Off-Nominal

Anthony is leaving his full-time job and is going the independent route, just as Jake did 2 years ago. We’ll talk about Anthony’s decision, what Jake has learned after 2 years of independence, and what both of us are planning for 2022.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. We’ll be talking about Russia’s latest endangerment to the ISS—their anti-satellite operation that resulted in a huge debris field—and about how Jonathan does all the excellent work he does tracking launches, satellites, and where everything in space is going.

Jake and Anthony are joined by two returning favorites, Loren Grush and Miriam Kramer, to talk about Loren’s time away from the space news grind, and Miriam’s excellent podcast following Inspiration4.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard of BPS.space to talk about what he’s been working on lately and what it’s like being a creator online these days.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Chelsea Gohd from Space.com to talk about current space events and some fun projects Chelsea is working on.

Chris Gebhardt of NASASpaceflight and Jason Davis of the Planetary Society will be returning to the show to talk about our newest Venus armada, the New Shepard auction for the seat between the Bezos brothers, China’s new space station and rover doing their thing, and we might even get spicy and talk about the space politics cold war of Artemis vs China & Russia’s International Lunar Research Station.

This month, Anthony and Jake are taking it bit easier. It’s summer, everyone is excited about getting back in to the world again, and space news will be winding down a bit.

It’s just the two of us, and we’ll go through a potpourri of topics from random space stories that have caught our attention to talking shop about our plans for the show, our work, our lives and more. It will be the casualest of casual shows, on the casualest space show there is.

Miriam Kramer, Space Reporter at Axios, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about space tourism, including the upcoming Inspiration4, Ax-1, New Shepard, and SpaceShipTwo/SpaceShipIII flights, as well as some other flights we’d like to see in the future.

Leo Enright, the guy from Irish TV, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about covering space from a non-traditional space country, how he got started covering space, some current topics including Perseverance, ESA’s new Director General, and to generally have a great time.

WeMartians Podcast host Jake Robins hosts the live landing of the NASA Mars2020 Perseverance Rover.