STP105 - An Update On JWST - with Mark McCaughrean of ESA - PLUS - Emily's Artemis-1 Adventure
This week we welcome back ESA senior Science and Exploration advisor Mark McCaughrean to give us an update on all things JWST.
Mark McCaughrean:
https://markmccaughrean.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/markmccaughrean
Webb Space Telescope:
https://webb.nasa.gov/
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 24th August: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Beijing-3B:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7003
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Sun 26th Aug 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-23:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6966
This Week’s Other News:
NASA now aims to launch Artemis 1 moon mission on Sept. 3 after glitch:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-launch-september-3
SpaceX Starlink satellites to beam service straight to smartphones:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-direct-service-smartphones-t-mobile
Artemis 1 moon rocket might still fly this week, NASA says:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-jupiter-aurora-images
Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut flight for NASA delayed to February 2023:
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-first-astronaut-flight-delay-february-2023
SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA delayed to Oct. 3:
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-5-astronaut-launch-delay-october-3
Blue Origin's private Orbital Reef space station passes key design review:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-orbital-reef-system-definition-review
Nichelle Nichols of 'Star Trek' to boldly go on unique memorial spaceflight in 2022:
https://www.space.com/nichelle-nichols-star-trek-celestis-memorial-spaceflight
Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
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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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