The Space Hour

You may remember our interview last year with Collins Aerospace. A subset of RTX, it's working with NASA to develop the next generation spacesuit. Well the company has hit a new testing milestone, recently demonstrating its capabilities in a zero-gravity environment. One of those who got to give the suit a test drive was Danny Olivas, chief test astronaut and director of mission systems at Collins Aerospace. I got the opportunity to ask him about the new suit and where things stand currently.

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Two commercial space companies have agreed to work together on enhancing national security capabilities in the commercial space domain. Voyager Space and Palantir are using their abilities to help support and protect new technologies to be used on the International Space Station, and the soon to come Starlab commercial space station. I wanted to find out more about what this agreement means and get an overview of those involved, so I spoke to Matt Kuta, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Voyager Space.

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We all share life on this big blue rock, and we all share the space around it as well. So in order to get the most out of it from a business and defense aspect, the U.S. is going to need allies. So how are the relationships between the U.S. and strategic partners when it comes to space-related goals? The RAND Corporation was recently tasked with looking into that very topic. To learn more about what that research found, I got the chance to speak with Bruce McClintock, Senior Policy Researcher and lead of RAND's Space Enterprise Initiative. 

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Thirteen academic and corporate thinkers have received awards from NASA, to develop ideas for transforming future missions. It's part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. Federal News Network's Tom Temin got more from program deputy executive John Nelson, and acting program executive Mike LaPointe.

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NASA is taking a page from big time TV streaming services as it revamps its multimedia offerings. This month, the agency relaunched its longstanding NASA TV service – it’s now called NASA plus. There’s a new mobile app to go with it. Rebecca Sirmons is executive producer for NASA TV, she joined Federal News Network's Jared Serbu us now to talk more about it.

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Whether you know it or not, the U.S. is definitely in a new space race. The destination is the same, but the purpose is a little different. Russia. China and the states are looking to get back to the moon first to attempt to harvest the potential water located there. But that's just one aspect of current affairs. To get a clearer picture, I spoke with Ellis Brazeal and Brett Richards, both of whom are legal professionals within the space industry for the firm Jones Walker.

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Our next guest is a career NASA researcher who's focused on the nearby planets and their geologic behavior. Now she's director of the Planetary Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lori Glaze.

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For my second interview with a NASA center director, we got a visit from Dr. James Kenyon. He's the Director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Ohio. He was nice enough to come by our studios while he was in D.C. for a headquarters visit. Now the Midwest may not be the first place you think of when it comes to NASA operations but I assure you, Dr. Kenyon told us all about how Glenn plays such a pivotal role for the agency.

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Today we'll be airing two separate interviews I did with two directors of two of the NASA's largest space centers. Did I mention I did two of them? That's right, first up is Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, Director of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. Having only assumed the role back in back April of this year, I got the chance to speak with her right around the end of her first 90 days, to discuss how she's getting along and her plans for the center.

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The U.K. based company Space Forge recently announced plans to launch U.S. manufacturing operations in the United States. Just showing how global space interests have become overseas. The person they picked to run those operations is Andrew Parlock, who's worked for major American companies, but also a microsatellite manufacturer in Finland. Like I said, global. I found out what his plans are and get his take on the industry. 

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