Space and Things

Astronaut Dr. Tom Jones has just released a brand new book called ’Space Shuttle Stories - Firsthand Astronaut Accounts From All 135 Missions’ and it is sensational, so we’re talking to Dr. Jones to …

The story of the 4th American spaceflight has turned into one of the biggest myths in spaceflight history. This week we find out about some new evidence which helps to put the record straight. We spe…

This week we talk to Mark Seller, VP of Vulcan Development at United Launch Alliance (ULA) to discuss their brand new Vulcan Centaur rocket, coming to a launch pad near you very soon.

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This week we welcome back Stephen Walker who recently published in the Guardian about life on the ISS during a time of war. It’s a fascinating piece and once again, Stephen Walker proves himself to b…

"Space: 1999" is a cult British science fiction television series that aired from 1975 to 1977. And there’s a brand new documentary being made about it called “The Eagle Has Landed” - so today we’re …

After Dave’s trip to Ireland there was so much to catch up that was worthy of discussion that there is no main feature this week, just a whole load of things that have caught our eye.

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On September 24th OSIRIS-REx will return samples from the Near Earth Asteroid called Bennu, so today we talk to the person who named the asteroid and find out more about why it’s an important mission…

This week we’re joined by game designer Fritz Bronner to discuss the new edition of his 1989 board game Liftoff. That’s right Liftoff 2.0 should be coming out next year and you can be a part of it.

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Following the death of Marilyn Lovell at the age of 93 last week, we wanted to talk about what it must have been like to be the wife of an astronaut in the Apollo era, so we asked Jessica Carr, daugh…

It’s our third birthday! 3 years of weekly podcasts, so we wanted to do something special. Today’s guest also celebrated their birthday this week, so it seems appropriate that we’re joined by Chris S…

This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Skylab 3 by talking to the only surviving member of that crew - Jack Lousma.

Skylab 3 lifted off on July 28th 1973 and the mission lasted 59 days, 11 hou…

This week we talk to Frank White, the space philosopher who first coined the term the ‘overview effect’ which describes the experience astronauts get when they see Earth from space.

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It’s been over a year since we spoke to the people at ThinkOrbital so we wanted to have a catch up and find out what’s been going on. Of course, they’ve had a very busy year. This time we speak to CE…

Snoopy has long been a mascot for NASA and we wanted to get to the bottom of it. Fortunately, the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California has just opened a new exhibit called Snoopy in Orbit and we t…

This week to talk to Ed Rafacz, creator of the Spacecraft Guide. He’s trying to make sure that we can learn the function of any component of any spacecraft with just one click. A really fantastic thi…

The Gemini program was such a success that a number of alternative missions were proposed for the space craft. Today we’re guided through some of these by Michael Mackowski who is a bit of a Gemini e…

Episode 150! And to honour this milestone we’re interviewing Rick Armstrong, the eldest son of Neil Armstrong, to discuss his latest solo album Chromosphere which was released last month. Rick has be…

If you’re a space flight enthusiast then The Cosmosphere is one of the greatest places in the world to visit. We’ve mentioned it a few times on our podcast now, so we thought we’d dedicate a whole sh…

In this week’s episode we speak to JL Pickering and John Bisney about their latest book: “ Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub.” It features over 6…

This week we have a good old catch up of what we’ve been doing for the last month. Plenty of space news to talk about as well as Dave’s trip to Kennedy Space Center.

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