STP107 - When Space Met Queen Elizabeth II

Written By Dave Giles

Follow the death of Queen Elizabeth II, we decided to take a look at the times when the Queen and our world of space flight crossed paths.

The Royal Family and Space:
https://www.royal.uk/royal-family-and-space

The Queen’s Awkward Reaction To Russian Astronaut Stroking Her Knee Revealed:
https://www.womanandhome.com/life/royal-news/the-queens-awkward-reaction-to-russian-astronaut-stroking-her-knee-revealed/

Queen Elizabeth II and the Apollo 11 Astronauts Had An Awkward Encounter After the Moon Landing:
https://www.biography.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-apollo-11-astronauts-meeting

Queen Elizabeth II Today Felt The Thrill of Landing The Space Shuttle:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/02/28/Queen-Elizabeth-II-today-felt-the-thrill-of-landing/4142045654506/

Queen Visits Mission Control:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/05/22/Queen-visits-Mission-Control/4018674884800/

Queen Elizabeth II Visits NASA’sGoddard Space Flight Center:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/queen_visit.html

This Week’s Launches:
Wed 7th Sept 2022: Guiana Space Center: French Guiana: Arianespace: Ariana 5 ECA: Eutelsat Connect VHTS:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2015

Sun 11th Sept 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-2, BlueWalker3
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6965

Mon 12th Sept 2022: FAILURE: Launch Site One: West Texas: Blue Origin: New Shepard: NS-23:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7006

Tues 13th Sept 2022: Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 7A: ChinaSat 1E:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6997 

This Week’s Other News:

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket grounded as FAA investigates launch failure:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-grounded-faa-investigation

NASA replaces leaky seals on Artemis 1 moon rocket, fueling test next:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-rocket-leaky-seals-replaced 

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket launch delayed to Sept. 27 at the earliest:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-rocket-launch-delay-september-27

NASA picks spacesuit maker for 1st Artemis moonwalkers:
https://www.space.com/artemis-3-moon-spacesuits-axiom-space 

What would you name a Uranus probe? The internet's answers are about what you'd think|
https://www.space.com/uranus-probe-names-internet-ideas 

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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