STP126 - Remembering Columbia - 20 Years On - with Jonathan Ward
On February 1st 2003, the crew of the STS107 mission were returning home from space on the Space Shuttle Columbia when tragedy struck. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years. To mark this, we talk to Jonathan Ward, co-author of the brilliant book “Bringing Columbia Home” - the inside story of the disaster and the recovery and how the darkest hours can bring the best out of people. The book won the Space hipsters book price for best book released in 2018.
Bringing Columbia Home: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publishing/9781628728514/bringing-columbia-home/
Jonathan Ward: https://www.jonathanhward.com/author/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanward/
Jonathan's other books:
Rocket Ranch: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319177885
Countdown To A Moon Launch: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319177915#otherversion=9783319177922
Through The Glass Ceiling To The Stars: http://marklarson.com/eileencollins/index.html?msclkid=5ceb59e4c48f11ec8c759cdb490c8a2d
Cameron McCool:
https://www.instagram.com/cameronmccool/?hl=en
Clay Anderson Podcast about Columbia:
Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-making-of-an-ordinary-spaceman/id1570054145?i=1000523745903
Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-making-of-an-ordinary-spaceman/id1570054145?i=1000529785516
Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Buzz Aldrin Marries at 93:
https://www.space.com/apollo-11-moonwalker-buzz-aldrin-marriage-anca-faur
Tim Peake Retires As An Astronaut:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64346185
Saturn IB rocket no longer safe to keep standing at Alabama rest stop:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-022323a-saturn-ib-rocket-alabama-welcome-center.html
First recovered US rocket stage returned to its launch site for display:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-011923a-gemini-titan-5-recovered-stage-delivery.html
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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