STP49 - Gherman Titov - The Forgotten Man? - 60 Years Since Vostok 2 - With Stephen Walker
This week it's the 60th anniversary of the flight of Gherman Titov on Vostok 2. One of the most colourful characters of the Soviet Union space program and someone who we should all know more about, but we don't. So we asked Stephen Walker to come and talk to us about him and his life.
Stephen Walker:
Find out more and order his book "Beyond": https://www.stephenwalkerbeyond.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SWalkerBEYOND
Emily's article about Gherman Titov: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/gherman-titov-bad-boy-cosmonaut-turned-elder-statesman-of-space/
EAA: https://www.eaa.org/eaa
Emily's Panel:
The Next Five Minutes by Dick Rutan: https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/bvpages/dickrutan13-22399.ph
This week's news stories:
Launches:
Thur 29th July 2021: CASC: Long March 2D: Tianhui-1 04
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4724
Video:
Thur 29th July 2021: Rocket Lab: Electron/Curie: It's A Little Chile Up Here:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2607
Video:
Fri 30th July 2021: Arianespace: Ariane 5 ECA: Eutelsat Quantum & Star One D2
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/430
Video:
Tues 3rd Aug 2021: i-Space: Hyperbola-1: Jilin-1 Mogang-O1a - Launch Failure
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6822
Video:
Russian Nauka Module Problems:
https://www.space.com/russia-science-module-docks-space-station
https://www.space.com/nauka-module-thruster-fire-tilts-space-station
https://www.space.com/space-station-nauka-arrival-thruster-fire-update
https://www.space.com/nauka-module-space-station-tilt-more-serious
Boeing Starliner Delays:
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-launch-delayed-indefinitely
Luna Lander Protest:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-moon-lander-gao-protest-nixed
Image Credits: Sovfoto
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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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