STP121 - What Makes A Good Space Museum - High Praise and A Big Rant
Following Dave's US trip where he visited a number of air and space museums, we think it's the perfect time to discuss the different between a good and a not so good museum.
Comosphere First and Last Steps Event:
Francis French and Al Worden Books for the National Ataxia Foundation:
https://www.francisfrench.com/blog-2/bookssavinglives
Museums from Dave’s Trip:
Cernan Earth And Space Center:
https://www.triton.edu/cernan/
EAA Aviation Museum:
https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa-museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum:
https://dekeslaytonmuseum.org/
Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum:
https://www.sacmuseum.org/
The Cosmophere:
https://cosmo.org/
Space Center Houston:
https://spacecenter.org/
Also Mentioned:
American Space Museum:
https://spacewalkoffame.org/
LBJ Presidential Library:
https://www.lbjlibrary.org/
What Caught Our Eye This Week?
John Young:
Good Night Oppy:
InSight Mars Lander Retirement:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-retires-insight-mars-lander-mission-after-years-of-science
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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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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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