Off-Nominal

By Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.... more

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June 05, 2025199 - The Thing That We Grow Plants
It returns. Hot drama. Also a moon lander is happening right now. Also Twitter fights break out. Also a moon lander doesn’t happen.
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Episode 199 - The Thing That We Grow Plants - YouTube
Isaacman: people with ‘axes to grind’ about Musk caused withdrawn NASA nomination - SpaceNews
White House to withdraw Isaacman nomination to lead NASA - SpaceNews
NASA Copes with Details of $6 Billion Budget Cut, Leadership Uncertainty – SpacePolicyOnline.com
NASA withdraws support for conferences - SpaceNews
Commercial space companies to fund launch range upgrades under $4 billion contract - SpaceNews
Chinese launch startup conducts vertical takeoff and splashdown test - SpaceNews
Kaitlan Collins on X: “As their blowup escalates, Trump suggests terminating Musk’s federal contracts.”
Eric Berger on X: “This would both end the International Space Station and simultaneously provide no way to safely deorbit it.”
Elon Musk on X: “This just gets better and better 🤣🤣 Go ahead, make my day …”
Elon Musk on X: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
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May 30, 2025198 - Gotahm
Jake and Anthony figure out if we should panic about Starship, or just Starship Block 2, or not.
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Episode 198 - Gotahm - YouTube
Starship’s Ninth Flight Test - SpaceX - Launches
Northrop Grumman Invests $50 Million in Firefly Aerospace to Advance Medium Launch Vehicle Named Eclipse™
Introducing the new Northrop Grumman logo. | Northrop Grumman
Rocket Lab's Neutron tapped for U.S. military cargo test - SpaceNews
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May 23, 2025197 - Valves and Cranberries
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.
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Episode 197 - Valves and Cranberries - YouTube
T+302: A Tour of Marotta Controls - Main Engine Cut Off
Controls Engineering | Control System Company | Marotta
Space Controls | Spacecraft Control Systems | Marotta
Marotta’s post with photos of my tour
Brian’s photo of a thruster firing
NASA backtracks on VIPER commercial partnership - SpaceNews
Blue Origin updates work on ‘transporter’ for Blue Moon lunar lander - SpaceNews
Gilmour Space on X: “𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝟭 – 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗱 Last night, during final checks, an unexpected issue triggered the rocket’s payload fairing. No fuel was loaded, no one was hurt, and early inspections show no damage to the rocket or pad.”
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May 13, 2025196 - ❌ Lady Telescope ❌
Jake and Anthony talk about Firefly’s latest spectacular Alpha failure, and the skinny budget request.

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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 - NASASpaceFlight.com
Alpha FLTA006 "Message In A Booster" - YouTube (Timestamped to anomaly, also lol at 1969-12-31 timestamp)
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May 01, 2025195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta)
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
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Episode 195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta) - YouTube
Dante Lauretta | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory & Department of Planetary Sciences | The University of Arizona
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu
Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu | Nature Astronomy
An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples | Nature
Contamination monitoring of the OSIRIS-REx ISO5 asteroid sample cleanroom - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients - NASA
Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample - NASA
NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water - NASA
NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room - NASA
OSIRIS-APEX - NASA Science
NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey - NASA
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April 25, 2025194 - St. Bart’s on a Tuesday (with Roman Chiporukha)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Roman Chiporukha, founder of SpaceVIP, a travel agency for space.
Topics
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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
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April 18, 2025193 - The Secretary of Land
Jake and Anthony talk about Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing, and the apocalyptic NASA science budget.
Topics
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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 eviscerates science funding at NASA - Ars Technica
Planetary Science Caucus Co-Chairs Bacon & Chu Statement on White House’s Proposed Budget Cuts to NASA Science | U.S. Representative Don Bacon
NOAA budget proposal would affect weather satellite, other space programs - SpaceNews
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April 10, 2025192 - Accordion-Based ECLSS (with Chris Carberry and Sam Burbank)
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.
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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
Alcohol in Space: Past, Present and Future: Carberry, Chris: 9781476679242: Amazon.com: Books
Summit | Explore Mars
DEMO: Bay Bridge (2021) - IMDb
EP-32 The Show with Mike Rowe – Dan Carlin
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1h 3min
April 04, 2025191 - It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere…at a Rocket Lab Facility (with Richard French)
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.
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Episode 191 - It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere…at a Rocket Lab Facility (with Richard French) - YouTube
Rocket Lab | The Space Company | Rocket Lab
Mars Sample Return | Rocket Lab
NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus - NASA
NASA selects seven companies for MSR studies - SpaceNews
NASA awards Rocket Lab study contract for Mars Sample Return - SpaceNews
Varda Space capsule lands in Australia with critical data for hypersonic vehicles - SpaceNews
Rocket Lab to expand into laser communications with Mynaric acquisition - SpaceNews
Rocket Lab on X: “Stage 2's qualification campaign tests…”
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March 28, 2025190 - Poolonauts (with Jason Snell)
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.
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Episode 190 - Poolonauts (with Jason Snell) - YouTube
Anthony on CNN Last Week
Momentum seems to be building for Jared Isaacman to become NASA administrator - Ars Technica
White House nominates Autry to be NASA’s chief financial officer - SpaceNews
Trump White House drops diversity plan for Moon landing it created back in 2019 - Ars Technica
Episode 128 - These Were Bad Movies - Off-Nominal
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