Keep Looking Up With Jatan!

Writing Advice, Moon Missions & Exploring Together

Jatan Mehta

In this inaugural episode, I talk to Jatan Mehta, a popular science communicator. At the heart of this discussion is the question of how we get more people interested in space. Jatan does this by providing a comprehensive summary of humanity’s leap back to the Moon.

We also talk about his writing process and then cover various re-energized public missions to the Moon — from Artemis to Chandrayaan to Chang’e. South Korea’s space program gets an honorable mention.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did talking to Jatan!

• [00:30–02:00] Introduction — Moon Monday, Nature Article, Indian Space Progress
• [02:25–05:00] How to get more people interested in Space? — Sidewalk Astronomy
• [05:00–14:10] Jatan’s writing process — RSS, Workflowy
• [14:10–20:10] NASA plans — NASA’s Artemis, Artemis II, Artemis III, Starship HLS, Artemis Plan, Gateway
• [20:1 0–25:20] ISRO’s plans — Chandrayaan 3 , Gaganyaan, Lupex Mission, Water Ice, Artemis Accords, Quad Factsheet
• [25:20–28:00] Indian Space Policy, In-Situ Resource Utilization
• [28:00–33:00] China’s space progress — Chang’e 5, Chang’e 8, Lunar Base, Andrew Jones, China Monitor
• [30:00–34:30] South Korean Space Program — KPLO
• [34:30–37:00] Exploring together
• [37:00–38:22] Closing Thoughts