STP10 - Rocket City: Huntsville, Alabama

This weekend Emily is heading the U.S. Rocket and Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, so we thought we'd have a little look at the history of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and how Huntsville became known as Rocket City.

10 years of Emily's blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/

Rocket Lab launch of Electron rocket: 28th Oct 2020: 

A Gnome in Space: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/2/21546596/valve-gabe-newell-gnome-space-new-zealand-rocket-labs

ULA Atlas V launch on 4th November: SCRUBBED... but Emily wasn't watching so it wasn't her fault.

Voyager 2 says hello: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7775&fbclid=IwAR2xB_d8vgTLVD3AKLbRZ-ikOrnn8o4fYmnQ_OaSz2Y7HiJK3yRiBaYZQdo
How far away is Voyager 2? https://twitter.com/NSFVoyager2

U.S. Rocket and Space Center: https://rocketcenter.com/
NASA Marshall Space Center: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html
Space Camp: https://www.spacecamp.com/
'Taking Up Space': https://taking-up-space.org/ - Non profit to send Native American girls to Space Camp.

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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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