STP116 - The Space Hipster Book Prize - with Lois Huneycutt and John Whisenhunt
This week, we talk about space books with Lois Honeycutt and John Whisenhunt as they have just opened up the 2023 Space Hipster Book Prize for nominations for books released in 2022. It’s a wonderful prize from a wonderful community.
Space Hipsters:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/
Book Prize Twitter Account:
https://twitter.com/HipstersPrize
Previous Winners:
2018: Endurance by Scott Kelly
2019: Bringing Colombia Home by Jonathan Ward and Michael Leinbach
2020: Come Fly With Us by Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas
2021: Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti
2022: Beyond by Stephen Walker
Lois Huneycutt:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lois-huneycutt-8b2a7310b/
John Whisenhunt:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-whisenhunt-22015416/
What Caught Our Eye This Week?
Artemis 1 launch success makes NASA's SLS the most powerful rocket ever to fly:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-sls-most-powerful-rocket
US military's X-37B space plane lands, ending record-breaking mystery mission:
https://www.space.com/space-force-x-37b-space-plane-otv-6-mission-ends
History Channel team finds large piece of space shuttle Challenger on ocean floor:
https://www.space.com/space-shuttle-challenger-debris-found-history-channel
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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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