Guests: Bob Richards Website: Moonexpress.com Bob Richards joins us to talk about his new Google Lunar X PRIZE team Moon Express. Hosts: Michael Doornbos and Haley Stephenson Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot Podcast via iTunes and all other podcast players
Evadot Podcast #70 – Reusing the past for the future with Space Operations Inc
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 →
Evadot Podcast #69 – The far side of the moon with Puli Space
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 →
Evadot Podcast #68 – Engage the Ion Drive. Or build your own CPU. Yeah, one of those.
Guest: Wes Faler Project Website: Part Time Scientists Wes is the software development lead for a Google Lunar X PRIZE Team and dabbles in other things like programming, space outreach, and Ion Engines. 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... Continue Reading →
Evadot Podcast #67 – We’re going to ruin science fairs forever
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 →
Evadot Podcast #65 – SpaceUp Houston and San Diego in the same weekend. Woot!
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 →
Evadot Podcast #64 – Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Astrobotic and the SpaceX Factor
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 →
Evadot Podcast #62 – We’re not going to leave the planet straddling a laptop
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 →
Evadot Podcast #60 – Hacking space with Open Source Rockets
Guests: Nathan Bergey Project Website: psas.pdx.edu Twitter: @natronics YouTube: youtube.com/psasrockets Open source rockets. Git repositories. Fire. Oh My! Hosts: Michael Doornbos, Haley Stephenson Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot Podcast via iTunes and all other podcast players
Evadot Podcast #59 – Let’s make this a contest of visionaries with Team Selenokhod
Guests: Pavel Sharov, Sergey Sedykh Website: selenokhod.com Twitter: @selenokhod Facebook: Team Selenokhod We get to introduce the Russian Google Lunar X PRIZE team for the first time to our podcast. We chat in the wee early morning hours (for the host anyway) about taking the Google Lunar X PRIZE to a new conceptual level. Host:... Continue Reading →