Chris Temby and Jan Špaček join Jake and Anthony to talk about the Agnostic Life Finding Association and the search for life on Mars.

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• Episode 209 - Mars Life Pushers (with Chris Temby and Jan Špaček) - YouTube
• ALFA Mars
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Jake and Anthony talk about Starship Flight 10, what the future holds for the Starship program, and the Chinese lunar program.

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• Episode 208 - 1-0 Freedom - YouTube
• SpaceX - Starship's Tenth Flight Test
• After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon - Ars Technica

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Randy Riddle, retired small rocket chief engineer and long time anomaly (it’s LeonRunningMan, himself!), to talk about his career in the Air Force, how appropriated money actually works from the government side, and to tell a ton of stories.

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• Episode 207 - Replacement Money (with Randy Riddle, LeonRunningMan!) - YouTube
• National Air and Space Intel Center
• Air Force Issues RFP For OSP-3 Launch Services - Defense Daily
• USSF awards OSP-4 contract to emerging Small Launch providers > Los Angeles Air Force Base > Article Display
• Space and Missile Systems Center awards $4.9 million Small Rocket Program-Orbital contract for Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON)-45 mission > Los Angeles Air Force Base > Article Display

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Jake and Anthony kick around the news, from Vulcan and Ariane 6 launches on the same day, Blue Origin’s MTO, and some licensing talk, because that’s super fun.

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• Episode 206 - Coalition for Deep State Exploration - YouTube
• After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket - Ars Technica
• ESA - MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch on Ariane 6
• Op-ed: NASA’s New CLD Strategy Will Lose Mars, LEO to China - Payload
• No Changes Allowed | LinkedIn
• The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter | Blue Origin
• Trump Issues Executive Order on Commercial Space – SpacePolicyOnline.com

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Jake and Anthony decide which spaceship(s) they would like to steal from a museum.

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• Episode 205 - Knives Out for Kansas - YouTube
• NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations - Ars Technica
• Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket - Ars Technica
• Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit? - Ars Technica
• Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one - Ars Technica
• Space Shuttle Independence - Wikipedia
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 - Wikipedia
• LK (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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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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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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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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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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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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