Jeremy Schiel is the Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer at Orbit Fab and a leading entrepreneur in the growing in-space economy. Spacecraft are no longer restricted to the fuel they are launched with. Orbit Fab delivers the fuel and other materials that are required, where and when they are needed, to enable business models never before thought possible.

In this episode, Ben and Jeremy discuss getting to orbit in year 1, the challenges of “building an empire” and why we should hope for a Mc Donalds in space! 

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OUTLINE:

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00:19 Spaced Ventures

00:40 Jeremy Schiel is the Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer at Orbit Fab

01:20 Where does the name “Orbit Fab” come from?

02:00 How Jeremy met his co-founder Daniel Faber and started Orbit Fab

02:52 Space conference

03:50 Gas Stations in Space!

04:39 Types of refuelling

05:50 Getting to Orbit

08:19 RAFTI (Rapid Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface)

12:08 Launch Provider 

13:13 Minimising Spacejunk

15:20 Technical challenges of Orbit Fab

16:58 Fundraising

20:55 Partnership with Astroscale

22:10 Why Orbit Fab UK?

24:00 Orbit Fab 2023 - what to expect?

27:30 CONFERS

29:10 Opportunities for innovation

33:34 Advice to entrepreneur’s 

35:40 Long term aspirations for Orbit Fab

36:47

Follow Orbit Fab

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Stephen Bassett is a political activist, Disclosure advocate and the executive director of Paradigm Research Group (PRG) founded in 1996 to end a government imposed embargo on the truth behind extraterrestrial related phenomena. He has spoken to audiences around the world about the implications of "Disclosure" - the  formal confirmation by heads of state of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

In this episode, Ben and Stephen discuss how Stephen’s lobbying contributed to Hilary Clinton using the term “UAP” instead of “UFO” in the Presidential race 2016 and are we heading towards “Disclosure”?!

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OUTLINE:

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00:41 Introduction to Stephen Bassett

01:28 What does the US government know about extra terrestrials?

07:00 Who knows what?!

11:30 Why a truth embargo?

20:53 UFO’s vs UAP's

27:32 Paradigm Research Group - how it has evolved

33:16 Pentagon Announcement

37:17 When will “Disclosure” happen?

43:18 Print Media Archive https://paradigmresearchgroup.org/media-archive/

46:34 Wrap up and socials

Follow Stephen Bassett

Website: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveBassett

Discussed  pending bill in the U.S. Congress: sections 703, 704 and 705 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4503/text

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Dr. Doug Corrigan is a physicist, biochemist, and molecular biologist, and is the author of the book “The Author of Light.” As a Graduate Fellow, he worked with NASA on microgravity experiments that flew aboard the Space Shuttle. Later in his career, Dr. Corrigan launched a biotech company that developed tools to help the pharmaceutical industry discover new antiviral drugs. He is an avid innovator, and has developed award-winning concepts for new medical devices, 3D printing technologies, cellular assays, nanotechnologies, sensors, and new materials.

In this episode Ben and Doug discuss the properties of light, the existence of God and poly molecular health.

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

00:22 This weeks sponsor Spaced Ventures

00:54 Dr Doug Corrigan

01:58 Fascination with the cosmos

03:57 The Author of Light: Did God reveal his identity in the physics of light (You can buy Doug’s book here) https://www.amazon.com/Author-Light-Reveal-Identity-Physics/dp/B08KH97THM/

09:15 The Big Bang 

12:56 Pushback from Academia about God in Science?

15:47 Bio tech company

18:02 Polymolecular Health

25:20 Experience with NASA

34:24 Twitter 

36:14 Wrap up and socials

Follow Dr Doug Corrigan

Website: https://sciencewithdrdoug.com/

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Aurora is a research scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech and also works as a scientist on the NASA Exoplanet Archive.  Aurora is primarily an observational astronomer and her research interests include exoplanets atmospheres and brown dwarfs.  

In this episode Ben and Aurora discuss nervous launch moments, the difference between a red and a brown dwarf and what it means to get “JWST time”!

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

00:19 Spaced Ventures - Invest in companies like Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc

01:22 Introduction to Aurora Kesseli

2:02 Artemis 1

04:00 NASA Exoplanet Archive

04:48 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

08:24 NASA Exoplanet Archive secrecy?

09:49 What are Brown Dwarfs?

12:28 Day in the life of Aurora

14:12 Space telescopes!

15:45 Where to point JWST?

18:40 How does JWST work?

20:32 Earth 2.0

26:08 Outreach 

28:58 Favourite Sci-Fi and predicting the future

33:34 Wrap up and socials

Follow Aurora Kesseli

Website: www.aurorakesseli.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/aurora_kess

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Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author, as well as being an acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast, His wide research interests have focused on the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, including the origin and evolution of the Universe and the fundamental structure of matter. 

In this episode, Ben and Lawrence discuss the “known unknowns” of the universe, the Origin’s Project and is there comfort in not knowing the answers to life's big questions?

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

00:00 Intro and Spaced Ventures

00:57 Lawrence Krauss

02:29 What we should be asking about the universe in 2022? “The Known Unknowns” preorder here 

07:14 Cosmogony - “how the universe started” buy “A Universe from Nothing” here 

10:22 A universe from nothing 

12:30 Lawrence’s background - did it shape his current views?

13:48 The Origin’s Project

16:30 Big Questions

17:38 Kip Thorne 

18:54 Private companies involvement with Space

23:10 Big Experiments with unlimited budget

25:28 UAP’s

27:00 Likelihood’s of “anything”

28:30 The Physics of Star Trek 

30:08 Where did Lawrence’s passion for space come from?

31:25 Wrap up and socials

Follow Lawrence Krauss

Website - https://www.lawrencemkrauss.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceMKrauss/

Twitter -  https://twitter.com/LKrauss1

Substack - https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/

Origins Project - https://originsproject.org/events/

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Bailey is an experienced system engineer with a history of working in mechanical engineering in the space industry. Bailey does a lot of STEM outreach and is also an accomplished “analogue astronaut” with plans to do more missions next year. Bailey is a Rubik's Cube ambassador and has solved a Rubik's cube with ZeroG!

In this episode, Ben and Bailey discuss trusting in yourself and your equipment, why we are all Jedi force wielders and why are Rubik’s cubes so cool in space!

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

01:03 Spaced Ventures 

01:26 Introducing Bailey ‘ninjaneergirl’

02:30 How Bailey got into space?

04:04 Paragon

04:31 Axiom

05:30 Space suits for space tourists?

06:19 Making space suits suitable for all

07:34 Analogue Astronauts - hi seas  https://www.hi-seas.org/

10:19 Main function of analogues 

12:25 What makes hi seas so good 

13:20 No phone in analogue!

14:25 Analogue at sea!

16:20 Scuba Diving Vs Spacewalks 

18:25 Rubik’s cube 

20:31 Why is Rubik’s so cool in space?

23:00 Inspiring the next generation

24:50 SpaceKind http://www.spacekind.org/

29:25 Jedi force wielders!

31:39 Overview Effect

33:35 Bailey’s aspirations for the future

36:25 Wrap up and socials

Follow Bailey Burns:

Website - www.aspacestory.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ninjaneergirl/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ninjaneergirl

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Nika Chinchaladze is a space entrepreneur, CEO and Co-Founder of Altair Enterprises - a space education company with the goal of accelerating the growth of the new space economy by providing globally accessible on-demand learning, fostering international cooperation, and supplying the industry with the next generation workforce - organisers of the International Space Convention - one of the biggest annual space industry business conferences - & the authors of “Space Business 101: 7 Steps to Position Yourself in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry.”

In this episode, Ben and Nicholas discuss the aims of the ISC, the challenges of being a space entrepreneur and how to position yourself in the next trillion dollar industry.

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OUTLINE:

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00:18 Shout out to our sponsors – Spaced Ventures

01:10 This week’s guest Nika Chinchaladze

02:28 Altair Enterprises

03:15 How Nika met his business partner Martynas

03:57 Passion for space industry?

05:08 The International Space Convention (ISC), how it began?

09:12 Physical vs virtual events

11:34 ISC themes 2023

14:30 Curating speakers

16:00 Challenges for space industry entrepreneurs 

18:10 aims for conference 

20:20 The next trillion dollar industry - accessibility? 

22:40 Co founder relationships 

24:50 Altair Academy 

27:30 Would Nika go to space?

28:30 Aspirations for Altair? 

29:50 Advice for ‘wannabe’ space entrepreneurs 

33:00 Wrap up and socials (note Ben means *ISC 2023* - sorry)

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www.altairenterprises.com and www.altairenterprises.store

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When registering use this discount link: https://bit.ly/ASTROBEN

About International Space Convention 2022:

ISC 2022 is a hybrid event where you can attend in-person or online and get an exclusive 3-day access to over 95 lectures from over 100 world-renowned space industry speakers and experts, ranging from government space agencies to private space companies discussing everything from new rising trends to advances and concepts in space industry, including: Earth and Deep Space Observation, SatCom and Data Analysis, Human Space Missions, Space Law and Regulations, Commercial Space Travel, Financial Outlook of the Space Industry, Funding Opportunities for the Emerging Space Start-Ups and many more great topics.

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Avi Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology and is a Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been the longest serving chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). In July 2021, Avi became head of The Galileo Project. The project was inspired by the detection of ʻOumuamua' and by release of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

In this episode, Ben and Avi discuss how Oumuamua (the first interstellar object detected to pass through the solar system) could be space junk or it could be a message in a bottle from an extra terrestrial civilisation. They discuss the importance of interstellar archeology and why we should be looking further for evidence that we are not the only sentient beings in the universe!

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

00:00 Introduction to episode with Avi Loeb and the incredible podcast sponsor – Spaced Ventures

01:00 Who is Avi Loeb?

01:54 How Ben heard about Avi over Covid

02:57 What is Oumuamua (or what it isn’t!)

09:45 Project Galileo https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home

10:28 What Avi thinks Oumuamua is and where is it going?

14:00 How did it escape the suns gravity? 

16:30 US government 2019 announcement - UAPS?

19:00 New telescope in Chilli - like a dating app!

20:58 Where to look first?

22:42 NASA’s Dart Mission - planetary defence - job done?

26:15 Project Lyra (chase Oumuamua) is it possible?

29:00 What scientific discoveries does Avi want to live long enough to witness?

33:15 Physics is a dialogue with nature 

35:00 Wrap up and socials 

Follow Avi Loeb

Website - https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ Essays - https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Opinion.html   Buy Avi's latest book   Stay connected with us!

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Hayley Arceneaux is a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital physician assistant, a career she committed to at age ten, after surviving pediatric bone cancer. She is also now a member of the SpaceX medical team, where she helps medically train commercial astronauts. She joined SpaceX's first private spaceflight, Inspiration4, on September 15, 2021, and successfully water-landed three days later. At age twenty-nine, she became the youngest American to orbit the earth, the first pediatric cancer survivor in space, and the first astronaut with a prosthetic body part.

In this episode, Ben and Hayley discuss how Hayley had to keep the fact she was going to space a secret, the overview effect, how she never got claustrophobic on Crew Dragon and her new memoir, WILD RIDE: A Memoir of I.V. Drips and Rocket Ships.

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

00:00 Episode 50

00:49 This weeks sponsor - Spaced Ventures

01:40 Hayley Arceneaux

02:30 How Hayley found out she was going to space

04:15 Keeping the secret

05:00 Reaction to space news

05:34 Hayley’s journey through fighting cancer

09:00 Does Hayley feel the pressure being an inspiration?

10:34 Thoughts around free health care

12:42 The overview effect - reaction to seeing the

15:10 What was it actually like on Crew Dragon?

17:15 How was sleeping on board?

19:15 Responsibilities on board

20:55 Inspiring the next generation

22:36 Landing at sea

25:06 Hayley’s Motivation for writing her book  

27:26 What Hayley learnt about herself

29:00 Hayley’s plans for the future

30:00 Audio book

31:37 Wrap up and socials

Buy “WILD RIDE” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-Memoir-Drips-Rocket-ebook/dp/B09S3J4DJT

Buy “Wild Ride” on Penguin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712670/wild-ride-by-hayley-arceneaux/?pdivflag#

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArceneauxHayley

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hayleyarc/

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In Episode 49 Ben speaks to Emily Higgins, the Director of Communications and Special Projects for Uplift Aerospace, documenting and creating the infrastructure for "Next Space" within the aerospace industry using advanced technologies, art, and Web3. Within her role at Uplift, Higgins is also the Director of Space+, the world's first Web3 Space Program. Her role encompasses content production and curation for building brand recognition, and astronaut wrangling.

In this episode, Ben and Emily discuss the importance of making space accessible to all, Starborn Treasure Hunt, the future of crypto in space and the importance of educating and community building for Space+.

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OUTLINE:

Here’s approximate timestamps for the episode.

Follow Space+:

00:00 Intro and thanks to our sponsors - Spaced Ventures

00:47 Emily Higgins

01:28 What on Earth is Web3?

03:30 NFT’s in Space

05:50 Uplift Space & Space+

12:33 Power of NFT community and how business model stacks up?

15:44 Open Sea & Launches

17:01 Starborn Treasure Hunt

19:33 Educating Space industry on crypto

21:22 Value of crypto in space in the future

25:18 Future astronaut training

29:19 Community Building

31:01 Digital launch viewing?

31:44 Long term vision for Space+

33:38 To The Moon!

34:38 Wrap ups and socials

Follow Space+

Website: https://www.spaceplus.xyz/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/spaceplusnft

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/spaceplusnft

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaceplusnft/

Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/launch-pass

Starborn Premint: https://www.premint.xyz/starborn-treasure-hunt/

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