Sign inOpen the app
Artwork for Off-Nominal
Science

Off-Nominal

Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.

SubscribeListen in podnodRSS feedShow website
  • 255 episodes
  • Updated Friday
  • Explicit

Episodes255

Newest first
  • Friday · 1 hr 1 min

    250 - Tile Enthusiast

    Jake and Anthony talk about Starship Flight 13, the heat shield discourse, Dragon beyond 2030, and shockingly, Jake was the one to say “Let’s talk about the National Security Space Launch program.”

  • July 17 · 1 hr

    248 - Earth Quality (with Jason Dunn)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Outpost Co-Founder and CEO Jason Dunn to talk about their Earth return vehicles across national security, in-space manufacturing, and other industries.

  • July 10 · 1 hr 2 min

    247 - RTGs Don’t Grow on Trees

    Jake and Anthony talk about the PROMISE rover, the state of decisions in NASA’s Isaacman era, Rocket Lab buying Iridium, and they give Jeremy Hansen a clap out.

  • June 26 · 1 hr

    246 - Stock Tips

    Jake catches Anthony up on the news he missed while on vacation, and also how expensive stage adapters have become.

  • June 12 · 1 hr 3 min

    245 - Polar Bears and Penguins (with Jonathan Goff and Mike Loucks)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan Goff, Director of Advanced Concepts at Gravitics, and Mike Loucks, CEO at SEE, to talk about where to put orbital depots, trajectories from there to the Moon and Mars, and to otherwise set the record straight on their papers after Anthony’s poorly-remembered-and-even-more-poorly-explained mention.

  • May 29 · 1 hr 4 min

    243 - Ducktricity (with Miles O’Brien)

    Miles O’Brien joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Starship Flight 12, the NASA Moon Base updates on LTVs and landers, and Miles’ trip to Antarctica.

  • May 22 · 1 hr 3 min

    242 - Jared Propulsion Laboratory

    Jake and Anthony kick around the SpaceX IPO filing, upcoming first flight of Starship V3, and reorganization at NASA.

  • May 15 · 1 hr 2 min

    241 - Maybe the Denver Airport (with Andrew Rush)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Andrew Rush, Co-founder and CEO of Star Catcher, to talk about building a power grid in space, their upcoming in-space demonstration, their big fundraising round announced this week, and where they go from here.

  • May 8 · 1 hr 2 min

    240 - Canada’s NASA (with Trevor Kjorlien)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Trevor Kjorlien of Plateau Astro to talk about making and running a mobile planetarium, his time at the Canadian Space Agency, and a whole lot more.

  • April 24 · 1 hr 2 min

    238 - KGB Guardian Angel (with Chuck Deiterich)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Chuck Deiterich, a Retrofire Officer on many Apollo missions, including Apollos 8, 11, and 13. He went on to work on Skylab, the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests, among others.

  • April 17 · 1 hr 10 min

    237 - Farside Standard Time (with Kelsey Young)

    Kelsey Young, Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about the science of Artemis II, incorporating science into human spaceflight, and obviously, to spread Moon Joy.

  • April 10 · 1 hr 31 min

    236 - Juicy Red Fruits (with Casey Dreier)

    Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about the dichotomy of NASA right now: the Artemis II lunar flyby, and the FY2027 budget request.

  • March 27 · 1 hr 6 min

    234 - FREEDOM! (with Lori Garver)

    Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about NASA’s Ignition event, and the unbelievably fast-moving space policy landscape.

  • March 6 · 1 hr

    231 - Single Bing (with Justin Cyrus)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Justin Cyrus, CEO and Founder of Lunar Outpost, to talk about their rovers—Eagle and MAPP—and everything else they’re working on.