Joining Michael today is Kate Arkless Gray(@radiokate and @spacekate). We met at last weeks Google Lunar X PRIZE Team summit. We chat about summit impressions and participatory space exploration. To be frank, Kate is exactly the person who can fulfill the role in an idea that this site was founded on. She's enthusiastic, intelligent, and capable... Continue Reading →
Joining Michael today is Google Lunar X PRIZE team Astrobotic leader David Gump and investor Julian Ranger (@rangerj). Astrobotic is one of the first teams to have signed up to compete in the prize and we discuss their progress thus far and some ideas for finding funding. Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us... Continue Reading →
My favorite television show has nothing at all to do with Space. It's about a bunch of everyday, hard working men who work and live on crab fishing boats off the coast of Alaska for nine months out of a year. This year on Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel) one of my favorite fisherman covered by... Continue Reading →
Robert and Sebastian join Michael again to talk more about their Google Lunar X PRIZE team Part Time Scientists. They reveal a number of goals that go well beyond just trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE like a new brushless motor and a distributed antenna network (Michael volunteered to put one on his... Continue Reading →
Joining Michael today is Bobby Cohanim from the Google Lunar X PRIZE team Next Giant Leap. (psst, they have a great video on their site) Bobby works for Draper, a partner to the team on their hopper. They work with MIT on the effort; both undergrad and grad students are working on the program, and... Continue Reading →
Today Michael catches back up with the Google Lunar X PRIZE team Part Time Scientists. You can follow them and all of the amazing things they are doing at part-time-scientists.com BTW, their current Facebook status is "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." Plus they have the coolest T-Shirts ever: Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment... Continue Reading →
Amanda Stiles(@alias_amanda), self professed recovering aerospace engineer, now of XPRIZE.org joins us today to talk about building communities for the Northrop Lunar Lander Challenge and the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Amanda is the person behind @glxp on twitter. We talk near the end about a Moonpie eating contest in which she gets pretty schooled. The link... Continue Reading →
Ken Denmead (@fitzwillie) of Geekdad.com, is working on a project called Moonbots: A Google Lunar XPRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS challenge. This is going to be an amazing project to follow as many teams of teens build lunar landers out of LEGO Mindstorm kits to perform many of the tasks that the actual Google Lunar XPRIZE teams... Continue Reading →
It's not terribly surprising that the committee set forth by the president to review the NASA programs has found that there isn't going to be enough money to get to the moon. In fact, it's worse than that. Norman Augustine, the committee's chairman said. It will be difficult with the current budget to do anything... Continue Reading →
Today, we have Kevin E Myrick, leader of Synergy Moon, one of the teams competing in the Google Lunar XPRIZE 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
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