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Podcast Profile: The Space Madness Podcast

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37 episodes
2025 to 2026
Median: 43 minutes
Collection: Physics, Math, and Astronomy

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This podcast presents conversational interviews that use space exploration as a lens for understanding technology, institutions, and humanity’s future beyond Earth. Across the discussions, the host speaks with a wide range of guests—engineers, architects, scientists, physicians, lawyers, policy leaders, entrepreneurs, students, and communicators—who describe their career paths and the real-world systems that make space activity possible.

A recurring thread is how complex missions are designed, managed, and sustained. Guests discuss systems engineering, software evolution in aerospace, and the practical challenges of building reliable spacecraft, observatories, and instruments. Several conversations focus on future-facing concepts such as asteroid resource utilization, interstellar travel efforts, advanced telescope capabilities, and the use of AI and automation in engineering and technology transfer.

Human spaceflight is treated not only as an engineering problem but also as a question of health, habitat, and daily life. Topics include medical risks in microgravity, especially urological issues; designing environments for people in space through space architecture and rotating habitats; and the broader implications of more civilians traveling off Earth. Astrobiology and the search for life also appear through discussions of extremophiles, Mars-relevant research, and life-detection instrumentation, often tied to risk management and mission constraints.

The show also emphasizes governance and the societal infrastructure around space: commercial space regulation, space commerce, telecom and spectrum law, labor and employment dynamics in government-adjacent space organizations, and international collaboration. Geopolitical and regional perspectives surface through conversations about Africa’s emerging space ecosystem, European research and diplomacy, and global leadership in space.

Interwoven throughout are reflections on communication, mentorship, leadership, and resilience—sometimes drawing from unexpected backgrounds such as martial arts, film and storytelling, disability advocacy, and personal history connected to landmark moments in spaceflight. The overall tone is personal and exploratory, combining technical detail with lived experience and broader cultural context.

Episodes:

Space Madness Podcast Episode 38: Geology - Beyond Rocks 2026-Jan-26 42 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 37: Systems Engineering and Space Exploration 2026-Jan-19 49 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 36: Space Architecture 2026-Jan-12 45 minutes

Space Madness Episode 35: Rich DalBello, Former director of the Office of Space Commerce 2026-Jan-05 39 minutes

Space Madness Episode 34: Africa's Space Potential 2025-Dec-29 36 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 33: Taekwondo and Space Leadership 2025-Dec-22 42 minutes

Space Madness Episode 32: From Homeless at JPL to the Highest Peaks on Earth 2025-Dec-15 43 minutes

Space Madness Episode 31: The Great Observatories Past, Present, and Future 2025-Dec-08 52 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 30: Space Medicine 2025-Dec-01 46 minutes

Space Madness Episode 29: Telecom Law and You! 2025-Nov-24 40 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 28: Improving Institutions; the Power of the Pub 2025-Nov-17 41 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 27: The Interstellar Research Group 2025-Nov-10 43 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 26: The Future of Science In Europe 2025-Nov-03 43 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 25: HK to Utah to Georgia 2025-Oct-27 39 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 24: Residential Space to Space Habitats 2025-Oct-20 39 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 23: Apollo Microsats to Space Archaeology 2025-Oct-13 41 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 22: What's Space got to do with it? 2025-Oct-06 52 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 21: Labor Law, NASA, and JPL 2025-Sep-29 48 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 20: Journey to the National Space Society 2025-Sep-22 47 minutes

Space Madness Episode 19: Gravity Assists from Iowa to Mars Part 2 2025-Sep-15 42 minutes

Space Madness Episode 18: Gravity Assists from Iowa to Mars Part 1 2025-Sep-08 44 minutes

Space Madness Episode 17: Astrobiology, Analysis and Athleticism 2025-Sep-05 44 minutes

Space Madness Episode 16: From Cellos to the Cosmos 2025-Aug-25 52 minutes

Space Madness Episode 15: From Nebraska with Law 2025-Aug-18 52 minutes

Space Madness Episode 14: The Life of Lou Friedman Part 3 2025-Aug-16 31 minutes

Space Madness Episode 13: The Life of Lou Friedman Part 2 2025-Aug-04 52 minutes

Space Madness Episode 12: The Life of Lou Friedman Part 1 2025-Jul-28 41 minutes

Space Madness Episode 11: The Je ne sais quoi of Jupiter 2025-Jul-21 38 minutes

Space Madness Episode 10: Sheila Xu, the First Deaf Asian Female Pilot 2025-Jul-14 38 minutes

Space Madness Episode 8: From Romania to the Stars 2025-Jun-30 50 minutes

Space Madness Episode 7: Space Weather and Growing up with Modern Taiwan 2025-Jun-23 54 minutes

Space Madness Episode 6: Science Fiction, Faction, and Communication with Advanced Chemistry's Director Etana Jacobson 2025-Jun-16 55 minutes

Space Madness Episode 5: Deafness in Space? The first deaf human in Microgravity since the 1960s 2025-Jun-09 42 minutes

Space Madness Episode 4: a War Reporter, the Book of Genesis, and Apollo 8 2025-Jun-02 53 minutes

Space Madness Episode 3: Justin Kugler of Intuitive Machines 2025-Jun-02 61 minutes

Space Madness Episode 2: Tim Chrisman and WW2, the CIA, and the Rise of Overwhelming Private Capital 2025-Jun-02 61 minutes

Space Madness Episode 1: Daniel Leeb and the Icelandic Space Agency 2025-Jun-02 35 minutes