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Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to talk about the current era of Executive action, Congressional pushback (or not) against it, and the upcoming Day of Action. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 186 - It’s Like the Cinnamon Challenge (with Casey Dreier) - YouTube The Day of Action | The Planetary Society The Space Advocate Newsletter, F...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau to talk about their new book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier . Supply! Demand! Subsidies! Probably dunking on the commercial space station market! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 185 - A Little Bit Like Mexico (with Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau) - YouTube Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Econ...

Jake and Anthony catch up on some news, stories they haven’t covered yet like Rocket Lab’s Mars Sample Return architecture, and discuss the glory of Super Bowl LIX. It’s Anthony’s birthday, so he will not be stopped by Jake. Go Birds. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 184 - Trickle Down Space News - YouTube Chiefs vs Eagles | Super Bowl LIX Highlights - YouTube Mars Sample Return | Rocket Lab S...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Kristin Fisher to talk about her journey into independent journalism with her new YouTube channel, and we’ll probably kick around some news, too, because there’s been a lot, huh? Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube The Endless Void - YouTube Biden Administration “Certainly” Supports Artemis Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com Forbes on X : “JUST IN: Jen Psaki highlights Artemis...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Stephen Clark, space reporter at Ars Technica, to talk about Starship Flight 7, New Glenn Flight 1, and let’s be real, probably space policy. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 182 - Firmly Against Night Launches (with Stephen Clark) - YouTube Starship’s Seventh Flight Test - SpaceX - Launches SpaceX Catches Booster 14 but loses Ship 33 on Ascent - NASASpaceFlight....

Jake and Anthony are joined by Swapna Krishna to talk about the Mars Sample Return non-update…since they only gave it about 5 minutes of last week’s show. And hey, there are some big rockets on launch pads right now. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 181 - Down-Suggest (with Swapna Krishna) - YouTube New Glenn Mission NG-1 | Blue Origin New Glenn reaches orbit on first launch - SpaceNews Mars S...

Jake and Anthony take a look back at their 2024 predictions, make a few for 2025, and check in on Mars Sample Return announcements. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 180 - Murgers Back on the Menu - YouTube Launches, moon landings and more: Here's the top spaceflight missions to watch in 2025 | Space NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars - NASA NASA to study two al...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to present the 2024 Off-Nominees: the most bizarre space news stories of the year. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 179 - Presenting the 2024 Off-Nominees (with Loren Grush) - YouTube The Off-Nominal Awards - Off-Nominal Follow Loren Loren Grush - Bloomberg Loren Grush (@grushcrush) • Instagram photos and videos Loren Grush (@lorengrush.b...

Jake and Anthony are joined by journalist and author Tim Fernholz to talk about the election aftermath, the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator, and whether Anthony is a space warmonger. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 178 - Weirdest Midlife Crisis (with Tim Fernholz) - YouTube Did Joe and Kamala Fumble Space? - Tim Fernholz Jared Isaacman Tapped to be Next NASA Administrato...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gialich, Founder and CEO of AstroForge, to talk about asteroid mining. Yep, we’re doing the asteroid mining show. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 177 - Sudafed and Rockstars (with Matt Gialich) - YouTube AstroForge Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway - Ars Technica Why is AstroForge mining asteroids? - YouTube Follow Ma...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Adrian Beil of NSF (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord) to talk about Starship Flight 6. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 176 - Cosplaying the Shuttle (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube Starship’s Sixth Flight Test - SpaceX - Launches SpaceX lands Ship 31 in the Indian Ocean but miss the Booster Catch - NASASpaceFlight.com SpaceX Launches Starshi...

Jake and Anthony sit down for an election-week palate cleanser and explore some fun discussion prompts from Anomalies just like you! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 175 - Hijinks on the Moon - YouTube “We Can Fix Anything”: Remembering Skylab’s Salvation, 50 Years On - AmericaSpace In 1973, as a prank to the Skylab 4 astronauts, the Skylab 3 crew left behind three of these dummies aboard the...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age , to talk about the 2024 US elections, the return of President Trump, Musk’s role in the next administration, and what space policy looks like over the next four years. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 174 - Burning...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Mission Pilot of Polaris Dawn, retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and former Thunderbird #4 Demonstration Pilot, to talk about his recent flight to space. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 173 - A Bigger Diaper (with Scott “Kidd” Poteet) - YouTube Polaris Program Polaris Dawn Polaris Dawn Crew Returns to Earth, Achieving Major...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and leader of ETH Zurich Space, to talk about some of the big stories in science at NASA—Mars Sample Return, cost growth in missions across the board, and more. Note: Dr. Z cited the Europa Clipper solar arrays at 100 yards across, as in one football field, but clarified via em...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Jack Beyer, Content Manager for NSF, to talk about SpaceX doing the dang thing! They caught the booster! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 171 - Stiletto Starship (with Jack Beyer) - YouTube SpaceX on X : “Watch Starship's fifth flight test” SpaceX on X : “Starship on its fifth flight test. Views powered by @Starlink” Starship’s Fifth Flight Test - SpaceX - Launch...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Handmer, Founder of Terraform Industries, to talk about Mars Sample Return, and the general state of government projects, NASA, and so much more. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 170 - Luckily, We Did All the Math (with Casey Handmer) - YouTube SLS is still a national disgrace – Casey Handmer's blog What is going on with Mars Sample Return? – Casey Handmer'...

Jake arrives sad about space, and Anthony tries to cheer him up. We talk ISS, Artemis, budgets, and government strategy and goals. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 169 - Sexy Atlantis - YouTube NASA is working on a plan to replace its space station, but time is running out - Ars Technica NASA confirms space station cracking a “highest” risk and consequence problem - Ars Technica The politicall...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to air their grievances with the FAA. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 168 - Elon Munch (with Joe Barnard) - YouTube The war of words between SpaceX and the FAA keeps escalating | Ars Technica Andrew Jones on X : “Drone footage from Deep Blue Aerospace's VTVL attempt today. Great view of the landing and explosion.” Deep Blue Aerospace hop test suffers...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX , to talk about his newest book, Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age . Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 167 - Bechtold (with Eric Berger) - YouTube Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the...

Jake is joined by Emma Louden and Tanya Harrison to talk about their new children's book Mia and the Martians and how distilling space down to a child's level is a fascinating and challenging topic. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 166 - General Five Year Old (with Tanya Harrison and Emma Louden) - YouTube Mia the Martians | Indiegogo Follow Emma Emma Louden | Website Follow Tanya Tanya Harris...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Gerard van Belle, Astronomer at Lowell Observatory, to talk about the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis, which is about to do some crazy stuff that it does every 78 years and honestly, we really need help understanding it. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 165 - Vacuum Light Pipe (with Dr. Gerard van Belle) - YouTube The Home of Pluto | Lowell Observatory in F...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to share the Good News about Human Spaceflight. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 164 - Middle Finger to Entropy (with Casey Dreier) - YouTube The Crusade to Reclaim Hubble - jakerobins.com Space Policy Edition: Is Human Spaceflight a… | The Planetary Society Escaping Earth: Human Spaceflight as Religio...

Jake and Anthony are joined by John Conafay, founder of Integrate, to talk about what they’ve been up to lately, his time at SmallSat, all the space news of late, our bizarre JSC theories, and probably a review of Salt Lake City favorites in advance of the conferences’s move next year. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 163 - COTS of JSC (with John Conafay) - YouTube Episode 139 - Sourdough Soft...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Logan and Alan from MSI DFAT to talk about blasting satellites and spacecraft with sound. Seriously, that is their job. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 162 - falcon_9.mp3 (with Logan and Alan from MSI DFAT) - YouTube MSI DFAT Photos | MSI-DFAT JWST suffers new problem during spacecraft testing - SpaceNews Surround Sound - Orion Service Module for Artemis 1 Under...