On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeff Thornburg: a propulsion expert who just capped a five-year stint at SpaceX where he led development of the company’s methane-fueled Mars engine, Raptor.

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to PJ King, who abandoned a degree in astronautics to become a tech entrepreneur, then returned the space world as co-founder of Firefly Space Systems: a two year-old company trying to mass pro...

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Keri Bean: a fresh face at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who enjoys dressing up like Han Solo, building lifelike replicas of Star Wars droids,

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Planet Labs co-founder Robbie Schingler, who thinks big thoughts about faraway worlds while working with tiny satellites orbiting this world.

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sara Seager, who started out as a painfully shy, friendless child and grew up to become a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner for her pioneering work studying the atmospheres of planets...

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Natalie Panek: space roboticist at MDA Corp., outdoorswoman, ITAR survivor.

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Will Pomerantz: a converted planetary scientist who now gets to come up with new business ideas for Virgin Galactic.

In this special Halloween edition of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks about spooky classified intelligence satellites with a pair of experts — including one former spook-sat designer!

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeffrey Rodgers: a rocket engineer on United Launch Alliance's Atlas program who's had a front row seat for some of the biggest launch-industry shakeups in recent memory.

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Bruce Bugbee: a real-life space botanist who says a one-way trip to Mars means a one-way trip to a meatless diet. Not surprisingly, he also found a few nits to pick with "The Martian" and th...