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Anthony is joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight to talk about the recent mayhem at Starbase, and to kick around European space policy topics in the run up to the ESA Ministerial later this year.
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Anthony is joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about the NASA 2026 budget proposal, the Jared Isaacman saga, and all the space policy storylines you could imagine.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gjertsen, founder of Better Every Day Studios, to talk about leadership and management development in the space industry (and elsewhere!).
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- Off-Nominal - YouTube
- Episode 200 - On the Interstages of Giants (with Matt Gjertsen) - YouTube
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It returns. Hot drama. Also a moon lander is happening right now. Also Twitter fights break out. Also a moon lander doesn’t happen.
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Jake and Anthony figure out if we should panic about Starship, or just Starship Block 2, or not.
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- Off-Nominal - YouTube
- Episode 198 - Gotahm - YouTube
- Starship’s Ninth Flight Test - SpaceX - Launches
- Northrop Grumman Invests $50 Million in Firefly Aerospace to Advance Medium Launch Vehicle Named Eclipse™
- Introducing the new Northrop Grumman logo. | Northrop Grumman
- Rocket Lab's Neutron tapped for U.S. military cargo test - Space...
Anthony is in his new studio! He and Jake catch up on his recent trip to Marotta Controls, Anthony shares the good news about valves, and they try to figure out what the hell is going on with VIPER.
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Jake and Anthony talk about Firefly’s latest spectacular Alpha failure, and the skinny budget request.
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- Off-Nominal - YouTube
- Episode 196 - ❌ Lady Telescope ❌ - YouTube
- Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASA – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity due to budget issues - Ars Technica
- Firefly Alpha launches FLTA006 Message In A Booster mission but fails to reach orbit - NASASpaceFlight.com
- Alpha FLTA006 "Message ...
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona, to talk about—take a guess!—returning and studying pristine samples from Bennu.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Roman Chiporukha, founder of SpaceVIP, a travel agency for space.
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- Off-Nominal - YouTube
- Episode 194 - St. Bart’s on a Tuesday (with Roman Chiporukha) - YouTube
- SpaceVIP | Your Gateway to the Cosmos
- Space Prize
- Blue Origin’s First All-Female Spaceflight Stunt - The New York Times
- Radian Aerospace – World’s First Single-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplane
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Jake and Anthony talk about Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing, and the apocalyptic NASA science budget.
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- Off-Nominal - YouTube
- Episode 193 - The Secretary of Land - YouTube
- Isaacman Insists NASA Can Pursue Moon and Mars Goals Simultaneously – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Isaacman’s “Golden Age of Science & Discovery” on Shaky Ground – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA - Ars...
Jake and Anthony are joined by Chris Carberry and Sam Burbank to talk about their first documentary film, Alcohol in Space - The Movie, their upcoming projects, and the 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Richard French, Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Space Systems at Rocket Lab, to talk about their Mars Sample Return architecture, the way they’ve been putting the word out on it, and to hear what’s been up with their space systems side of the business lately.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by writer and podcaster Jason Snell, to talk about Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA, what’s been up in the NASA CFO scene, what astronauts really want to be doing, and so much more. Also, this episode completes the Lifoff-Nominal crossover spectacular, AND makes 10 year old Anthony very happy that he’s podcasting with Jason friggin’ Snell.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Awais Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Pixxel, to talk about building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Honestly, we mostly try to help Jake get his head around the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the namesake of the McDowell Line at 80 kilometers, to talk about his fundraiser to move his epic space library to a new, permanent home.
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Jake and Anthony talk about the Moon lander mania this week has been—Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 and Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 missions.
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Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to talk about the current era of Executive action, Congressional pushback (or not) against it, and the upcoming Day of Action.
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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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- Off-Nominal - YouTube
- The Endless Void - YouTube
- Biden Administration “Certainly” Supports Artemis Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Forbes on X: “JUST IN: Jen Psaki highlights Artemis Program: We will send “another man a...
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