Jake and Anthony are joined by Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau to talk about their new book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier. Supply! Demand! Subsidies! Probably dunking on the commercial space station market!

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• Episode 185 - A Little Bit Like Mexico (with Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau) - YouTube
• Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier: Weinzierl, Matthew, Rosseau, Brendan: 9781647827168: Amazon.com: Books
• Economics of Space | Economics of Space
• Quirks & Compulsions

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Jake and Anthony catch up on some news, stories they haven’t covered yet like Rocket Lab’s Mars Sample Return architecture, and discuss the glory of Super Bowl LIX. It’s Anthony’s birthday, so he will not be stopped by Jake. Go Birds.

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• Episode 184 - Trickle Down Space News - YouTube
• Chiefs vs Eagles | Super Bowl LIX Highlights - YouTube
• Mars Sample Return | Rocket Lab
• Space Policy Edition: Mars Sample Return, but… | The Planetary Society
• Citing too much “bureaucracy,” Blue Origin to cut 10 percent of its workforce - Ars Technica
• Boeing has informed its employees of uncertainty in future SLS contracts - Ars Technica
• DOGE to examine NASA payments - SpaceNews

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Kristin Fisher to talk about her journey into independent journalism with her new YouTube channel, and we’ll probably kick around some news, too, because there’s been a lot, huh?

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• The Endless Void - YouTube
• Biden Administration “Certainly” Supports Artemis Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• Forbes on X: “JUST IN: Jen Psaki highlights Artemis Program: We will send “another man and another woman to the moon.”
• Trump administration removes moon rock from White House Oval Office | collectSPACE

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Stephen Clark, space reporter at Ars Technica, to talk about Starship Flight 7, New Glenn Flight 1, and let’s be real, probably space policy.

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• Episode 182 - Firmly Against Night Launches (with Stephen Clark) - YouTube
• Starship’s Seventh Flight Test - SpaceX - Launches
• SpaceX Catches Booster 14 but loses Ship 33 on Ascent - NASASpaceFlight.com
• Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space - Ars Technica
• Here’s what NASA would like to see SpaceX accomplish with Starship this year - Ars Technica
• The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space - Ars Technica

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Swapna Krishna to talk about the Mars Sample Return non-update…since they only gave it about 5 minutes of last week’s show. And hey, there are some big rockets on launch pads right now.

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• Episode 181 - Down-Suggest (with Swapna Krishna) - YouTube
• New Glenn Mission NG-1 | Blue Origin
• New Glenn reaches orbit on first launch - SpaceNews
• Mars Sample Return: Will NASA’s ambitious mission ever happen? - YouTube
• Will Mars Sample Return ever happen?
• NASA isn't fixing the heat shield on Artemis II - YouTube
• What will billionaire Jared Isaacman do as NASA Administrator? - YouTube
• NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars - NASA
• NASA to study two alternative architectures for Mars Sample Return - SpaceNews
• Mars Sample Return | Rocket Lab

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Jake and Anthony take a look back at their 2024 predictions, make a few for 2025, and check in on Mars Sample Return announcements.

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• Episode 180 - Murgers Back on the Menu - YouTube
• Launches, moon landings and more: Here's the top spaceflight missions to watch in 2025 | Space
• NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars - NASA
• NASA to study two alternative architectures for Mars Sample Return - SpaceNews

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Loren Grush of Bloomberg to present the 2024 Off-Nominees: the most bizarre space news stories of the year.

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• Episode 179 - Presenting the 2024 Off-Nominees (with Loren Grush) - YouTube
• The Off-Nominal Awards - Off-Nominal

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Jake and Anthony are joined by journalist and author Tim Fernholz to talk about the election aftermath, the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator, and whether Anthony is a space warmonger.

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• Episode 178 - Weirdest Midlife Crisis (with Tim Fernholz) - YouTube
• Did Joe and Kamala Fumble Space? - Tim Fernholz
• Jared Isaacman Tapped to be Next NASA Administrator – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• Trump selects Isaacman to be NASA administrator - SpaceNews
• How did the CEO of an online payments firm become the nominee to lead NASA? - Ars Technica

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gialich, Founder and CEO of AstroForge, to talk about asteroid mining. Yep, we’re doing the asteroid mining show.

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• Episode 177 - Sudafed and Rockstars (with Matt Gialich) - YouTube
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• Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway - Ars Technica
• Why is AstroForge mining asteroids? - YouTube

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Adrian Beil of NSF (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord) to talk about Starship Flight 6.

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• Episode 176 - Cosplaying the Shuttle (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube
• Starship’s Sixth Flight Test - SpaceX - Launches
• SpaceX lands Ship 31 in the Indian Ocean but miss the Booster Catch - NASASpaceFlight.com
• SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 6 - Booster Diverts Offshore - YouTube
• SpaceX has caught a massive rocket. So what’s next? - Ars Technica

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