Toggle navigation
Toggle search
About
Shows
People
Store
Blog
Membership
Live
Sponsor
Liftoff Archives
December 2022
Liftoff #171: Apollo 17
December 9th, 2022
November 2022
Liftoff #170: It Flew
November 18th, 2022
July 2022
Liftoff #169: A Lot of Glory to be Bathed Within
July 29th, 2022
April 2022
Liftoff #168: Apollo 16
April 20th, 2022
Liftoff #167: Back in the VAB
April 19th, 2022
December 2021
Liftoff #166: JWST and the Future of Liftoff
December 27th, 2021
Liftoff #165: Forever Expanded in our Hearts
December 14th, 2021
November 2021
Liftoff #164: A Dashcam for a Space Probe
November 30th, 2021
Liftoff #163: What Does it Look Like Under the Bus?
November 16th, 2021
Liftoff #162: Mixed-Use Business Park in Space
November 2nd, 2021
October 2021
Liftoff #161: Now It’s Very Much Precedented
October 19th, 2021
Liftoff #160: Hot Jupiters in Colorado
October 5th, 2021
September 2021
Liftoff #159: Fun Stuff in Science
September 21st, 2021
Liftoff #158: A Bad Roommate
September 7th, 2021
August 2021
Liftoff #157: It's in the Slushie Now
August 24th, 2021
Liftoff #156: You're Stealing My Rocks
August 10th, 2021
July 2021
Liftoff #155: Apollo 15
July 27th, 2021
Liftoff #154: 💼 🚀 💰 💸
July 16th, 2021
Liftoff #153: Hubble Trouble
July 1st, 2021
June 2021
Liftoff #152: It's Under Our Control, with Dr. Ed Lu
June 15th, 2021
Liftoff #151: Off to the Arctic Circle With You
June 1st, 2021
May 2021
Liftoff #150: Worming It Up
May 18th, 2021
Liftoff #149: $5,999,999,999.99
May 6th, 2021
April 2021
Liftoff #148: Space Suits as a Service
April 19th, 2021
Liftoff #147: Astronaut To Be Named Later
April 8th, 2021
March 2021
Liftoff #146: Reverse Origami
March 23rd, 2021
Liftoff #145: Sad Mole
March 9th, 2021
February 2021
Liftoff #144: Elon Being Elon and the Early Days of SpaceX, with Eric Berger
February 23rd, 2021
Liftoff #143: The Perseverance Landing and "For All Mankind" with Ron Moore
February 19th, 2021
Liftoff #142: Not To Sound Like a Parent, But...
February 11th, 2021
January 2021
Liftoff #141: Apollo 14
January 26th, 2021
Liftoff #140: The End of the Year Means Next Year
January 12th, 2021
December 2020
Liftoff #139: Space Omelets
December 15th, 2020
Liftoff #138: A Great Acronym, but it's in Russian
December 1st, 2020
November 2020
Liftoff #137: Delicate Dance of Docking
November 17th, 2020
Liftoff #136: Don’t Tell the Boss
November 3rd, 2020
October 2020
Liftoff #135: Space is Full of Rocks
October 20th, 2020
Liftoff #134: My Response to Existential Terror, with Dr. Katie Mack
October 6th, 2020
September 2020
Liftoff #133: The World’s Most Expensive WeWork
September 22nd, 2020
Liftoff #132: In the Shadow of Artemis
September 8th, 2020
August 2020
Liftoff #131: Windex for Rockets
August 25th, 2020
Liftoff #130: A Salted Almond in Space
August 11th, 2020
July 2020
Liftoff #129: Dirt in a Soccer Ball
July 28th, 2020
Liftoff #128: Summer of Mars
July 14th, 2020
June 2020
Liftoff #127: Wormy Space Coin
June 30th, 2020
Liftoff #126: Astronauts are Really Good at Moving
June 15th, 2020
Liftoff #125: A Sparkly Dinosaur
June 2nd, 2020
May 2020
Liftoff #124: Space Koozie
May 19th, 2020
Liftoff #123: Lunar Camper
May 5th, 2020
April 2020
Liftoff #122: Get an Exoplanet; Lose an Exoplanet
April 21st, 2020
Liftoff #121: Apollo 13
April 7th, 2020
March 2020
Liftoff #120: Everything Got Jumbled and Fell Down
March 24th, 2020
Liftoff #119: A Rovey McRoverface Situation
March 10th, 2020
February 2020
Liftoff #118: A Reusable Buddy Satellite
February 28th, 2020
Liftoff #117: Things Bumping Against Other Things
February 11th, 2020
January 2020
Liftoff #116: Remembering Challenger
January 28th, 2020
Liftoff #115: A Mannequin is Not an Astronaut
January 14th, 2020
December 2019
Liftoff #114: A Pentagon of Storms
December 17th, 2019
Liftoff #113: Barbecue Freezer
December 3rd, 2019
November 2019
Liftoff #112: Apollo 12
November 19th, 2019
Liftoff #111: Escape of the Mole
November 5th, 2019
October 2019
Liftoff #110: A Consensual Hallucination
October 22nd, 2019
Liftoff #109: An SLS in the Garage
October 8th, 2019
September 2019
Liftoff #108: Hungry for Artemis Details
September 24th, 2019
Liftoff #107: Build a Lunar Zipline
September 9th, 2019
August 2019
Liftoff #106: One Robot Closet
August 27th, 2019
Liftoff #105: Hallowed Ground
August 13th, 2019
July 2019
Liftoff #104: A Beautiful Rocket Butterfly
July 31st, 2019
Liftoff #103: Apollo 11
July 16th, 2019
Liftoff #102: Important Business Meetings
July 5th, 2019
June 2019
Liftoff #101: Behind the Back Fence
June 20th, 2019
Liftoff #100: There's Nobody in Charge
June 6th, 2019
May 2019
Liftoff #99: Apollo 10
May 21st, 2019
Liftoff #98: The Moon is Having a Moment
May 7th, 2019
April 2019
Liftoff #97: The Titans Who Live There
April 23rd, 2019
Liftoff #96: Probably Not Space Cows
April 9th, 2019
March 2019
Liftoff #95: The Red Flag
March 26th, 2019
Liftoff #94: A Planned Countdown Hold
March 26th, 2019
Liftoff #93: Budget Season
March 12th, 2019
February 2019
Liftoff #92: Apollo 9
February 26th, 2019
Liftoff #91: Shoot and Hope
February 12th, 2019
January 2019
Liftoff #90: My Feet Belong on the Ground
January 29th, 2019
Liftoff #89: Some Time at the Taco Bar
January 15th, 2019
Liftoff #88: Pixely Peanut
January 2nd, 2019
December 2018
Liftoff #87: Apollo 8
December 18th, 2018
Liftoff #86: Two-Tone Rocket
December 4th, 2018
November 2018
Liftoff #85: There's No E in 'Flight'
November 20th, 2018
Liftoff #84: Emotions of Distant Galaxies
November 6th, 2018
October 2018
Liftoff #83: Apollo 7
October 22nd, 2018
Liftoff #82: Hubble Trouble
October 8th, 2018
September 2018
Liftoff #81: Lasers Are the Best
September 28th, 2018
Liftoff #80: Little Caesars Mars Probe
September 11th, 2018
August 2018
Liftoff #79: The Final Bridge to Crewed Flight
August 28th, 2018
Liftoff #78: Shed Some Sunlight on It
August 14th, 2018
Liftoff #77: Belly Flop Situation
August 1st, 2018
July 2018
Liftoff #76: Talking Curiosity with Emily Lakdawalla
July 3rd, 2018
June 2018
Liftoff #75: Not a Guy, a Box
June 19th, 2018
Liftoff #74: Scientific Research and Glory
June 5th, 2018
May 2018
Liftoff #73: No Party Beyond the Event Horizon
May 22nd, 2018
Liftoff #72: Into the Black
May 8th, 2018
April 2018
Liftoff #71: A 322-foot Football
April 24th, 2018
Liftoff #70: An All-Inclusive Space Hotel
April 10th, 2018
March 2018
Liftoff #69: Apollo 6
March 27th, 2018
Liftoff #68: In Tune With Your System
March 13th, 2018
February 2018
Liftoff #67: Paranoia and a Courtesy Laugh
February 28th, 2018
Liftoff #66: Fancy Ballast
February 14th, 2018
January 2018
Liftoff #65: Apollo 4 and 5
January 30th, 2018
Liftoff #64: Remembering Apollo 1
January 16th, 2018
Liftoff #63: It Looks Like a Soup Can
January 3rd, 2018
December 2017
Liftoff #62: Get Out of Low Earth Orbit
December 19th, 2017
Liftoff #61: Sleepover in Space
December 5th, 2017
November 2017
Liftoff #60: Crumbs Are Bad
November 21st, 2017
Liftoff #59: Kinda Bananas and Super Dangerous
November 7th, 2017
October 2017
Liftoff #58: Getting in on the Moon Money
October 24th, 2017
Liftoff #57: A Realistic View
October 10th, 2017
September 2017
Liftoff #56: A Guy and a Grease Pencil
September 26th, 2017
Liftoff #55: Fireflies
September 12th, 2017
August 2017
Liftoff #54: Live from the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
August 22nd, 2017
Liftoff #53: More Sevens
August 15th, 2017
Liftoff #52: Missed by Half an Inch
August 1st, 2017
July 2017
Liftoff #51: Dark Matter, with Dr. Katie Mack
July 18th, 2017
Liftoff #50: A Science Skateboard
July 5th, 2017
June 2017
Liftoff #49: A Feel-good Mission About the Sun
June 20th, 2017
Liftoff #48: Hidden Figures
June 6th, 2017
May 2017
Liftoff #47: Eclipses: Orbits Aren't Perfect
May 23rd, 2017
Liftoff #46: Team Pluto on the March
May 9th, 2017
April 2017
Liftoff #45: Interested in Looking Awesome
April 26th, 2017
Liftoff #44: Voyager
April 11th, 2017
March 2017
Liftoff #43: Release the Ice Mole
March 28th, 2017
Liftoff #42: You Don't Wanna Hit a Moon
March 14th, 2017
February 2017
Liftoff #41: The Ice Giants
February 28th, 2017
Liftoff #40: A Gradient of Space News
February 14th, 2017
January 2017
Liftoff #39: The Speed of Light Doesn't Apply to Telepathy
January 31st, 2017
Liftoff #38: Lucy: Levitating Ulcers Carefully Yearning
January 17th, 2017
Liftoff #37: All Objects Are Special
January 2nd, 2017
December 2016
Liftoff #36: Remembering John Glenn
December 20th, 2016
Liftoff #35: Saturn: The Jewel of The Solar System
December 6th, 2016
November 2016
Liftoff #34: The James Webb Telescope
November 22nd, 2016
Liftoff #33: Cubesats: Orbital Science on a Budget
November 8th, 2016
October 2016
Liftoff #32: The Robotic Spacecraft Draft
October 25th, 2016
Liftoff #31: Imagine If This All Works
October 11th, 2016
September 2016
Liftoff #30: Talking Kepler with Natalie Batalha
September 26th, 2016
Liftoff #29: Solar System Sawdust: OSIRIS-REx & Asteroids
September 13th, 2016
August 2016
Liftoff #28: Exoplanets
August 30th, 2016
Liftoff #27: Party Like It's 1999 RQ36
August 16th, 2016
Liftoff #26: The Journey to Mars
August 2nd, 2016
July 2016
Liftoff #25: Mission Roundup
July 19th, 2016
Liftoff #24: All Juno, All the Time
July 6th, 2016
June 2016
Liftoff #23: Inside a Bendy Straw
June 21st, 2016
Liftoff #22: Billionaires at a Conference
June 7th, 2016
May 2016
Liftoff #21: The Excitement Has Exploded
May 24th, 2016
Liftoff #20: The Lifecycle of our Sun: Like a M&M
May 10th, 2016
April 2016
Liftoff #19: Venus: The Pizza Planet
April 25th, 2016
Liftoff #18: The SLS
April 11th, 2016
March 2016
Liftoff #17: Space Stations: Totally Not Obsessed
March 28th, 2016
Liftoff #16: Like a Curtain in the Wind
March 14th, 2016
February 2016
Liftoff #15: The Moon Draft
February 29th, 2016
Liftoff #14: Outside the Gates
February 15th, 2016
Liftoff #13: It's Important to Have a Dryer Sheet
February 1st, 2016
January 2016
Liftoff #12: The Size of a Refrigerator
January 18th, 2016
Liftoff #11: Moon Phases & Tides
January 4th, 2016
December 2015
Liftoff #10: The Solstice
December 21st, 2015
Liftoff #9: The Space Shuttle
December 7th, 2015
November 2015
Liftoff #8: Halo of Junk
November 23rd, 2015
Liftoff #7: Still Probably Not Aliens
November 10th, 2015
October 2015
Liftoff #6: The Sun
October 26th, 2015
Liftoff #5: 'The Martian'
October 9th, 2015
September 2015
Liftoff #4: A Laptop Every Ten Years
September 28th, 2015
Liftoff #3: Poke His Twin
September 14th, 2015
August 2015
Liftoff #2: The Moon
August 31st, 2015
Liftoff #1: Space Salad
August 17th, 2015
Liftoff #0: Jason & Stephen Talk Space
August 15th, 2015