Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Erika Nesvold, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Erika talked about her new book, "Off-Earth" plus issues surrounding ethical space settlement for the Moon and Mars as starters. 

Listeners, I will be attending ISDC this year so there will be no Space Show programming for the week of May 22-31, 2023.  We should resume programming with Hotel Mars on Wednesday, May 31  On Friday, June 2, John Bucknell is our guest at 9:30 AM re his work on his SSP company. Upon my return, I will publish the traditional Space Show upcoming show program schedule.  If you are attending ISDC, please find me and say hello.

Dr. David Livingston

Dr. Space

Guest:  Michelle Hanlon:  Topics:  Michelle talked about For All Moon Kind and the new Institute on Space Law and Ethics. We talked about both the OST and Artemis articles that apply to protecting historical sites plus govern our space contact. Our discussion included many subjects with multiple listener questions.

Guest:  Dr. Anna Krylov; Topics:  Dr. Krylov's push back with the use of ideology instead of merit in teaching and grading science, the scientific method and more. Our guest explained the why of the adverse impacts of the DEI ideology citing specific individual and educational examples.

Guests: John Batchelor, Rand Simberg, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Private space stations, Vast Space and their artificial gravity station plans, Starship launches and more.

Guest:  Rebecca Hahn; Topics:  Rebecca's graduate work on mapping, cataloging and studying the volcanoes on Venus.  We also compared them to volcanoes elsewhere in the solar systems and discussed many other questions, issues and concerns regarding the planet Venus. 

Guest:  Melodie Yashar; Topics:  Space architecture, engineering for humans living in space, needed multi-discipline collaboration, Mars hostility to humans, lunar habitats, Mars as a backup to Earth, building codes for space structures, evidence based human space structures, artificial gravity and more.

Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Starship demo launch and environmental organization litigation against FAA for full EIR.

Guest:  Dr. Pascal Lee; Topics:  Pascal addressed many issues and concerns about searching for life on Mars, Mars being too toxic for long stays/settlement, searching for life in caves, challenges re the lunar south pole, the Drake equation, finding extant life, Roswell, sleep ships for interstellar flight, using TORPOR to learn to hibernate, and more.