STP20 - A History of Alternative Histories.
We love pondering what might have happened if events transpired slightly differently, and it turns out that there are plenty of great authors who have delivered us some fantastic pieces about these very ideas. So this week we have a talk about some of our favourite alternative space histories.
For All Mankind: https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/for-all-mankind/
Season 2 Trailer:
Reading List:
Quest Magazine Volume 26 Issue 2 - https://spacehistory101.com/downloads/quest-vol-26-2/
Martin Caidin: 'Marooned' and 'The Cape'
Suzanne Roberts: 'Julie Jones Cape Canaveral Nurse'
James Michener: 'Space'
Stephen Baxter: 'Voyage', 'Titan' and 'Moonseed'
Gerald Brennan: 'Public Loneliness', 'Zero Phase', 'Island of Clouds' and to be released in April 'Infinite Blues'.
David S.F. Portree: https://www.wired.com/author/david-s-f-portree/
David Oakes: 'Apollo Rising'
Reece Emmitt: https://reece-emmitt.medium.com/
Donald A. Wollheim: Mike Mars books: https://www.goodreads.com/series/54220-mike-mars
Mike Jenne: 'Blue Gemini', 'Pale Blue' and 'Blue Darker Than Black'
This weeks news:
Jan 7th: Space X Falcon 9 launch. Turksat 5A mission:
Starship SN9 Starship static firing: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn9-first-static-fire
Space Launch System Green Run: https://www.space.com/nasa-sls-megarocket-engine-hot-fire-test-january-2021
KOI-5Ab Exoplanet confirmation: https://www.space.com/kepler-space-telescope-2nd-exoplanet-candidate-confirmed
SpaceX Cargo Dragon undocking: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2021/01/13/spacex-cargo-dragon-splashes-down-loaded-with-science-experiments/
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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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