Audios
The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David Livingston - Michael Potter, "NewSpace Revolution"
"Michael Potter is a documentary film maker (see www.orphansofapollo.com/) His film is “Orphans of Apollo: The Battle of the Mir & the New Space Revolution." This features the extraordinary true story of a small group of entrepreneurs who bought the Russian Mir Space station and helped launched the New Space Revolution. " The international creative and production team on Orphans of Apollo includes a two time Emmy Award winning technical and creative team member. First time documentary film maker Michael Potter, who is one degree of separation from most of the key players in this remarkable and historic epic, is an expert on international technology and business projects. Potter, has published extensively on technology policy issues. Potter work together with the key figure in the "Orphans of Apollo" Walt Anderson in creating a publicly traded pan-European telecommunications network. Potter previously worked on the 13 part WGBH Series, "War & Peace in the Nuclear Age." Michael is a graduate of the London School of Economics. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Space University."
The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David Livingston - Dr. John Jurist, Prof. of Space Studies
"Dr. John Jurist was simultaneously a physicist and a medical researcher before becoming involved in business. He has degrees in biophysics and nuclear medicine earned while he was at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Jurist has held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in the Division of Orthopedic Surgery and in the Space Science and Engineering Center. In the former, he studied human factors in space flight during Apollo and what was then called Apollo Applications. In the latter during the early 1970s, he was team leader of the group that transmitted the first medical imaging over communications satellite links in the precursor of what is now called telemedicine. In the business arena, he created, grew, and ran a very successful biomedical engineering consulting firm, took over a surgical care facility with instructions from the board to prepare it for bankruptcy, and within a year, converted it into a successful operation. He also founded a nonprofit medical research institution and ran it for four years -- it now has an eight figure annual research budget. Dr. Jurist is experienced in running a business and evaluating a business plan. Now semi-retired, he is applying his experience to the developing new space industry. He has invested in several alt.space startups, supported research in others by corporate grants, and funded research projects at Montana State University and at Santa Clara University. Dr. Jurist is currently a Life Member of the Aerospace Medical Association, a Life Member of the International Association of Military Flight Surgeon Pilots, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society among other professional organizations. He is presently an Adjunct Professor of Space Studies at UND at the Odegard School Aerospace Sciences.
The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David Livingston - Henry Hertzfeld, space economist
Dr. Henry R. Hertzfeld, Research Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, Space Policy Institute and the Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University, is an expert in the economic, legal, and policy issues of space and advanced technological development. Discussion topics will include the economics of launch vehicles, measuring socioeconomic benefits of better forecasts from weather and earth observation satellites, current issues in space law, including the property rights in space and on the Moon controversy and new regulations on human space, mainly suborbital. See link to audio interview on this Space Show site page.