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.

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• Episode 244 - Helen from Everywhere (with Lindy Elkins-Tanton) - YouTube
• Mission Ready by Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Hachette Book Group
• NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• Psyche Mission Gallery - Images & Videos | Psyche Mission
• Psyche IRB (PDF)

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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.

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• Episode 243 - Ducktricity (with Miles O’Brien) - YouTube
• NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter" - Ars Technica
• SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight - Ars Technica
• Selenian Boondocks | Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
• AAS Paper Review: RAAN Agnostic 3-Burn Departure Methodology for Deep Space Missions from LEO Depots (Part 1 of 2) | Selenian Boondocks
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Jake and Anthony kick around the SpaceX IPO filing, upcoming first flight of Starship V3, and reorganization at NASA.

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• Episode 242 - Jared Propulsion Laboratory - YouTube
• A Message From Administrator Jared Isaacman - NASA
• NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery - NASA
• NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management - NASA
• Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time - Ars Technica
• Jack Kuhr on X: “Alright, I pulled 24 tidbits from SpaceX's S-1. Here they are, ranked”

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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.

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• Episode 241 - Maybe the Denver Airport (with Andrew Rush) - YouTube
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• Star Catcher raises $65 million for space power grid - SpaceNews
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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.

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• Episode 240 - Canada’s NASA (with Trevor Kjorlien) - YouTube
• Plateau Astro | Astronomy workshops, presentations, and mobile planetarium shows in Montréal
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• Gaia Sky | Gaia Sky
• Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium - lipsymposium.org

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Jennifer Vaughn, the new CEO of The Planetary Society to talk about her vision for the organization.

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• Episode 239 - Let’s Go Swimming (with Jennifer Vaughn) - YouTube
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• Days after Artemis II, scientists warn of… | The Planetary Society
• The FY 2027 NASA budget request | The Planetary Society

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Chuck Deiterich, a Retrofire Officer on many Apollo missions, including Apollo 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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• Episode 238 - KGB Guardian Angel (with Chuck Deiterich) - YouTube
• Apollo 11 Landing (Timestamped to 6 plus 25)

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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.

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• Episode 237 - Farside Standard Time (with Kelsey Young) - YouTube
• Artemis Internal Science Team - NASA Science
• Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA
• The Planets Shine Bright | NASA Image and Video Library
• Solar Eclipse of the Heart - NASA
• ESA - Stunning image of Rosetta above Mars taken by the Philae lander camera

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