STP132 - An Interview with Rusty Schweickart - Apollo 9, Skylab, Asteroids and so much more…

54 years ago this week, Apollo 9 was in orbit around the Earth testing out the Lunar Module on it’s maiden flight, and today we talk to the Lunar Module pilot Rusty Schweickart about that flight and so many other things.

Rusty Schweickart:
https://www.rustyschweickart.com/ 

Emily’s Articles:
Space in the Seventies: Rusty Schweickart in the Seventies
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-seventies-rusty-schweickart-in-the-seventies-18f62ef15801

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Researchers design a ‘space salad’ to keep astronauts healthy and happy:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/astronauts-food-space-salad/

NASA hails SpaceX's 'beautiful' Crew-6 astronaut launch:
https://www.space.com/nasa-spacex-celebrate-crew-6-launch-success 

Russians will fly on SpaceX's Crew-7, Crew-8 astronaut missions: report: 
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-7-crew-8-russian-astronaut-missions 

Launch of the First H3 Launch Vehicle with Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3 “DAICHI-3” onboard:

After nearly a decade in development, Japan’s new rocket fails in debut:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/the-launch-of-japans-large-new-rocket-fails-after-a-second-stage-problem/

The small launch industry is brutal—yes, even more than you thought:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/the-small-launch-industry-is-brutal-yes-even-more-than-you-thought/

Image Credits: NASA

Thanks to our Patreon John Whisenhunt for his audio this week.

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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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