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Who will advance humans in space?

Show notes for this episode of Spacevidcast Live can be found on our wikipedia page here: http://wiki.spacevidcast.com/en/5.11 In this show we look at recent space news from the Ariane V launch, Shenzhou 9 landing, SpaceX’s reusable rocket, Launcher 1 from Virgin Galactic and XCOR moving R&D to Texas. Our main topic asks the question, who [...]

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Will China make it to the moon?

With the recent manned docking to their space station, China looks to be right on track for a lunar lander in the 2020′s. Can they pull it off? Will it just be flags and footprints again? Or do we have the beginnings of a new Lunar colony being developed? Join us for episode 5.10 recorded [...]

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What happens if we double NASA’s budget?

From water planets to Hollywood, our live show starts with a ton of great topics from around the universe! But what we really want to know is: what if we doubled NASA’s budget to $0.01 of every tax dollar? Would the NASA of today be able to do the same thing as the NASA of [...]

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Commercial Space Takes a Leap Forward

Not only did SpaceX successfully launch, berth and splashdown their spacecraft this week, but Sierra Nevada had a successful captive carry test of their mini space shuttle, Falcon Heavy got its first customer, Virgin Galactic got a license to fire its engine and Bigelow Aerospace made a huge announcement. A HUGE week for space. The [...]

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Is the Liberty Rocket now a contender?

ATK has announced that the solid fuel based Liberty Rocket is now a full launch system including all stages required to get to low Earth orbit as well as the spaceship needed to transport crew. Given their extremely political past can ATK work like a NewSpace company and truly help humans reach for the stars? [...]

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Mining Asteroids

We take a peek at the recent Planetary Resources announcements in the latest Spacevidcast Live show. Check below for a timeline of topics. Check out the Wiki page for specifics on each story as well as the stories we missed. http://wiki.spacevidcast.com/en/5.06 00:00 – Themed Open 02:44 – Reason.tv and the retirement of the shuttle 7:21 [...]

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What does the future of space look like?

From Yuri’s Night to Space News and your comments, this episode of Spacevidcast Live is jam packed with the awesome. We ask you the question, “What do you envision the future of space to look like?” Leave your comments below or send us a video comment! The conversation continues! Spacevidcast epic subscribers can watch After [...]

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What if Apollo never happened?

Dave Masten of Masten Space Systems joins us for the 4th episode in our 5th season. We ask the question “What would the space industry look like if Apollo never happened”. Leave your video replies on what you think the world would look like below. Dave also takes some time and shows us future plans [...]

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Why should we invest in science and space? – 5.03

As space geeks we just assume everyone thinks investing in science and more specifically space is a great idea. But there are many who may disagree. In this live show we ask you, why should we invest in science and space? An ad-free version of this show and the After Dark edition of this show [...]

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Russia’s ambitious 18 year Space Plan – 5.02

Russia has leaked an extremely ambitious 18 year plan to go back to the moon, set up ground stations on Mars and explore our solar system. Do you think they have what it takes to make it happen? Is this the beginning on a new space race? Or is all of this just talk that [...]

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