STP102 - Getting To Know The Real Deke Slayton - With Kent Slayton and Alyssa Young
Deke Slayton is a legend in the space flight world, but how much do we know about him? Well this week we're joined by his son Kent, and Alyssa Young, the executive director of the Deke Slayton Memorial Museum, to find out more. We thought this would be a discussion about the legacy of Deke, but it ended up being so much more.
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This Week’s Launches:
Thur 4th August 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 4B: Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Inventory (TECIS):
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6992
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Thur 4th August 2022: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand: Rocket Lab: Electron: Curie: Antipodean Adventure (NROL-199):
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6806
Thur 4th August 2022: Kennedy Space Center: Florida: ULA: Atlas V 421: SBIRS GEO-6:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6792
Thur 4th August 2022: Launch Site One, West Texas: Blue Origin: New Shepard: NS-22:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6990
Thur 4th August 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center: CASC: Long March 2F/T: Experimental Spaceplane (CSSHQ):
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6993
No Video Available
Thur 4th August 2022: Kennedy Space Center: Florida: SpaceX: Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO):
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/103
Sun 7th August 2022: First Launch Pad: Satish Dhawan Space Center: India: FAILURE: ISRO: SSLV: EOS-02:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/751
This Week’s Other News:
Artemis 1 moon mission launch ticket sales crashed website:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-launch-ticket-sales-crash-website
NASA opens up Artemis moon missions to all astronauts:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-moon-missions-open-all-astronauts
Astra cancels Rocket 3 line after multiple launch failures:
https://www.space.com/astra-cancels-rocket-3-production-launch-failures
Virgin Galactic pushes 1st commercial passenger flight to spring 2023:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-first-commercial-flight-delay-spring-2023
SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn space crew targets December launch date:
https://www.space.com/polaris-dawn-spacex-december-launch-plan
Former astronauts must chaperone private missions to the International Space Station, NASA says:
https://www.space.com/nasa-former-astronauts-lead-private-iss-missions
Image Credits: NASA
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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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