Astronomy Cast 197: Live from Dragon*Con 2010

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Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 8 September 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0	Oh, Astronomycast, episode 197 from Monday, September 6, 2010.
0:16.8	Astronomycast live from DragonCon.
0:20.8	So my name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of Universe Today and with me as
0:29.9	always is Dr. Pamela Gay, Professor at Southern Illinois University,
0:33.7	Edwardsville. How are you doing today, Fraser? I'm good. I'm good. So and then
0:38.3	we have a special guest today. Hi, I'm Les Johnson. I work for NASA at the
0:42.6	Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama and I'm the deputy
0:46.3	manager of the Advanced Concepts office there, which means we look at the next
0:49.9	generation of space systems. Right. Oh, sorry. And so the original plan was we're
0:55.4	going to be talking about talking about space on television and we had some
0:59.9	guy named Phil who was supposed to be joining us. Didn't come. And I also know
1:05.8	that Kevin Grazer wasn't able to make it as well. So we thought we would mix it
1:10.5	up and sort of change the topic. Something that we're interested in which is
1:14.5	what's going on with constellation and what's the state of the human space
1:19.5	exploration program right now. And then that'll be kind of the first half of
1:23.4	the show. And then the second half is going to be, you know, we're going to try
1:26.7	and deal with some of the questions that you guys submitted to sort of show
1:30.7	Pamela's gigantic brain. And so two things. This is actually, this is the
1:39.1	fourth, the beginning or the end of the fourth year anniversary of astronomy
1:44.5	cast. It actually, we started it on September 6, 2006 and actually announced
1:52.9	it at DragonCon to like a bunch of people over beer. I said, yeah, I'm going
1:59.0	to be doing the podcast with the Dr. Pamela Gay. And I think a couple of
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