5.05

Spacevidcast Live 5.05

Host(s)	Benjamin Higginbotham Cariann Higginbotham
Show Number	141
Season	5
Episode	5
Show Page	www.spacevidcast.com
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Show Rundown

• Open 00:00 - 12:00 TRT 12:00
  • Yuri's Night 2012
  • NROL 25 Launch YouTube.com TRT 2:10
  • US space companies prepare for ISS docking BBC
  • Atlas 5 range conflict with COTS-2 Space Flight Now
  • Space Shuttle Discovery to Fly Over Washington Metro Area April 17 NASA.gov

• Break 1 - 12:00 - 24:00 TRT 12:00
  • Space Collective Space Collective
    • Main Topic - What do you envision the future of space to be?

• Break 2 - 24:00 - 36:00 TRT 12:00
  • S.O.S. - Save Our Science YouTube.com TRT 1:14
  • Russian deal saves missions to Mars Skymania.com
  • IDreamOfSpace.com - $15 = Space. Maybe. [1]
  • Beer for Space YouTube.com TRT 3:22

• Break 3 - 36:00 - 48:00 TRT 12:00
  • Space Questions
    • (EM) I ran across this article and thought it fit with your last show. Gemini landing on the Moon not Apollo. Check it out. CitizensInSpace.com -Bob E
    • (YT) Home computers may not have had happened until a lot later without the space program. -Patchuchan
    • (YT) Decades of manned space flight have shown that humans are horribly unfit to live in space. We should now direct the world (very scarce) space research fundings to unmanned missions, especially those that like Kepler could find Earth-like planets in other star systems. Human space missions should be conducted very slowly and they should be regarded as an enterprise to be pursued during a period of decades or even centuries. -237Michael
    • (YT) Do we really deserve to have a backup to the human race? We don't exactly have a stellar record when it comes to managing ourselves as well as the management of our own Earth. While investing in in space may ultimately provide the answers to these problems, I don't see the public willing to make the changes needed so we deserve to be an interplanetary race. Let the comet come. We haven't earned the right to an escape pod just yet. -Tubeglowfun
    • (YT) I think you guys are ignoring the influence of Apollo on American society. The forging of the US's identity as the foremost space faring nation was founded with Apollo, and so often the maintaining of our space exploration programs funding and even the birth of our commercial space industry since has come from that identity. Space geeks might get psyched about orbital rendezvous but I think the country at large needed something bigger to fall in love with manned space exploration. -monokhem
    • (YT) Without Apollo there would also be no Space Shuttle and no massive NASA bureaucracy. Gemini would still have occurred and the military would have MOL and maybe Dynasoar. There would have been US & Soviet civilian and military Space Stations in the 70's. The EELVs would happen in the 80's. There may have been some moonshot maybe ,private in the 90's. Without the huge parasitic NASA bureaucracy commercial space may have been better off. -RalphButtigieg
    • (YT)

• Close

Suggested stories for episode 5.05

• International Space Apps Challenge Intl Space Apps Challenge
• US space companies prepare for ISS docking BBC
• ATV-3 approaching ISS phys.org
• Atlas 5 range conflict with COTS-2 Space Flight Now
• Space Shuttle Discovery to Fly Over Washington Metro Area April 17 NASA.gov
• Russian deal saves missions to Mars Skymania.com
• Mars Landmark Art Posters io9
• Universe flags io9
• Yuri's Night LA YN party
• Former NASA Astronauts & Scientists Criticize Agency on Climate Change Position and Ignoring Empirical Evidence Chron.com
• Space Collective Space Collective
• Hydrogen Gas Launchers for economical cargo and commercial space access http://quicklaunchinc.com/

Producer Notes/Live Show Contact Information

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