Episode 196 - ❌ Lady Telescope ❌
Jake and Anthony talk about Firefly’s latest spectacular Alpha failure, and the skinny budget request.
You can catch the weekly show live on YouTube, or if you’re more of an audio person, wherever you listen to podcasts.
It’s a fun and laid-back show hosted by Jake Robins of WeMartians and Anthony Colangelo of Main Engine Cut Off, and features their friends and other esteemed special guests.
Episode 195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona, to talk about—take a guess!—returning and studying pristine samples from Bennu.
Episode 194 - St. Bart’s on a Tuesday (with Roman Chiporukha)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Roman Chiporukha, founder of SpaceVIP, a travel agency for space.
Episode 193 - The Secretary of Land
Jake and Anthony talk about Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing, and the apocalyptic NASA science budget.
Episode 192 - Accordion-Based ECLSS (with Chris Carberry and Sam Burbank)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Chris Carberry and Sam Burbank to talk about their first documentary film, Alcohol in Space - The Movie, their upcoming projects, and the 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit.
Episode 191 - It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere…at a Rocket Lab Facility (with Richard French)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Richard French, Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Space Systems at Rocket Lab, to talk about their Mars Sample Return architecture, the way they’ve been putting the word out on it, and to hear what’s been up with their space systems side of the business lately.
Episode 190 - Poolonauts (with Jason Snell)
Jake and Anthony are joined by writer and podcaster Jason Snell, to talk about Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA, what’s been up in the NASA CFO scene, what astronauts really want to be doing, and so much more. Also, this episode completes the Lifoff-Nominal crossover spectacular, AND makes 10 year old Anthony very happy that he’s podcasting with Jason friggin’ Snell.
Episode 189 - Glow in the Dark Plants (with Awais Ahmed)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Awais Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Pixxel, to talk about building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Honestly, we mostly try to help Jake get his head around the electromagnetic spectrum.
Episode 188 - Barry Up the Street (with Jonathan McDowell)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the namesake of the McDowell Line at 80 kilometers, to talk about his fundraiser to move his epic space library to a new, permanent home.
Episode 187 - Amazon Basics Lunar Lander
Jake and Anthony talk about the Moon lander mania this week has been—Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 and Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 missions.