STP46: Rescuing a Spacecraft From The Bottom of the Ocean The Incredible Story of Liberty Bell 7 With J...
This week we're joined by Jim Remar, CEO of the Cosmophere in Hutchinson, Kansas, the home of Liberty Bell 7, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of it's flight carrying Gus Grissom into space. A truly remarkable story, not just because of the mission being just the 3rd crewed launch of any vehicle into space, but because the capsule was lost at the bottom of the sea until 1999 when it was recovered and restored by the people at the Cosmophere.
The Cosmosphere: https://cosmo.org/
Liberty Bell 60th Anniversary: https://cosmosphere.lpages.co/liberty-bell-7/
Spaceworks: https://spaceworkscosmo.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_cosmosphere
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kscosmosphere
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_cosmosphere/
Other 60th Anniversary Events:
https://www.space.com/mercury-redstone-4-grissom-60th-events
Andy Saunders Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndySaunders_1
Pre-order of Apollo Remastered:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/apollo-remastered/andy-saunders/9780241508695
Emily's Blogs:
Space Myths Busted: Gus Grissom Didn’t Blow The Hatch on Liberty Bell 7
https://space.nss.org/space-myths-busted-gus-grissom-didnt-blow-the-hatch-on-liberty-bell-7/
Gus Grissom: Where the Road Would Lead…
https://space.nss.org/gus-grissom-where-the-road-would-lead/
This Week’s News:
Launches:
Fri 9 July 2021: CASC: Long March 6: Zhongzi Group 02 (Ningxia-1-02)
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6817
Sun 11 July 2021: Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo: Unity 22
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6816
Suborbital Flights Info:
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/07/10/to-briefly-go-billionaires-branson-bezos-battle-for-bragging-rights-where-few-have-gone-before/
Raffle to win two tickets on Virgin Galactic Flight:
https://www.omaze.com/products/virgin-galactic-2021
Space for Humanity: https://spaceforhumanity.org/about
Image Credits: The Cosmosphere
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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/
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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
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davejgiles
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davejgilesmusic
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