In this episode, the topic is Mars! In the near future, we will be sending crewed missions there for the first time. These missions are based on planning and proposals that go all the way back to the earliest days of the Space Age. But what exactly are we hoping to find there? What mysteries stand to be revealed? And will we be able to live there someday? These are questions I will be addressing in greater depth this fall when I teach a course titled The Exploration and Potential Settlement of Mars through the Kepler Space Institute!

Check out the episode here:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Amazon Music

In this episode, I had the good fortune of speaking to Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the famed physicist and aerospace engineer who has spent years working to make the Alcubierre Warp Drive a reality! Formerly the head of Advanced Propulsion for NASA Eagleworks, Dr. White is now developing the warp drive and other advanced propulsion concepts through the Limitless Space Institute (LSI).

Where to hear the episode:

https://storiesfromspace.simplecast.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/4de614b2-9288-4980-9b90-e6c1bbb0483c/stories-from-space

Yep, that’s the shape of it. Not long ago, the publisher of my trilogy announced that due to the pandemic, they were facing a crunch and needed to drop authors from their rolls. In other words, the Formist Series will be shelved until I find another publisher (or independently publish it). I signed the paperwork this past week and got my last royalty check. They are still available through Amazon and Audible, but not for much longer, I’m afraid.

What more can I say? The title pretty much covers all the bases. But here are some links that should prove helpful. And stay tuned for Episode III – Indigenous Astronomy, coming this Saturday!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-space/

https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/

The topic for the second episode of my new podcast is (drumroll!) the Fermi Paradox! In 1950, famed physicist and Manhattan Project scientist Enrico Fermi asked the question that launched a thousand possible resolutions – “Where is Everybody?” Given that the Universe is immensely vast, incredibly old, and filled with the ingredients for life, it stands to reason that intelligent life and advanced civilizations have evolved many times in our galaxy alone. So why haven’t we heard from any of them?

This is the essence of the Fermi Paradox, which is still going strong 70+ plus years later. And the range of proposed resolutions is wide and varied. Are they ignoring us? Are they all dead? Are they so advanced that we can’t recognize them? Are we not looking in the right places and/or for the right things? Addressing this question forces us to think big, dig deep, and confront how little we know about life, intelligence, and our place in the Universe. And this episode is just the tip of the iceberg!

Check out the episode below!

Gee, that title kind of says it all, doesn’t it? Nevertheless, I am happy to announce that my latest chat with Marco Ciapelli and Sean Martin at ITSP Magazine was not only a good time, talking about exoplanet studies and science. It was also a chance to introduce Stories from Space, my new podcast at ITSP Magazine, which is all about the history, future, and people that make human spaceflight a reality.

The episode is part of Ciapelli and Martin’s series, Audio Signals, where we talked about the various methods astronomers use to detect, confirm, and study planets beyond our Solar System. We also got into how all of that is about to change thanks to next-generation telescopes like the James Webb, which will be releasing its first images on July 12th (one of which is of an exoplanet’s atmosphere)!

Check out the interview here and stay tuned for more!