STP48 - Apollo 15 - 50th Anniversary Celebration with Francis French
It's the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission so we've decided to celebrate the mission of Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin by asking author and historian Francis French to join us again.
Francis French:
https://www.francisfrench.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/F_French
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francisjfrench/
Al Worden Books:
Falling To Earth: https://www.smithsonianbooks.com/store/aviation-military-history/falling-earth-apollo-15-astronauts-journey-moon/
The Light Of Earth: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496228659/
Homemade Documentaries:
NASA Apollo 15 50th Anniversary Video:
Hammer and Feather Experiment:
This week's news:
Launch:
Wed 21 July: Roscosmos: Proton-M: MLM-U Nauka
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1012
Russia Launches Nauka Science Module:
https://www.space.com/russia-launches-nauka-space-station-research-module
Problems once launched:
https://www.space.com/pirs-space-station-module-departure-delayed
Pirs Module Discarded:
https://www.space.com/russia-pirs-docking-port-departs-space-station
Astronaut photos of Pirs module burning up:
https://www.space.com/space-station-pirs-module-deorbit-photos
Boeing Starliner Capsule Flight:
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-flight-readiness-review-oft-2
Europa Clipper - Falcon Heavy:
https://www.space.com/nasa-picks-spacex-falcon-heavy-for-europa-clipper-launch
Water vapour on Ganymede:
https://www.space.com/jupiter-moon-ganymede-water-vapor-discovery
Full Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01426-9
Ingenuity 10th flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-completes-first-mile-10th-flight
Perseverance getting ready for first rock sample:
https://www.space.com/nasa-perseverance-rover-first-mars-rock-sample
No methane in Mars atmosphere:
https://www.space.com/exomars-orbiter-no-methane-on-mars
Mars crust and core updates:
https://www.space.com/mars-large-core-thin-crust-insight-results
Jeff Bezos wants to pay for the lunar lander:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-jeff-bezos-moon-lander-offer
Space Jam:
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.
Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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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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