The Space Revolution with Rick Tumlinson
Insider conversations with the people leading the human breakout into space.
Insider conversations with the people leading the human breakout into space.
The Space Revolution
Host Rick Tumlinson takes you on a rocket ride of interviews with the people in space who are getting it done,
from newly minted space entrepreneurs to scientists, investors and the creative minds working to bring Star Trek to life.
Tune in to hear from the people making it happen, exactly why it is happening, what is coming next, and what is at stake in the grandest adventure in the history of humanity and life ever!
You will never look at space the same again.
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Episodes

Aug 23, 2023
Aug 23, 2023
1 hr 3 min
What Does Space Mean for Humanity? - Jonathan Knowles, Exploration Director, NASA Frontier Development Lab
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Jonathan Knowles, Exploration Director, NASA Frontier Development Lab, ESA Frontier Development Lab.
Jonathan Knowles is a scientist and technologist with 30 years in Silicon Valley senior leadership positions at Apple, Adobe, and Autodesk, in addition to an active career in a variety of science, engineering, academic, and government policy domains, Jonathan is a proven creative thinker and respected voice on future trends, mindset, long-range vision, and "moonshot" thinking. Jonathan provides insight on the intersection of emerging technologies and societal trends, and closing the gap between the theory and the practice of interdisciplinary approaches to innovation in a world of rapidly accelerating technological capabilities.
Jonathan's efforts are inspired by and focused on his belief in a quote by Carl Sagan, "Achieving even modest improvements in the serious social, economic, and political problems that our global civilization now faces could release enormous resources, both material and human, for furthering space exploration and other worthy goals."
For more about Jonathan Knowles blast over to:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknowles/
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Aug 23, 2023
1 hr 3 min

Aug 16, 2023
Aug 16, 2023
56 min
Build it, Profit From it, and They Will Come - Robert Jacobson, Author, “Space is Open for Business”
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Robert Jacobson, Partner with Space Advisors®.
Robert C. Jacobson is a multi-faceted entrepreneur and accomplished space industryenabler and advocate.Jacobson is the founder of Space Advisors® which helps organizations establish a strategy for space and works with select high growth businesses. His decade-plus of professional experience in NewSpace includes roles at Arch MissionFoundation, where he notably worked to initiate the first Solar Library (the payload famously launched in Elon Musk’s Tesla in 2018), and Space Angels (formerly SpaceAngels Network), the world’s first space-focused angel investment group.
Jacobson is also the author of the new book, Space Is Open for Business: The Industry That Can Transform Humanity. Jacobson is a fellow with the Institute of Space Commerce. Jacobson is a graduate of University of Southern California and CaliforniaInstitute of the Arts. Jacobson participated in the International Space University's Space Studies Program.
For more about Robert Jacobson blast over to:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcjacobson/
https://www.spaceisopenforbusiness.com/book-c
https://www.facebook.com/RobertCJacobson/
https://www.robertjacobson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/robertcjacobson/
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Aug 16, 2023
56 min

Aug 9, 2023
Aug 9, 2023
1 hr 5 min
Space Law and Policy - From Rocketships to Resources with Sagi Kfir, Former Senior Counsel, Blue Origin Inc.
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Sagi Kfir, Space Industry Attorney.
Sagi Kfir is an attorney and acknowledged leader in the commercial space industry with over 20 years of broad legal experience on matters pertaining to traditional and NewSpace activities. He was the world’s first attorney for a space resource utilization company in his role as General Counsel, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Co-Founder for Deep Space Industries, and was involved in the creation and passage of Title IV of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015, the first law granting ownership rights to materials extracted from space resources. Sagi also served as Senior Managing Counsel and head of Regulatory and Compliance at Blue Origin, and worked closely with the U.S. administration, federal agencies and Congress on regulatory and policy matters spanning from human suborbital launches to commercial space stations. Sagi served as Chair for the American Bar Association’s Space Law Committee and co-chair for the American Bar Association’s annual Space Law Symposium, and was a member of The Hague International Space Resource Governance Working Group. Prior to his time at DSI and Blue Origin, Sagi served as General Counsel for 10 years at a national aviation company based in San Diego. Sagi first started his legal career in Miami as a litigator in an aerospace-focused law firm. He holds a Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the University of Miami and holds Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University.
His passions include enabling the human exploration of space beyond Earth’s orbit, yoga and jedis, and maybe not necessarily in that order!
For more about Sagi Kfir blast over to:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagikfir/
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Aug 9, 2023
1 hr 5 min

Aug 2, 2023
Aug 2, 2023
1 hr 5 min
Practicing to Live in Space - J. Trent Adams, Analog Astronauts
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Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, J. Trent Adams, with the Analog Astronaut Foundation.
J. Trent Adams is a scientist, inventor, and filmmaker with a passion for space. He earned a degree in Astronomy at Vassar with a thesis on the formation of spiral galaxies. He taught high school physics, and later became Chief Innovator and executive producer for the New England Patriots. He helped produce the 2021 indie sci-fi film “Norman” and is the Executive Producer for Cosmic Perspective. It is this combination of skills, experience, and passion for the human narrative in space exploration that led him to join the board of the Analog Astronaut Foundation.
His other titles include:
Cybersecurity Specialist, Internet Standards
Executive Director, Cosmic Perspective
Director, Ecosystem Security, Proofpoint
For more about J. Trent Adams, blast over to:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtrentadams
https://www.mediaslate.org/jtrentadams/
https://infosec.exchange/@jtrentadams
https://jtrentadams.medium.com/
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Aug 2, 2023
1 hr 5 min

Jul 26, 2023
Jul 26, 2023
1 hr 3 min
Our Space Legacy and the Laws of the Frontier with Michelle Hanlon, Co-Founder, For All MoonKind
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Michelle Hanlon, Co-Founder, President & CEO of For All Moonkind.
Michelle is co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of For All Moonkind. She leads all legal efforts, with particular emphasis on space law. Michelle is also Co-Director of the Center for Air and Space Law and an instructor of aviation and space law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Michelle is also a founding partner of ABH Aerospace, LLC a consulting firm which provides advice and counsel in respect of all aspects of air, space and cyber law. She is on the Advisory Board of several start-ups involved in commercial space activities including orbital debris removal, remote sensing and the support of lunar resource extraction. Michelle is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law and the Journal of Drone Law and Policy.
For more about Michelle Hanlon and/or For All Mankind blast over to:
https://www.forallmoonkind.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-l-d-hanlon/
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Jul 26, 2023
1 hr 3 min

Jul 19, 2023
Jul 19, 2023
1 hr 6 min
US Strategy and Energy From Space - Col. Pete Garretson (Ret.), Co-Author “Scramble for the Sky”
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Pete Garretson, author of Scramble for the Skies.
Peter Garretson is a Senior Fellow in Defense Studies with the American Foreign Policy Council and co-director if its Space Policy Initiative and host of the Space Strategy Podcast. He was previously the director of Air University’s Space Horizons Task Force, an Air Force think tank for space, and was a founder and deputy director of the U.S. Space Force’s Schriever Scholars Strategy Seminar, America’s premier military space strategy program. He is the author of Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space. His new book, The Next Space Race: A Blueprint for American Primacy is available for pre-order.
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Jul 19, 2023
1 hr 6 min

Jul 12, 2023
Jul 12, 2023
59 min
Immortality on the Moon, Send your DNA to Space! with Ben Haldeman, Founder, LifeShip
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Ben Haldeman, Founder & CEO at LifeShip.
Ben is founder of LifeShip, a community space movement with a mission to spread life to the stars and continue the story of humanity. LifeShip’s first mission is a DNA seed bank time capsule on the Moon; people send their DNA, photos, and stories. Ben was an early engineer at Planet where he built hundreds of satellites to image Earth. He previously built big robotic telescopes to find new exoplanets. In grad school at UC Berkeley, he built instruments to look for life on Mars.
For more about Ben Haldeman and/or LifeShip blast over to:
https://twitter.com/goLifeShiphttps://www.linkedin.com/company/lifeshiphttps://www.facebook.com/golifeshiphttps://www.instagram.com/lifeship
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhaldeman/https://twitter.com/ben_haldemanhttps://www.facebook.com/ben.haldemanhttps://www.instagram.com/benlifeship/
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Jul 12, 2023
59 min

Jul 5, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
1 hr 5 min
The Rise of AI in Space - SkyNet & Why People Matter with Mike Mongo, Author “The Astronaut Handbook”
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Mike Mongo. Mike is the author of The Astronaut Instruction Manual, host of Mike Mongo's Astronaut Adventures, and director of The Humannaires Initiative, a partnership with United Launch Alliance.
For more about Mike blast over to https://www.mikemongo.com!
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Jul 5, 2023
1 hr 5 min

Jun 22, 2023
Jun 22, 2023
1 hr 41 sec
Bringing the Astronaut Experience to Earth with Greg Chamitoff, former NASA Astronaut, Founder, Thrive 360
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview, conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson, and Greg Chamitoff, astronaut and entrepreneur.
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Dr. Gregory Chamitoff served as a NASA Astronaut for 15 years, including Shuttle Missions STS-124,126,134 and Space Station long duration missions Expedition 17 and 18. He has lived and worked in Space for almost 200 days as a Flight Engineer, Science Officer, and Mission Specialist. His last mission was on the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour, during which he performed two spacewalks, including the last one of the Shuttle era, which also completed the assembly of the International Space Station. Chamitoff is a Professor of Practice in Aerospace Engineering and Director of the ASTRO Laboratory at Texas A&M University. His research includes space robotics, autonomous systems, and the development of collaborative VR simulation environments for space system engineering and mission design. He is co-author and co-editor of Human Spaceflight Operations, a textbook on the lessons learned from the past 60 years of spaceflight.
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Jun 22, 2023
1 hr 41 sec

Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
1 hr 8 min
Going Up? Space Elevators & Moon Elevators with Michael Laine, Founder, LiftPort
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview, conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson, and Michael Laine, CEO at LiftPort Group.
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Mar 21, 2023
1 hr 8 min

Considered one of the best speakers in the space field, Rick Tumlinson is listed as one of the top 100 influential people in the global space community. He has been called one of the world’s top space “visionaries” and is credited with helping create the commercial space industry highlighted by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and often referred to as: NewSpace.
A leading writer, speaker, and six time Congressional witness, he led the commercial takeover of the Russian Mir space station, signed the first private space traveler to fly to the space station, co-founded the Space Frontier Foundation, and was a founding board member of the X-Prize. As a result of his world-changing work, in 2015 he won the World Technology Award along with Craig Venter of the Human Genome project
He founded the SpaceFund venture capital company, and his non-profit organization, the EarthLight Foundation is creating an inclusive movement to use space to protect the Earth and expand life into the cosmos.

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