Space for Improvement w/ Joe Barnard and Braden Carlson

In this episode, Joe and Braden are joined by Shane Harris of The Anti-Gravity Group Podcast in a discussion about Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong, the X-1, the X-15, X-2, X-5, and all of the wild aircraft that brought manned flight into the supersonic and hypersonic realm. 

In this episode, Braden and Joe talk about the Rocket Racing League, a startup racing series that featured LOX/Kerosene/Ethanol rocket engine propelled aircraft with an AR race track in the sky from the early 2000s. 

In this episode, Braden presents a bunch of random NASA artifacts he found for sale across the scope of the internet to Joe, who then tries to guess what they are and how much the sellers are asking for them. It's also revealed that Braden doesn't know what Gus Grissom looked like. 

In this episode, Braden and Joe talk about the chaos that is the space exploration startup Spinlaunch. Based in Long Beach, CA, and testing at Spaceport America, SpinLaunch has a radical— and somewhat questionable —yet remarkably unique approach to getting things into space. 

In this episode of Space for Improvement, Braden and Joe dress up for a lovely day at the beach only to find that their story is taking them to the Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert to talk about the iconic (?) history of Roton, the helicopter/rocket fusion project from 1990s space startup Rotary Rocket. Corrections, comments, questions, or episode suggestions? Hit our inbox at [email protected]