STP30 - Remembering Glynn Lunney (1936-2021) with Rick Houston.
On Friday, the news broke that legendary NASA flight director Glynn Lunney had passed away aged 84. We spend some time talking about his finest moments and do our best to pay tribute to one of our heroes. To do this we're joined by author of "Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control" - Rick Houston.
Official NASA Obituary: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-remembers-legendary-flight-director-glynn-lunney
Rick Houston: https://twitter.com/RickHouston73
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This week's other news stories:
March 22nd Soyuz 2.1a Launch: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2561
New Paint Job for the rocket: https://www.space.com/soyuz-rocket-gagarin-vostok-60th-livery
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wb12TG-K2Y
March 22nd Rocket Labs Electron Launch: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5767
March 24th Space X Falcon 9 launch: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2677
March 18th: Hot fire test of the Space Launch System Core Stage: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-mega-moon-rocket-passes-key-test-readies-for-launch
Joe Biden Nominates Bill Nelson for NASA Administrator: https://www.space.com/biden-nasa-chief-bill-nelson-nomination
Follow Up Story: https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-bill-nelson-nomination-space-continuity
'Ingenuity' Helicopter on Mars updates: https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-nasa-update-webcast
Space Shuttle Discover Lego: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/nasa-space-shuttle-discovery-10283
New Rocket in the Kennedy Space Center: https://www.space.com/delta2-rocket-garden-nasa-display
Image Credit: NASA
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Emily Carney
A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is hosted by the National Space Society.
In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 20,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
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Dave Giles
Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
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