STP19 - Unsung Heroes - Heather Couper and George Carruthers
In our first podcast of 2021 we spend some time talking about two people from the world of space who we think have been over looked. There are obviously thousands of people who fit this bill, but this podcast isn't going anywhere soon, so we'll do our best!
George Carruthers:
Looking Back: Dr. George Carruthers and Apollo 16 Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/looking-back-dr-george-carruthers-and-apollo-16-far-ultraviolet-cameraspectrograph
Washington Post obituary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-carruthers-dead/2020/12/31/ca5a366e-4acc-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html
Further Reading:
Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects - Teasel Muir-Harmony
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program - Richard Paul and Steven Moss.
Heather Couper:
Floella Benjamin Obituary:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/15/heather-couper-remembered-by-floella-benjamin
BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51562165
Other stories:
Emily's new blog:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/spacex-toxic-fandom-and-gatekeeping-342492471b28
Emily's latest This Space Available blog post:
‘Beyond Earth’s Edge’ Explores Spaceflight’s Poetic Spirit:
https://space.nss.org/beyond-earths-edge-explores-spaceflights-poetic-spirit/
Launches since our last update:
December 27th: China Aerospace Science and Technology (CASC) - Long March 4c Launch:
December 29th: Arianespace Soyuz launch from French Guiana:
December 26th: Solar Orbiter fly past of Venus: https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-makes-first-venus-flyby
Radish Harvest: https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-harvests-radishes-space-station
Law for protection of heritage luna sites: https://www.space.com/one-small-step-space-heritage-act.html
Image credit: Getty/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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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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