STP106 - So Much To Talk About - Remembering Don Lind and Frank Drake - Apollo Remastered - Freddo's New Website - And much more.
With so many great stories out there at the moment we want to make sure that we didn't miss anything which has been on our mind, so no main feature this week, just lots of different things to talk about.
Including:
Don Lind Obituary: https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-don-lind-obituary
Frank Drake Obituary: https://www.space.com/seti-pioneer-frank-drake-obituary
Fred Haise New Website: http://fredhaise.space/
Emily's latest blog about Freddo's Website: https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/i-will-make-it-fred-haises-new-website-reveals-space-history-treasure-trove-30988458c52e
Apollo Remastered: https://www.apolloremastered.com/bio
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 31st August 2022: Vandenberg, California: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 3-4:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6994
Sat 3rd Sept 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 4C: Yaogan 33-02:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7010
No Video Available.
Mon 5th Sept 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-20 and Varuna-TDM:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6950
Tues 6th Sept 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASIC: Kuaizhou 1A: CentiSpace-1 S3 &S4:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7012
No video Available.
Tues 6th Sept 2022: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Yaogan 35 Group 05:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7013
No Video Available.
This Week’s Other News:
Fuel leak on Artemis 1 moon rocket may take weeks to repair, NASA says:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-rocket-leak-weeks-repairs
SpaceX ignites multiple engines on Starship Super Heavy booster for 1st time:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-static-fire-multiple-engines
Astra performs fiery engine test for powerful new rocket system:
https://www.space.com/astra-rocket-engine-test-fire-new-system
Rocket Lab fires up space-flown engine in reusability milestone:
https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-fires-space-flown-engine
BluShift Aerospace Successful 10 second burn of our MAREVL 2.0 rocket engine:
Solar Orbiter to look at Venus' magnetic field as it swings by the planet:
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-venus-flyby-3-magnetic-field
ESA’s Solar orbiter just got smacked by a coronal mass ejection:
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-hit-by-coronal-mass-ejection
Russian spacewalkers test European robotic arm on the space station Friday:
https://www.space.com/russian-spacewalk-european-robotic-arm-september-2023
James Webb Space Telescope snags its 1st direct photo of an alien world:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-image
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has made oxygen 7 times in exploration milestone:
https://www.space.com/mars-moxie-experiment-makes-oxygen
NASA solves Voyager 1 data glitch mystery, but finds another:
https://www.space.com/voyager-1-data-glitch-solved
Image Credits: NASA, Andy Saunders, NRAO/NSF/AUI, Smithsonian Press, Open Road Media.
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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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