STP156 - An Interview with Jack Lousma - Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Skylab 3
This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Skylab 3 by talking to the only surviving member of that crew - Jack Lousma.
Skylab 3 lifted off on July 28th 1973 and the mission lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes which was an endurance record at the time. The commander was Alan Bean, science pilot was Owen Garriott and the pilot was Jack Lousma. Lousma was one of 19 astronauts selected in NASA astronaut group 5 in April 1966, perhaps most famous for being the astronaut who was CAPCOM during Apollo 13 at the moment the explosion happened on board the spacecraft. He was the person who responded to the “Houston we’ve had a problem” message. As well as this Skylab mission, he commanded the Space Shuttle on it’s 3rd mission before retiring from NASA in October 1983 having clocked a total of 67 days and 11 hours in space.
Jack Lousma:
http://marklarson.com/lousma/nasa.html
Try and meet Jack at Kennedy Space Center:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar?pageindex=1
What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Karol 'Bo' Bobko, former NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle missions, dies at 85:
https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-karol-bo-bobko-obituary
Crew-7 Launch:
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-7-astronaut-launch-what-time
Russia says its Luna-25 lunar lander has crashed into the moon:
https://www.space.com/russia-says-luna-25-crashes-into-moon
India on the moon! Chandrayaan-3 becomes 1st probe to land near lunar south pole:
https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-success
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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 now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.
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 30,000 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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