Talking Space

Mar 24 2025 324 ep. 58 mins 1.1k
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A free and open exchange of news, ideas, and opinions on all things spaceflight. We put the context around the spaceflight headlines.

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A Fleet for Lunar Science

Mar 24 2025 59 mins  
Talking Space returns after a hiatus to discuss the landing attempts by the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. First a successful soft landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost 1 mission on the plans of Mare Crisium. Then a much more perilous landing attempt for the Intuitive Machines "Athena" lander, trying to land its suite of science and technology demonstrations

Episode 1614: Talking Space Retrospective, Part 2

Nov 09 2024 37 mins  
This time, our entire on-air team (as it existed on Sept. 19, 2023) again reminisces about audience feedback, launch anomalies, podcast burnout, and more in Part 2 of the Talking Space retrospective!

Episode 1613: Talking Space Retrospective, Part 1

Oct 13 2024 72 mins  
This time, our entire on-air team (as it existed on the Sept. 19, 2023 recording date) reminisces about how Talking Space got started back in the earliest days of podcasting. Plus, much more!

Episode 1612: EPA, TCEQ Cite SpaceX for Starbase Clean Water Act Violations

Aug 18 2024 110 mins  
Environmental regulators are beginning to clamp down on Starbase. The big question is: Do these enforcement actions have enough significance to force the FAA to delay launch activities at Boca Chica? Some troubling headlines appeared on CNBC.com on Monday, August 12, 2024 concerning SpaceX’s alleged issues regarding compliance with environmental regulations that govern their acti

Episode 1611: Dissimilar Redundancy

Jul 12 2024 96 mins  
NASA has tried to get Extra Vehicular Activity Number Ninety underway since June 13th. The first attempt was thwarted by a space suit comfort issue, the second by a water leak that created a blizzard of ice inside the Quest airlock. Are the Shuttle-Era Extra Vehicular Mobility Units (EMU) or space suits finally showing their age? Also, what about Collins Aerospace and their recent

Episode 1610: How GOES-U?

Jul 08 2024 74 mins  
The Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-U, launched at 5:26 PM EDT on 25 June 2024 from Launch Complex 39 A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy took the 6000-pound satellite to its geostationary orbit in the Western Hemisphere. After a commissioning process, GOES –U will be renamed GOES 19 and take over the GOE

Special Episode 1609A: Boeing's Starliner is NOT in Peril.

Jun 28 2024 50 mins  
“Starliner Stuck In Space!!!”, “Starliner Stranded at the ISS!!”, “Space-X To Rescue Starliner Crew!!!” These were the various outrageous headlines being thrown around by various space media outlets this week, concerning the Boeing Starliner Mission and its progress. None of these sensational headlines are true, the ship and crew are in good condition but the media clai

Special Report: Starliner Status as of June 23, 2024

Jun 23 2024 4 mins  
A quick special report on the status of the joint NASA/Boeing Starliner Mission based on a Blog Post prepared by NASA and Boeing for our listeners.

Episode 1609: Double Stars Rising

Jun 17 2024 80 mins  
After years of development, testing, disappointment, and perseverance, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Willams took Boeing's CST 100 Starliner to the International Space Station for its first flight with a human crew. The team discusses all facets of the launch, rendezvous, docking (not without its moments of drama), and public reaction to the mission thus far. Also this wee

Episode 1608: Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

May 17 2024 97 mins  
May 6th was going to be the date that Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams were going to take the Boeing CST 100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station for the first time with astronauts on board. Starliner has undergone a rather stormy development period and is several years behind schedule as a result but NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) team