David Livingston

Biography:

Dr. David Livingston is the founder and host of The Space Show, the nation's only talk radio show focusing on increasing space commerce, developing space tourism, and facilitating our move to a space-faring economy and culture. The Space Show is broadcast multiple times per week on radio, the internet, satellite and via podcasts. Past show archives, listening information, and coming events can be found at www.thespaceshow.com.

Dr. Livingston is also an adjunct professor at the University of North Dakota Graduate School of Space Studies, both on campus and in their distant learning program, specializing in space commerce economics, ethics, and management classes. His fall class for 2007 addresses the most important barriers to developing space commerce with at least two solutions for each barrier. David often presents and publishes at space conferences and he has been a guest lecturer/speaker at Stanford University, Sonoma State University, and USC. He earned his BA from the University of Arizona, his MBA in International Business Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and his Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) also at Golden Gate University. His doctoral dissertation was titled Outer Space Commerce: Its History and Prospects.

Past Shows:

	Panel: Fixing NASA
	Wednesday June 20, 2007

In a special panel on how to fix NASA, Richard C. Hoagland was joined by David Livingston, the founder of The Space Show, and Rick Sterling, a space expert. ... More
Host: George Noory

	The Space Panel
	Wednesday February 12, 2003

In a provocative Wednesday night show, Richard Hoagland (enterprisemission) joined George for the entire program to discuss a cover-up of Moon anomalies and the current Shuttle investigation. Three other guests were also featured as part of the line-up. Hoagland and space expert Dr. David Livingston (thespaceshow.com) talked about the recent hearings being conducted into the Columbia tragedy. But rather than dwell on the specific cause of the mishap, they hoped that the hearings would raise the larger issue—that the US space program has lost its way. "There's no vision going back and forth between the Space Station," Livingston said. He and Hoagland agreed that a real vision would involve going to Mars or back to the Moon, to glean new discoveries. Ken Johnston, who worked for NASA for 23 years, appeared in Hour 2, and described screening Apollo footage and seeing a cluster of lights in a moon crater accompanied by a plume of steam. But then two days later when he showed the foot ... More
Host: George Noory

	Disaster in Space
	Saturday February 1, 2003

This past Saturday evening Coast to Coast held an unprecedented 9 hour program devoted to looking at the crash of the space shuttle Columbia which had occurred that morning. George Noory hosted the first half of the show, followed by Barbara Simpson in her regular time slot. "The only thing we can be thankful for is they got to fulfill their dreams," Richard C. Hoagland (enterprisemission.com) said of the seven astronauts who died in the accident. Hoagland offered his insights in both halves of the marathon. He was joined by his colleague Mike Bara (lunaranomalies.com), in the latter part of the show, who stated that he thought the Shuttle program has been phenomenally successful, with a good safety record over its more than twenty year history. Phil Plait (badastronomy.com), nicknamed "The Bad Astronomer," who has served to dispel myths about outer space, praised the Shuttle missions for their successful launching of such astronomical satellites as the Chandra Observatory. ... More
Host: George Noory

	Dr. David Livingston
	Thursday August 22, 2002

Dr. David Livingston is a Space Business Consultant, lecturer, and host of "The Space Show." His lectures cover topics such as, space tourism, venture capital financing for new space businesses, barriers to space enterprise, as well as the exporting of business ethics from Earth to commercial space. Livingston will be presenting at the World Space Conference in Houston in October 2002. ... More
Host: Art Bell