STP45 - The Making Of An Ordinary Spaceman and Billionaires in Space with Clayton Anderson
This week we were joined by retired astronaut Clayton C. Anderson to discuss his new podcast 'Making Of An Ordinary Spaceman. In a wonderful honest and inspirational interview, we talked about his journey learned a bit about him as well as talking about 'cashtronauts'.
As well as interviewing Clayton, Emily and Dave also carry on that discussion about billionaires in space and the remarkable story of Wally Funk.
A lot to fit in this week, but we hope you enjoy it!
Clayton Anderson:
https://astroclay.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Astro_clay
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_clay/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AstroClay
The Making Of An Ordinary Astronaut Podcast:
https://hurrdatmedia.com/network/show/the-making-of-an-ordinary-spaceman/
Check out his books:
The Ordinary Spaceman - From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
It's A Question of Space
Childrens books:
Letters from Space
A is for Astronaut
Emily's new blog posts:
3rd Century America and the Spirit of 76:
https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-3rd-century-america-and-the-spirit-of-76/
Vance Brand's Waiting Game:
https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-vance-brands-waiting-game/
J. L. Pickerings Retro Space Images Website:
https://retrospaceimages.com/
This week's news stories:
Wally Funk To Fly to Space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on July 20th:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-wally-funk-will-break-record-oldest-astronaut
The Collier Trophy: https://naa.aero/awards/awards-and-trophies/collier-trophy
Mercury 13 Trailer:
Richard Branson To Fly to Space on July 11th:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-vss-unity-flight
SpaceX Rolls Giant Super Heavy Rocket To Launch Pad:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-rollout-video
Chinese Space Walk at New Space Station:
https://www.space.com/china-space-station-first-shenzhou-12-spacewalk
Ingenuity 9ths Flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-9th-flight-video
Launches:
Thu 1 July 2021: Starsem: Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat: OneWeb #8
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2953
Sat 3 July 2021: CASC: Long March 2D: Jilin-1 Wideband-01b & High Resolution O3D
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6813
Sun 4th July 2021: CASC: Long March 4C: Fengyun-3E
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6793
Tues 6th July 2021: CASC: Long March 3C/E Tianlian 1-05
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6815
Image Credits: 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/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EmilyLCarney
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyCarneySpace/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilycarneyspace/
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
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davejgiles
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davejgilesmusic
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