STP159 - Liftoff 2.0 - The Ultimate Space Board Game? - with Fritz Bronner
This week we’re joined by game designer Fritz Bronner to discuss the new edition of his 1989 board game Liftoff. That’s right Liftoff 2.0 should be coming out next year and you can be a part of it.
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Liftoff (1989: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2853/liftoff
Race To Space Game: https://github.com/raceintospace/raceintospace
What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b:
https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-discovers-methane-carbon-dioxide-in-atmosphere-of-k2-18b
Something Weird Is Going On With The Asteroid NASA Smashed:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/dart-nasa-asteroid-orbit
Astronaut Frank Rubio breaks US record on way to spending a year in space:
https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-frank-rubio-longest-us-spaceflight-record
Virgin Galactic launches 3 of its original space tourist customers to the final frontier:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-third-commercial-spaceflight-success
Australia launching moon rover on NASA Artemis mission as soon as 2026:
https://www.space.com/australia-moon-rover-2026-nasa-artemis
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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.
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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.
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