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A podcast about the history of NASA human spaceflight. New episodes every other Thursday.
On STS-102 it looks like we're just doing a simple crew swap, but complexity abounds. Get ready for new hardware, two spacewalks, cargo swap...
The first long duration crew of the International Space Station is finally here! Let's learn about what life on the ISS was like, shake our...
It's been a long time since the last episode of the podcast was posted. What's going on? Fear not, dear listener, it's all good news. Well,...
On STS-98 it's time for the ISS crew to meet its Destiny. Oh wait, does everyone make that joke? How about "Destiny is on the manifest"? No,...
On STS-97 the Space Shuttle is delivering its heaviest ISS payload yet: the P6 truss. We'll climb high above the payload bay, consider some...
After a long wait for the crew (and audience!) STS-92 is finally here. We'll be delivering the heart of the ISS external structure, the Z1 t...
On STS-106, we finally get to meet Zvezda, the Russian service module for the International Space Station. We also meet some new faces, decr...
I think we can all agree that social media (and anything approaching it) was a mistake, but sometimes the internet decides to throw you a bo...
On STS-101 we've got a slick new cockpit to show off, a pile of launch delays, a ton or two of new equipment and supplies and some floppy di...
On STS-99 we'll be studying the Earth in a whole new dimension, using fancy radar tricks to scan nearly the entire planet in 3D! Close and l...
The Hubble Space Telescope couldn't wait until the year 2000 for a visit, while the Space Shuttle's computers couldn't handle the year 2000...
On STS-93 we've got a ton of stuff to do in a mission lasting less than five days. We'll break another glass barrier, we'll put the redundan...
On the first resupply mission to the ISS we've got tons of stuff to transfer, a disco ball to deploy, and a surprising number of quotations...
The ISS era is upon us! Let's learn about Zarya, the first module of the International Space Station, and bring it a buddy: Unity! With a Ru...
On STS-95 we've got the return of SPARTAN, the return of SPACEHAB, and the return of.. John Glenn! Let's do some science and learn how the 7...
We take a look back at the Shuttle-Mir program, including a whirlwind tour of all seven long duration missions and a glimpse into Mir's ulti...
On STS-91 we'll try out a new external tank, learn a little physics, and find out what Mir upper management thinks about the state of the sp...
We take a brief break from space to consider some valuable life lessons. Show notes: https://thespaceabove.us/episodes/special_update_02 The...
On STS-90 we've got a Spacelab full of nervous system experiments, we'll play a little catch, and we'll wonder where NASA got 2000 crickets....
Andy Thomas is watching Space Shuttle Endeavour fade into the distance and is ready to get to work. His four month stay on Mir would close o...
Dave Wolf is ready to come home, which is good because Andy Thomas is ready to become the last NASA astronaut to live on Mir. So put on some...
On STS-87 we've got a bunch of material science in the payload bay, a free-flying satellite, a camera that fell out of Star Wars, and 645,50...
Dave Wolf's stint on Mir is going pretty smoothly, but when he performs his first EVA we find cause to go on a mini deep dive into the histo...
After much back and forth on the ground, it has been decided that Dave Wolf will remain on Mir for his full mission. So what does he do whil...
Dave Wolf didn't think he was going to Mir for another six months, but when Russia decides Wendy Lawrence is too short, schedules change. Th...
It's Kent Rominger's birthday, so what better way to celebrate than launching into space? Along the way we'll send CRISTA-SPAS out for one l...
The crew, payload, and orbiter of STS-94 all have unfinished business in low earth orbit thanks to a busted fuel cell on STS-83. Let's kick...
Spektr has been sealed off from the rest of Mir and the station's attitude is back under control, but there's still a lot of work left to do...
Mike Foale is replacing Jerry Linenger on Mir for NASA's next long duration mission on the Russian space station. After the raging fire and...
It turns out the NASA-5 episode was taking a little more time than I anticipated, can't imagine why. But since I'll be on vacation next week...
On STS-84 we'll deliver Mike Foale to Mir, bring Jerry Linenger back to Earth, wonder how much Elektron really weighs, enjoy the music in th...
The crew of STS-83 is gearing up for a 16 day flight aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. With Spacelab packed full of materials science experimen...
On STS-82 we've got another ground-up rendezvous on our hands. But instead of flying to Mir, we'll be visiting our old friend the Hubble Spa...
We've still got half of Jerry Linenger's mission on Mir to cover, and while there aren't any fires, it's just as action packed! We've got ne...
Jerry Linenger's long duration mission on Mir was so jam-packed that I had to break it up into two parts! In Part 1, we'll heed some lessons...
On STS-81 we'll deliver Jerry Linenger to his new home for the next few months, return John Blaha to Earth, and transfer a few tons of equip...
We've seen him fly on STS-59, STS-68, and STS-80.. and now we'll see him on The Space Above Us! Astronaut Tom Jones joins us and answers a b...
STS-80 is jam packed with everything the shuttle program has to offer, which makes sense since it's the longest flight of the entire program...
John Blaha is settling in for his four month stay on Mir. Science experiments, clattering fans, limited communications, 14 hour days, and th...
Shannon Lucid has been waiting for her ride home and John Blaha is ready to swap in as America's next long duration spacefarer. We'll also f...
On this flight we'll be setting new duration records, studying the muscles of the crew, and waking up to some on-theme music. Let's just hop...
On STS-77, we've got one of the strangest shuttle payloads I've ever seen, a satellite that's passively stabilized by aerodynamic forces (mo...
Astronaut Dan Tani joins us once again and talks about what the astronaut interview process was like, what day to day life was like before b...
Shannon Lucid is ready to become the second American to perform a long duration aboard the Russian space station Mir. All she'll need to do...
On STS-76, the space shuttle will finally shuttle someone to space! Plus the first American EVA outside a space station in 22 years, antics...
On STS-75 we'll take another try at the Tethered Satellite System. It didn't work so great on STS-46, but with much of the same crew and a l...
After checking in with it for years, Galileo has finally arrived at Jupiter. For the 150th episode of The Space Above Us, let's find out wha...
I'm taking my first break this week! So instead of an episode, I tell the tale of my first rocket launch, what it's like, and what you can d...
On Endeavour's tenth flight, we're somehow going to deploy one satellite, but pick up two! Plus more EVA development, zero-gravity karate, a...
We've docked at Mir before, but moving the Kristall module around is such a hassle. What if we could just make it a little longer so the shu...