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Artemis II Electric Boogaloo
Artemis II has taken flight and there are now 4 people of their way around the moon!! On this episode Iain and Ethan break down the near flawless launch of SLS and highlight some funny and highly…
New Glenn Did It!
This week Iain and Ethan discuss everything around New Glenns second flight including a genius way of keeping the booster stable of the droneship. We also have a few updates to Firefly's mishap from…
Firefly Fireball
This week Iain and Ethan discuss all things IAC which, shockingly, isnt much. They also talk about firefly's mishap during a test, a new reusable vehicle Avio is designing, and they discuss everyones…
A Whole Comedy of Errors
This week Iain and Ethan discuss all the happenings at NASA, and boy was there a lot to talk about! First we congratulated the new class of astronaut candidates, then we discuss the Artemis two…
An Episode That's Not Late
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Fly My Starship Be Free
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We're Back!!!
In this weeks show Iain and Ethan discuss all the various new contracts and missions that got announced this past week, and boy, there are some very interesting things to note here!!Amentum secures a…
Something Went Boom
In homage to one of our past episodes, entitled "Nothing Went Boom", we talked about a very important boom this week. For a while. Actually, we talked about a couple of booms. What booms are those?…
We Take Sole Credit
This week Ethan and Iain discuss the politics surrounding NASA and the pulled nomination of Jared Isaacman. We also discuss the fallout between Musk and Trump and what that means for SpaceX…
A Very Interesting Episode
In this interesting episode Iain is on his own and he is less than enthused, however the news is very exciting so that helped. Over the past month a lot has happened and we cover it all, which…
I Like Vulcan A Latte
New Horizons turned back on and Firefly Blue Ghost did not Redwire and Ispace sign contract for lunar landers ULA sponsors a coffee shopTexas senators want Space Shuttle Discovery and so do weJared…
Thats a Lot of Dolphins
This week Butch and Suni come home after a 9 month stint on the ISS, ISRO gets approval for another lunar lander, and SpaceX breaks a turnaround record Crew-9 return Blue Ghost goes offline wish…
This Better Not Land Sideways... Again
In which Iain & Beagle discussMoon landers! (Late congrats to Firefly, by the way. They nailed their landing Sunday morning!)Management changes at NASAAnother Falcon 9 second stage mishapTons…
S3E2 Oops, It's A Tesla!
Why is a space podcast entitled "Oops, It's A Tesla"? Guess you'll just have to watch to find out!Plus, we've got:- Lunar Lander recaps- Boeing's Organizational Failures- New NASA Admins…
This is Good, This is Bad, But This is Good!
Welcome to season 3 of Max-Q News! This week we talk about Blue origins inaugural flight of New Glenn, Starships failed launch, and two lunar landers launching on the same rocket? that cant be right!…
When In Doubt, More Boosters!
This week Iain and Ethan have a wide ranging discussion about the new NASA nominee Jared Isaacman and what he will bring. We discuss about wether or not company towns are a good idea (hint: they…
PLD Space - Set Up for Success?
We spend a ton of time this episode looking into PLD Space's plans for their Miura rocket family, along with plenty of other news from this and last week! Boeing: Selling Off Space? Gilmour:…
The Busiest Week Ever
This week Starship launched and what a catch that was. We have several thoughts we didn't even have time for a cold open! Europa Clipper also launched this past week and Iain has some controversial…
Two Anomalies, One Week
Like the name suggests, we've got a double whammy in terms of anomalies this week -- one with a Falcon 9 (yes, again) and one with a Vulcan SRB... come give a listen to our analysis of what exactly…
It's in the First Sentence, Beagle!
This week, on the return of Max-Q (sorry 'bout that.): We chat about SLC-40 finally hosting crew Crew-9 (and a half), plus the future possibilities for the cut crew Deep Blue Space's Nebula-1…
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Max-Q: The Podcast has published 57 episodes since April 2022, covering topics in Science.
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