In this episode of a Terranauts Guide to Leaving The Planet, we return to the story of First Terranaut Gene Kranz and the early days of NASA’s Mercury Project which was supposed to get the first American into space.
Read More »Avoiding Another Titanic – Des Power on Tracking Icebergs from Space
On this weeks Terranauts podcast host Iain Christie talks to Des Power on how he became a Terranaut and the invaluable service C-CORE provides in tracking icebergs. He also delves into how they’re using radar from space in ways no one ever conceived of.
Read More »Sarah Gallagher Thinks Big
In this weeks episode of the Terranauts podcast, Iain Christie has a chat with Sarah Gallagher, Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency, professor at Western University in London, Ontario, and supermassive black holes and galaxy researcher.
Read More »Designing a space station and other stories
Welcome to the Terranauts first episode of Season 2. On this episode we talk to Colleen Merchant who worked on the international team that designed and built the Space Station and the international flight control team that continues to support it on orbit today.
Read More »We may not be big, but we’re small – What is a small business and why does it matter?
Fans of the late Stuart MacLean will recognize the title as an inside joke about the Vinyl Café. But the title also speaks to another insider group. The policy wonks amongst you will also immediately recognize this topic of conversation. Some of you may be able to anticipate much of the discussion that follows. Those of you fortunate to live outside the federal government industrial …
Read More »The Two Solitudes of Space – New and Traditional
Anyone who has been working in or following the space business over the last decade is familiar with the dichotomy that has grown up between “new” or entrepreneurial space ventures and traditional space programs. Often these sectors seem to be a model of the classic two solitudes, existing side by side but embodying two different world views and without a lot of (constructive) interaction. But …
Read More »Working together – Themistocles, John Kennedy and Me
As some of you may know I recently started a podcast called Terranauts. I like to say that the purpose of the podcast is tell stories about people who work in space without ever leaving the ground. Hence the name.
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