About Just Another Space Podcast: The Politics, Policy, Funding & Markets of the Space Industry
Hosted by Congressional, Government & Space Industry veterans Tom Culligan and Clayton Swope, Just Another Space Podcast provides an informative and entertaining look at the politics, policy, funding and industry issues and players in space markets. Featuring weekly guests from across government and industry.
In this episode, Clayton and Tom explore all of the new hijinks, mischief and other innovative surprises satellites are up to in orbit these days - making LEO and GEO orbital offense and defense more dynamic than ever.
Integrity ISR's Senior Vice President of Strategy & Development Greg Gillinger joins the show to share the latest in his observations and tracking of novel space activities that may have major implications for protecting critical satellite capabilities in orbit as well as national and economic security.
5 Aug 2025
Episode 10: Watching the Watcher (Sats), or UAPs are Boring w/ HEO CEO Dr. Will Crowe
In this episode, Tom and Clayton learn what happens when an asteroid mining start up from Sydney, Australia discovers a new market using existing Earth imaging satellites to snap pictures looking up rather than down to capture images of satellites activity.
HEO Co-Founder and CEO explains how the company found this new market, the opportunity to leverage underutilized assets in space for new commercial activities, the most surprising things they have observed in orbit and why UAPs are boring.
8 Jul 2025
Episode 9: Clayton & Tom talk Golden Dome, NASA, Apollo-Soyuz 50th and Podcasting
Co-hosts Clayton and Tom discuss lessons learned from launching a space podcast, the Golden Dome project, NASA's current initiatives, and the Apollo-Soyuz mission's 50th anniversary.
24 Jun 2025
Episode 8: The AI in Space Episode! w/ SkyFi's Kate van Dam and Enabled Intelligence's Peter Kant
Kate van Dam and Peter Kant discuss how AI and service models enhance satellite imagery and AI-enabled identification for government and commercial users in an interview with Clayton and Tom.
27 May 2025
Episode 7 - The Spectrum of Space Innovation with founding FCC's Space Bureau Chief Julie Kearney
Julie Kearney, former FCC Space Bureau Chief, discusses her career transition to space law and explains how communications licensing fosters space innovation in an interview with Clayton and Tom.
29 Apr 2025
Episode 6 - Electrifying Launch w/ Auriga Space CEO Winnie Lai
In this episode, co-hosts Clayton and Tom interview Winnie Lai, the CEO and Co-Founder of Auriga Space, which is developing an electric powered kinetic launch company working with DOD on hypersonic and rapid space capabilities launch services.
Winnie shares her story from tech to space, how many miles of track you need to launch to orbit and the potential benefits of an hourly, electric launch capability for the DOD and commercial customers.
3 Apr 2025
Episode 5: The Path to Moon & Mars Starts in the Halls of Congress w/ former NASA Assoc. Administrator for OLIA Alicia Brown
In this episode, hosts Tom Culligan and Clayton Swope interview former NASA Associate Administrator for Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs and new Commercial Space Federation Executive Director Alicia Brown on her time leading space policy for then-Chairman Bill Nelson (D-FL) and later NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
Alicia pulls the curtain back on how Congress and NASA really work and what each side of Penn Ave doesn't understand about each other, her experience writing bills and then having to implement them at NASA and other adventures in civil and commercial space policy over the last decade in Congress, the Administration and industry.
18 Mar 2025
Episode 4: Building an Anti-Gravity Machine w/ Varda CEO Will Bruey
In this episode, hosts Tom Culligan and Clayton Swope interview Varda Space Industries' CEO & Co-Founder Will Bruey on launch day of their third mission of its orbital processing and reentry capsule for life sciences and national security.
Will shares the journey of how Varda was launched, the market for uncrewed life sciences experiments, the future of this market and how the company became a merchant supplier of heat shields for NASA.
4 Mar 2025
Episode 3: From Constellation to Artemis (with some consequential stuff in between) w/ Space Policy Group President Mike French
In this episode, hosts Tom Culligan and Clayton Swope interview former NASA Chief of Staff, Vice President of Space at Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and founder of the Space Policy Group, Mike French, on a decade of very significant changes in the nation's civil and commercial space industry.
Mike pulls back the curtain on the policy and politics behind the retirement of the Space Shuttle, rise of Commercial Cargo and Crew and how the "Journey to Mars" as back in the Artemis Era.
18 Feb 2025
Episode 2: Get Rich Mining Asteroids or Die Trying w/ AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich
In this episode, hosts Tom Culligan and Clayton Swope talk with Matt Gialich, the Co-Founder and CEO of AstroForge, to discuss the future of asteroid mining and the commercial space economy. They explore Matt's journey from working at Virgin Orbit to building scooters at Bird to founding AstroForge.
The conversation delves into what makes Space Mining 2.0 different than AstroForge's predecessors, the technological innovations that enable asteroid mining today and the competitive landscape. Matt shares insights on what it takes to start a space company that has a lot of "firsts" and the future missions planned for AstroForge.
9 Feb 2025
Episode 1: Year of Launch? with Rocket Lab's Andy Bunker
With the start of a new year, new Congress and new Administration, hosts Tom Culligan and Clayton Swope launch a new podcast covering the politics, policy, funding and markets around the space industry. This episode features Rocket Lab's Vice President of Government Operations & Business Strategy, Andrew Bunker, to look at whether 2025 will be the "year of launch" and cover issues surrounding the U.S. and global launch market.
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Kate van Dam
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