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Podcast Profile: The Space Madness Podcast

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

Description (podcaster-provided):

Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

This podcast features long-form, personal conversations about how people explore the universe and how space activity shapes society. The host interviews a wide range of guests connected to spaceflight, science, engineering, law, medicine, policy, and culture, often focusing on the winding career paths that brought them into the field and the practical realities behind ambitious exploration goals.

Across the conversations, listeners hear about the technical and organizational foundations of space missions: systems engineering, software evolution, mission risk management, and the design of spacecraft instruments and observatories. Human spaceflight topics recur as well, including how to design livable habitats and architecture for off-world environments, what medicine and physiology look like in microgravity, and how leadership and teamwork are developed in high-stakes settings.

The show also spends considerable time on the nontechnical frameworks that enable or constrain space activity. Guests discuss commercial space growth, government procurement, and regulatory questions spanning labor and employment issues, telecommunications and spectrum, space commerce, and international agreements. These themes are frequently connected to broader questions of governance, ethics, institutional incentives, and how public and private organizations collaborate—or struggle to—when funding, policy, or organizational structures change.

Global and societal perspectives are a consistent throughline. The podcast examines international science and diplomacy, regional space development and capacity-building, and how geopolitical relationships influence collaboration. Several discussions connect space work to science communication, education, outreach, and storytelling, including how film, journalism, and digital platforms shape public understanding. Personal resilience, accessibility, and inclusion also appear through stories involving disability, mentorship, and unconventional backgrounds. Overall, the series presents space exploration as a multidisciplinary human endeavor that blends frontier science with everyday institutions, careers, and cultures.

Episodes:

Space Madness Podcast Episode 40: A Million Satellites? 2026-Feb-09 40 minutes

Space Madness Podcast Episode 39: A Major General's Journey 2026-Feb-02 40 minutes

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