STP32 - Celebrating 60 Years of Human Spaceflight with Stephen Walker
On April 12th it's the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight, so we asked author Stephen Walker to join us. He has just released a wonderful book called 'Beyond' all about Gagarin and it's a belter.
Stephen Walker: https://www.stephenwalkerbeyond.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SWalkerBEYOND
Yuri's Night: https://yurisnight.net/about/
STS1 Crew Press Conference:
This week's news:
Long March 4C launch 30th March: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4725
Ingenuity Helicopter Stories:
Touch Down: https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-touches-down-martian-surface
First Night Survival: https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-first-flight-preview
First Photo from the surface: (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Curiosity Selfie at Mont Mercou: (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Insight Mars Quake: https://www.space.com/mars-insight-lander-detects-two-sizable-marsquakes
Tianwen-1 Photos: (Image credit: CNSA)
Stowaway Trailer:
The Right Stuff Cancelled: https://deadline.com/2021/04/the-right-stuff-canceled-disney-plus-shopped-warner-bros-tv-1234726920/
Image Credit: Book Design by Milan Bozic
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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.
Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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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.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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