch over 60 new Iridium satellites in to orbit. Did you know Iridium was actually still around and launching new birds? Me neither. The Rocket Racing League has released a new game for your iPhone and iPod touch that looks amazingly cool.
Space Task Force, UFOs and Sharks! Live Show 3.20
In space news we have a confirmed UFO sighting as well as a very awesome explanation as to what it is, Send your face to space, and wrapping up the Moon (AKA @toddthemoon) with a bow to deliver clean and limitless power back to Earth.
STS 132 Epic Downloadables
Spacevidcast epic content for STS-132 is truly epic. STS-132 is the last flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
STS-132, Pad Abort Test, Voyager 2, Mars in 3D and more! 3.17
A look at the upcoming STS-132 mission, the Pad Abort Test conducted by NASA for the Orion escape, Voyager 2 is sending back garbled data, James Cameron wants to see Mars in 3D, Starwalker has been exposed, Bigelow Aerospace is looking to put their real inflatable space station in LEO and a MARS500 Update.
Bill Suitor, Earth is safe, SDOoooooh and more news – 3.16
Bill Suitor author of The Rocketbelt Handbook joins us for a phone interview talking about his experiencing flying around on a rocketbelt.
We also have STUNNING images from SDO, a NASA balloon destroying a car, Earth i safe for another 100 years and more in our space news!
Yuri’s Night Global Party – 3.13
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides is a space advocate, consultant and former astrobiologist who has worked in the Canadian Arctic doing research with NASA, at the bottom of the ocean with director James Cameron and has accumulated over 4 hours of weightless time as a Flight Director for Zero Gravity Corp.
