STP103 - Training Astronauts For The Moon - with Tamara York (Artemis Crew Training Officer)

To honour the upcoming launch of Artemis-1, the first uncrewed flight of the Artemis program we present to you an interview with Artemis Crew Training Officer Tamara York to find out what the astronauts hoping to fly on future missions might be up to right now.

The Artemis Program: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/ 

Emily’s Article:
The Nineties Sucked. Here’s How For All Mankind’s Season Three Finale Captured That:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/the-nineties-sucked-heres-how-for-all-mankind-s-season-three-finale-captured-that-460f7474f1fd 

ESA Moon Playlist:

This Week’s Launches:
Tues 9th Aug 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: Galactic Energy: Ceres-1: White is the New Black:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6875 
No Video Available

Tues 9th Aug 2022: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Roscosmos: Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M: Khayysm and Other Satellites:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6995 

Wed 10 Aug 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-26:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6955

Wed 10th Aug 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 6: Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-09. 35 to 43 & Infrared A01 to 06:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6996 
No Video Available

Fri 12th Aug 2022: Vandenberg SFB, California: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 3-3:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6980 

This Week’s Other News:
Cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, who led two docking flight tests, dies at 94:
https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-anatoly-filipchenko-obituary

SpaceX fires up Starship and Super Heavy Booster 7 ahead of test flight:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-first-static-fire 

SpaceX fires up Starship Super Heavy booster again in long engine test:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-7-long-static-fire

SpaceX's Starship won't launch on 1st orbital test flight this month:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-orbital-test-flight-launch-window 

Northrop Grumman picks Firefly to replace Russian engines on Antares rocket:
https://www.space.com/northrop-grumman-firefly-replace-russian-engines-antares-rocket 

Scientist admits 'space telescope' photo is actually chorizo in tasty Twitter prank:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-scientist-chorizo-prank 

Image Credits:  NASA/Joel Kowsky

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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.

NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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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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