How was the universe created? What would an alien invasion be like? Why do people like sex? It almost sounds like any given GWC podcast. In fact, if you put GWC on TV with amazing special effects as well as international expert guest hosts like Stephen Hawking, NASA experts, and Hollywood stars like Michelle Rodriguez, […]

I’m a huge fan of NASA, which is why I love the recent shift away from NASA-as-shuttle-service to NASA-as-science. Assuming that this isn’t just a smokescreen to hide ditched funding, it makes perfect sense to me. Let commercial entities handle shipping things. They do a great job of it here on Earth, and there’s no […]

Audra and Chuck offer an hour’s worth of commentary over the live NASA TV feed. They pick up around 15 minutes before the launch and wrap up with an approximately 30 minute post-launch discussion of the future of the space program. We hope you enjoy this bonus content! And if you’re a first-time GWC listener, […]

We round up and discuss this summer’s awesome movies. And we run down the week in geek including the STS-134 Shuttle launch, the runaway rapture meme, the fabulous Salsa Vader, STS-134’s valuable hardware cargo, and more. Thanks to Tim Bailey, who joins us from the NASA KSC press site just an hour after the launch, […]

We explore more sci-fi what if situations, entering the world of classic arcade games, Halo, and Mass Effect. And we run down the week in geek, including lots of awesome new movie releases and the final home for NASA’s operational Space Shuttle orbiters.

The Andromeda Galaxy as seen by Terry Hancock from Michigan (with permission) Andromeda. Few words immediately bring forth imagery of science fiction, fantasy and real-life astronomy to me like Andromeda does. Andromeda is our heavens, Andromeda is in our history, Andromeda is in our music and literature, Andromeda is in our oceans and Andromeda is […]