Guests: Chanda Gonzales and Amanda Stiles Website: moonbots.org Twitter: @moonbots Facebook: facebook.com/moonbots Moonbots is the contest that challenges small teams of kids and adults to design, program, and construct LEGO MINDSTORMS robots that perform simulated lunar missions similar to those required to win the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE. Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com or... Continue Reading →
Photo by Shannon Moore Guests: Romeo Durscher and Camilla All of their interesting sites: http://camilla-corona-sdo.blogspot.com http://www.facebook.com/NASA.Little.SDO http://www.nasa.gov/sdo http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov http://solar-center.stanford.edu http://aia.lmsal.com http://lasp.colorado.edu/eve http://twitter.com/NASA_SDO http://www.little-sdo.blogspot.com http://ca.youtube.com/LittleSDOHMI http://www.youtube.com/user/SDOmission2009 You don't know it yet, but a rubber chicken is a fantastic teaching tool. Hosts: Michael Doornbos and Haley Stephenson Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your... Continue Reading →
Guests: Chris Gattis Project Website: Space Operations Inc Michael chats with Chris of Space Operations about reusing and modernizing the very successful Gemini spacecraft design to provide services for the future. Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot Podcast via iTunes and all other... Continue Reading →
Guests: Tibor Pacher Project Website: Pulispace Twitter: @pulispace Haley and Michael chat with one of our favorite people in the world. Tibor is the team leader of a Hungarian Google Lunar X PRIZE Team. Hosts: Michael Doornbos and Haley Stephenson Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot... Continue Reading →
We sent out the following letter to the Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams this week. Dear GLXP Team Leaders, Most of you know me, but a few of you don't. I run a site called Evadot.com and have been chronicling the GLXP for about 2 years now. Through our many conversations, I’ve developed a firm... Continue Reading →
Michael chats with Nate (who is at the Next Generation Suborbital Research Conference) a little about small prizes to solve problems. John Carmack offers money to fly an amateur rocket to 100k feet and how the availability for cheap suborbital flights could make your science fair project a hit, thereby ruining the rest of the science fairs... Continue Reading →
Guests: Will Baird Project Website: TeamPhoenicia.org Will leads a new team, that's actually been working on the Google Lunar X PRIZE for a couple years but just now decided to register. They've assembled a great list of sponsors and seem to really be on their way to being a serious competitor. Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com... Continue Reading →
Guests: Dennis Bonilla, Anthony Fitch, Chris Radcliff, Heather Banic, Gregory Wagner Project Websites: SpaceUp.org and SpaceUpHouston.org SpaceUp, one of the worlds only space "Unconferences" had two events in the same weekend. We catch up with organizers and participants in both. Just as a side note, there are about a bazillion more planned all over the... Continue Reading →
Guests: David Gump Project Website: Astrobotictech.com Twitter: @astrobotic Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Astrobotic made headlines this week by signing a launch contract with SpaceX, the newcomer on the block for launch vehicles. David is an excellent leader of an exciting team and shares some great information on their progress and thinking process. Host: Michael... Continue Reading →
Guests: Tim Pickens Project Website: Rocket City Space Pioneers Company Website: Dynetics Twitter: @RCSpacePioneers "Not having funding is not an excuse for doing nothing" - Tim Pickens Rocket bikes, Google Lunar X PRIZE, ride sharing on a Falcon 9, inspiring kids to be hands on and build something. Yeah, awesome. Hosts: Michael Doornbos, Haley Stephenson... Continue Reading →
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