TMRO
| TMRO | |
|---|---|
 Former Spacevidcast logo | |
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by |
Benjamin Higginbotham Cariann Higginbotham |
| Genre | Webcast |
| Language | English |
| Updates | Saturday 21:00 UTC |
| Length | approx. 50 minutes |
| Production | |
| Video format | Flash |
| Publication | |
| Debut | March 26, 2008 |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution |
| Website |
www |
TMRO (pronounced tomorrow, formerly known as Spacevidcast), is a live weekly HD webcast hosted by a husband and wife team, Benjamin and Cariann Higginbotham. The mission statement for Spacevidcast is "Making space commonplace".
TMRO's stated goal is
| “ | ...to get the planet excited about living among the stars. | ” |
In contrast to most space-related podcasts, TMRO is produced independently and is not associated with any governmental or private organization, which sets it apart from other shows like NASA Edge or Hubblecast.[1][2] In 2011 the show hosts were hired by SpaceX, however there is no tie between SpaceX and TMRO.
In addition to traditional episodes, TMRO also offers some audio and text content as well as content provided through the crowdfunding platform Patreon, including Google Hangouts and early access to TMRO After Dark. There is also a TMRO subreddit for viewers to discuss space and show topics. The program was awarded the Best Presentation of Space award during NewSpace 2010.[3]
Weekly broadcasts
Format
The show is divided into an opener and three main segments. The first segment is Space News, discussing launches, technology, and spaceflight events that have occurred since the previous episode. Podcaster Michael Clark often talks about SpaceX news and provides input on other space topics. The second segment includes that episode's featured topic, which may be an interview or a discussion on a particular topic. During the third segment, viewer comments relating to the previous episode are read and discussed.
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
| Episode | Title | Main Theme | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.01 | "Spacevidcast Episode 001" | Introduction to Spacevidcast | March 16, 2008 |
| 1.02 | "Spacevidcast Episode 002" | Docking of Jules Verne ATV, Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship 2 | April 3, 2008 |
| 1.03 | "Spacevidcast Episode 003" | Public, private space travel | April 10, 2008 |
| 1.04 | "Spacevidcast Episode 004" | Guest: James Smith (First Chair, Office of Tomorrows Mars) | April 17, 2008 |
| 1.05 | "Spacevidcast Episode 005" | Politics in space | April 24, 2008 |
| 1.06 | "Spacevidcast Episode 006" | Guest: Adam Kimberlin (NASA intern) | May 1, 2008 |
| 1.07 | "Spacevidcast Episode 007" | The future of the Spacevidcast | May 8, 2008 |
| 1.08 | "Space, Politics and US Presidential Candidates views on NASA" | NASA in the 2008 U.S. presidential election | May 15, 2008 |
| 1.09 | "Blair Allen from NASA Edge joins us" | Guest: Blair Allen (Host, NASA Edge) | May 22, 2008 |
| 1.10 | "Contests, Extrasolar Planets, Phoenix Lander and STS-124" | Extended Space news coverage | May 29, 2008 |
| 1.11 | "STS-124 updates, ISS toilet and Spacevidcast Happenings" | Extended Space news coverage | June 5, 2008 |
| 1.12 | "Rocket launches, new space suit, Google goes to space and more" | Launches of the week | June 12, 2008 |
| 1.13 | "Earth’s Twin, NEOSSat, Space Camp Barbie and all things Mars" | Mars | June 26, 2008 |
| 1.14 | "Can we re-start Mars?" | Terraformation of Mars | July 3, 2008 |
| 1.15 | "Exploding Bolts and EVAs, Solar Panels and would you go to space?" | Would you go to space? | July 10, 2008 |
| 1.16 | "NASA needs your urine, KitKat winner, CATS and the Buzz’s Buzz" | Buzz Aldrin making a buzz about sci-fi and our youth | July 17, 2008 |
| 1.17 | "THEMIS, Phoenix Lander Update, NASA Images and Repurpose the ISS" | Should we repurpose the International Space Station to explore space? | July 24, 2008 |
| 1.18 | "Spacevidcast Episode 018" | Extraterrestrial life | August 7, 2008 |
| 1.19 | "Moon, Moon and more Moon" | The Moon | August 14, 2008 |
| 1.20 | "William Pomerantz from the Google Lunar X PRIZE joins us live" | Guest: William Pomerantz (Director of Space Projects, X PRIZE Foundation) | August 21, 2008 |
| 1.21 | "Hubble Telescope Live Show" | The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope | August 28, 2008 |
| 1.22 | "CSA, NASA, GOP and of course moon dust foiling my plans again!" | Moon dust problems | September 4, 2008 |
| 1.23 | "JSC Closes, Ask Hawking a question, Space Solar Power and pretty please with a cherry on top?" | Fundraizing | September 11, 2008 |
| 1.24 | "STS-125, Space Shuttle Atlantis and Endeavour and the future of space" | General discussion | September 11, 2008 |
| 1.25 | "China is changing the space game, STS-125 delayed... again... Episode" | General discussion | September 25, 2008 |
| 1.26 | "Private space travel moves forward while NASA prepares to roll Atlantis back" | General discussion | October 2, 2008 |
| 1.27 | "The sacrifice and loss in human space flight thus far" | Failure in spaceflight | October 9, 2008 |
| 1.28 | "Soyuz TMA-13 launches, ISS gets another fixed potty, and the Lunar Lander Challenge!" | The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge | October 16, 2008 |
| 1.29 | "Pictures of Mercury, HST back online and the NGLLC" | The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge | October 31, 2008 |
| 1.30 | "Into Space, out of Space and everything in between!" | Websites dedicated to space | November 7, 2008 |
| 1.31 | "Launch of STS-126 with Space Shuttle Endeavour" | STS-126 | November 14, 2008 |
| 1.32 | "ISS, Mars and Space: in the palm of our hand, or just out of reach?" | Should NASA reach out more? | December 5, 2008 |
| 1.33 | "Teddybears in space?" | NASA in during the presidential transition | December 12, 2008 |
| 1.34 | "Looking to the future of space travel. 2009, 2010 and beyond!" | Spaceflight predictions for 2009 and 2010 | December 19, 2008 |
Season 2 (2009)
| Episode | Title | Main Theme | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.01 | "New NASA Administrator, Obama's Space Race, NASA's Budget!" | Testing Spacevidcast 2.0! | January 16, 2009 |
| 2.02 | "The new space race — Who cares?" | The new multiplayer Space Race | January 23, 2009 |
| 2.03 | "The space elevator" | Space elevators | January 30, 2009 |
| 2.04 | "Where is the profit in private space?" | Economic justification for private spaceflight | February 7, 2009 |
| 2.05 | "Humans vs Robots Who should explore space?" | Advantages and disadvantages of human and robotic spaceflight | February 14, 2009 |
| 2.06 | "NASA’s Constellation Program" | NASA after the Space Shuttle | February 21, 2009 |
| 2.07 | "The end of the Space Shuttle era" | NASA after the Space Shuttle | February 28, 2009 |
| 2.08 | "What impact will the economy have on space?" | How the 2008 economic crisis is affecting spaceflight | March 7, 2009 |
| 2.09 | "Everything ISS" | Risk of space debris hitting the ISS, the new ISS 24/7 webcam, future of the ISS | March 14, 2009 |
| 2.10 | "STS-119 music video and Space 2.0 updates" | News about all things space | April 4, 2009 |
| 2.11 | "Interview with the Space Renaissance Initiative" | Guest: Annie (Space Renaissance Initiative) | April 10, 2009 |
| 2.12 | "Interview with Tim Bailey of ISDC 2009" | Guest: Tim Bailey (Conference Chair, International Space Development Conference 2009) | April 17, 2009 |
| 2.13 | "Chris and Blair from NASA EDGE" | Guests: Chris Giersch, Blair Allen (Hosts, NASA Edge) | April 27, 2009 |
| 2.14 | "Constellation cutbacks and STS-125 is ready to roll... again!" | NASA news | May 2, 2009 |
| 2.15 | "Spacevidcast live from ISDC" | Guests: Brian Zollman (BZWingZero), Darrell Cain, Tim Bailey (Conference Chair, ISDC 2009) | May 28, 2009 |
| 2.16 | "STS-125 Music Video, ISDC and AEXA" | Guest: Fernando De La Peña (Promoter of the Mexican Space Agency) | June 4, 2009 |
| 2.17 | "News, news, and more news" | Lots of news about space | June 11, 2009 |
| 2.18 | "Mars Hoax, MLAS, Zero G wedding, LRO/LCROSS and Spaceport America" | Space news about new happenings in the United States | June 18, 2009 |
| 2.19 | "SeaLaunch Chapter 11, Obama and Kennedy, GUCP again and Ares vs Side Shuttle vs Direct" | Future options for NASA | June 26, 2009 |
| 2.20 | "Guinness in space, JAXA Space Power, Ulysses is dead!" | A Guinness space contest | July 3, 2009 |
| 2.21 | "Grant Atkinson, Director Chapter Affairs for SEDS-USA" | Guest: Grant Atkinson, Director Chapter Affairs for SEDS-USA | July 10, 2009 |
| 2.22 | "Spacevidcast with Omega Envoy guest Jason Dunn" | Guest: Jason Dunn (member, Omega Envoy) | July 17, 2009 |
| 2.23 | "Spacevidcast with Orphans of Apollo director Michael Potter" | Guest: Michael Potter, Producer and Director of the documentary Orphans of Apollo | July 24, 2009 |
| 2.24 | "Spacevidcast Newsathon" | Tons of Space News skipped on July 24. | July 31, 2009 |
| 2.25 | "STS-127 Music Video and News from Space!" | News including first tweets from space. | August 7, 2009 |
| 2.26 | "New Russian Rocket, Personal Satellite and more!" | Guest: Space news including a new space porch and new Russian rocket. | August 14, 2009 |
| 2.27 | "Spacevidcast with guest David R. Haslam" | Guest: David Haslam, Author of The Twitter Workbook | August 21, 2009 |
| 2.28 | "NASA clocks argument, STS-128 and space evangelism" | The great T- vs L- clock debate and other space news. | July 17, 2009 |
| 2.29 | "Space Sim & camera, China and the NGLLC" | Videos of competing rocket vehicles in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. | September 17, 2009 |
| 2.30 | "Masten Space, OneDrop.org and ZOMG THE END OF THE WORLDZ!!!111!!" | Guests: Michael Mealling and Ben Brockert of Masten Space Systems. | October 9, 2009 |
| 2.31 | "Space News for the week of Oct 11, 2009" | Guests: NA | October 9, 2009 |
| 2.32 | "Sy Liebergot, Apollo 13 EECOM Flight Controller" | Guest: Sy Liebergot, Apollo 13 EECOM Flight Controller | October 23, 2009 |
| 2.33 | "Masten Space, Russia going for Mars and STS-129" | Guest: Michael Mealling of Masten Space Systems | October 30, 2009 |
| 2.34 | "Live with SEDS guest Rick Hanton" | Guest: SEDS guest Rick Hanton | November 6, 2009 |
| 2.35 | "Honoring the Apollo 12 40th anniversary with Robert Godwin" | Guest: Author Robert Godwin | November 13, 2009 |
| 2.36 | "Live interview with author Ted Spitzmiller" | Guest: Author Ted Spitzmiller | December 6, 2009 |
| 2.37 | "Lead FSW Engineer for NASA’s LCROSS program, Emory Stagmer" | Guest: Engineer Emory Stagmer, LCROSS program | December 13, 2009 |
| 2.38 | "Douglas Mallette, author of Turning Point" | Guest: Author Douglas Mallette | December 18, 2009 |
Season 3 (2010)
| Episode | Title | Main Theme | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.01 | "A new year for Spacevidcast and New Space!" | Updates to SVC in 2010, Titan Mare Explorer (TiME). | January 8, 2010 |
| 3.02 | "FlyingJenny talks Space Tweeps with Space Geeks" | Guest: Space Tweep Society founder and Space Shuttle technician Jen Scheer (@FlyingJenny) | January 15, 2010 |
| 3.03 | "Douglas Messier from ParabolicArc talks NewSpace" | Guest: ParabolicArc founder Douglas Messier | January 22, 2010 |
| 3.04 | "The Future of NASA and WeWantOurFuture.org" | Guest: Brad Cheetham of WeWantOurFuture.org | January 29, 2010 |
| 3.05 | "NASA FY2011 and SpaceUp with Chris Radcliff" | Guest: SpaceUp organizer Chris Radcliff | February 5, 2010 |
| 3.06 | "STS-130 launches, SDO Launches, TwitPic from Space and more!" | spacenews | February 14, 2010 |
| 3.07 | "Post show, show, pre show, live show?" | TBA | February 21, 2010 |
| 3.08 | "Space is Boring with Andy Cochrane" | Guest: SpaceUp Ignite speaker Andy Cochrane | March 7, 2010 |
| 3.09 | "LAUNCH: Water" | Guest: NASA Intern Sean Herron | March 12, 2010 |
| 3.10 | "SxSW and your Moon 2.0 passion" | Cariann wrapup of the SxSW Interactive week | March 19, 2010 |
| 3.11 | "Robert Pearlman, collectSPACE.com" | Guest: Robert Pearlman, creator of collectSPACE.com | March 26, 2010 |
| 3.12 | "Ed Buckbee, NASA PAO" | Guest: NASA Public Affairs Officer Ed Buckbee | April 2, 2010 |
| 3.13 | "Yuri’s Night Global Party" | Guest: Yuri's Night founder Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides | April 9, 2010 |
| 3.14 | "Obama’s NASA plan and affordable access to space" | Guest: The author of Floating to Space, John Powell | April 16, 2010 |
| 3.15 | "Jeffrey Manber and Commercializing space" | Guest: The author of Selling Peace, Jeffrey Manber | April 23, 2010 |
| 3.16 | "Bill Suitor, Earth is safe, SDOoooooh and more news" | Guest: The author of The Rocketbelt Handbook, Bill Suitor | April 30, 2010 |
| 3.17 | "STS-132, Pad Abort Test, Voyager 2, Mars in 3D and more!" | Space News of all kinds! | May 7, 2010 |
| 3.21 | "SpaceX and Iridium, Rocket teeth and more! Live show 3.21" | Space News about SpaceX, the RRL, and Orion | June 18, 2010 |
| 3.22 | "Moonbots with Team Tater Tot - Live Show 3.22" | Guests: Minnesota X-Prize Moonbots Team Tater Tot | July 2, 2010 |
| 3.23 | "News From Around the Universe - Live Show 3.23" | Robonaut, Hayabusa, and Cool UK Physics Posters | July 9, 2010 |
| 3.24 | "Why we should colonize the moon with Dennis Wingo - Live Show 3.24" | Guest: The author of Moonrush, Dennis Wingo | July 16, 2010 |
| 3.25 | "Nuclear Rockets with James Dewar – Live Show 3.25" | Guest: The author of The Nuclear Rocket, James Dewar | July 30, 2010 |
| 3.26 | "Trouble on the ISS – Live Show 3.26" | Cooling issues on the ISS, Space Debris threatening the ISS and a clever way to get rid of it, and more | August 8, 2010 |
| 3.27 | "Live TV from the Moon with Dwight Steven-Boniecki – Live Show 3.27" | Guest: The author of Live TV from the Moon, Dwight Steven-Boniecki | August 14, 2010 |
| 3.28 | "Moon, Mars and Beyond with Andrew Chaikin – Live Show 3.28" | (100th show) Guest: The author of books detailing the space program, Andrew Chaikin | August 22, 2010 |
| 3.29 | "UnSpacevidcast at your UnConference – Live Show 3.29" | Guests: Many fans of SpaceVidcast including VAXHeadroom, PeteRiesett, Porkchop, and Tim846 | August 27, 2010 |
| 3.30 | "SpaceUp DC Recap – Live Show 3.30" | Lots of discussion about what happened at SpaceUp D.C. | September 2, 2010 |
| 3.31 | "William Pomerantz, GLXP and X PRIZE – Live Show 3.31" | Guest: Senior Director of Space Projects for the X PRIZE Foundation, William Pomerantz | September 10, 2010 |
| 3.32 | "NewSpace News – Live Show 3.32" | Space Adventures, Boeing, Armadillo Aerospace, and Virgin Galactic are working to get you in space! | September 24, 2010 |
| 3.33 | "LCROSS Anniversary – Live Show 3.33" | Guests: Jim Munger, Craig Elder, Jose Cabinallas and Emory Stagmer of the LCROSS Mission | October 8, 2010 |
| 3.34 | "2010 was the tipping point – Live Show 3.34" | Ben jumps on his soapbox and talks about the status of human space flight. | October 22, 2010 |
| 3.35 | "Pat Duggins – Live Show 3.35" | Author Pat Duggins talks about his book "Trailblazing Mars: NASA’s Next Giant Leap" | October 29, 2010 |
| 3.36 | "News from Around Space – Live Show 3.36" | STS-133, a Delta II launch, LEGOS, and sex in space. | November 12, 2010 |
| 3.37 | "Art, Hollywood and Space – Live Show 3.37" | Pictures from space, new movies about the moon, the Hayabusa probe and more! | November 19, 2010 |
| 3.38 | "Near Space vs Space – Live Show 3.38" | More space news about everything from Google to Virgin Galactic | December 17, 2010 |
| 3.39 | "2010 in Review – Live Show 3.39" | Review of all that happened in the space industry in 2010, it was awesome! | December 24, 2010 |
| 3.40 | "New Years Eve and Space – Live Show 3.40" | A rocket goes bada boom, a sunset on Mars, Zombie Sat lives, and Spacevidcast 400. | December 31, 2010 |
Season 4 (2011)
| Episode | Title | Main Theme | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.01 | "STS-135, cool space stuff and news - Live Show 4.01" | STS-135, the most complex EDL ever, China test unmanned craft, Nanosails and more news. | January 28, 2011 |
| 4.02 | "Yuri's Night Announcement – Live Show 4.02" | Dr. Ryan L. Kobrick of Yuri’s Night joins us live, space programs from ESA to Roscosmos, the Kepler mission, and shuttle retirement. | February 4, 2011 |
| 4.03 | "Spacevidcast Live 4.03" | Special thanks to the Vlogbrothers Hank and John for their epically awesome efforts to promote the assets of JDubST! | February 11, 2011 |
| 4.04 | "Spacevidcast Live 4.04" | TBA | February 18, 2011 |
| 4.05 | "It’s not the end of an era, it is a new beginning – Live Show 4.05" | Discovery finishes her last mission. Endeavour is next. GLORY has issues but the military’s X-37B launches without a hitch. | March 11, 2011 |
| 4.06 | "How and why you should help Japan – Live show 4.06" | Send your ashes to orbit, the Cassini IMAX movie, MESSENGER enters Mercury’s orbit and the progress of New Space companies. | March 18, 2011 |
| 4.07 | "STS-134 Media, New Rockets, Nanosail-D – Live Show 4.07" | Armadillo Aerospace’s 100,000 foot flight, Rocketdyne's Bantam engine, Senators Crippling Rockets and NanoSail-D in orbit. | March 25, 2011 |
| 4.08 | "n3rd crush, possible STS-134 delay, SS2 and more! Live Show 4.08" | NASA Tweetup, STS-134 delay, stacking STS-135 is underway, Ariane 5 issues, BBC looks at SpaceShipTwo, and "Something Big is Coming" | April 1, 2011 |
| 4.09 | "Martian Summer with Andrew Kessler – Live Show 4.09" | Author Andrew Kessler talks about his experiences with Phoenix and his new book “Martian Summer” | April 8, 2011 |
| 4.10 | "Everyone wants a REAL orbiter – Live Show 4.10" | States without a retired orbiter are upset, States that did get an orbiter want a different one, and people are just plain grumpy. | April 15, 2011 |
| 4.11 | "OldSpace can be NewSpace too – Live Show 4.11" | STS-134 will be awesome, NASA Awards over a quarter billion to next generation space companies, and is China starting space race 2.0? | April 22, 2011 |
Season 5 (2012)
| Episode | Title[4] | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 5.01 | "Does Space need the Government to survive?" | March 10, 2012 |
| 5.02 | "Russia's ambitious 18 year Space Plan" | March 17, 2012 |
| 5.03 | "Why should we invest in science and space?" | March 24, 2012 |
| 5.04 | "What if Apollo never happened?" | April 7, 2012 |
| 5.05 | "What does the future of space look like?" | April 14, 2012 |
| 5.06 | "Mining Asteroids" | April 28, 2012 |
| 5.07 | "Is the Liberty Rocket now a contender?" | May 9, 2012 |
| 5.08 | "Commercial Space Takes a Leap Forward" | June 2, 2012 |
| 5.09 | "What happens if we double NASA's budget?" | June 9, 2012 |
| 5.10 | "Will China make it to the moon?" | June 23, 2012 |
| 5.11 | "Who will advance humans in space?" | July 14, 2012 |
| 5.12 | "Asteroid mining and landing on Mars" | August 4, 2012 |
| 5.13 | "Who should be interested in the cosmos?" | September 1, 2012 |
| 5.14 | "Please, use all the numbers" | September 8, 2012 |
| 5.15 | "The Space Shuttle's Final Endeavour" | October 12, 2012 |
| 5.16 | "It may not be the edge of space, but it sure is impressive!" | October 20, 2012 |
| 5.17 | "Yes, Mars is important" | November 3, 2012 |
| 5.18 | "Why is China stealing rocket information?" | December 1, 2012 |
| 5.19 | "The Golden Spike Company" | December 8, 2012 |
| 5.20 | "A look back to 2012 and forward to 2013" | December 29, 2012 |
Season 6 (2013)
| Episode | Title[5] | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 6.01 | "Can Advertising dollars drive NewSpace?" | January 12, 2013 |
| 6.02 | "The Upcoming Asteroid Mining Industry" | January 26, 2013 |
| 6.03 | "Kickstarting a Space Program" | February 2, 2013 |
| 6.04 | "Amazing Space news from around the world" | February 9, 2013 |
| 6.05 | "Meteor Attack!" | February 16, 2013 |
| 6.06 | "Google Lunar X-PRIZE" | February 23, 2013 |
| 6.07 | "How You Can Help Mine Asteroids" | March 9, 2013 |
| 6.08 | "The Mars Initiative" | March 16, 2013 |
| 6.09 | "XCOR's New Piston Rocket Engine" | March 30, 2013 |
| 6.10 | "Eyes on the Solar System" | April 6, 2013 |
| 6.11 | "3D Printing Rocket Engine Contest" | April 13, 2013 |
| 6.12 | "The Cool Kids Work in Mojave" | April 27, 2013 |
| 6.13 | "Is Mars One a Scam, Fantasy or Brilliant Idea?" | May 4, 2013 |
| 6.14 | "Does SciFi help SciFact?" | May 25, 2013 |
| 6.15 | "Crowdfunding Your Next Space Program" | June 1, 2013 |
| 6.16 | "Is Big Government Our best chance to explore the Cosmos?" | June 8, 2013 |
| 6.17 | "Not Because it's Easy" | June 15, 2013 |
Season 7 (2014)
| Episode | Title[6] | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 7.01 | "The first Spacevidcast of 2014" | January 18, 2014 |
| 7.02 | "Destinations or Infrastructure?" | January 25, 2014 |
| 7.03 | "2nd Coming of Space" | February 8, 2014 |
| 7.04 | "Get off my Lunar lawn" | February 15, 2014 |
| 7.05 | "Google Lunar X PRIZE Milestones" | February 22, 2014 |
| 7.06 | "Will private space kill the Space Launch System?" | March 1, 2014 |
| 7.07 | "Who owns the moon?" | March 8, 2014 |
| 7.08 | "Have we forgotten about the Moon?" | March 15, 2014 |
| 7.09 | "What will our Martian Government look like?" | March 22, 2014 |
| 7.10 | "The battle between Roscosmos and NASA" | April 5, 2014 |
| 7.11 | "Living forever" | April 19, 2014 |
| 7.12 | "SpaceX vs US Air Force" | April 26, 2014 |
| 7.13 | "Changing at the speed of the cosmos" | May 3, 2014 |
| 7.14 | "The Martian Settlers Experience" | May 10, 2014 |
| 7.15 | "The Situation" | May 24, 2014 |
| 7.16 | "spaceship SpaceShip SPACESHIP" | May 31, 2014 |
| 7.17 | "When do we get to finally go to Mars?" | June 14, 2014 |
| 7.18 | "Promoting the cosmos to friends" | June 28, 2014 |
| 7.19 | "What will Martian habitats look like?" | July 5, 2014 |
| 7.20 | "The Propulsion of Tomorrow" | July 12, 2014 |
| 7.21 | "#Apollo45" | July 19, 2014 |
| 7.22 | "Dave Masten and DARPA" | July 26, 2014 |
| 7.23 | "Where should we colonize first?" | August 2, 2014 |
| 7.24 | "The Electron Rocket" | August 9, 2014 |
| 7.25 | "Kickstarting a rocket company" | August 16, 2014 |
| 7.26 | "Firefly Space" | August 23, 2014 |
| 7.27 | "Community Chat: Expedite New Space | August 30, 2014 |
| 7.28 | "The killer app for Space" | September 13, 2014 |
| 7.29 | "NASA Commercial Crew Announcements" | September 20, 2014 |
| 7.30 | "Community Chat: Why are you a space geek?" | September 27, 2014 |
| 7.31 | "Chasing Atlantis" | October 18, 2014 |
| 7.32 | "Copenhagen Suborbitals" | October 25, 2014 |
| 7.33 | "SpaceShipTwo and Antares" | November 1, 2014 |
| 7.34 | "SpaceShipTwo One Week Later" | November 8, 2014 |
| 7.35 | "The story of the Philae Lander" | November 15, 2014 |
| 7.36 | "Orion and Lunar Mission One" | December 6, 2014 |
| 7.37 | "A fresh look at Mars One" | December 13, 2014 |
| 7.38 | "A look back at 2014" | December 20, 2014 |
Season 8 (2015)
| Episode | Title[7] | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 8.01 | "Scott Manley and Kerbal Space" | January 10, 2015 |
| 8.02 | "Riding with Robots" | January 24, 2015 |
| 8.03 | "Dave Masten" | January 31, 2015 |
| 8.04 | "Google Lunar XPRIZE" | February 7, 2015 |
| 8.05 | "Martian Cities" | February 14, 2015 |
| 8.06 | "The Outer Space Treaty" | February 21, 2015 |
| 8.07 | "Inspiration Space" | February 28, 2015 |
| 8.08 | "Rocket geeks should be astronomy geeks too" | March 7, 2015 |
| 8.09 | "Virgin Galactic's Launcher One" | March 14, 2015 |
| 8.10 | "Cosmic Lifestyle" | March 28, 2015 |
| 8.11 | "The SpaceUP Foundation" | April 4, 2015 |
| 8.12 | "Astrobotic" | April 18, 2015 |
| 8.13 | "Students for the Exploration and Development of Space" | April 25, 2015 |
| 8.14 | "Sea Dragon" | May 2, 2015 |
| 8.15 | "Lisa Stojanovski" | May 9, 2015 |
| 8.16 | "Crowdfunding your next space project" | May 16, 2015 |
| 8.17 | "What should we do with the Space Launch System?" | June 6, 2015 |
| 8.18 | "Should NASA be allowed to Crowd Fund projects?" | June 13, 2015 |
| 8.19 | "Can commercial space expand the frontier?" | June 20, 2015 |
| 8.20 | "Space VR" | July 4, 2015 |
| 8.21 | "Moon first or Mars first?" | July 11, 2015 |
| 8.22 | "The missing links in human exploration" | July 18, 2015 |
| 8.23 | "Escape Dynamics Ground Based Space Propulsion" | August 8, 2015 |
| 8.24 | "How Masten Space will get us to the Moon and Mars" | August 22, 2015 |
| 8.25 | "A walkthrough of Copenhagen Suborbitals" | August 29, 2015 |
| 8.26 | "Why Acronyms Seriously Suck" | September 12, 2015 |
| 8.27 | "Space Launch System Past and Future" | September 19, 2015 |
| 8.28 | "An update on Commercial Space" | September 26, 2015 |
| 8.29 | " Kickstarting a moon rocket with Moonspike" | October 3, 2015 |
| 8.30 | "Is the smallsat market in a bubble" | October 17, 2015 |
| 8.31 | "Why reusable rockets are important for the future" | October 24, 2015 |
| 8.32 | "The Vulcan Rocket" | October 31, 2015 |
| 8.33 | "What upcoming space tech are you most excited about? | November 14, 2015 |
| 8.34 | "Why Atlantis is your favorite orbiter" | November 21, 2015 |
| 8.35 | "Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne" | December 5, 2015 |
| 8.36 | "Where did all this space love come from?" | December 9, 2015 |
| 8.37 | "How to harness interest in space for good? For evil? For Mars? Beyond?" | December 16, 2015 |
Season 9 (2016)
| Episode | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 9.01 | "LZ-1, The Falcon Has Landed" | January 2, 2016 |
| 9.02 | "Sphere-iously" | January 9, 2016 |
| 9.03 | "Is there such a thing as Safe Space travel? | January 30, 2016 |
| 9.04 | "Where should we explore next?" | February 6, 2016 |
| 9.05 | "Commercial Orbital Transportation Services after 10 years" | February 13, 2016 |
| 9.06 | "The state of Space Tourism" | February 20, 2016 |
| 9.07 | "Space Leadership Preservation Act" | February 27, 2016 |
| 9.08 | "The Path to Mars" | March 5, 2016 |
| 9.09 | "How do we make space exploration politically relevant?" | March 12, 2016 |
| 9.10 | "Innovation at the Speed of Space" | March 19, 2016 |
| 9.11 | "Is the International Space Station worth it?" | March 26, 2016 |
| 9.12 | "Reusability Rocketry Renaissance" | April 9, 2016 |
| 9.13 | "VoteForSpace" | April 16, 2016 |
Space Pods
In 2015 TMRO began producing Space Pods, which are short videos about various space-related topics. Space Pods feature, and are created by, one of TMRO's correspondents: Michael Clark, Jared Head, Lisa Stojanovski, and Ariel Waldman. Similar to the weekly live shows, Space Pods are funded by a separate Patreon campaign, which was originally conducted on a per pod basis, but later switched to a monthly format.[8]
Live events and daily-casts
Spacevidcast has covered a number of live events such as Shuttle and Soyuz launches, the Phoenix Mars landing, the launch of Jules Verne ATV, the GLAST Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-1, Shenzhou 7, the Kepler Mission as well as commercial satellite launches. The website was one of many outlets to broadcast a live feed of the lunar impact by NASA's LCROSS spacecraft and participated in Guy Laliberté's Poetic Social Mission Event: Moving Stars and Earth for Water. These events are usually summed up in short daily clips dedicated to one or two events.
Additionally, Spacevidcast streamed NASA TV with an accompanying chat room through UStream live 24/7 with an HD video feed during launches and other significant events.
2008 Lunar Lander Challenge
The Spacevidcast team was the official event webcaster for the X Prize Foundation's 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Spacevidcast streamed continuously from Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 24 and 25. The hosts were on site to interview team leaders and VIP guests. The podcast was also the only media outlet to cover the "Rocket Racing League at Spaceport America" announcement by the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson.
ISDC 2009
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2009 International Space Development Conference, an annual event hosted and organized by the National Space Society. As part of its coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the main presentations as well as an option for viewers to send questions via the chat room. The videos were also made available on demand. In addition to direct coverage of the conference, Spacevidcast also broadcast a regular weekly show from the ISDC 2009 setting and the hosts participated in a panel discussion on May 29 entitled "Space Media 2.0".
SpaceUp San Diego (2010)
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 SpaceUp San Diego unconference, the first major space BarCamp-like event hosted by the San Diego Space Society. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations as well as much of the Ignite talks. The videos are now available on demand. The quality of these videos is low only because of a lack of internet connections at the conference and spotty cell phone coverage.
NewSpace 2010 (2010)
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace Conference, a yearly conference for NewSpace leaders to meet and organize the future of the NewSpace movement. Benjamin and Cariann provided live coverage of each of the talks during the weekend. The videos are now available on demand (some are Epic subscriber-only).
SpaceUp D.C. (2010)
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 SpaceUp Washington D.C. unconference, the second space BarCamp-like event hosted by Evadot founder Michael Doornbos. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations and Ignite talks. The videos are now all available to watch on their YouTube channel.
SpaceUp San Diego (2011)
Spacevidcast is the exclusive webcaster of the 2011 SpaceUp San Diego unconference, the third space BarCamp-like event hosted by the San Diego Space Society and the first repeat SpaceUp, held on February 12–13, 2011. Cariann Higginbotham, co-host of Spacevidcast, is attending the event and, assisted by corporate and private sponsors, will be providing live video webcasts of the many of the presentations and T-5 talks (similar to Ignite talks). The videos will be available to watch on their YouTube channel and will be viewable live on their website.
SpaceUp Houston (2011)
Spacevidcast is the exclusive webcaster of the 2011 SpaceUp Houston unconference, the fourth space BarCamp-like event hosted by the Clear Lake NSS/Moon Society and the Lunar and Planetary Institute on February 12–13, 2011. Benjamin Higginbotham, co-host of Spacevidcast, is attending the event and will be providing live video webcasts of the many of the presentations and demonstrations. The videos will be available to watch on their YouTube channel and will be viewable live on their website.
Space Shuttle launches
Spacevidcast was one of the first sources to get High Definition Space Shuttle launches online. These shows progressed until Spacevidcast was granted media access to the Kennedy Space Center Press site for STS-132 through the end of the program. The Spacevidcast shuttle coverage was marked as Wired Magazine's three best ways to watch a shuttle launch online.[9]
TMRO on Livestream
During season 7, TMRO left YouTube streaming and moved to Livestream for more stable live streaming.
TMRO on Patreon
During season 7, TMRO transitioned from its previous donor on-demand service, called Epic, to the crowdfunding website Patreon.[10]
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References
- ↑ Salas, Randy A. (June 30, 2008). "Technobabble: Local webcast embarks on space odyssey". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on January 12, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Space Vidcast". Twin Cities Live. July 14, 2008. Retrieved October 28, 2008.
- ↑ ""Vision of the Future" and "Best Presentation of Space" Winners Announced". July 15, 2010. Archived from the original on January 12, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
- ↑ "Category Archives: Season 5". TMRO. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Category Archives: Season 6". TMRO. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Category Archives: Season 7". TMRO. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ↑ "Category Archives: Season 8". TMRO. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ↑ "TMRO Space Pods". Patreon. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
- ↑ "3 Great Ways to Watch the Last Space Shuttle Missions". Wired. February 23, 2011. Archived from the original on January 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Spacevidcast is creating live webcasts about the cosmos". Retrieved March 1, 2014.
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