STP38 - Flight Director Gerry Griffin Celebrates Apollo 14 and Apollo 15
This week we were joined by legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin to discuss the 50th anniversary of Apollo 14 and Apollo 15. We obviously had some other questions for him too, but we really want to hear about those missions, and boy did he deliver. At 86 years old, he remembered things in such incredible detail and was an absolute pleasure to talk to. This was very kind set up by Max Kaiserman of Luna Replicas (check out episode 15 of our podcast), so he also joined us for this wonderful discussion. We really hope that Max can join us for more chats in the future, a true friend of the podcast.
Full video of the interview on our Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/spaceandthings
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News at the Top of the Show:
Emily's latest blog post: Icebergs Ahead: The 1970 Letter That Predicted NASA’s Future in Human Spaceflight:
https://space.nss.org/icebergs-ahead-the-1970-letter-that-predicted-nasas-future-in-human-spaceflight/
Kayla Barron Joins NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 Mission:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/kayla-barron-joins-nasa-s-spacex-crew-3-mission-to-space-station/
30th Anniversary of Helen Sharman's flight: https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/helen-sharman-female-british-astronaut-b1845426.html?r=449
Luna Replicas: https://www.lunareplicas.com
This Week's Other News:
Kinet-X Mission: https://www.space.com/nasa-kinet-x-sounding-rocket-launch-colorful-clouds
What is a Sounding Rocket: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/f_sounding.html
Sat 15th May: Rocket Lab: Electron/Curie: Running Out Of Toes: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6756
Sat 15th May: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink V1 L26 & Rideshares: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2681
Tues 18th May: ULA: Atlas V 421: SBIRS GEO-5:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1147
(Dave called this a Centaur Rocket, which is the name of the upper stage of the rocket... he apologies for not calling it an Atlas V rocket)
China's Zhurong Rover Landing on Mars: https://www.space.com/china-mars-rover-zhurong-first-week
'Who Wants To Be An Astronaut?" - https://www.space.com/discovery-channel-who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut-contest-series
Russian Actress and Director to fly to ISS: https://www.space.com/russia-announces-space-station-movie-crew
Japanese Billionaire to fly to ISS: https://www.space.com/space-station-soyuz-tourist-flight-yusaku-maezawa
SpaceX Starship Orbital Flight Announcement: https://www.space.com/spacex-first-starship-orbital-flight-plans
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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