STP41 - The Magic of Spacefest - How to meet astronauts.
This year's Spacefest will take place from July 15th- 18th at the JW Marrito Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona. We asked one of the organisers Kelsey Poor to come and talk to us about what it is, how it started and why you want to be there.
Spacefest is organised by Novaspace, an online store for space art, astronaut autographs and memorabilia. Definitely worth checking out.
Spacefest:
https://www.spacefest.info
Novaspace:
https://www.novaspace.com
National Ataxia Foundation:
https://www.ataxia.org/
Also mentioned. Emily will be moderating a panel at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh,Wisconsin on July 26th. The panel is called ''A Look Back at the Space Shuttle 40 years Later"
Find out more: https://www.eaa.org/eaa
This week's news:
Launches:
Wed 2nd June 2021: CASC: Long March 3B/E: Fengyun-4B
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4357
Thursday 3rd June 2021: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: CRS-22
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/109
Tardigrades and Squid:: https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-crs-22-launching-squid-tardigrades
Sunday 6th June 2021: Space X: Falcon 9 Block 5: SXM-8
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/94
Venus Missions; DAVINCI+ and VERITAS:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-2-missions-to-study-lost-habitable-world-of-venus
https://www.space.com/venus-exploration-campaign-nasa-missions
Juno Photos of Ganymead
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-to-get-a-close-look-at-jupiter-s-moon-ganymede
Cosmonaut Space Walk:
https://www.space.com/cosmonauts-decommission-space-station-pirs-docking-port-spacewalk
Jeff Bezos going to space:
https://www.space.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-first-passenger-spaceflight
Blue Origin Auction:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-auction-vetting
Kellie Gerrardi flying on Virgin Galactic:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-flight-kellie-gerardi-astronaut
Axiom Space Missions with Peggy Whitson
https://www.space.com/spacex-axiom-deal-more-private-astronaut-missions
New Zealand signs Artemis Accords:
https://www.space.com/new-zealand-joins-artemis-accords-exploration-standards
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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.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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