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Anthony is in his new studio! He and Jake catch up on his recent trip to Marotta Controls, Anthony shares the good news about valves, and they try to figure out what the hell is going on with VIPER. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 197 - Valves and Cranberries - YouTube T+302: A Tour of Marotta Controls - Main Engine Cut Off Controls Engineering | Control System Company | Marotta Space Control...

Jake and Anthony talk about Firefly’s latest spectacular Alpha failure, and the skinny budget request. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 196 - ❌ Lady Telescope ❌ - YouTube Trump Proposes $6 Billion Cut to NASA – SpacePolicyOnline.com NASA scrambles to cut ISS activity due to budget issues - Ars Technica Firefly Alpha launches FLTA006 Message In A Booster mission but fails to reach orbit - NAS...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona, to talk about—take a guess!—returning and studying pristine samples from Bennu. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta) - YouTube Dante Lauretta | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Roman Chiporukha, founder of SpaceVIP, a travel agency for space. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 194 - St. Bart’s on a Tuesday (with Roman Chiporukha) - YouTube SpaceVIP | Your Gateway to the Cosmos Space Prize Blue Origin’s First All-Female Spaceflight Stunt - The New York Times Radian Aerospace – World’s First Single-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplane Follow Off-Nomin...

Jake and Anthony talk about Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing, and the apocalyptic NASA science budget. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 193 - The Secretary of Land - YouTube Isaacman Insists NASA Can Pursue Moon and Mars Goals Simultaneously – SpacePolicyOnline.com Isaacman’s “Golden Age of Science & Discovery” on Shaky Ground – SpacePolicyOnline.com Trump White House budget proposal evis...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Chris Carberry and Sam Burbank to talk about their first documentary film, Alcohol in Space - The Movie , their upcoming projects, and the 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Watch Alcohol in Space - The Movie | Prime Video The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television: Carberry, Chris: 9781476688978: Amazon.com: Books...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Richard French, Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Space Systems at Rocket Lab, to talk about their Mars Sample Return architecture, the way they’ve been putting the word out on it, and to hear what’s been up with their space systems side of the business lately. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 191 - It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere…at a Rocket Lab Facili...

Jake and Anthony are joined by writer and podcaster Jason Snell, to talk about Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA, what’s been up in the NASA CFO scene, what astronauts really want to be doing, and so much more. Also, this episode completes the Lifoff-Nominal crossover spectacular, AND makes 10 year old Anthony very happy that he’s podcasting with Jason friggin’ Snell. Topics Off-Nominal - Y...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Awais Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Pixxel, to talk about building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Honestly, we mostly try to help Jake get his head around the electromagnetic spectrum. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Pixxel | Hyperspectral Imagery and Space Data Company Google leads $36 million funding round for Pixxel - SpaceNews SpaceX launches 131 p...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the namesake of the McDowell Line at 80 kilometers, to talk about his fundraiser to move his epic space library to a new, permanent home. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 188 - Barry Up the Street (with Jonathan McDowell) - YouTube Fundraiser by Jonathan McDowell : Fund Jonathan'...

Jake and Anthony talk about the Moon lander mania this week has been—Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 and Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 missions. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 187 - Amazon Basics Lunar Lander - YouTube Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Firefly Aerospace AstroForge | Earning the Learnings: The Launch of Odin NASA still working to restore contact with Lunar Trailblazer - SpaceNews IM-2 lunar lander on...

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...