<div class="grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:max-w-[750px] md:grid-cols-article md:max-w-screen-sm" data-article-body="true"><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.</i></p><figure class="relative col-body mb-4"><div class="relative"><img alt=" This Week In Space podcast: Episode 189 — Privatizing Orbit. " loading="lazy" width="720" height="405" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="fig-image-round" style="color:transparent" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/jVLcIzO6ONkMUq3KZxKj6A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/space_311/6cc38933c62b0a91c237a6e34517c5e7"><button aria-label="View larger image" class="group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent" data-ylk="elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;"><span class="absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none"><svg viewbox="0 0 22 22" aria-hidden="true" class="size-4 lg:size-6" width="22" height="22"><path d="M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z"></path></svg></span></button><dialog aria-label="Modal Dialog" aria-modal="true" class="fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden"></dialog></div><figcaption class="relative text-[0.875rem]/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 pr-2.5"><div>Credit: TWiT</div></figcaption></figure><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">On <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/189?autostart=false" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Episode 189 of This Week In Space;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Episode 189 of This Week In Space</a>, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with their favorite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">When so many people were touting their private spaceflight dreams in the 1980s, Manber took the next enormous stride and actually made it happen. He formed the Office of Space Commerce within the US Department of Commerce at the invitation of the Reagan administration, forged the first commercial relations with the then-Soviet Union, bridged that into the post-USSR period, and was responsible for the first commercial spaceflight to the then-mothballed Soviet-era Mir space station with a crew that stayed there for 70 days.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">He then went on to develop a variety of commercial space enterprises, from the first commercial platform to release smallsats from the ISS to initiating the Bishop airlock that became part of the space station. He also started Nanoracks, the first privately developed and standardized satellite deployment mechanism to fly. Finally, he initiated Starlab, the private space station currently under development by Voyager Technologies and a consortium of aerospace companies.</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color">Join us for this very special episode with one of the key founders of NewSpace!</p><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><strong>Download or subscribe</strong> to this show at: <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space</a>.<br><br>Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:https://twit.tv/clubtwit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p><h2 class="heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color">Space news of the week</h2><ul class="col-body mb-4"><li class="list-mb ml-4 list-disc"><div class="grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]"><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/after-years-of-resisting-it-spacex-now-plans-to-go-public-why/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?</a></p></div></li><li class="list-mb ml-4 list-disc"><div class="grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]"><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasas-loses-contact-maven-mars-183000674.html" data-ylk="slk:NASA's loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter on the far side of the Red Planet;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;" class="link  yahoo-link">NASA's loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter on the far side of the Red Planet</a></p></div></li><li class="list-mb ml-4 list-disc"><div class="grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]"><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/star-trek-starfleet-academy-clip-170000146.html" data-ylk="slk:'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' clip shows off hammy acting and teen drama, putting fans on yellow alert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;" class="link  yahoo-link">'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' clip shows off hammy acting and teen drama, putting fans on yellow alert</a></p></div></li><li class="list-mb ml-4 list-disc"><div class="grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]"><p class="col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color"><a href="https://voyagertechnologies.com/team/jeffrey-manber/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Voyager Technologies - 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On Episode 189 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with their favorite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber.

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