STP128 - Wally Funk - A True Space Pioneer - with Sue Nelson
2023 is a big year for women in space flight with historic anniversaries and landmark announcements coming up, so we want to start to highlight some female Space Flight Pioneers and today we talk about Wally Funk. To do this we’re joined by journalist and broadcaster Sue Nelson who wrote the wonderful book: “Wally Funk’s Race For Space”
Sue Nelson:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-nelson-boffin-media-27969329/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceNelson
Space Boffins Podcast:
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/astronomy-podcasts/space-boffins
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceboffins
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceBoffins
Emily’s Article:
Space in the Seventies: Rusty Schweickart in the Seventies:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-seventies-rusty-schweickart-in-the-seventies-18f62ef15801
Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
SpaceX prepares for a massive test this week: Firing all 33 Starship engines at once:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/spacex-prepares-test-fire-all-starship-engines-at-once.html
Neil Armstongs X15 Flight Suit:
Image Credits: Sue Nelson
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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/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EmilyLCarney
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilycarneyspace/
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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