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, February 23, 2009, 2-3:30 PM PST (22-0:30 GMT)
REPLAY FROM LAST WEEK:
Dr. Madhu Thangavelu from USC talking about the out of the box solutions regarding our returning to the Moon as provided by his class from Dec. 2008. You do not want to miss this discussion! This program will play from the website as an archived program. When you see it listed, its ready to go. Professor Madhu Thangavelu is with the Department Of Astronautics & Space Technology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a lecturer for a graduate seminar in Extreme Environment Habitat Design as part of the USC School of Architecture. He has been the Conductor of the Space Exploration Architectures Concept and Synthesis Studio in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering at USC, as well as the Space Projects Director for the Calearth Institute located in Hesperia, California. Dr. Thangavelu is also an Advisory Board Member for the Los Angeles Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a creative consultant to the aerospace and entertainment industries on concept synthesis for complex space architectures, and the recipient of the Lunar Base Design Award from the National Space Foundation. Dr. Thangavelu is also the co-author of The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Colonization which was published in 1999. He was also part of the first graduating class from the International Space University held at MIT in 1988. His space expertise includes space system architectures — conception, design and creation of complex space projects, such as space stations, lunar and Mars missions to facilitate human activities in space and other extra-terrestrial environments, extra-terrestrial bases to facilitate development and colonization of the moon and planets, architectural designs to facilitate human activities in extreme environments of the Earth — in such naturally uninhabitable environments as underground and underwater dwellings, Antarctic bases, submarines, deep-sea oil drilling platforms, etc., visualizing future applications for space technologies, and building science.

2. Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:30-11:30 AM PST (17:30-19:30 GMT)
Henry Vanderbilt returns to the program to discuss the upcoming Space Access Conference in Phoenix, Arizona from April 2-4, 2009. Henry Vanderbilt has been working for low-cost space transportation since 1986. He founded Space Access Society in 1993, and has been organizing their Space Access conference every year since. For the last three years his day job has been at XCOR Aerospace, helping keep things organized behind the scenes. He considers the phrase ’spare time’ to be morbidly funny.

3. Sunday, March 1, 2009, 7-8:30 PM PST (March 2, 3-4:30 GMT)
Dr. Jordin Kare returns for updates with lasers. Dr. Jordin Kare is with Intellectual Ventures (www.intven.com) as a staff inventor and program manager. He is also the Chief Scientist for LaserMotive (www.lasermotive.com). Dr. Kare received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984. From 1985 to 1996 he was a member of the Special Projects Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At Livermore, he became involved in a number of space-related projects, ranging from mission planning for the Clementine lunar mapping mission to designing Mockingbird, a miniature reusable launch vehicle with a dry weight of 150 lbs. Since 1997, he has operated an independent consulting service, Kare Technical Consulting, providing technical support to large and small aerospace companies interested in applying new technology to space missions. In 1986, while at Livermore, Dr. Kare became interested in the concept of laser launch [, the main subject of our program today]. In 1986, he organized a national Workshop on Laser Propulsion, and from 1987 to 1991 he ran the Laser Propulsion Program for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO). Since then he has continued to work on laser propulsion, and recently served on the Program Committee of the First International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion (the Fourth Symposium was recently held in Japan). Dr. Kare is also a writer and performer of songs about space, science, and science fiction; his song, “Fire In The Sky” was quoted by Buzz Aldrin on national television in the wake of the Columbia disaster.

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