Off-Nominal

Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to present The Off-Nominees : the most bizarre space news stories of the year. We’ll debate what went the most comedically wrong this year, crown a winner, and also score some 2023 predictions. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 136 - A Little Bit Better Than Arianespace (with Joe Barnard) - YouTube Starship | First Integrated Flight Test - YouTube The...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Tom Marotta of The Spaceport Company to talk about what they’re working on, spaceport operations, and the FAA licensing process. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 135 - Stupid Vertical Dogleg Machine (with Tom Marotta) - YouTube NASA: Let’s Ketchup on International Space Station Tomato Research - NASA The Spaceport Company T+259: Tom Marotta, The Spaceport Company...

Jake and Anthony check in on Starship, Artemis, spreadsheets, and a lost tomato on the ISS. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 134 - Artemis II.5 - YouTube ISS astronauts find tomato that was lost in space for 8 months (video) | Space SpaceX on X : At dawn from the gateway to Mars, the launch of Starship’s second flight test Artemis Timelines Spreadsheet We got a leaked look at NASA’s future Moo...

Jake and Anthony are joined by photographer Andrew McCarthy to talk about his journey into astrophotography, his process, and let’s be real, to gawk at his work. And also to convince Jake to buy telescopes. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 133 - I’m an Adult with a Job (with Andrew McCarthy) - YouTube PixInsight — Pleiades Astrophoto DeepSkyStacker - Presentation Astrospheric 2024 Cosmic Calen...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Tom Mueller, founder, CEO, and CTO of Impulse Space and former Propulsion CTO at SpaceX. We’ll talk about what Impulse Space is up to, including their literally-just-launched first mission to space. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 132 - Boneless Skineater (with Tom Mueller) - YouTube Access Any Orbit | Impulse Space Impulse Space (@GoToImpulse) / X Impulse Space...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Tanya Harrison to talk about the Earth and Planetary Institute of Canada that she—along with very-recent guest, Dr. Gordon Osinski!—founded and announced just a few weeks back. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 131 - AAA for Science (with Dr. Tanya Harrison) - YouTube Earth and Planetary Institute of Canada Follow Tanya Home - Dr. Tanya Harrison Follow Off-Nom...

Planetary Scientist Stefano Nerozzi joins Jake and Anthony to talk about science on Mars, from Sample Return to mapping Mars’ Ice! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 130 - Crossfire Between Scientists and Engineers (with Stefano Nerozzi) - YouTube Joint ASI/CSA/JAXA/NASA Measurement Definition Team for the International Mars Ice Mapper Mission - NASA Science White House requests $26 billion for...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Gordon Osinski from the University of Western Ontario and member of the Artemis 3 Geology team which will develop surface science plans for the first lunar EVAs since Apollo. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube NASA Selects Geology Team for the First Crewed Artemis Lunar Landing - NASA Canadian Researcher Gordon Osinski Named to Artemis 3 Geology Team for the First Crew...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Stephen Hackett , co-founder of Relay FM and fellow space nerd, to talk about the ever-present SLS drama of the day, how Relay’s St. Jude fundraiser went, and partake in the first Terrible Space Movie Review Show™ in which we try to convince Stephen to watch our favorite of a bad batch of movies we watched. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 128 - These Were Bad Mo...

Jason Davis of The Planetary Society makes his long-awaited return, to hang out with Jake and Anthony and talk about Psyche, OSIRIS-REx, solar eclipses, and surely a bunch of other stuff, too. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 127 - Hot Moon Takes (with Jason Davis) - YouTube The crew was never in any danger. Revealing the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample (Official NASA Broadcast in 4K) - YouTube Tim...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Brendan Byrne, of WMFE and Are We There Yet?, to talk about watching spaceships return to Earth, talking to astronauts, a change of leadership at Blue Origin, and what’s been up in the Florida space scene of late. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Brendan Byrne on X : “What a sight! Crew-6 coming in hot over Orlando. First time seeing that for me–pretty incredible!” Jake...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Alec Maestas, OSIRIS-REx Systems Engineer and Real-Time Operations, to talk about the asteroid sample return mission on the eve(ish) of sample arrival. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube OSIRIS-REx Mission OSIRIS-REx team completes final test before asteroid sample delivery - OSIRIS-REx Mission NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample - SpaceNews NASA’s OSIRI...

Jake and Anthony check in on human spaceflight with a bit of a roundup—Axiom-3, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and more. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 124 - Accidental Cadence - YouTube Sara Mauskopf on X : “Companies that raised money in 2021 trying to raise again today” Sara Mauskopf on X : “When you’re in the arena trying stuff and then some of it doesn’t work” Sara Mauskopf on X...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to talk about her new book, The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts . Topics Off-Nominal Campaign for Relay FM/St. Jude Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 123 - An Exciting Time (with Loren Grush) - YouTube The Six | Book by Loren Grush | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster The Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy: a convers...

Jake and Anthony talk about recent financial news in the world of spaceflight and add some predictions to the 2023 list. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 122 - Space.com Bubble - YouTube Off-Nominal Campaign for Relay FM/St. Jude Relay FM for St. Jude - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Virgin Galactic forecasts limited revenues from initial commercial flights - SpaceNews Virgin Galactic l...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Panning from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and PI of the Farside Seismic Suite to talk about the Chandrayaan-3 and Luna-25 Moon landings and what we can look forward too from CLPS coming soon. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Luna-25 crashes into moon after orbit maneuver - SpaceNews Chandrayaan-3: India becomes fourth country to land on the moon - SpaceNews ISRO...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Karan Kunjur, Co-Founder of K2 Space, to talk about what they’re building, and what it means to build for a post-Starship future. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 120 - Big Dumb Satellites (with Karan Kunjur) - YouTube Space-based solar power is not a thing – Casey Handmer's blog New Solar Arrays to Power NASA’s International Space Station Research | NASA Graviti...

Jake and Anthony are joined by space artist and illustrator Paul Fjeld to talk about his career and to hear some stories from interesting projects and programs he’s worked on. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 119 - Don’t Train for the Nominal Shit (with Paul Fjeld) - YouTube List of Experiences -Paul Fjeld The Space Review: Saving Skylab the top secret way Follow Paul Space Art by Paul Fjeld F...

Anthony is joined by Jonathan Vaughters, Founder and CEO of EF Education-EasyPost, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about space and cycling, who knows in what amounts. Sorry, Jake. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 118 - Experienced Drunk Idiots (with Jonathan Vaughters and Eric Berger) - YouTube Watch Tour de France: Unchained | Netflix Official Site Enter the Slip...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Phil Metzger to talk about his research into launch and landing pad debris. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 117 - ⅃ L (with Dr. Phil Metzger) - YouTube NASA’s Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities: How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of U.S. Government Lunar Artifacts (PDF, 3.3 MB) NASA drafts guidelines to preserve Apollo moon l...

Jake is back, so Anthony will help get him caught up on the news, including the Mars Sample Return Hot Drama. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 116 - Hot NSSL Summer - YouTube NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal | Ars Technica NASA's FY 2024 Budget | The Planetary Society The U.S. Senate threatens to cancel Mars… | The Planetary Society Origins, Worlds, and Life: A D...

Anthony is joined by Loren Grush (Bloomberg) and Rachael Zisk (Payload), to talk about Loren’s recent trip to see Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight, to catch up on some news, and to do a mid-year check in on our 2023 predictions. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 115 - I’m Getting a Twinkie Vibe (with Loren Grush and Rachael Zisk) - YouTube Loren Grush on Twitter : “It’s all been leadin...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceFlight.com (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord ) to talk about how he got his start via an epic spreadsheet, and to tell some stories from his trip to Boca Chica for Starship. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 114 - Starship Blue (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube Starship debut leading the rocket industry toward full reusa...

Jake and Anthony check in on the ongoing planetary missions around the solar system. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 113 - AutoNav Road Rage - YouTube ESA - BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby: the movie ESA - A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby Where is Curiosity? | Mission – NASA Mars Exploration NASA’s Curiosity Captures Martian Morning, Afternoon in New ‘Postcard’ A...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Grant Bonin to talk about his new venture, gravityLab, focused on partial gravity research. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 112 - Big Microgravity (with Grant Bonin) - YouTube gravityLab — Accelerating Life Off-Planet Sept. 14, 1966 - Gemini XI Artificial Gravity Experiment | NASA Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist - YouTube Probodobodyne QBE - Kerbal Sp...