One day we’ll have a Moon base and we’ll discover aliens. But it is not this day.
Dec 25th: Scrooge, Killjoy Scrooge
Steve Nerlich Archive
Dec 11th: The Kinetic Energy Formula
Steve and the Cheap Astronomy team investigate kinetic energy and special relativity and find some fantastic formulas.
Nov 27th: Space Is Hard… And Weird
Cheap Astronomy talks about a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter (you know) and then goes WTF about FRBs
Nov 14th: Ham radio
Cheap Astronomy’s discovers that the ISS crew likes to ham it up
Oct 30th: Things Less Often Seen
Cheap Astronomy discovers werewolf plankton and then checks whether the Universe still adds up
Sep 12th: Fiction in Science
Cheap Astronomy goes skeptical and puts the kibosh on the EM-drive and backwards time travel.
Aug 22nd: Orbital Mechanics
Cheap Astronomy goes around and around the issue of orbital mechanics
Jul 20th: DNA in Space
Cheap Astronomy’s investigates life’s latest attempt to get its self-replication system off the planet.
Jun 26th: Making The Future
Cheap Astronomy investigates future space travel possibilities and finds that Helium 3 is floating on thin air and a Mars mission will happen when robots are ready to accompany us.
May 30th: Heat Pipes
Cheap Astronomy’s cool podcast on spacecraft temperature regulation.