STP15 - Gifts for Space Nerds - with Max Kaiserman of Luna Replicas
Are you looking to get a Christmas present for someone who loves space? This episode might help you out as we discuss some ideas and also speak to Max Kaiserman from Luna Replicas to discuss his store and their products (spoilers, they're incredible).
And of course we cover all of this weeks news.
Luna Replicas: Lunareplicas.com
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This week's news:
Chuck Yeagar Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/chuck-yeager-obituary
Dec 2nd: Arianespace Soyuz Launch:
Dec 3rd: Soyuz Launch:
Dec 6th: Long March 3b Launch:
Dec 6th: Space X Dragon 2 Cargo Launch:
Nanoracks Bishops Airlock: https://nanoracks.com/bishop-airlock/
Chang'e 5 Launch from the Moon:
Hayabusa 2 Sample Return:
Christmas Gift Ideas:
Books mentioned:
Sarah Cruddas: Looking Up - Our Journey With The Stars
Kellie Gerardi: Not Necessarily Rocket Science - A Beginner's Guide to Life in the Space Age
John Rocco: How We Got To The Moon
David Oakes: Apollo Rising
Chris Petty: Beyond Blue Skies
Richard Jurek: The Ultimate Engineer
Dr. James R. Hansen: A Reluctant Icon - Letters to Neil Armstrong
Andrew Chaikin: A Man In The Moon
Teasel Muir-Harmony: Operation Moonglow - A Political History of Project Apollo
Novaspace: https://novaspace.com/
Museums we would like to support:
Rocket Center, Huntsville (online store and donate options): https://www.rocketcenter.com/
Space Museum, Titusville (membership and donate options): http://spacewalkoffame.org/
The Cosmophere, Hutchinson (membership, online store and donate options): https://cosmo.org/
Al Bean Museum: Wheeler (online store and donate options): https://wheelerhistory.org/index-10.html
National Space Centre, Leicester, England (membership and donate options): https://spacecentre.co.uk/
San Diego Air and Space Museum (online store, membership and donate options): https://sandiegoairandspace.org
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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.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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