Astronomy Cast
by Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay
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Ep. 804: Mission Tech Series: Fairings, Docking & Airlocks
Oct 12, 2026
30m 31s
Ep. 803: Mission Tech Series: Engines & Stages
Oct 5, 2026
36m 12s
Ep. 802: Mission Tech Series: Rocket & Spacecraft 411
Sep 28, 2026
32m 02s
Ep. 801: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 2
Sep 21, 2026
37m 07s
Astronomy Cast Can't Go On Like This
Sep 15, 2026
8m 50s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/12/26 |  Ep. 804: Mission Tech Series: Fairings, Docking & Airlocks | Ad-Free thanks to your support at patreon.astronomycast.com! Instead of sending up an entire space station for every mission, you can just send up a tiny can filled with astronauts. But that takes docking. And today we're gonna talk about what it takes to connect two spacecraft together. How to keep a cargo safe to get into orbit, and how to get in and out of your spacecraft without killing everyone! Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on Oct 3, 2026. Mission Tech Part 3. | 30m 31s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  Ep. 803: Mission Tech Series: Engines & Stages | Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed on October 3, 2026. Today our series continues with our deep dive into rockets, their engines & stages. We fall into the tyranny of the rocket equation and discover what it takes to escape Earth's gravity and head off into deep space. We removed all ads from the show. We need to get to 1,500 patrons to keep it this way. We need your support! | 36m 12s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 |  Ep. 802: Mission Tech Series: Rocket & Spacecraft 411 | Help us keep Astronomy Cast ad-free: https://patreon.com/astronomycast We removed all ads from the show. We need to get to 1500 patrons to keep it this way. We need your support! Streamed live on Sep 21, 2026 Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay Today we begin a new series on rockets and spacecraft, dealing with each of their components. It's a big job, so it'll take us a bunch of episodes to get through. Today let's do an introduction about what we're gonna talk about in this series: rockets from tip to tail, soup to nuts. | 32m 02s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 |  Ep. 801: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 2 | Help us keep Astronomy Cast ad-free: https://patreon.com/astronomycast We removed all ads from the show. We need to get to 1500 patrons to keep it this way. We need your support! Streamed live on Sep 7, 2026. Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) This show is supported through people like you on Patreon.com/AstronomyCast Today we do the sequel to our 2-part series. We jump to the end of the Universe, and all the major moments that will occur from now until the heat death of the Universe. The end of everything. - The fate & future of the Milky Way - Cosmic isolation - The cosmic microwave background - The end of star formation - The degenerate era - Proton decay and entropy - Black hole evaporation & entropy - Alternate endings, cosmic rip, new beginnings - Closing thoughts and updates | 37m 07s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 | Astronomy Cast Can't Go On Like This | After 20 years, it's time to make some changes. With your patronage we can ditch the ads & turn up the science. Please join our Patreon community at patreon.astronomycast.com | 8m 50s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 |  Ep. 800: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 1 | Streamed live on Sep 7, 2026. Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) This show is supported through people like you on Patreon.com/AstronomyCast To celebrate our 20th season, we thought we'd go back right to the beginning… of everything. Let's wind the clock back to the earliest moments of the Universe, where we'll measure time in fractions of a second. As the foundational laws of physics were laid down and we experience the repercussions to this day! | 39m 27s | ||||||
| 6/29/26 | heavy lift rocketsspace exploration+3 | — | Saturn 5Ariane VI | — | heavy lift rocketsSaturn 5+3 | — | 39m 07s | ||
| 6/15/26 | space eventssummer astronomy+3 | — | — | — | summer in spaceastronomy events+3 | — | 34m 35s | ||
| 6/8/26 | Marslife on Mars+4 | — | — | Mars | Marsoceans+5 | — | 30m 35s | ||
| 6/1/26 | sci-fi universesThe Expanse+5 | — | The Expanse | — | The Expansesci-fi+5 | — | 32m 29s | ||
| 5/18/26 | Stargateworm holes+3 | — | — | — | Stargateworm holes+3 | Patreon.com/AstronomyCast | 38m 48s | ||
| 5/11/26 | Star Trekscience fiction+5 | — | Star TrekStar Wars | — | Star Trekscience fiction+5 | PatreonAstronomyCast | 34m 58s | ||
| 5/4/26 | Star Warsscience+4 | — | — | — | Star Warsscience+5 | — | 40m 26s | ||
| 4/27/26 | Chang'e sample returnChinese lunar missions+4 | — | Chang'eChinese space program | — | Chang'esample return+5 | — | 33m 15s | ||
| 4/20/26 | meteoritesspace rocks+3 | — | — | — | meteoritesMoon+5 | — | 33m 33s | ||
| 4/6/26 | stellar evolutionred giant+3 | — | — | — | star deathplanetary systems+3 | — | 29m 14s | ||
| 3/30/26 | life's moleculesorigin of life+4 | — | — | — | life moleculesspace+5 | PatreonAstronomyCast | 32m 27s | ||
| 3/23/26 | evolved starsstellar evolution+4 | — | NASA | — | evolved starsstellar evolution+5 | — | 30m 30s | ||
| 3/16/26 | Wolf-Rayet starssupernovae+3 | — | NASAESA+4 | — | Wolf-Rayet starssupernova+3 | — | 34m 28s | ||
| 3/9/26 | magnetarsneutron stars+4 | — | Astronomy Cast | — | magnetarsneutron stars+4 | — | 29m 56s | ||
| 3/2/26 | pulsarsgravitational waves+3 | — | NASACXC+2 | — | pulsarsgravitational waves+3 | — | 33m 42s | ||
| 2/23/26 | cataclysmic variable starsbinary star systems+5 | — | NASACXC | — | cataclysmic variable starswhite dwarf+5 | PatreonAstronomyCast | 30m 49s | ||
| 2/16/26 | Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transientsastronomy+4 | — | NASAESA+1 | — | Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transientssupernovas+5 | — | 27m 57s | ||
| 2/9/26 | black holesquasars+4 | — | Astronomy Cast | — | black holesquasars+5 | — | 31m 52s | ||
| 2/2/26 | asteroidscomets+4 | — | — | — | asteroidscomets+5 | — | 32m 49s | ||
| 1/19/26 | Milankovitch CyclesEarth's climate+4 | — | — | — | Milankovitch CyclesEarth's orbit+5 | PatreonCODE | 30m 24s | ||
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