The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Mason Hall works at Marshall Space Flight Center, and helps manage all of the payload data that comes down from ISS. We learned a heck of a lot during this interview.

A new SpaceShipTwo pokes her head out, Starliner takes a dip, Rocketlab finds a big customer and a record breaking eighteen thousand people want to be astronauts this year!

We talk to NASA ADCO Ben Honey about how to fly ISS. Also Dragon CRS-8 is delayed, Cygnus OA-6 is delayed and InSight might be canceled... due to delays.

Every other week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.

This week, we bring in a quick guest: Jayce Pearson of Challenger Center to talk about one of the very good things that arose from the Challenger disaster 30 years ago.

It’s experimental technology week in the news, it seems! Dragonfly video, LISA Pathfinder, Dreamchaser and New Shepard are all discussed.

We talk to the fantastic Jenny On Console of YouTube fame. She’s working her way towards becoming an ISS Flight Controller and a super space geek. In the news: an update on the OG2 first stage, an all-hands meeting at SLS, military rocket engine contracts, giving Phobos a kiss and SpaceX lands on a

It’s a short week, but we’ve got good news! We’re announcing our first listener contest. Also an upcoming SPX drone ship landing, and reviving Salyut 7.

Did you watch the SpaceX Return to Flight launch? We sure did. Also, a Mars lander sticks to Terra Firma, and a planned fix for that ISS power outage.

Congress hands NASA a veritable duffle bag of cash, Soyuz makes darn sure everyone is awake, and CETA cart throws a fit.

We’re entering the Holiday Space Doldrums, but we’re joined by Connor West for some excitement he experienced this week.

Get hyped for F9 RTLS! Also, cheap telecoms sats, LauncherOne picks up a new team member, Energia names their new crew vehicle and Sean Reed talks about his new picturebook!

We talk to Dr. Paul McNamera about the upcoming LISA Pathfinder mission. Why are two floating cubes important to the biggest laser interferometer we've ever built?

We have a wonderful chat with photographer Tim Dodd, who has photographed a handful of launches for Spaceflight Now. Quite a nerd fest, this interview.

In this week’s short show, we talk about the Deke Slayton II, a power failure on ISS and the F9 RTF.