STP34 - Earth Day 2021 - Biofuel rockets with BluShift Aerospace CEO Sascha Deri
April 22nd is Earth Day, so today we are joined by BluShift Aerospace CEO Sascha Deri and communications director Seth Lockman to talk to us about what they're doing to try and kickstart the conversations in the aerospace industry about sustainability and using non toxic biofuels.
Emily's Webinars/talks:
Thursday 22nd April - 2pm ET
National Aeronautic Association with the National Aviation Hall Of Fame: Launching The Future of Aviation: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9416178110415/WN_9pp_9QqgSG6EKgXJr1mUYg
Friday 23rd April - 7.30pm ET
RASC, Mississauga: Skylab talk:
https://mississauga.rasc.ca/event/speaker-night-6/
BluShift Aerospace: https://www.blushiftaerospace.com/
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This week's news stories:
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Launch on Mars:
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this shot as it hovered over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. It used its navigation camera, which autonomously tracks the ground during flight.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Dragonfly mission to Titan: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-dragonfly-will-fly-around-titan-looking-for-origins-signs-of-life
Wed 14th April: Blue Origin: New Shepard: NS-15
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6757
President Biden Nominates Pam Melroy for Deputy Administrator of NASA: https://www.space.com/biden-nasa-deputy-administrator-pamela-melroy-nomination
Human Landing System Announcement: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-nasa-picks-spacex-to-land-next-americans-on-moon
Soyuz MS-17 Return to Earth: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/04/soyuz-ms-17-landing/
Crew-2 Preview: https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-2-astronaut-launch-final-review
Coverage: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-updates-launch-date-tv-coverage-for-agency-s-spacex-crew-2-mission
Image Credit: BluShift Aerospace
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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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