Casual Space

We’re talking tacos on the shuttle. Pizza on the ISS. And we’re washing it down with a big glass (that’s not made of glass, but rather, a well-engineered pouch) of Tang on this episode of Casual Spac…

Jan Spacek is an explorer both on Earth and beyond. He has worked in the fields of astrobiology, electrochemistry, nanoscience, genomics, and proteomics searching for life within our solar system. Ja…

Astronomer and friend of the show John Read is back for our first episode of 2024! 

John may be working on a capstone course for his Master’s Degree, but John joins us for what John does best- help…

Whenever we talk about UFO’s, there’s a lot we can unpack. An entire UFO culture, really. And we’ve got just the expert journalist and author to help us better understand why we see saucers. 

Returni…

Ron Rosano recently flew into space with Virgin Galactic on the #Galactic04 mission!  But commercial space flight with Virgin Galactic is just the beginning for Ron. He’s got plans to fly with Blue O…

Isaac Arthur is the creator of the wildly successful “Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur,” an award-winning weekly science education and entertainment show with over 700,000 subscribers and over 40…

NASA Astronaut Dr. Jan Davis flew on the Space Shuttle for the first time in 1992- ​ on the first joint Shuttle mission with the Japanese during an eight-day mission on Space Shuttle Endeavour.  She …

Laura is the CEO and Co-Founder of Epsilon3. Among the initial members of the operations team for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, she helped put the US back in the human space flight business. 

Laura wan…

The Artemis Accords- A Discussion with Dale Skran 

What are the Artemis Accords? Are countries starting to “pick sides” as they decide to sign the Artemis Accords?  What do the Artemis Accords mean f…

Henk Rogers is on a mission. Several missions, actually, and each one is as bold and audacious as the next. 

When we explore space, Henk wants to take nature with us. It’s just one of the many goals …

The private space sector is growing tremendously. The industry’s consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by outspoken billionaire Elon Musk, is today worth an estimated $74 billion. And SpaceX and its chief…

Adriana Blachowicz may just have one of the MOST IMPORTANT JOBS on our planet… and perhaps one of the coolest!  Adriana is a planetary protection scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where s…

Tara Sweeney is a United States Air Force Academy graduate, a Space Camp Hall of Fame inductee, a corporate leader in advanced technology test and evaluation events, a former crew member on parabolic…

Who was Robert H. Goddard? 

His theories on space exploration were so ahead of his time that they were mocked and ridiculed by colleagues and by the New York Times… but Robert Goddard persisted, and …

Did you know that the white material on the outside of space shuttles was not metal or glass but actually fabric? Specialized quilts, two inches thick, covered the space shuttles and protected the as…

UFO’s. New books. A movie script with a character who has a gold nose, and a beaver dinosaur. Star Trek, Yerkes Observatory, and of course, aliens. Mark O’Connell brings the best stories and big news…

Mars. Mars has fully invaded pop culture, inspiring its own day of the week (Tuesday), an iconic Looney Tunes character, and many novels and movies, from Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles to The Mart…

Augmented Reality. Virtual Reality. Artificial Intelligence. Physics, Immersive Technology, Cognitive Science and Human Factors. What happens when you have a highly immersive technology tool (XR) tha…

Casual Space is BACK with all new episodes, casual conversations with amazing guests! 

The summer break is just about coming to an end, but don’t worry- the next 200 episodes of the Casual Space Pod…

Want to learn more about the rocky and icy worlds in the solar system? Dr. Kirby Runyon can serve as your guide- from earth or from space!

Kirby can remember being fascinated with space since he was …