The Space Hour

• Finding the lesser-known but just as needed workers for the space industry

  The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) have agreed to work together to get more people to join the space industry. To find out the how and why, the Space Hour welcomed back Dan Dumbacher, who is the executive director of AIAA.

  The Space Hour

  November 09, 2022
• What does it take to be a NASA flight director these days?

  Zeb Scoville has been a flight director at NASA for nearly a decade and the Space Hour had a chance to ask him about the new class of flight directors.

  The Space Hour

  November 09, 2022
• What do fruit flies and humans have in common? More than you realize

  One of the drawbacks of traveling to deep space that remains relatively unknown is what the effects of no gravity could have on human biology. Especially the central nervous system.

  The Space Hour

  November 09, 2022
• Meet the soon-to-be new leader of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Starting May of this year, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will have a new permanent director.

  The Space Hour

  April 01, 2022
• Where NASA gets its most out-of-this-world ideas

  NASA recently announced its latest selections to receive grants from its Innovative Advanced Concepts program.

  The Space Hour

  April 01, 2022
• New task force wants Congress’ attention for space traffic management

  It is getting crowded up in space these days, and not just from operational equipment.

  The Space Hour

  April 01, 2022
• PANEL: The state of the space industrial base

  This week's Space Hour features a panel that Eric White hosted recently for AFCEA NoVa's Space Force IT Day earlier this month on the topic of the State of the Space Industrial Base.

  The Space Hour

  February 28, 2022
• Another launch for DoD to test space communication and navigation capabilities

  Virgin Orbit, a sister company of Virgin Airlines and Virgin Galactic recently launched multiple satellites into orbit for three of clients, the most well known one being the Pentagon.

  The Space Hour

  January 31, 2022
• NASA makes latest selections for Flight Opportunities Program

  NASA's Flight Opportunities Program is one that helps commercial space companies work with the agency to test out their new technologies, with the hopes of being able to use them for future missions. The program just recently made nine new selections for new tech under NASA's 2021 TechFlights solicitation.

  The Space Hour

  January 31, 2022
• Analyzing NASA’s Astronaut Corps

  Skull and Bones, Porcellian, Tri Delta. The exclusivity of these clubs have nothing on NASA's Astronaut Corps. With the agency looking to send Earth's best and brightest into space, you can imagine just what it takes to maintain that group.

  The Space Hour

  January 31, 2022
• NASA’s future plans with and without the ISS

  With the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, the most popular one that NASA is best known for now is it's role in the International Space Station. It has a planned retirement of 2024. To get ready for that day, NASA has committed to replacing the ISS with one or more commercially owned and operated space destinations.

  The Space Hour

  January 31, 2022
• It’s getting awfully crowded up in the low-Earth orbit area

  Recently, astronauts on the ISS had to take shelter after a Russian anti-satellite weapon test created a dangerous cloud of space debris. Naturally, the U.S .government is deeply concerned about the risk posed by space debris. This year's NDAA even includes a directive to identify efforts to advance alternatives to Hall thrusters. So what’s wrong with Hall thrusters? Well to find out, I spoke to Dr. Natalya Bailey, founder and chief strategy officer of Accion Systems.

  The Space Hour

  January 03, 2022
• Could NASA be going in a different direction with its space initiatives?

  There are some who think NASA needs a plan B. To find out what that could look like, I spoke to Don Nelson, who himself is a retired NASA engineer and currently the coordinator for the Concerned American Aerospace Engineers.

  The Space Hour

  January 03, 2022
• A look at NASA’s James Webb Telescope

  Prior to its Christmas Day launch, I had the chance to speak to Michael McElwain, who is the James Webb Space Telescope observatory scientist.

  The Space Hour

  January 03, 2022