In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Bruce Bugbee: a real-life space botanist who says a one-way trip to Mars means a one-way trip to a meatless diet. Not surprisingly, he also found a few nits to pick with “The Martian” and the greenness of fictional astronaut Mark Watney’s thumb.
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In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Alan Ladwig: a retired NASA manager who wore many hats over a long advocacy career dedicated to bringing space to anyone … or anyone to space.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 15: What Dreams May (Possibly) Come
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Ryan Holmes: a young entrepreneur who was “never a space nerd,” but is now kick-starting a virtual reality camera to capture astronaut’s-eye images from the International Space Station.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 14: Custom Robots For Hire
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jonathan Goff: head of a small, independent manufacturer of custom space robots.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 12: The Space Space
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sunil Nagaraj: A Silicon Valley venture capitalist eager to blaze a trail in a new space sector that’s starting to look an awful lot like the area’s better-entrenched tech sector.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 11: Cold War Coda
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Ben Honey: A young flight controller for the International Space Station who has always known his Russian counterparts as colleagues, rather than communists.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 10: Cool Radio, Bro
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Mark Becnel: Co-founder of small space-electronics builder RadioBro. Mark barely waited for the ink on his aerospace engineering masters degree to dry before setting up shop in the corn fields outside Huntsville, Alabama.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 9: Gs and Noise and Redneck Toys
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Andrew Rush: one-time space-patent geek and current president of Made In Space, which sent a working 3D printer to the International Space Station last year.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 7: What Gets You Out Of Bed
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Farah Alibay, an early career engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on NASA’s first-ever interplanetary cubesat — a space-worthy communications relay about the size of a jumbo cereal box.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 6: Lies We Tell Children About Rocket Science
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to YouTube celebrity and fallen astronomer Scott Manley, a space-savvy caster who can teach you to play the notoriously difficult spaceflight simulator, Kerbal Space Program.