STP140 - The First Private Mission To Mars - with Barry Matsumori - COO of Impulse Space Inc.

May 4

Before we spend a few weeks looking at the past, we wanted to take another look at the future, so today we speak to Barry Matsumori, COO of Impulse Space who are teaming up with Relativity Space to attempt the first private landing on Mars in 2026.

Barry Matsumori:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-matsumori-35676/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AZBammer

Impulse Space:
https://www.impulsespace.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gotoimpulse/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoToImpulse
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impulse-space/

Space Hipsters May 4th Event:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spacehipsters/permalink/6354206264624203/

Skylab Anniversary Events:
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction and Gala, Florida:
https://astronautscholarship.org/ahof.html

Museum Of Flight, Seattle, Washington: 13th May:
https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/calendar-of-events/7771/skylab-anniversary-program

Kennedy Space Center: 15th May:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2023/may/skylab-50th-event

Coffee at The Cosmo: 18th May:
https://cosmo.org/#event-1684

Space Center Houston: 19th May:
https://spacecenter.org/featured_events/skylab-50th-anniversary-celebration/

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
NASA's 'Spinoff' Magazine Showed How Space Tech Was Building the Future:
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/31/nasas-spinoff-magazine-shows-how-industry-benefits-from-government-space-tech

Mars helicopter Ingenuity snaps incredible aerial photo of Perseverance rover during 51st flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-perseverance-photo-flight-51

Russia agrees to stay aboard International Space Station through 2028:
https://www.space.com/russia-stay-international-space-station-partner-2028

SpaceX Starship launch under FAA investigation after raining potentially hazardous debris on homes and beaches:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-faa-mishap-investigation

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe has an antenna glitch in deep space:
https://www.space.com/juice-jupiter-probe-antenna-glitch-deep-space

China's Zhurong Mars rover finds signs of recent water activity on Red Planet:
https://www.space.com/china-zhurong-mars-rover-recent-water-activity

NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft extends its interstellar science mission for 3 more years:
https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-2-spacecraft-instrument-shutdown-postponed

Celestis: Aurora Flight Update:
https://twitter.com/celestisflights/status/1653868064545423362?s=20

Image Credits: Impulse Space Inc.

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Emily Carney

A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.

In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EmilyLCarney
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyCarneySpace/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilycarneyspace/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilycarneyspace/

Dave Giles

Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.

In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davejgiles
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davejgilesmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davejgiles
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-giles-1286ab1a3/