Topic: EVSN

3.13 The Book of Mars, Star Formation, and More

I’m recording this on March 5. At this point in time, there is no new NASA administrator and we continue to live in the liminal space where the massive layoff that have struck so many Federal Agencies are still somehow only touching the edges of Space Science. We seen...

3.12 Temperatures That Kill

Our episodes have been slightly more spaced out for a couple of months for different reasons. First, there were the holidays. Since then, I and some colleagues have been putting significant effort into a pair of tiny NASA grants as we try to get ahead on our work in...

3.11 Space stories of joy

This week I'm coming to you from Florida, where I have had the amazing opportunity to see the launch of Firefly Aerospace's blue ghost and iSpaces Mission 2. I didn’t see New Glenn launch in person due to a conflict with PodFest, but all in all, it is a week of too...

3.09 Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes

Here in the United States, it is the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. While I’m script writing in southern Illinois, Ally, our producer is working on her other podcast, “Big Impact Astronomy.” While I’m sure both our families would rather we took the time to relax,...

3.08 By fire and ice: mass extinctions gone wild

I’m writing and recording this on November 14. It is now 9 days after the US elections and we now know that the Republicans now control all three branches of the US government. Historically, Republican controlled administrations have been good for science and have...

Ep. 3.07 Aerospace vs Climate Change

I am currently wishing we produced a weekly show because this past week has been full of news that is surreally relevant to both Space Exploration and the elections. We’ve seen Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, Amazon, and aerospace company Blue Origin, have...