SpaceGeeks
SpaceGeeks Ep. 26: The Wind Rises at SpaceX
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeff Thornburg: a propulsion expert who just capped a five-year stint at SpaceX where he led development of the company’s methane-fueled Mars engine, Raptor.
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SpaceGeeks: The Biggest Little Rocket House In Texas
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to PJ King, who abandoned a degree in astronautics to become a tech entrepreneur, then returned the space world as co-founder of Firefly Space Systems: a two year-old company trying to…
SpaceGeeks: When Space Opera Meets Space Operations
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Keri Bean: a fresh face at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who enjoys dressing up like Han Solo, building lifelike replicas of Star Wars droids, and her day job operating real-life space robots Opportunity and Dawn.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 23: Earth is a Planet
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Planet Labs co-founder Robbie Schingler, who thinks big thoughts about faraway worlds while working with tiny satellites orbiting this world.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 22: Mass Transits
On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sara Seager, who started out as a painfully shy, friendless child and grew up to become a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner for her pioneering work studying the atmospheres of planets orbiting stars lightyears from Earth.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 21: Of Paperclips and Paperwork
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Natalie Panek: space roboticist at MDA Corp., outdoorswoman, ITAR survivor.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 20: The Idea Man Who Got Paid
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Will Pomerantz: a converted planetary scientist who now gets to come up with new business ideas for Virgin Galactic.
SpaceGeeks Halloween Special: Spooky Satellites!
In this special Halloween edition of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks about spooky classified intelligence satellites with a pair of experts — including one former spook-sat designer!
SpaceGeeks Ep. 18: No Bad Rockets
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeffrey Rodgers: a rocket engineer on United Launch Alliance's Atlas program who's had a front row seat for some of the biggest launch-industry shakeups in recent memory.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 17: This is What a Space Botanist Looks Like
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.
SpaceGeeks Ep. 16: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
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. 13: Dante’s Paradiso
In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Dante Lauretta: Head of the Osiris-REx asteroid sample return mission, and tabletop game enthusiast.
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.
