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Jake and Anthony are joined by Joey Roulette of Reuters to talk about the state of NASA’s fixed-price contracts in the face of the Starliner situation and lunar lander awards. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 111 - Extended Warranty, New Fairings (with Joey Roulette) - Off-Nominal T+252: NASA Selects Blue Moon for a Second Lunar Lander, But is Facing a Grim Budget Reality - Main Engine Cut Off...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to talk about what he’s up to and to engage in some alt-history what-ifs. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 110 - Big “I Made It in Blender” Energy (with Joe Barnard) - YouTube Joe Barnard | Out Of Context - YouTube Joe Barnard 🚀 on Twitter : “I'll do one, I actually think he's kinda cute” DutchSpace on Twitter : “The view you get when you put a coupl...

Jake and Anthony catch up on the news, including Blue Origin’s Lunar Lander award! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube NASA Selects Blue Origin for Astronaut Mission to the Moon | Blue Origin NASA selects Blue Origin to develop second Artemis lunar lander - SpaceNews Technical strengths and lower cost led NASA to select Blue Origin lander - SpaceNews Blue Origin picking up the pace at the Cape - NASASpac...

Jake and guest host Casey Dreier are joined by Paul Byrne to talk about NASA’s planetary science budget and the trials and tribulations that it is experiencing today. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 108 - Super Secret about Plutonium (feat. Paul Byrne and Casey Dreier) Follow Jaime Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) | Twitter Follow Off-Nominal Subscribe to the show! - Off-Nominal Support the show...

Jake and guest host Debarati Das are joined by Jaime Green, author of the new book The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 107 - He’s Got a Butt (with Debarati Das and Jaime Green) Follow Jaime Jaime’s Website The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos Follow Off-Nominal...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Sarah Al-Ahmed, host and producer of Planetary Radio, to talk about her new gig running one of the longest-tenured space podcasts. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 106 - Main Menu (with Sarah Al-Ahmed) - YouTube Planetary Radio stories with Mat Kaplan | The Planetary Society rae paoletta on Twitter : “Ok way better pic here!!! CAPYYYYYYYYYYBAAAARAAAAA♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg to talk about his new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach . Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 105 - There and Beck Again (with Ashlee Vance) - YouTube Signed Copies Available on Ashlee Vance’s Site When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within...

Anthony cracks open a beer and talks about the news from Space Symposium with Jacqueline Feldscher of Payload and Jeff Foust of SpaceNews. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 104 - Ricky Bobby Goes to the Moon (Live from Space Symposium 2023) - YouTube Live at Space Symposium 2023! - Main Engine Cut Off Off-Nominal: What's Pitchin' at Space Symposium?​ - YouTube Leidos, NASCAR Head to the Moon -...

Anthony is joined by Caleb Henry of Quilty Analytics to talk about his recent trip to India for a OneWeb launch, and to talk about all the acquisitions and mergers going on in the satellite communications market right now. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 103 - Same Ice Cream Man (with Caleb Henry) - YouTube Caleb Henry on Twitter : “Here are some of my favorite photos I took from the #OneWebL...

Anthony is joined by Eric Berger of Ars Technica and Matthew Russell of the The Interplanetary Podcast to talk about Starship, the future of European spaceflight, and the Artemis II crew. Announcement: Off-Nominal and MECO Live Shows at Space Symposium 2023 More details coming soon, but Anthony will be at Space Symposium 2023 and will be hosting MECO and Off-Nominal live at the Redwire booth on Ap...

Anthony is joined by Chris Carberry and Dr. Tanya Harrison to discuss Chris’ upcoming documentary version of his Alcohol in Space book, the upcoming Humans to Mars summit, and the state of humans to Mars in the Artemis era. Announcement: Off-Nominal and MECO Live Shows at Space Symposium 2023! More details coming soon, but Anthony will be at Space Symposium 2023 and will be hosting MECO and Off-No...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Christian Davenport of The Washington Post to catch up on all the space news, and to celebrate 100 episodes of Off-Nominal. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 100 - Astronaut Astronaut (with Christian Davenport) - YouTube Episode 09 - Randomly Throwing Money Out Into the Cosmos - Off-Nominal Episode 12 - Gary from Lockheed - Off-Nominal Rep. George Santos on Twitte...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Albrecht, executive secretary of the National Space Council from 1989 to 1992, and President of International Launch Services from 1999 to 2006, to talk about his career in space and space policy, the new era of the National Space Council, and more. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 99 - Open-Box Protons (with Mark Albrecht) - YouTube Diggnation - Wikipedia N...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Michael Sheetz, space journalist from CNBC, to talk about recent earnings calls, ULA for sale, and other space business! Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 98 - Bing It with ChatGPT (with Michael Sheetz) - YouTube Sources say prominent US rocket-maker United Launch Alliance is up for sale | Ars Technica Investing in Space newsletter: Launch jitters Rocket Lab (RKLB...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Howard Mostrom, Audio Director for Kerbal Space Program 2, to talk about how he recorded audio for the latest in the hit franchise of space video games. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 97 - Figure This One Out, Howard! (with Howard Mostrom) - YouTube Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program Kerbal Space Program 2: Episode 7 - Recording Roc...

Jake and Anthony are joined once again by Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, to talk about the newest class of Brooke Owens fellows, what she’s been up to lately, and who knows, maybe we’ll randomly argue about commercial space stations on this one, too. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 96 - Lori’s Mom’s Favorite (with Lori Garver) - YouTube Episode 66 - My Next One is “Fiction” (w...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about Super Heavy’s static fire, Progress doing its best Soyuz, and to somewhat randomly argue about Commercial LEO Destinations. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 95 - Horsesh (with Eric Berger) - YouTube Last year marked the end of an era in spaceflight—here’s what we’re watching next | Ars Technica Space...

Jake and Anthony talk about the Chinese balloons that floated over the Americas in the last few weeks, balloons in space history, UFO shit, and do a random follow-up news segment. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 94 - Let’s Do Some UFO Shit - YouTube Why Shooting Down China’s Spy Balloon Over The U.S. Is More Complicated Than It Seems U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon | Th...

Jake and Anthony talk about Jake’s decision to end WeMartians, and what goes on behind the scenes of Making Stuff™. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 93 - Go Touch Some Grass - YouTube Goodbye, for now The Off-Nominal Discord - Off-Nominal @Nostradambot Dashboard Wilson on Twitter : “Launching Boeing Astronauts in a Boeing Capsule on a Boeing Rocket under a Boeing Jet from Boeing Soil @offnom”...

Jake and Anthony talk about the state of smallsat launch and tell some stories from Anthony’s trip to Virginia to see an Electron launch. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 92 - We Should Buy a Bar - YouTube Twitter thread of our trip Main Engine Cut Off, Spacey Space : “Pretty great day trip down to Wallops to see the Rocket Lab flight! Electron really has a kick, I was impressed. Beautiful and...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Ben Feist, Data Visualization & Informatics Software Engineer and Historian at NASA Johnson Space Center, to talk about his work, including the amazing Apollo in Real Time experience. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Apollo in Real Time From Apollo 17 to NASA – Ben Feist Follow Ben Ben Feist Ben Feist (@BenFeist) / Twitter Follow Jake WeMartians Podcast - Follow Humanity...

Brendan Byrne, of WMFE and Are We There Yet?, hosts the first edition of The Off-Nominallyweds , a game to find out if Jake or Anthony knows the other one better. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 90 - This is a Complete Conspiracy (with Brendan Byrne) - YouTube Submit questions for Anomaly Feud Follow Brendan Brendan Byrne (@SpaceBrendan) / Twitter 90.7 WMFE - Public Radio for Central Florida...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to talk about and predict what’s to come in space this year. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 89 - The Final Year (with Loren Grush) - YouTube Off-Nominal Happy Hour - Dec 30, 2021 (with Jeff Foust) - YouTube Follow Loren Loren Grush (@lorengrush) / Twitter Loren Grush - Bloomberg Follow Jake WeMartians Podcast - Follow Humanity's Journey...

Jake and Anthony are joined by Miriam Kramer of Axios to talk about the weirdest and funniest space news of the year, to announce the Off-Nominees, and to crown the winner of the 2022 Off-Nominal Award. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 88 - But, Nonetheless (with Miriam Kramer) - YouTube The Off-Nominal Awards - Off-Nominal Follow Miriam Miriam Kramer (@mirikramer) / Twitter Axios Newsletter S...

Marina Koren of The Atlantic joins Jake and Anthony to talk about her recent viewing and reviewing of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Topics Off-Nominal - YouTube Episode 87 - Grippy Socks (with Marina Koren) - YouTube '2001: A Space Odyssey' Is the Most Overhyped Space Movie - The Atlantic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - IMDb The Hopeful Traveler: The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas: Reception Lobby & Video Pillars...