STP124 - Remembering Walt Cunningham - with Francis French
This week we celebrate the life of Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham, who died on January 3rd, aged 90. To do this we’re joined by our good friend Francis French.
Walt Cunningham Obituary:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/apollo-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dies-at-90
Francis French:
https://www.francisfrench.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/F_French
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francisjfrench/
Books By Francis:
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
Falling To Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon, with Al Worden
In The Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility 1965-1969
Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Donn Eisele
The Light of EarthL Reflections of a Life in Space with Al Worden
Astronaut Al Travels to the Moon
Emily’s Articles:
To Boldly Go: Nichelle Nichols’ 90th Celebrated With Unveiling of Foundation:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/to-boldly-go-nichelle-nichols-90th-celebrated-with-unveiling-of-foundation-f4cdc67f162d
Our Moon and Why We Explore It:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/our-moon-and-why-we-explore-it-74befeb1a713
Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Russia to launch new Soyuz capsule to replace leaky spacecraft on space station:
https://www.space.com/russia-replacement-soyuz-launching-february-2023
Virgin Orbit rocket suffers anomaly during 1st launch from UK:
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-first-united-kingdom-launch-failure
Cosmosphere Event on 19th January:
https://cosmo.org/news-and-events/calendar#event-1638
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.
NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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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.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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