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Off-Nominal

Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

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

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  • 255 episodes
  • Updated Friday
  • Explicit

Episodes255

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  • Aug 29, 2025 · 59 min

    208 - 1-0 Freedom

    Jake and Anthony talk about Starship Flight 10, what the future holds for the Starship program, and the Chinese lunar program.

  • Aug 22, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

    207 - Replacement Money (with Randy Riddle, LeonRunningMan!)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Randy Riddle, retired small rocket chief engineer and long time anomaly (it’s LeonRunningMan, himself!), to talk about his career in the Air Force, how appropriated money actually works from the government side, and to tell a ton of stories.

  • Aug 14, 2025 · 58 min

    206 - Coalition for Deep State Exploration

    Jake and Anthony kick around the news, from Vulcan and Ariane 6 launches on the same day, Blue Origin’s MTO, and some licensing talk, because that’s super fun.

  • Jul 18, 2025 · 55 min

    203 - 20 Tree and Me

    Jake and Anthony return from their travels with stories, and a ton of news to catch each other up on. And we’ll find out if Jake was the person who bought NWA 16799.

  • Jun 27, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min

    202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil)

    Anthony is joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight to talk about the recent mayhem at Starbase, and to kick around European space policy topics in the run up to the ESA Ministerial later this year.

  • Jun 20, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

    201 - Bad Ass, But Also Bad (with Casey Dreier and Eric Berger)

    Anthony is joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about the NASA 2026 budget proposal, the Jared Isaacman saga, and all the space policy storylines you could imagine.

  • Jun 5, 2025 · 58 min

    199 - The Thing That We Grow Plants

    It returns. Hot drama. Also a moon lander is happening right now. Also Twitter fights break out. Also a moon lander doesn’t happen.

  • May 30, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

    198 - Gotahm

    Jake and Anthony figure out if we should panic about Starship, or just Starship Block 2, or not.

  • May 23, 2025 · 59 min

    197 - Valves and Cranberries

    Anthony is in his new studio! He and Jake catch up on his recent trip to Marotta Controls, Anthony shares the good news about valves, and they try to figure out what the hell is going on with VIPER.

  • May 13, 2025 · 59 min

    196 - ❌ Lady Telescope ❌

    Jake and Anthony talk about Firefly’s latest spectacular Alpha failure, and the skinny budget request.

  • May 1, 2025 · 58 min

    195 - Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona, to talk about—take a guess!—returning and studying pristine samples from Bennu.

  • Apr 18, 2025 · 59 min

    193 - The Secretary of Land

    Jake and Anthony talk about Jared Isaacman’s confirmation hearing, and the apocalyptic NASA science budget.

  • Apr 4, 2025 · 59 min

    191 - It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere…at a Rocket Lab Facility (with Richard French)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Richard French, Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Space Systems at Rocket Lab, to talk about their Mars Sample Return architecture, the way they’ve been putting the word out on it, and to hear what’s been up with their space systems side of the business lately.