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:
Delta 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/
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Podcast host:
Mikhail Baskov
Founder & CEO
iDare Space Travel Limited
Dublin, Ireland
mbaskov@idare.space
+353 1 539 2911
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