STP44 - The Man Inside The Suit - with Bruce McCandless III

Written By Dave Giles

This week we're joined by Bruce McCandless III as he is just releasing a brand new book about his father, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II who is most famous for being the astronaut floating about the earth untethered back in 1984. One of the most iconic photos from spaceflight and yet not much is actually known about the man inside the suit. The new book is out next week and is called ' Wonders All Around'.

Bruce McCandless III: https://brucemccandless.com/
https://twitter.com/BanLohannon

'Wonders All Around' Review by Francis French: https://www.francisfrench.com/blog-2/theoldposter?fbclid=IwAR1YHQy-rG4s-I3mT_SYFvpbUCgCLacdArPsLm4tMHPcpMecdcWG8mh60tY

Brittany Phillips Analog Mission Crowdfunder:
Future Teacher In Space: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-a-field-trip-to-mars

This week's news:
Launches:
Fri June 25: RockOn: Wallops Launch Facilty:
https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2021/feature/nasa-launches-student-experiments-to-space-on-a-suborbital-rocket

Fri June 25: VKS RF - Soyuz 2.1b - Cosmos 2550
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/40947

Tues June 29: Roscosmos - Soyuz 2.1a - Progress MS-17
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2976

Wed June 30: Virgin Orbit - LauncherOne - Tubular Bells Part One
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/948

Wed June 30: SpaceX - Falcon 9 Block 5 - Transporter 2
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2404

Other News:

Second New Solar Array Space Walk Deployment:
https://www.space.com/spacewalking-astronauts-deploy-second-space-station-solar-array

Sounds while descending and exploration video:

Commander Moonikin Campos:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/public-names-moonikin-flying-around-moon-on-nasa-s-artemis-i-mission

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.

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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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