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STP36 - Five Facts You Might Not Know About Skylab

It's finally happened. We've got a whole show dedicated to Skylab. That's right, this week Emily talks us through 5 random facts about Skylab which maybe you knew, or maybe you didn't, but either way, it's something she's incredibly passionate about and thus very entertaining and educational at the same time.

Emily's Skylab Article: https://space.nss.org/a-few-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-skylab-covered-in-searching-for-skylab/

Searching For Skylab Trailer: 

ABC coverage of Skylab returning to Earth: 

NASA's Skylab page: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab

This week's news:
Launches:

Thurs 29th April: Arianespace: Vega: Pléiades-Néo 3 & SSMS n°2
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/414

Thurs 29th April: CASC: Long March 5B: Tianhe
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2803

Thurs 29th April: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2679

Fri 30th Apr: CASC: Long March 4C: Yaogan 34
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6774

Tues 4th May: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2680

Wed 5th May: SpaceX: Starship SN15: Test Launch
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6752

Blue Origin Astronaut Announcement: https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-first-astronaut-flight-july-20

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.

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.

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