

Space Café Podcast - Navigating Our Interplanetary Ambitions
Markus Mooslechner
If you feel the excitement of standing at the threshold of a new era in human history, you've come to the right place. At Space Café Podcast, our bi-weekly hour-long episodes go beyond current events in space exploration – we're peering into the future of our species among the stars.Each week, we:Engage with visionaries who are actively shaping our cosmic destinyExplore groundbreaking technologies turning science fiction into realityDiscuss the implications of becoming a multi-planetary civilizationTake listener questions about humanity's future in spaceWhat sets Space Café apart:Deep dives into ideas that will define our cosmic futureDiverse expertise: from astronauts and engineers to philosophers and entrepreneursComplex topics made accessible through engaging discussionInteractive Q&A segments with our expert guestsRecent episodes feature:A Mars settlement architect on the practicalities of off-world livingA space law expert exploring lunar resource rightsAn astro-biologist speculating on potential alien lifeWhether you're a space industry professional, sci-fi enthusiast, or simply gaze at the night sky with wonder, Space Café is your front-row seat to humanity's greatest adventure.So, grab your cosmic latte and join us every Wednesday at 2100 UTC. At Space Café, we're not just talking about the future – we're helping to shape it.The next giant leap for mankind is just beginning. Are you ready to take it with us?
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Jun 8, 2021 • 1h 2min
Brother Guy Consolmagno, The Pope’s Astronomer
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present: The Space Café Podcast #29: Brother Guy Consolmagno, The Pope’s AstronomerEpisode 29 features a special guest: Brother Guy ConsolmagnoBrother Guy Consolmagno begins his conversation in this podcast by referring to a long and strange tale. And that’s what it has become. One of the most fascinating paths we’ve followed on this podcast so far. This is the story of the transformation of a budding astronomer with very secular interests into the Pope’s chief astronomer. If you want to know what the Catholic Church thinks about New-Space and why Brother Guy doesn’t think God lives in heaven, we highly recommend this podcast.Click here to learn more about the Vatical Observatory.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features guests that matter.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panelists from across the space sector.SPOTIFY: Space Cafe Podcast Guest Tunes Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters.Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!Send us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

May 25, 2021 • 48min
Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi, Space Architect. What our habitats on foreign shores will look like
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 28th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi, Space Architect. What our habitats on foreign shores will look likeEpisode 028 features a special guest Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi.Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi builds houses. Preferably for places like Mars or the Moon. Because in the not too distant future, we will need permanent dwellings out there. But as you might expect, it’s not that simple and will take generations of research. Space is and remains merciless when it comes to offering humans a potentially new home. But Mahsa will not be shaken off that easily as she calls persistence one of her magic skills. Get on board and take an exclusive tour of a future habitat in distant worlds with this new edition of the Space Cafe Podcast.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi Mahsa Moghimi EsfandabadiSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

May 11, 2021 • 58min
Bruce Damer – a new origin of life and how to mine an asteroid
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 27th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Bruce Damer – a new origin of life and how to mine an asteroid.Episode 027 features a special guest Bruce Damer.Bruce Damer is a versatile scientist who may be on the verge of rewriting the story of the origin of life. Contrary to all our ideas and textbook opinions, life may not have originated at the bottom of the oceans. Quite the opposite. Many things speak against it and the scientific community is debating. Of course, the space community has also taken notice of this news and Bruce also has a very clear idea of what to look for on distant planets like Mars.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features guests that matter.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panelists from across the space sector.SPOTIFY: Space Cafe Podcast Guest TunesSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Apr 27, 2021 • 49min
Torsten Kriening – Mastermind behind one of the fastest growing space industry news outlets
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 26th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Torsten Kriening – Mastermind behind one of the fastest growing space industry news outletsEpisode 026 features a special guest Torsten KrieningTorsten Kriening is your point of contact when you need information about whoever you want in the space industry. Seriously, Torsten is the best-connected and most go-getting person on the international space scene. This fact almost put one of the most spectacular projects on the Moon a few years ago. Today, he is the CEO of SpaceWatch.Global, probably the fastest growing media portal on space issues at the moment. In this Episode, Torsten takes us backstage at a legendary Moon mission attempt and the early days of SpaceWatch.Global.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector. ○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Torsten KrieningTorsten KrieningSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 3min
Alice Gorman – Space Archaeologist and why Elon Musk will never call her back
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 25th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Alice Gorman – Space Archaeologist and why Elon Musk will never call her back.Episode 025 features a special guest Alice Gorman.Alice Gorman has brought together astrophysics and archaeology to create the fascinating field of space archaeology. She talks about what exactly it is and why it could be crucial to the future of space travel in this fascinating episode of the Space Cafe Podcast.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panelists from across the space sector.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Alice GormanAlice GormanSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Mar 30, 2021 • 1h 7min
Lin Kayser – $> computer, build me a spaceship [Enter]
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 24th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Lin Kayser – $> computer, build me a spaceship [Enter] Episode 024 features a special guest Lin Kayser.Lin Kayser is a German entrepreneur who wants to revolutionize the way we make products with his company Hyperganic. 3D printing has advanced to the point where it can really take us where we’ve long been in science fiction. And, he wouldn’t be with us here at Space Cafe if he didn’t want to rethink space travel as well. PS: The good man may have the right DNA for such great thoughts. Crazy and world-changing thoughts run in the Kayser family.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panelists from across the space sector.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Lin KayserHyperganicSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Mar 16, 2021 • 1h 5min
Pascale Ehrenfreund – is there life in space (other than us)?
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 23rd episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Pascale Ehrenfreund – is there life in space (other than us)?Episode 023 features a special guest Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund.Pascale Ehrenfreund is an astrophysicist specialising in astrobiology. She is a highly-decorated and deserved expert in the field and there is no getting around her when it comes to the question of whether there is life in space (apart from Earth). Pascale has worked for NASA and JPL, was Director of the German Aerospace Center and is now the President of the International Astronautical Federation.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Pascale EhrenfreundPascale Ehrenfreund Send us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Mar 2, 2021 • 57min
Avi Loeb – did we just witness an encounter of non-human origin?
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 22nd episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Avi Loeb – did we just witness an encounter of non-human origin?Episode 022 features a special guest Prof. Avi Loeb.In 2017, a strange object appeared in our solar system only to disappear again. The global research community agrees that it happened, but what it was is part of a sometimes heated debate. One who particularly fanned the heat was an astronomer at the prestigious Harvard University. He claims that there is much to suggest that the object is something of non-human origin. The shockwaves this sent through the world of science are still being felt today. But what is the truth of this extraordinary claim? Avi Loeb joined us in the Space Cafe Podcast Studio to find out. An extraordinary episode.The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Avi LoebAvi LoebSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Feb 16, 2021 • 1h 7min
Niamh Shaw – the least likeliest person who can get to space
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 21st episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Niamh Shaw – the least likeliest person who can get to space.Episode 021 features special guest Dr Niamh Shaw.Dr Niamh Shaw, an Irish-born performer, writer and communicator, wants to go into space. At the same time, however, she describes herself as probably the most unlikely person to succeed in such a feat. She is afraid and may not have the physical fitness. Nevertheless, Niamh holds on to her dream. Because she has a mission. And this should one day make the impossible possible.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Niahm ShawNiamh Shaw - Dream Big!The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector.Send us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

Feb 2, 2021 • 1h
Alexander Soucek – ESA and the legal challenges of space.
SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 20th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Alexander Soucek – ESA and the legal challenges of space.Episode 020 features special guest Alexander Soucek.Alexander Soucek is a space lawyer at ESA and must ensure that the increasing human presence in space remains under control. Not only in terms of traffic but also ownership and rules of conduct. One specific issue currently being negotiated is the inevitable demise of the International Space Station (ISS) and how and, more importantly, where it will crash to Earth. Other topics of this episode include:How can space law keep up with rapid technological progress?Are there legal rules of conduct for contacts with extraterrestrials?Is Elon free to do what he wants in space?Who owns the ISS?What law applies if a crime occurs on the ISS? What do international negotiations look like?Pro Tips: How to negotiate properly?Am I allowed to mine an asteroid of gold?What skills do you need to work at ESA?Why are there still more NASA T-shirts than ESA? Is ESA underselling its achievements? The Space Cafe Podcast brings our signature brand of engaging and relevant content from across the global space economy to you via an exciting new format. Together with award-winning Executive Producer, Markus Mooslechner (Terra Mater Factual Studios), our fortnightly podcast features highly interesting guests.Each episode includes a review of important topics, as well as guest appearances and deep commentary from expert panellists from across the space sector.○ Host: Markus Mooslechner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-mooslechner-87878085/ ○ Guest: Alexander SoucekAlexander Soucek on LinkedinSend us a textYou can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!