High-Altitude Adventures

Samuel Coniglio IV is a futurist, technical writer, photographer, inventor, and private space industry advocate. He is a Board Member and a former Vice President of the Space Tourism Society. Samuel was active with the National Space Society, Space Frontier Foundation, and Yury's Night World Space Party events. In the 1990's, he worked for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) on the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and the little-known, but historic Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) reusable rocket program.He is also my friend. We first met in 1994, when Samuel and I worked together to organise a trip of a group of Russian "rocket scientist" students to Florida to visit KSA, ERAU and attend a launch of a Space Shuttle. I lived in the U.S. then.Samuel was in Ireland last week, for the first time ever, and I took liberty of pulling him away from his family for half a day. We talked about space in general, space tourism, and about his new book. We exceeded all possible time limits, so I had to split our "chat" into two separate podcast episodes.In the previous episode (3) we talked about space programs of USA, USSR and Russia and about Delta Clipper Experimental project by McDonnell Douglas.In this episode we talk about space tourism in general and about the book which Samuel wrote and has finally published: "Creature Comforts in Space". It's about all technical solutions (some of which are Samuel's inventions) which will make our lives in space liveable ... and perhaps even comfortable.Samuel's website: https://retro-futurist.comE-book: https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Comfo...Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Comfo...Soundtrack used in this episode: "Where the Air is Thin" by Jay Varton, courtesy of ‪Epidemic Sound / https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/Podcast host:Mikhail BaskovFounder & CEOiDare Space Travel Limitedhttps://idare.spacembaskov@idare.space+353 1 539 2911 (Ireland)

Samuel Coniglio IV is a futurist, technical writer, photographer, inventor, and private space industry advocate.He is a Board Member and a former Vice President of the Space Tourism Society. Samuel was active with the National Space Society, Space Frontier Foundation, and Yury's Night World Space Party events. In the 1990's, he worked for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) on the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and the little-known, but historic Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) reusable rocket program.He is also my friend. We first met in 1994, when Samuel and I worked together to organise a trip of a group of Russian "rocket scientist" students to Florida to visit KSA, ERAU and attend a launch of a Space Shuttle. I lived in the U.S. then.Samuel was in Ireland last week, for the first time ever, and I took liberty of pulling him away from his family for half a day. We talked about space in general, space tourism, and about his new book. We exceeded all possible time limits, so I had to split our "chat" into two separate podcast episodes.In this episode we talk about the Delta Clipper program and space programs of USA and Russia in general, and share memories about the "early days" of US-Russian cooperation in space.In the second part of our conversation, which became Episode 4, we talk about the space tourism and Samuel's new book: "Creature Comforts in Space". You can watch it on Youtube here:    • High-Altitude Adventures. S2-E4. Spac...   ... or take a listen on the same audio platform.The significance of the Delta Clipper (DC-X) is in the fact that it was the first reusable rocket and it paved the way for several modern projects, which are making access to space routine and cheap, thus opening future for commercial space travellers.Samuel's website:https://retro-futurist.comDelta Clipper Experimental:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonne...Soundtrack used in this episode: "Where the Air is Thin" by Jay Varton, courtesy of Epidemic Sound / ‪https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/***Podcast host:Mikhail BaskovFounder & CEOiDare Space Travel LimitedDublin, Irelandhttps://idare.spacembaskov@idare.space+353 1 539 2911

If you want to know what are those wind tunnels where you can experience a skydiving free-falling sensation, not in the sky but on the ground, tune in. Aoife Henshaw is a normal person, she lives in Ireland, has a 9-to-5 job and she is a mother of two children, but ... she is also a professional skydiver and a member of the Irish All-Female Skydiving team "FreeBurds". She has spent dozens and dozens of hours in various wind tunnels preparing for competitions and improving her flying skills. In this episode Aoife will explain what is indoor skydiving and how it relates to the sky version.

David and Stephen Duffy are brothers. They live in Ireland and have normal jobs, families, friends. At the same time they are probably the most experienced skydivers in Ireland in one particular skydiving discipline: wing-suiting. Between them they have multiple gold, silver and bronze medals from various international skydiving competitions and hold several World Records. If you want to learn more about skydiving, wing-suiting, world records and how one day YOU can do all of that, you should listen to this episode.

iDare Space Travel Limited is Ireland's first space tourism travel consultancy. Mikhail Baskov, the company's founder and CEO talks about the business model, company's plans and mission.

You will be able to see our blue planet Earth below; black skies, bright stars and the Sun will be above. You will be in a space-rated capsule, in the vacuum of space. You will have 2 hours to enjoy the view from 36 km. Your flight will be slow and gentle. It will cost much less than a flight to orbit or a space station. Your spaceship will be carried by a stratospheric balloon.Our guest, Jose Mariano Lopez Urdiales, the Founder and CEO of Zero 2 Infinity company, spent many years launching high-altitude stratospheric balloons. He had studied at MIT and International Space University; has worked at Boeing and European Space Agency. For the last 13 years he is developing the project of lifting tourists beyond Earth's atmosphere, to see space with their own eyes.

Did you know you could experience real weightlessness here on Earth? Exactly the same type as on board of the International Space Station.Our guest, Dr. Kirby Runyon, a planetary geologist and a zero-g coach, who himself had spent an hour in weightlessness, is talking about how and where it can be done, how much it costs, how safe it is, and why your jumpsuit patch is upside down before your first zero-g flight.

If you want to get close to the stars, but outer space just doesn't seem achievable, you might want to consider skydiving.It surprising how many variouriations of skydiving are available right here, and how safe and affordable these options are. Our host Mikhail, an experienced skydiver, takes us through the cost, locations, safety measures, training and options for local budding skydivers.This is the place to start if you are considering a high-altitude adventure.