Sometimes launching rockets isn’t as easy as it may seem. Armadillo Aerospace is a NewSpace company looking to take you and me to the stars. Led by fearless leader John Carmack this amazing little startup is cranking away at next generation vehicles. Sometimes things don’t always go according to plan. We take a peek at [...]
NASA | ART 50 Years of Exploration – SpacePod 2011.06.20
June 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
A traveling art exhibition featuring 73 works by some of America’s leading artists has been organized by the Smithsonian Institution to honor NASA’s 50th birthday. “NASA | ART” opened Oct. 25 at the Art League of Bonita Springs in Bonita Springs, Fla. The exhibition remained there until Jan. 19, 2009, then travel to 10 other [...]
STS-135: The final flight of the Space Shuttle
June 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
The final flight of NASA’s Space Transportation System is slated to take off from pad 39/A on July 8th, 2011. This is a promotional clip Spacevidcast has created for our extended coverage of this historic event. If you can’t be there to watch Atlantis lift from the pad in person, then join us live at [...]
Amateur Rocketeers and Beautiful Space – Live Show 4.15
June 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
For the full show notes, links and awesome stuffs check out our wiki page at http://wiki.spacevidcast.com/en/4.15 We may spend a lot of time talking about the larger NewSpace companies such as SpaceX, but in this episode we look at a couple of the smaller entities that are doing some amazing things with next to zero [...]
Space Task Force, Episode 7 – “Rolling the Dice on Commercial Space”
June 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
This week the Space Task Force includes: Tim Bailey (@tim846) Mike Doornbos (@mrdoornbos) Founder of Evadot.com Topics we cover: Is NASA gambling the future of space exploration on unproven commercial companies? A recap of the Forbes article blasting SpaceX. Small satellites will be launched from F-104 jets using missile-like small rockets. Is this the cubesat launcher [...]
