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Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

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

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#261
Yesterday · 1 hr 1 min
257 - Can You Fix Our RV? (with Nick Cialdella)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Nick Cialdella, CTO of Varda Space Industries, to talk about manufacturing pharmaceuticals in space, the reentry technology that brings them back to Earth, Varda’s hypersonic testbed, and the business case for making things in orbit.
#260
September 11 · 1 hr 1 min
256 - The Ellis Number
Jake and Anthony talk about Blue Origin building the Mars Telecommunications Network, Stoke splashing the cash and talking up Nova Block 2, and Anthony has a weird theory about Jared Isaacman.
#259
September 4 · 1 hr 3 min
255 - Sorry, Reno (with Matt Gjertsen)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gjertsen, Founder of BUILT, to talk about his book, Minimum Viable Manager: Three Essential Skills for Leading Technical Teams That Solve Big Problems, the recovery of Starship at Christmas Island, and Starbase Louisiana.
#258
August 27 · 1 hr
254 - An Advocate of Crazy (with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and leader of ETH Zurich Space, to talk about the state of science missions at NASA.
#256
August 20 · 1 hr 1 min
253 - Dome is Your Strategy
It’s time for actual stock tips. Jake and Anthony draft competing $100,000 space portfolios and lock them in for a year.
#257
August 13 · 1 hr 3 min
252 - Paying Now and Later (with Eric Berger and Joe Barnard)
Anthony is joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and Joe Barnard to talk about crewed spaceflight in the 2030s, what options exist if and when Dragon stops flying, and what we should do about it.
#255
August 6 · 59 min
251 - Yada Yada Yada (with Dan Rasky, Charles Miller, and Charlie Camarda)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dan Rasky, Charles Miller, and Charlie Camarda—the sources of the heat shield discourse!—to talk about Starship Flight 13 and thermal protection systems overall.
#254
July 31 · 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.”
#253
July 24 · 1 hr 1 min
249 - Peeing Out Your Bones (with Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer, co-founders of Icarus Robotics, to talk about—what else?—robots in space!
#252
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.
#251
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.
#250
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.
#249
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.
#248
June 5 · 1 hr 6 min
244 - Helen from Everywhere (with Lindy Elkins-Tanton)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Principal Investigator of Psyche, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Leadership on big NASA missions in her new book Mission Ready.
#247
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.
#246
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.
#245
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.
#244
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.
#243
May 1 · 1 hr 4 min
239 - Let’s Go Swimming (with Jennifer Vaughn)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Jennifer Vaughn, the new CEO of The Planetary Society to talk about her vision for the organization.
#242
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.

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