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Jake is joined my Simon Stähler from ETH Zürich to talk about the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube 147 - Bouncy Castle Payload Adapter - YouTube Eclipse 2024 Meetup - Off-Nominal Jake's new blog post on Mission Success Follow Off-Nominal Subscribe to the show! - Off-Nominal Support the show, join the Discord Off-Nominal (@offnom) / Twitter Off-Nominal (@offnom@s...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Paul Niles, CLPS project scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, to talk about the science side of CLPS. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 146 - Stocking the Shelves - YouTube Eclipse 2024 Meetup - Off-Nominal Commercial Lunar Payload Services - NASA Peregrine payloads returned useful data despite no lunar landing - SpaceNews NASA Releases PRISM Call for Potenti...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Michael Sheetz, space reporter from CNBC, to talk about Starship’s third flight, recent earnings calls, whatever Astra is up to, and…there’s way too much on our list. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 145 - Space Elevator Jazz (with Michael Sheetz) - YouTube Starship's Third Flight Test / X SpaceX Starship rocket flies milestone third test flight Intuitive Machine...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Swapna Krishna to catch up on space science news, and to talk about her projects like Ad Astra, Stargazing, and more. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 144 - The Tube Man (with Swapna Krishna) - YouTube Ad Astra Ad Astra - YouTube The Philly Mascots and First Responders From Engine 38 Re-Open I-95 - Crossing Broad Final NASA 2024 spending bill defers decision on M...

Jake and Anthony are joined by journalist and author Tim Fernholz to talk about some of his recent stories on the Space Force, Kam Ghaffarian, and let’s be honest, we’ll probably get distracted by Intuitive Machine’s first lunar landing attempt. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 143 - Maneuver Without Regret (feat. Warfighting Domain) (feat. Tim Fernholz) - YouTube Goodnight, Sweet Prince: Sayi...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to talk about the latest on Mars Sample Return, JPL layoffs, and everything space policy. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 142 (with Casey Dreier) - YouTube How layoffs at JPL can be traced to a stalemate in Congress | The Planetary Society The path forward for Mars Sample Return | The Planetary Societ...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Elizabeth Frank to talk about the future of the CLPS program, JPL’s Mars-focused Commercial Services Studies, and a whole bunch more, including Elizabeth’s epic travel photos. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 141 - TRL Valley of Death (with Elizabeth Frank) - YouTube Astrobotic to begin formal investigation into failed Peregrine mission - SpaceNews Moon Manifest...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Rae Paoletta of The Planetary Society to pour one out for Ingenuity, breakdown the epic SLIM landing, and do some eclipse planning. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 140 - Cultivating a Vibe (with Rae Paoletta) - YouTube SLIM moon lander revived after solar power setback - SpaceNews Dawoon Jung on X : “One of #SLIM main engines fell off during landing” SLIM_JAXA o...

Jake and Anthony are joined by John Conafay to talk about what he’s been up to since founding Integrate, and we’ll probably dish out some hot takes, too. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 139 - Sourdough Software Starter (with John Conafay) - YouTube Integrate Cosma Schema • The New Space design & branding agency. Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission ends after 72 flights - SpaceNews Awkward Cousi...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Will Francis, Chief Commercial Officer at Agile Space Industries, to talk about his path through the industry—from co-founding Roccor, to being acquired by Redwire, to joining Agile—and what he’s learned along the way. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Agile Space Industries Redwire Space | Heritage + Innovation Redwire Acquires Roccor, a Manufacturer of Critical Systems...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger to lay out our predictions for 2024! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube After its impressive first flight, here’s what’s next for the Vulcan rocket | Ars Technica Jeff Bezos says what we’re all thinking: “Blue Origin needs to be much faster” | Ars Technica Four huge rockets are due to debut in 2020—will any make it? | Ars Technica Citing “crew safety,” NASA del...

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...