Off-Nominal

Oct 31 2024 178 ep. 62 mins 1.6k

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Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.

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173 - A Bigger Diaper (with Scott “Kidd” Poteet)

Oct 31 2024 61 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Mission Pilot of Polaris Dawn, retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and former Thunderbird #4 Demonstration Pilot, to talk about his recent flight to space.

172 - Culberson Always Talked About Shrimp

Oct 24 2024 62 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and leader of ETH Zurich Space, to talk about some of the big stories in science at NASA—Mars Sample Return, cost growth in missions across the board, and more. Note: Dr. Z cited the Europa Clipper solar arrays at 100 yards across, as in one football field,

171 - Stiletto Starship (with Jack Beyer)

Oct 17 2024 61 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Jack Beyer, Content Manager for NSF, to talk about SpaceX doing the dang thing! They caught the booster!

170 - Luckily, We Did All the Math (with Casey Handmer)

Oct 10 2024 62 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Handmer, Founder of Terraform Industries, to talk about Mars Sample Return, and the general state of government projects, NASA, and so much more.

169 - Sexy Atlantis

Oct 03 2024 59 mins

Jake arrives sad about space, and Anthony tries to cheer him up. We talk ISS, Artemis, budgets, and government strategy and goals.

168 - Elon Munch (with Joe Barnard)

Sep 26 2024 62 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to air their grievances with the FAA.

167 - Bechtold (with Eric Berger)

Sep 19 2024 62 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, to talk about his newest book, Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age.

166 - General Five Year Old (with Tanya Harrison and Emma Louden)

Sep 12 2024 59 mins

Jake is joined by Emma Louden and Tanya Harrison to talk about their new children's book Mia and the Martians and how distilling space down to a child's level is a fascinating and challenging topic.

165 - Vacuum Light Pipe (with Dr. Gerard van Belle)

Aug 29 2024 62 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Gerard van Belle, Astronomer at Lowell Observatory, to talk about the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis, which is about to do some crazy stuff that it does every 78 years and honestly, we really need help understanding it.

164 - Middle Finger to Entropy (with Casey Dreier)

Aug 22 2024 64 mins

Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to share the Good News about Human Spaceflight.