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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August 01, 2025204 - It’s Not Delivery, It’s Deorbit (with Joe Barnard)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to catch up and finally discuss High Steaks!
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Episode 204 - It’s Not Delivery, It’s Deorbit (with Joe Barnard) - YouTube
Can Supersonic Heating Cook Steak? - YouTube
High Steaks Flight 1 - Onboard Footage 50% Speed with Data Overlay - YouTube
Smallest 4K 120fps Camera Possible - YouTube
Using Condoms to Make a Rocket Nosecone - YouTube
Building a Supersonic Rocket Guidance System - YouTube
The #1 Reason Rocket Parachutes Fail - YouTube
Half Cat Rocketry
Australia’s first orbital-class rocket didn’t make it far off the launch pad - Ars Technica
Gilmour Space on X: “Liftoff completed, launch tower cleared, stage 1 tested. Awesome result for a first test launch.”
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July 18, 2025203 - 20 Tree and Me
Jake and Anthony return from their travels with stories, and a ton of news to catch each other up on. And we’ll find out if Jake was the person who bought NWA 16799.
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Episode 203 - 20 Tree and Me - YouTube
The largest Mars meteorite on Earth has sold for $4.3 million | Space
Congress passes budget reconciliation bill with $10 billion for NASA - SpaceNews
Senate Appropriators Poised to Reject Proposed NASA Budget Cuts, But… – SpacePolicyOnline.com
House Appropriators Also Reject Trump-Proposed NASA Cuts, Fund National Space Council – SpacePolicyOnline.com
Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts - Ars Technica
Here’s why Trump appointed the secretary of transportation to lead NASA - Ars Technica
NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan - NASA Science
Building the future of SpaceNews - SpaceNews
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June 27, 2025202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil)
Anthony is joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight to talk about the recent mayhem at Starbase, and to kick around European space policy topics in the run up to the ESA Ministerial later this year.
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Episode 202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube
Following the Loss of Ship 36, SpaceX now Focuses on Rebuilding Masseys - NASASpaceFlight.com
Jack Beyer on X: “Close up slow motion footage of the unexpected event(s) during Northrop Grumman’s BOLE DM-1 stb test today.”
Northrop Grumman tests SLS Block 2 BOLE booster in Utah; nozzle issue seen - NASASpaceFlight.com
ESA studying impacts of proposed NASA budget cuts - SpaceNews
ESA moving ahead with ‘resilience from space’ satellite imaging program - SpaceNews
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1h 4min
June 20, 2025201 - Bad Ass, But Also Bad (with Casey Dreier and Eric Berger)
Anthony is joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about the NASA 2026 budget proposal, the Jared Isaacman saga, and all the space policy storylines you could imagine.
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Episode 201 - Bad Ass, But Also Bad (with Casey Dreier and Eric Berger) (with Casey Dreier and Eric Berger) - YouTube
NASA's disastrous 2026 budget proposal in… | The Planetary Society
The Space Review: How NASA’s proposed budget cuts are felt across the Atlantic
The Space Review: NASA’s 2026 budget in brief: Unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful
The Planetary Society’s NASA Data Dashboards
Isaacman’s bold plan for NASA: Nuclear ships, seven-crew Dragons, accelerated Artemis - Ars Technica
The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail - SpaceNews
SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas - Ars Technica
She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world - Ars Technica
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Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) / X
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June 13, 2025200 - On the Interstages of Giants (with Matt Gjertsen)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gjertsen, founder of Better Every Day Studios, to talk about leadership and management development in the space industry (and elsewhere!).
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Episode 200 - On the Interstages of Giants (with Matt Gjertsen) - YouTube
Better Every Day Studios
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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.
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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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