Space Prizes

Diverse Autonomous Robot Student Competitions

2008-08-08T10:40:00.006-05:00

I mentioned the AUVSI International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition at the bottom of this post a couple weeks ago. To follow up:

Scientific hopefuls dive headfirst into challenge - Gizmos duel in underwater robotics bout - Peninsula Beacon News - This covers the Underwater competition, and mentions the surface competition that should be being held now (Aug 7 - 9) at the same location this year.

Here's a press release on the winner of the competition, the University of Maryland. Now they're getting ready for the Autonomous Robot Speedway a bit closer to home (at the College Park campus). It sounds like they must have had a lot of fault tolerance with the various challenges they overcame.

They used the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility (NBRF) and the University Space Systems Lab during their testing.

Here's the Robotics at Maryland winning team site. It includes lots of posts (including some from the competition), pictures, and videos.

The press release also mentions another UMD win: Project TURTLE Wins NASA Competition - From the PR:

A team of aerospace engineering students won first place in the undergraduate division of NASA's Revolutionary Advanced Systems Concepts - Academic Liaison (RASC-AL) student design competition in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Project TURTLE (Terrapin Undergraduate Rover for Terrestrial Lunar Exploration).

Flying Cars, Electric Cars, and Electric Flying Cars

2008-08-08T10:37:00.001-05:00

Why flying cars are better than electric ones - The Register - This covers personal air vehicles and the General Aviation Challenge.

Local Lunar Landers

2008-08-07T19:10:00.003-05:00

Denver Team Aims For Lunar Landing - Tech Rockies on Paragon (Lunar Lander Challenge)

Texas Team To Compete In Lunar Landing Competition - Texas Tech Pulse on Armadillo (Lunar Lander Challenge)

Cash award still elusive for AG man - Times Press Recorder on Tech Ranch (Regolith Challenge)

Here's more on the LLC:

Guest post from Will Baird - James Nicoll Live Journal - featuring one of the new LLC teams

More Google Earth and Prizes: Lunar Lander Challenge and SketchUp Campus

2008-08-07T16:33:00.004-05:00

Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Google Earth - In keeping with the Google Earth theme, the Launch Pad is making a KMZ Google Earth file for the Lunar Lander Challenge. I assume it's similar to the one they did for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. I'm not sure because I get a link to an Unreasonable Rocket image, not a KMZ file.

Anyway, here's another Google Earth competition I found. The 2008 version is over, but maybe there will be one in 2009. It's a competition for the best SketchUp Google Earth campus model: 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition! It's fun to find a campus you've been to and fly around. Not satisfied with the satellite or aerial images, one team took their own balloon-based images.

Google Earth Prizes

2008-08-07T06:00:00.003-05:00

Prompted by some of my last post, which dealt a bit with Google Earth, I was catching up on the Google Earth Blog. A lot of the space prizes I post on here deal with space access, smallsats and other small space systems, and brand new types of space infrastructure (power beaming, etc). These are all important trends that need to be pushed ahead to open up space. However, one of the areas I find the most interesting is space applications where the ground portion is accessible to almost everyone. This includes areas like astronomy, GPS where the government satellite signals are usable on the ground for numerous applications, and applications that use satellite data that everyone with an Internet connection can manipulate with applications like GIS, image processing, science visualization or data analysis tools, or whatever tools are appropriate. Google Earth is such an application.

I saw a couple contests on the GE Blog that as far as I'm concerned are space contests just as much as any of the others. They might not necessarily involve lots of engineering, depending on the contestants' frame of mind, but they can help get non-space people 1 step closer to an interest in space:

The Chemical Brothers launch Google Earth video project - NME News - The Chemical Brothers have a themed music video/photo contest for an upcoming music video. The imagery is to be spatially tagged to the location where it was taken using Google Earth. It sounds like some of it will be put in their video, and all of it will be put in a Google Earth layer.

Panoramio is an application, now part of Google, that lets you add images to Google Earth layers. Every month they've been having a contest to select the best photos that have been uploaded to Google Earth in several categories (scenery, heritage, travel, and unusual locations). Here are the March, April, and May winners. Check them out, and see where they are in Google Earth or Google Maps. Also see the Panoramio Blog.

August 6 2008 Roundup

2008-08-06T19:51:00.016-05:00

Space Show at Regolith Excavation Challenge - The Space Show - The actual interviews, and there are several this time, cover lots of topics besides the Regolith Challenge, including (in this order) various California Space Authority (Regolith Challenge organizer) work, the Commercial Space Wiki that Ken Davidian started, and leading Regolith Challenge team Technology Ranch. The guests are Jim Buenrostro (Technology Ranch), Ken Davidian (NASA ESMD Commercial Space Policy, and formerly Centennial Challenges), Janice Dunn, Matt Everingham, and Andrea Seastrand (all California Space Authority).

Hovering reliably is tough - RLV News - This links to a NASA Spaceflight discussion on the number of Lunar Lander Challenge teams that will actually show up, the difficulty of the Challenge (from Jon Goff from Masten Space Systems), and some possible quirks, or at least common patterns, in the nature of space prizes in general.

Prize Power: How Competition Inspires Tech Innovation - Linux Insider - This discusses the X PRIZE Foundation and Innocentive. The Innocentive example is one for cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill when the oil is frozen in the water. The idea that's about to be implemented came from an Innocentive prize after years of in-house experimentation.

Advice For Google's VC Arm: Don't Be Boring- Tech Dirt - From the article: Google's opportunity to do something different could have other possibilities as well. Google already sponsors the Lunar X Prize, and it could create its own series of challenges that might benefit Google's existing businesses (similar to the Netflix Prize).

Google has even done this with the Android Developer Challenge. This is why I was surprised (not disappointed, just surprised) that the Google Lunar X PRIZE turned out to be a lunar surface prize. I was pretty sure they were the sponsor, but I thought they'd come up with a prize that more readily lent itself to Google Earth, like a prize for gathering data for new Google Earth (Google Moon) layers, which would probably require a lunar orbiter. However, The Launch Pad shows that there are ways to integrate the real Google Lunar X PRIZE with Google Earth. You can see all of the teams and partner organizations in this Google Earth layer. It sounds like the XPF folks have more ideas along these lines.

Check out GLXP Fun Stuff for more Google Earth fun, and perhaps let them know if you have more ideas like this (or you've built something like this of your own with an XPF tie-in).

Phoen-etic Blog - The Launch Pad - The blog for one of the newly announced Lunar Lander Challenge teams (and Google Lunar X PRIZE hopeful team) is presented. They're hoping to have daily updates.

Team Phoenicia - This is their website (also see the LLC Teams page). You can see a strong New Mexico State University contingent on the team.

Insanely Busy! - The Dragon's Tales - This includes some Team Phoenicia posts and lots of other material - prehistoric creatures and environments, etc.

Google Lunar X PRIZE T-Shirt Design Competition - The Launch Pad - Here's the competition page.

Keeping tabs on a potential new team - The Launch Pad - This is on the Space Florida/Omega Envoy effort to make a Florida Google Lunar X PRIZE team. It includes a slide show.

Are all of the videos in the SFF $2000 Space Video Contest posted at the linked site? I'm not sure if that's the case, but I only see 3 so far at that link, and there are 3 prizes ($2000, $1000, and $500) ...

Ten Lunar Lander Challenge Teams

2008-08-05T20:49:00.007-05:00

Ten teams in Northrop Grumman - Lunar Lander Challenge - RLV News - Four of the teams want to remain anonymous. Five are from last year, and five are new. Of the six identified teams, I recognized 4 from last year, which I guess means 1 from last year wants to remain anonymous.

Jon Goff from Masten Space Systems has an important question in the comments.

I'll try to get the new teams on the LLC side bar section, which is now a mixture of teams from different years (but so is my Space Elevator Games section).

X PRIZE Foundation Announces Ten Teams Vying for Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge - X PRIZE Foundation press release

The XPF LLC site lets you Match Up the teams, and has a section describing each public team.

10 teams vie for mock moon landing prize - MSNBC

Next try for $2 million lunar-landing challenge - CNet News.com

Here are a couple related links:

Spacex and Hardware is hard. - Unreasonable Rocket - LLC comments about the Falcon 1 loss, and has some lessons for anyone getting into hardware.

Without Poetry, It's All Hardware - Space for All - This is on Vanna Bonta winning the Space Frontier Foundation's 2008 "Service to the Frontier" award.

Launch Pad Videos and FAA News

2008-08-04T20:06:00.004-05:00

FAA says tethered operations require authorization [Update] - RLV News - This, of course, affects teams going for the Lunar Lander Challenge. There's a link to a Launch Pad post that gives some more detail on how this is being handled.

Briefs: Launch Pad roundup; More WK2 postings - RLV News - The Launch Pad Oshkosh pictures and videos are pretty cool, if I may say so.

V PRIZE?

2008-08-04T19:50:00.004-05:00

I noticed that the V Prize link isn't working, and I also couldn't track down the V Prize blog. I also don't see any links for it anymore at Spaceports. Is the V Prize effort done? I don't know.

A prize like that is pretty difficult to arrange. Hopefully if that proves too difficult, a less ambitous, more easily funded prize that promotes the MARS and Virginia space commerce can be pulled off. I can picture all sorts of ideas like that. Off the top of my head: a prize for the first reusable suborbital vehicle to perform science or engineering task xyz 5 times from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. That would promote the types of skills that could some day, in a later general of vehicle, result in point-to-point suborbital trips, while at the same time giving incentives to develop such capabilities at the MARS. The difficulty of the task could be calibrated to the funding available.

Mprize Science Board

2008-08-04T19:47:00.001-05:00

The Mprize Scientific Advisory Board - Methuselah Foundation Blog

Your Logo Here

2008-08-04T19:46:00.000-05:00

Who is/are White Label Space?

Automotive X PRIZE Route, Politics, and Tesla Accident

2008-08-04T19:34:00.004-05:00

Barack Obama targets 1 million PHEVs by 2015 - X PRIZE Cars speculates on the effect Obama's energy plan would have on the Automotive X PRIZE Teams, and enjoys watching the 2 main Presidential candidates battle it out to see who is the most fuel efficiency-supporting candidate.

There's also a recent post about the Goodwin-Young: Linc-Volt (as in Neil Young), Automotive X PRIZE entry and a news roundup with lots of articles about the first Tesla crash (ALREADY?!?), registration being officially open for the PAXP, and more. One article mentions possible locations for parts of the race:

The race probably will pass through Ohio and Michigan on at least one leg, Ms. Fox said. "There are a number of cities in Ohio [and Michigan] that are interested. We'll probably announce those cities this fall," she said.

The foundation is in discussions with Indianapolis about holding a leg of the race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where entrants could display their top speeds.

Ben Bova Interview

2008-08-04T19:18:00.002-05:00

Mars attracts sci-fi author Ben Bova - Rocky Mountain News - The Science Fiction author is interviewed shortly before being awarded (with Spider Robinson) the Robert A. Heinlein Award (the one for Science Fiction, not the National Space Society award or the Heinlein Prize for commercial space achievements) at Denvention 3. This is where the 66th World Science Fiction Convention will be held - which means it includes the Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Awards, too.

Regolith Challenge T+2 Days

2008-08-04T18:49:00.004-05:00

Here's more Regolith Excavation Challenge coverage:

T+2 Days... The 2008 Challenge is Over - Tech Ranch - This post covers how the day went for the top-ranked team - I think still a 1-person team - for 2 years in a row. It also shows a lot of Tech Ranch Tornado photos, and identifies the team's supporters and sponsors.

Moon vehicle competition at Cal Poly draws local teams - San Luis Obispo.com - This short article mentions local teams Tech Ranch and SLObotics (SLObotics photo included).

Robots On A Fake Moon - Darren - This gives the account of a spectator at the event who was there to support a relative. It includes a Flickr photoset and a couple videos.

A Day of Loose [sic] - The Good Word - Justin Park gives a discouraged account of the day, including the Falcon 1 launch attempt and the Regolith Challenge, which he attended. Personally, I'm not nearly as discouraged with the the lack of winners in this challenge. It's not easy, and the rules were completely changed this year (eg: rovers, obstacles), so it's essentially a new challenge. The teams didn't have much time to get ready, and there are always surprises with rule interpretations and so on at the first event.

The fact that there have been so few winners so far in the Centennial Challenges with so many teams and attempts just shows that the Challenges seem to have been set at roughly the right level of difficulty. It's a good investment by NASA. It would be interesting to have a few mini-prizes at these events for partial success to keep the teams going, though ...

Regolith Excavation Challenge Results

2008-08-03T07:19:00.008-05:00

Prize Remains Elusive - Matt at the California Space Authority. The year's competition is over, but demos (valuable testing for next year!) continue. This post gives the following links:

Some Pictures from Saturday Morning

Some Pictures from Saturday Afternoon

You'll see people like NASA Centennial Challenge's Andrew Petro and The Space Show's David Livingston (expect a Regolith Space Show episode soon) in the pictures.

NASA Prize Elusive as Moon Excavators Struggle in Sandbox - press release:

Eight teams competing in the 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge came up short in winning the NASA purse of $750,000, but more determined to compete in a rematch for 2009. ...

Twenty-five teams registered for the challenge. Sixteen teams traveled to San Luis Obispo to compete with half that number withdrawing due to last-minute mechanical and logistical problems. The final teams to compete were:

Waldbaum, Sunnyvale, CA
Next Step, Houston, TX
Tech Ranch, Arroyo Grande, CA
LuneOreDiggers, Denver, CO
Cal Poly Slobotics, San Luis Obispo, CA
Team of One, Detroit, MI
Toy Garden, Friday Harbor, WA
Boppers, Huntington Beach, CA

Here's more:

Regolith Excavation Challenge update - RLV News - This includes several articles (the KSBY 6 one also has a video with interviews and excavator shots) and a link to the Regolith Challenge Twitter feed that lets you follow the event.

There's also a NASAPrize Twitter feed - NASA Centennial Challenges. It looks like it started in recent weeks, and it's covering the Regolith event. This gives a webcam link for the event. It looks like this feed will be used for other Centennial Challenges events.

IPP's Doug Comstock also has twitter posts on the Challenge, as well as other interesting activities. He gives an idea how the rankings went: No cash, but judges trophies to third place Team Walbaum, second to Cal Poly SLObotic, and first to Tech Ranch. Congrats!!

From LunOreDiggers:

Competition Day - a picture of the entry

Fail Sauce - details on their part of the event, and initial analysis of what went wrong

Astrobotic and a Different Type of Regolith Excavation Challenge

2008-08-03T07:00:00.002-05:00

Astrobotic awarded Regolith-Moving Contract - Astrobotic - From the linked page:

Each organization will conduct a 180-day study focused on a topic relevant to lunar surface systems. Selected organizations and topics are:

... Regolith Moving Methods: Astrobotic Technology Inc. of Pittsburgh and Honeybee Robotics of New York, ...

Astrobotic has a couple more interesting video posts on the teams page: Beating the Heat and Resolution and Color.

There's also news from the Falcon 1 launch, which I tried to watch but didn't catch:

Falcon 1 from Space X lifted off; reported "anomaly" at T+2 minutes - LunaTrex. This is of special interest to some GLXP teams because of the "preferred launch provider" GLXP deal. The Launch Pad links to video from the attempt at On Orbit. RLV News has a number of August 2 posts on it.

Regolith Challenge Event and Teams Ready

2008-08-02T06:52:00.007-05:00

Preparations Complete - Matt's Blog at the California Space Authority - The Regolith Excavation Challenge is ready to go:

Several of the excavators were revealed today, making for a nice team check-in and reception. We got to quiz some of the teams about their designs and all of the staff and judges are excited to see them operating over the next couple of days. Some of the teams will continue working on their excavators until the final deadline at 7:00 AM, when they have to turn them over for judge inspection. ... The excavation hardware will be on static display throughout the event for spectators to view.

Audreyln briefly mentions one of the teams in the Regolith Challenge, which lets me know about the latest post or two from LunOreDiggers. You can see a picture of their excavator in the 2nd post; click away and you can zoom in on it in Flickr.

The teams are still commenting about significant events in their efforts at that TechRanch post.

I don't recall a Boppers team link before. It takes you to a YouTube page with lots of newly loaded videos. Their entry is called LunarBopper1, and you get a lot of looks at it, the team members, and the workshop in the videos. The "Boppers Video Submission" one is particularly instructive in showing how it works.

Lunar Lander Safety Software

2008-08-02T06:44:00.002-05:00

Unreasonable Rocket posts on safety software. The 2nd diagram appears a bit out of place on my browser, but if that happens for you I think you'll find where it belongs.

August 1 2008 Roundup

2008-08-01T21:50:00.006-05:00

Interview: Bob Richards and James Antifaev of Odyssey Moon - The Launch Pad - This interview covers the multinational Odyssey Moon GLXP team, Canada's growing space capabilities, and the MDA-ATK sale attempt.

Oshkosh Bloggin' - The Launch Pad - William is there for some GLXP panels, and is also posting a lot of photos from the show, some by the SpaceShipOne replica (check the main Launch Pad page to see the latest).

Briefs: WK2 debut audio; GLXP at Oshkosh; Space shoe spinoff - RLV News covers the Launch Pad activity, as well as an 8th Continent post about one of their space/Earth business plan winners, iShoe.

Rocket Racing demo flight 2 - RLV News

French space tourism contest - RLV News - This covers the winning of the Rocketplane/Nestle suborbital ride contest I mentioned a bit after Space Access '08. The OK article makes it sound like the promotion was a success in terms of driving business. One of the linked posts discusses the legal responsibilities of the spaceflight participant and the ride company using Willy Wonka as an appropriate analogy.

Participatory Innovation Using Prizes

2008-08-01T05:36:00.002-05:00

Participatory Innovation - Enterprise Resilience Management Blog - Here's another discussion of the New York Times article If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone .

The post also links to a couple earlier (2007) ones on prizes:

A New Approach to Innovation

More Prizes for Innovation

Innocentive and the X PRIZE Foundation are featured heavily in these articles.

Rocket Racing Continues

2008-08-01T05:17:00.002-05:00

Rocket Racing League finally gets off the ground - Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics - The RRL Oshkosh exhibit is discussed from a New Mexican perspective:

The company hasn’t been able to recruit teams as easily as it originally anticipated and has had funding delays. But it broke ground on its first hangars at the Las Cruces airport in January and has recruited several teams to participate. It plans to make Las Cruces its worldwide headquarters.

More Rocket Racer demo response - RLV News - Several articles are posted (I'm a couple days behind on this one).

Rocket Racer Photos - Samizdata.net

Unreasonably Strange

2008-07-31T22:55:00.002-05:00

Very Strange ... - Unreasonable Rocket - Paul is tracking down some strange results in the data he gathered.

Luna Philosophie and Centennial Challenges

2008-07-31T22:39:00.004-05:00

August 5, 2008: Partnering with NASA-- Innovation through Collaboration - NASA CoLab - The Yahoo Brickhouse in San Francisco will host Doug Comstock from NASA IPP. Centennial Challenges will be featured:

Part of the talk will focus on IPP's Centennial Challenges Program, NASA's 'citizen inventor' program, with an upcoming event in Santa Rosa for a "Green Prize" for aviation transportation.

Some topics to discuss include:
* How do you successfully foster innovation in large organizations?
* How do partnerships factor into the future of NASA?
* What are some of the most surprising benefits of space technology to the general public?

Here's more about Luna Philosophie:

Luna Philosophie is regular salon and discussion coordinated by NASA CoLab . They occur on (or close to) Full Moons in San Francisco, as part of CoLab's efforts to bring NASA and space exploration to the San Francisco Bay Area community.

General Aviation Challenge Countdown

2008-07-31T21:54:00.004-05:00

The General Aviation Challenge is going to start soon.

EAA Chapter 124 has an important role in the Challenge. Their newsletters often mention the Challenge, and of course the August Newsletter is no exception. Some excerpts:

The pilots and crews from the GAT (General Aviation Technology) Centennial Challenge will be joining the Chapter membership for the BBQ and general meeting. This will be an excellent opportunity for Chapter members to meet them and discuss what their plans are to win the competition.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE 2008 GAT CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE

The CAFE Foundation will be putting on the second General Aviation Technology Centennial Challenge in cooperation with NASA during the first week of August 2008, just after Oshkosh. They need about 60 volunteers to make this event run smoothly, and you can help.

They will have a CAEFE GAT Banquet on Saturday, August 9. Details on time, location, and food are in the linked PDF file.

Following the dinner will be the Awards Ceremony with surprise keynote speakers and the suspenseful presentation of cash prizes totaling up to $300,000.

X PRIZE Cars has the following in a weekly news roundup:

Pipistrel: Greener Personal Aircraft, talks about a contest for 100 MPG, 100 MPH personal aircraft. Will we be flying instead of driving to get our 100 MPG?

The linked post covers the Green Prize, one of the competitions at the General Aviation Challenge, and Pipistrel, the winner of the Personal Air Vehicle challenge last year. You can see the relationship to the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE with this ambition:

But the organization behind the race, the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation (or CAFE, pronounced “café”), has a much grander goal in mind. Inspired by the $10-million Automotive X Prize competition for a 100mpg car, CAFE president Brien Seeley is courting private contributors who can fund a prize of up to $10 million for the first plane to fly 100 miles, at 100 miles per hour, on one gallon of gasoline. (Though he has yet to write a check, Google co-founder Larry Page attends all the CAFE meetings.)

I read a similar statement at the CAFE 2008 Electric Aircraft Symposium site.

Sci-Tech: 2008 General Aviation Challenge - Space for All - This shows you when and where the Challenge will be held, and what the main prizes are. From a monetary point of view, the Community Noise Prize is the big one ($150,000), but there's also a lot of interest in fuel efficiency and electric planes. Really, advances in all of the areas addressed by the prizes are needed to reach the goals the CAFE Foundation has for General Aviation and Personal Air Vehicles.

Space for All links to this detailed post on the main prizes from the Daily Galaxy.

In addition to the 4 or 5 main prizes (depending on which ones you count), there are 4 "showcase" prizes. Here's the whole bunch:

Main Prizes:
1) For the winner of the Community Noise Prize, a maximum of US$ 150,000.00 (one hundred fifty thousand U.S. dollars)
2) For the winner of the Green Prize (aka Environmental Efficiency Prize), a maximum of US$ 50,000.00 (fifty thousand U.S. Dollars)
3) For the winner of the Aviation Safety Prize (aka Vehicle Safety Prize), US$ 50,000.00 (fifty thousand U.S. dollars)
4) For the winner of the CAFE 400 Prize (aka Decathlon Prize), a maximum of US$ 25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand U.S. dollars)
5) For the winner of the Quietest LSA Prize (aka the Sustainable Airports Prize), US$ $10,000 (ten thousand U.S. dollars)

Individual "Showcase" Prizes: Winner of each of the following five prizes will receive US$ 3750.00:

1) Quietest Cabin Prize
2) Best Angle of Climb Prize
3) Shortest Takeoff Prize
4) Best Glide at 100 mph Prize

See the "General Aviation" tag below for more posts on this prize.

Regolith Excavation Challenge Countdown

2008-07-31T20:47:00.006-05:00

Follow the Regolith Challenge on twitter.com - California Space Authority

Here's a sample twitter post:

Received word today that NASA personnel will be attending the Regolith Challenge from Ames, Dryden, Glenn, HQ, JPL, Johnson, and Kennedy.

Regolith Excavation Challenge a Goldmine for Media - Sane PR - From the press release:

"We are attracting more electronic media this year for the challenge in contrast to magazines last year,” explains CSA/CSEWI Regolith Media Advisor Wil Simon. "Clearly, the regolith competition is visually rich, but the increase in competing teams has also given journalists a lot more interview material to work with this year.”

Media entities confirmed to attend include: Flight 33 Productions/Discovery Channel, NASA Videographer Steve Parcel, Crewestone Technologies/NASA and National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) educational videos, Planetary Society Radio, The Space Show, LAUNCH Magazine, Celestial Mechanics, The Crew-Strike TV, Ken Brown Aerospace Photojournalism, and Santa Maria Times.

Governor Rooting for Regolith Victory - I-Newswire

The Space Show - From the Space Show newsletter:

The Sunday, August 3, 2008 program will consist of taped interviews from the Regolith Challenge being held on the campus of Cal Poli in San Luis Obispo, California. As soon as the program is listed on the website, it will be available for play or download. Due to my return travel from Cal Poli, its possible this program will not be made available until early evening but check the website because as soon as you see it, you will be able to play or download the program. There is no actual start time for this show as it will be available all the time once its uploaded to the website. Should you have questions or comments for any of those interviewed, please use the email addresses given out during the interview or send your comments to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will make certain the guest receives them.

See the Regolith Challenge tag below for previous Regolith Challenge posts.