Be very afraid. The first part of my Moon and Back interview at the ISDC conference is now up. I haven’t watched it yet, as I’m a little worried that I said something phenomenally stupid. Enjoy! Interview With Ken Murphy, part 1 – Outreach For Space Awareness Originally posted on … Continue reading
Category Archives: Interviews
EVA Interviews Hoyt Davidson, Managing Partner of Near Earth LLC
Welcome back to EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Ageâ„¢ as we leave the Lunar Editions and return to Earth orbit. Our next guest is Hoyt Davidson, Founder and Managing Partner of Near Earth LLC. Near Earth specializes in providing Investment Banking and Advisory Services to companies and investors in the … Continue reading
EVA Interviews Team “Selenokhod” in the Google Lunar X Prize Competition
From Russia, we welcome Team Selenokhod to EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Ageâ„¢ in the fourth of this series of Lunar Editions. As one of the most recent entrants in the Google Lunar X Prize competition, Team Selenokhod looks to build on Russia’s early lunar robotic successes of … Continue reading
EVA Interviews Team “Next Giant Leap” in the Google Lunar X Prize Competition
Welcome to the third in this series of Lunar Editions of EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Ageâ„¢. To start this series, EVA went directly to the source and interviewed the Moon about its expectations for future lunar commercial activities. Coming back down to Earth, the second interview focused on the organization whose … Continue reading
EVA Interviews The Moon
Welcome to this next, unique edition of EVA Interviews: The Business of the New Space Ageâ„¢. This conversation started on a cold winter day in January over 2 years ago. A friend of mine at NASA asked me to look over a matrix he was creating on commercial lunar opportunities. … Continue reading
EVA Interviews Paul Eckert about the Space Investment Summits
Welcome to the next edition of EVA Interviews: The Business of the New Space Ageâ„¢ with our guest Paul Eckert Ph.D. – Coordinator of the Space Investment Summit Coalition, and International & Commercial Strategist for the Space Exploration division of The Boeing Company. Paul and his colleagues at the Space … Continue reading
EVA Interviews Rex Ridenoure, CEO of Ecliptic Enterprises
Welcome to the third edition of EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Age! Our next guest is Rex Ridenoure, Space entrepreneur and CEO of Ecliptic Enterprises Corp. – a successful small Space startup famous for its RocketCamâ„¢ equipment and images. EVA:    Hi Rex! It’s great to have you … Continue reading
Jeff Krukin, Space Frontier Foundation (part 1)
As promised, here is part one of my interview with Jeff Krukin. Jeff is the Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, a longtime space advocate, and an international speaker.
In a first for Out of the Cradle, this interview is delivered as audio. This means (among other things) that you get to hear my weird Kiwi accent! But rest assured, I do shut up for most of the interview and let Jeff do the talking, and it’s well worth listening to what he has to say.
Have a listen to the interview, and don’t forget to check out his personal homepage, where there’s lots of good information about his Human-Space Connection concept.
Just push the play button to listen:
Sam Dinkin introduces FreeSpaceShot.com
Sam Dinkin of FreeSpaceShot.com gives us the run-down on his new free skill game, where contestants can compete for flights to space, and even a shot around the Moon. Continue reading
Charles Wood, creator of Lunar Photo of the Day
Running the popular website, Lunar Photo Of the Day, (LPOD) and writing a regular column on the moon that appears monthly in Sky & Telescope magazine, are the things Charles A. Wood is probably known for most. But, the interest of a 9 year-old in the sky went from backyard observations on a small telescope, to the University of Arizona, a stint in the Peace Corp and included working at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory cataloging Lunar craters.
Part-Two of: A conversation with Paul Spudis
Dr. Paul D. Spudis is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland and Visiting Scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. Dr. Spudis was formerly with the Branch of Astrogeology, U. S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona and the … Continue reading
Part-One of: A conversation with Dr. Paul Spudis
Dr. Paul D. Spudis is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland and Visiting Scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. Dr. Spudis was formerly with the Branch of Astrogeology, U. S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona and the … Continue reading
Rocketing toward first flight: Gary Lantz of Rocketplane Limited, Inc
Gary Lantz is the Lead Systems Engineer and Aerodynamic Engineer for Rocketplane Limited, Incorporated. Rocketplane plans to field a fighter-sized, four seat suborbital spaceplane by mid-2007. This is a fascinating interview with an engineer that’s right in the thick of building a spacecraft for the emerging space tourism industry. Read the interview and then be sure to check out the Forums Q&A thread, where Gary has kindly agreed to take your questions. Continue reading
NASA loans engine to Rocketplane
This press release just in from NASA: (This is quite timely, because we are in the finishing stages of putting togther an interview with Gary Lantz, Rocketplane’s Lead Systems engineer). Stay tuned for the full interview. NASA LOANS ENGINE TO INDUSTRY PARTNER NASA is loaning a rocket engine to Rocketplane … Continue reading
Cosmic Collision Insurance: Rusty Schweickart and the B612 Foundation
Even though the risk of an accident is low, most of us aren’t prepared to drive our cars without insurance. The consequences of an uninsured fender bender are too great. So we prudently spend a small amount of money to hedge our bets against an unlikely but real risk. Former … Continue reading
Ascending into space: John Powell talks about JP Aerospace – part two
This is the second part of our interview with John Powell. The first part is here. OotC: PongSats fly on the development missions for your other major program, Airship to Orbit (ATO). When I first heard of ATO, it struck me as a little counterintuitive – but the more I … Continue reading
Ascending into space: John Powell talks about JP Aerospace – part one
John Powell is the president and founder of JP Aerospace. All through his youth, he dreamed of building spacecraft – and that’s exactly what he’s been doing ever since. With advanced balloon, airship and rocket systems, and even his own free flight experiment payload program, John and his team have … Continue reading
Dr David Livingston, host of the Space Show, chats with Out of the Cradle
The logo above has become a very familiar feature in the lives of many space enthusiasts. With its twice weekly broadcasts that bring us conversations with many of the top names in space activities from authors, academics, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and some times just plan folks like me who have … Continue reading
Rare Respite Reaps Rutan Reflections
You can bet I plan to be intimately involved in the emerging space tourism industry. . . –Dick Rutan Read this not-to-be-missed interview with Dick Rutan, pilot extraordinaire. Dick circumnavigated the globe with Jeana Yeager in the Voyager around-the-world plane designed by his brother Burt, then did it again in … Continue reading
Sneak Peek
I’m trying to put together an interview with Dick Rutan, but if I can’t get it ready for posting in time I wanted to be sure to make folks aware of this up coming program on the History Channel. 25,000 Miles Non-Stop: Voyager Aircraft. Airs on Saturday, November 12 at … Continue reading
Chasing the Challenge
“Masten Space Applauds NASA’s New Suborbital Challenges” “Santa Clara, California – 10/19/05 Masten Space Systems announced today that it strongly supported the recent agreement between NASA and the X PRIZE Foundation to develop two suborbital Centennial Challenges and that, pending announcements on rules, it looked forward to participating.” So reads … Continue reading
An Interview with Sam Dinkin, CEO of SpaceShot
Recently I turned the tables on SpaceShot CEO Sam Dinkin, a regular columnist at The Space Review. Normally, he’s the one who gets to ask the questions, but he very kindly agreed to answer a few instead, about his soon-to-be-launched online skill game where players will compete to win a … Continue reading