STP147 - Visiting Kennedy Space Center - Meeting an Astronaut and so much more.
This week we have a good old catch up of what we’ve been doing for the last month. Plenty of space news to talk about as well as Dave’s trip to Kennedy Space Center.
Emily’s Articles:
“Photographing America’s First Astronauts” Reveals Unseen Dimension of Mercury Program:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/photographing-americas-first-astronauts-reveals-unseen-dimension-of-mercury-program-ce2d68414245
The Burdens and The Hopes: The Space Shuttle of the Seventies:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/the-burdens-and-the-hopes-the-space-shuttle-of-the-seventies-b8e60edd672
Kennedy Space Center:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/
What’s Caught Our Eye Over The Last Month:
Should future Mars missions have all-female crews?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/future-mars-missions-female-crews-100030178.html
Celestis’ Enterprise and Tranquility Flights:
https://www.celestis.com/blog/celestis-enterprise-and-tranquility-flights-updates-and-progress-towards-launch/
ESA Proposes Marcus Wandt From Sweden To Fly On A Future Axiom Space Mission:
https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ESA_proposes_Marcus_Wandt_from_Sweden_to_fly_on_a_future_Axiom_space_mission#:~:text=Sweden%20intends%20to%20send%20ESA,Station%20on%20an%20Axiom%20mission.
Intelligence Officials Say US Has Retrieved Craft Of Non-Human Origin:
https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/
Eilleen Collins Novaspace Signing:
https://twitter.com/novaspaceart/status/1667212033752969216?s=46&t=-MIaJwIeUJgaqfyEe4_BlA
Betelgeuse Goes Supernova:
https://www.inverse.com/science/betelgeuse-supernova-effects
Blue Origin Lunar Lander:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/at-long-last-the-glorious-future-we-were-promised-in-space-is-on-the-way/?fbclid=IwAR0KCY0qmR0Me2s_590f_P4EjRISb3Sf9oav0ygSIEHxZkKGkV1iDXQXHkA
Blue Origin will build NASA's new moon lander for Artemis astronauts
https://www.space.com/nasa-selects-blue-origin-second-artemis-moon-lander
Private moon lander's launch with SpaceX delayed to this fall
https://www.space.com/private-moon-lander-launch-delay-spacex-rocket
Artemis 2 crew begins 1st moon mission training in 50 years
https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-crew-mission-training
Carl Sagan film 'Voyagers' casts Andrew Garfield of 'Spider-Man' fame to play beloved astronomer
https://www.space.com/carl-sagan-film-voyagers-andrew-garfield
Europe's BepiColombo spacecraft to zoom within 150 miles of Mercury in close flyby today
https://www.space.com/mercury-flyby-bepicolombo-spacecraft-june-2023
Surprise! Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may not have a fully formed core
https://www.space.com/jupiter-ocean-moon-europa-no-fully-formed-core
Saturn's moon Enceladus has all the ingredients for life in its icy oceans. But is life there?
https://www.space.com/saturn-moon-enceladus-phosphorus-found
Virgin Galactic will launch its 1st commercial spaceflight on June 27
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-first-commercial-spaceflight-june-2023
Astronauts unfurl final roll-out solar array (for now) at space station in record-tying spacewalk
https://www.space.com/astronauts-spacewalk-international-space-station-sixth-solar-array-deployed
Final launch of Europe's powerful Ariane 5 rocket delayed indefinitely
https://www.space.com/ariane-5-rocket-final-launch-delay
Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever
https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite-beams-energy-1st-time
SpaceX Starship problems likely to delay Artemis 3 moon mission to 2026, NASA says
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-problems-delay-artemis-3-2026
China's Shenzhou 15 capsule lands safely with 3 Tiangong space station astronauts (video)
https://www.space.com/china-shenzhou-15-astronauts-land-safely
Spain signs the Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration
https://www.space.com/spain-signs-artemis-accords-moon-exploration
'I'm ready. Let's go!' Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson eager for next flight after private Ax-2 mission
https://www.space.com/ax-2-astronaut-peggy-whitson-ready-next-flight
SpaceX's Dragon reentry and splashdown with Ax-2 astronauts looks amazing in these nighttime photos and videos
https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-ax-2-reentry-splashdown-photos-videos
New record! 17 people are in Earth orbit at the same time right now
https://www.space.com/record-17-people-in-earth-orbit-at-once
Boeing delays 1st Starliner astronaut launch for NASA indefinitely over parachute, wiring safety issues
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-nasa-astronaut-launch-delayed-indefinitely
Mars helicopter Ingenuity went silent for 6 'agonizing' days in April
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-communications-blackout-april-2023
Japan has a wild idea to launch a satellite made of wood in 2024
https://www.space.com/wooden-satellite-lignosat-japan-2024
UFOs will remain mysterious without better data, NASA study team says
https://www.space.com/nasa-ufo-study-group-better-data-needed
Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe finishes deploying its instruments
https://www.space.com/juice-jupiter-spacecraft-finishes-deploying-instruments
Virgin Orbit shuts down after selling key assets to 3 aerospace companies
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-ceases-operations-sells-assets
Virgin Orbit receives $17 million bid from Stratolaunch for carrier plane and related aircraft assets
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-assets-carrier-plane-stratolaunch-bid
Meet the 8 people flying on Virgin Galactic's 5th spaceflight on Thursday
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-unity-25-meet-the-crew
Virgin Galactic's Unity 25 spaceflight in photos (gallery)
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-unity-25-spaceflight-photos
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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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