Michael recaps his trip to Blue Origin, meeting Senator Cantwell, Senator NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and discussing workforce development. 

Michael Laine then interviews Joe Carlisle, an independent Space infrastructure researcher.  Joe wants to prepare humanity for trillions living in space by implementing industry standardization for space manufacturing similar to the automotive industry standards. 

Michael interviews Mellisa and Vince from Off Planet Research.

This episode was recorded on Mon August 14th, 2023.

Agricultural researcher with a specialization in settlement agriculture for Moon & Mars.

http://GrowMars.space

Michael reviews the latest space news.

The Moon as a military target, news on Starship, and taking a look at the new deluge system installed at Starbase, TX. Also discusses a new Pew Research study on Americans opinions on Space.

This episode was recorded on July 31st, 2023.

This dual interview with Jeff Krukin and Tom Olson goes into both of their origin stories and also discusses their organization -- Center for Space Commerce & Finance. They talk about NewSpace business plan competition, visiting International Astronautical Congress (IAC), and what it takes to start a successful space business.

Jeff Krukin is Principal & Co-founder of Earth-Space Commerce Advisors, LLC.

Tom Olson is a Director of Business Development, Avealto, Ltd (UK)

http://cscf.space

This episode was recorded in 2023.

Michael interviews Lennart Lopin, creator of Marscoin and CTO & Co-founder of Byte Federal. Lennart Lopin tells us his origin story of growing up behind the iron curtain and early fascination with space. He also tells us about his many exploits and interests into philosophy, religion, and back into deep tech. Learn about the story and promise of Marscoin in this hour long interview.

Marscoin Expo 2023 -- August 26th (It's free!)

https://www.marscoin.org/expo/

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https://www.bytefederal.com/

https://www.marscoin.org/

Recorded on August 2, 2023

This conversation is a recap of SpaceX's Starship Orbital Flight test on 4/20, a preview of ispace's lunar landing on 4/25 with Leah Malmos. Michael Laine reviews the latest quarterly Space Capital report. 

We review some of the SpaceX Starship Test footage, and take a look at some of the images sent back from ispace on its' voyage to the Moon.

Michael goes over some highlights from Space Capital's Q1 report on the space economy.

You can find Leah Malmos on Twitter at @pixabo

#SpaceX 

This episode was recorded on April 24th, 2023

Michael interviews Brent Ziarnick, PhD, a space professor about his classes and space interests. They discuss Space power dynamics such as Brown vs. Blue, and the role of Space Force.

They also discuss policy documents like the Joint Concept for Competing and Competition Continuum.

Listen to this episode to learn more about the military domain in space!

https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-joint-chiefs-new-strategy-paper-joint-concept-competing#:~:text=The%20full%20text%20of%20Joint,strategy%20within%20the%20Department%20of

#SpacePower #Spaceforce #SpaceSituationalAwareness

This episode was recorded on July 26th, 2023

Michael Laine interviews Gary Calnan, CEO of CisLunar Industries. They talk about Gary's early love of space, young entrepreneurship, and making his way into the Space industry after a career in Finance. They also discuss CisLunar Industries meteoric rise from a napkin idea to a funded company in less than 3 years.

CisLunar Industries is an orbital debris removal, and in space manufacturing company.

https://www.cislunarindustries.com/

This episode was recorded on July 17th, 2023

Michael Laine discusses the Future of Space 2060. Space Futures Workshop with Industry is also a topic of interest. He also features the Workshop Vignettes which imagine future power struggles and groups must problem solve these complex power dynamics in space.

These imagined scenarios are exactly how militaries plan for future space defense capabilities.