This Week On The Space Show

The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston under www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week:

1. Monday, December 17, 2007, 2-3:30 PM PST (22-0:30 GMT)
Dr. Clark Lindsey returns to the program. Dr. Clark Lindsey is the founder and owner of www.hobbyspace.com, one of the web’s premier resources for space information and research for space professionals and the general public. The companion weblog www.SpaceTransportNews.com has become a popular source of news and information about the latest developments in the New Space movement. His primary goal is to get the public involved in space related activities either directly or vicariously. Space should become a real and vibrant part of their lives rather than just a remote, abstract domain where a small number of government employees do esoteric research. Furthermore, he wants to convince the public that humans can accomplish great things in space not just on the long term “Star Trek” time scale but within our own time. Dr. Lindsey has a PhD in experimental physics from the University of California at Riverside. After post-docs with Iowa State and Fermilab, he worked for several years at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently he does computer programming and web project development. He was a co-author in 2005 of the book JavaTech (Cambridge University Press).


2. Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 7-8:30 PM PST (December 19, 3-4:30 GMT)
Dr. Robert Zubrin, Founder and Chairman of The Mars Society returns. Dr. Zubrin will be discussing his new book, “Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.” (www.amazon.com/Energy-Victory-Winning-Terror-Breaking/dp/1591025915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197904129&sr=1-1).

Dr. Robert Zubrin is a noted author and the Founder of The Mars Society. The Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by both public and private means. Dr. Zubrin is also President of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D company located in Lakewood, Colorado. Dr. Zubrin was formerly a Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, he holds a Masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington. Zubrin is the inventor of several unique concepts for space propulsion and exploration, the author of over 100 published technical and non-technical papers in the field, and was a member of Lockheed Martin’s “scenario development team” charged with developing broad new strategies for space exploration. In that capacity, he was responsible for developing the “Mars Direct” mission plan, a strategy which by using Martian resources, allows a human Mars exploration program to be conducted at a cost 1/8th that previously estimated by NASA. Zubrin is known internationally as one of the most creative engineers working in the aerospace industry today, and he and his work have been subject of much favorable press coverage in The Economist, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the London Times, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Air and Space Smithsonian, Popular Science, Omni, Space News, and many other publications. He is the holder of two US Patents, and has two more pending. In addition to his technical publications, Dr. Zubrin is the author of “The Case for Mars: How We Shall Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must,” published by Simon and Schuster’s Free Press Division in Oct. 1996, and “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization,” published by Tarcher Putnam in Aug. 1999, and “Mars on Earth” published by Tarcher Penguin in Sept. 2003. His book, “The Holy Land,” is a science fiction satire of the current situation in the Middle East. Dr. Zubrin has also written a new play about Benedict Arnold.

3. Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 7-8:30 PM PST (December 20, 3-4:30 GMT)
Robert Godwin returns to discuss his new book, “The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook.” Books will be given away on this program so listen for instructions. Robert was born in England in 1958. Educated at St Oswald’s College in Shropshire he studied mathematics and physics. In 1975 Robert attended a Led Zeppelin concert appearance in London which began a life-long obsession with the band and their music. That same year he briefly worked as a member of the road crew for the rock band Scorpions. He moved to Canada in 1978 and took over the operational management of a chain of eleven English pubs. In 1981 he would establish the most popular night club in Canada, The Orient Express. In 1982 Robert co-produced an outdoor concert in Canada which attracted over 20,000 people. Later that year Robert was asked to fill a vacancy at Toronto’s George Brown College which he did under contract for a year—teaching management. In 1983 he moved into music management. Robert helped some of the artists who played at his club to get worldwide recording contracts. Moving from management into production, Robert assisted in the recording of several popular albums and worked at Musicland Studios in Munich Germany, Metalworks in Toronto, as well as Sunset Sound and United Western in Los Angeles. In 1984 Robert turned his love of Led Zeppelin into the first of a long string of books about the band. He quickly established a reputation as one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. He followed this success with books on other artists which interested him, including the archetypal British space-rock group Hawkwind. This led to a continuing friendship and business relationship with Hawkwind and their science-fiction guru, world-famous author, Michael Moorcock. In 1987 Robert opened his own record label, Griffin Music, which by 1992 would be voted best independent label in America by several major US newspapers. Over the next few years Robert would release many classic rock acts’ back-catalogs through Griffin, notably, the BBC In Concert series, Anderson – Bruford – Wakeman and Howe, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Mike Oldfield, Olivia Newton-John, Hawkwind, Nazareth, David Bowie, and many other household names. By 1995 Robert sold his interest in Griffin Music and briefly dabbled in the merchandising business where he acquired a coveted license from Lucasfilm to manufacture Star Wars memorabilia. Later that year he incorporated his private publishing company, Collector’s Guide Publishing, and went into full-time publishing. Building on the success of his Led Zeppelin books Robert began to sign up authors and subsequently published and edited dozens of books on many aspects of pop culture including music, collectibles and movies. These books have won accolades from around the world and have sold in at least 80 countries. In 1998 Robert was invited by his brother, Richard, to attend a celebration in honor of the crew of Apollo 7. During that event Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin asked Robert to publish a book to honor his fellow astronauts and to commemorate man’s first voyage to the moon. Working with advice from his friend, noted space-author, Andrew Chaikin he launched a space book imprint. In partnership with his brother, Robert has subsequently worked with almost every surviving Apollo astronaut on his acclaimed book series “The NASA Mission Reports”. Contributors to Robert’s space series include Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Tom Hanks, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, David Brin, Ron Howard, Senator Harrison Schmitt, Eugene Cernan, Wally Schirra, Dave Scott, Walt Cunningham, Dr Marc Garneau, Eileen Collins, Bonnie Dunbar and many more astronauts and space scientists. Robert created the first ever Virtual-Reality digital panoramas from the Apollo lunar photography and his acclaimed film Apollo 11 – Moonwalk was the first time that the mission of Apollo 11 was shown from multiple camera angles simultaneously. Robert has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs in Canada, the USA and England as an expert on, not only music, but also space exploration. His books have been discussed on CNN, the CBC, the BBC and CBS 60 Minutes. In 2001 Robert’s company co-sponsored a party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles to honor Sir Arthur C. Clarke, in attendance were movie directors James Cameron and Oliver Stone, actors Patrick Stewart, Bill Paxton and Morgan Freeman, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Robert Crippen as well as many other celebrities from different walks of life. A film about the history of science fiction and space exploration, directed and created by Robert, was one of the evening’s highlights. Today—CG Publishing, through its imprint Apogee Books, is the world’s number one publisher of Space books; creating an average of one new space book a month. CG Publishing has garnered contracts to document aspects of space history from both NASA and the Russian space corporation Energia. Robert works regularly with many of the world’s leading space advocacy groups including The National Space Society, The Space Frontier Foundation, The Mars Society, The X-Prize Foundation, The British Interplanetary Society, The Planetary Society, Space Day and many more. Through revenues generated from the sale of their books Robert and Richard have donated funds to an asteroid impact research project called The Watch, which led to Apogee Books sponsoring a U.S. Senate round-table on the subject of catastrophic impacts. The round-table raised political awareness on the subject and assisted in more long-term funding for asteroid research. In 2007 Robert continues to work closely with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and spends his time editing and writing. Never far from his love for music, he occasionally writes for music magazines while CG Publishing continues to publish award winning music books, including a new revised edition of Robert’s Led Zeppelin – The Press Reports. He is currently writing a book on the crossover between popular culture and space exploration. Robert is an advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation. He lives in Canada with his wife and two children.

4. Thursday, December 20, 2007, 4-5:30 PM PST (December 21, 0-1:30 GMT)
Tom Olson returns for his annual summary of the year in space. For the last 22 years, Thomas Andrew Olson has been adding value in computer systems analysis, engineering, and project management. He is founder and President of Cyberjox, Ltd. Consulting Services, and has worked on key projects for major firms in the aerospace, civil engineering, communications, publishing, and financial services arenas. In the late 80’s and early 90’s he helped start up and operate Sydney Capital Management, in San Francisco, working in both operations and analysis. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Colony Fund LLC, a financial services startup company in New York, with the stated goal of lowering the barrier to entry for public investment in the coming new space industry and other compelling up-and-coming technologies. He has a B.A. in Biology from Portland State University, studied environmental science there at the graduate level, then went on to study Aerospace Engineering at the University of Washington. Mr. Olson is a Founding and Lifetime Member of the Mars Society, and was elected an Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation in 2003. Mr. Olson is a frequent lecturer at national space advocacy, technology and political conferences, and to local groups in New York and Pennsylvania. He is a frequent guest on a variety of talk-radio programs, such as The Space Show. His topics center around the challenges – fiscal, regulatory and political – of private space commercialization, public perceptions of space, and humanity’s future in the high frontier – why settling space is the best thing that could happen for planet Earth. He also has a book in the works.

5. Friday, December 21, 2007, 9:30-11:30 AM PST (17:30-19:30 GMT)
Fraser Cain of Universe Today and Pamela L. Gay, a new guest come to The Space Show.

Fraser Cain, in addition to co-hosting Astronomy Cast, publishes Universe Today, one of the most popular space and astronomy websites on the Internet. Fraser has been working in the software/Internet industry for the last 13 years, and was a partner in two software companies that are now traded publicly. He studied engineering at the University of British Columbia and recently completed his diploma in Computer Science. Fraser has written 3 books and publishes a popular astronomy guide called “What’s Up”.

Dr. Pamela L. Gay is a lifetime stargazer. Dr. Gay has followed her obsession to a profession. Today Pamela is on the Physics faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Teaching by day, she works on astronomy data by night, teaming up with amateur astronomers who are expert observers to study variable stars. Podcasting is a creative outlet that brings together her love of astronomy with her passion for teaching, making staying current in an ever-changing field a fun endeavor. Pamela blogs at: http://www.starstryder.com.

6. Sunday, December 23, 2007, 12-1:30 PM PST (20-21:30 GMT)
Dennis Wingo returns to the show. Dennis has recently written an excellent article publish on Space Ref, “Taking it to the Streets (Space That is): Problems with NASA’s Return to the Moon Plan.” You can read this article at /www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1254.

Dennis Wingo is the author of the recently published book, “Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon’s Resources.” He is also the CTO of Orbital Recovery Corporation and president of Skycorp, Inc. He is a 22-year veteran of the computer, academic, and space communities and was an integral force in the use of commercial systems for use in space and flew the first MacIntosh on the Space Shuttle as experiment controller. Orbital Recovery Corporation is developing a way to extend the life of satellites by up to ten years or more and SkyCorp Inc. has developed a patented approach to the development of highly capable spacecraft manufactured on orbit on the Space Shuttle or International Space Station. SkyCorp has also qualified payloads for flight to the station via the Russian Soyuz vehicle, one of which was used in the filming of a commercial last year for the American retailer Radio Shack. Mr. Wingo received his degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he won honors for his academic publications and for his unique approach to small satellite development.

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