STP130 - Soviets In Space - with Colin Burgess

Feb 23

This week we talk about ‘Soviets in Space’ with legendary author Colin Burgess. Of course we also talk about the ‘Outward Odyssey’ book series which he created and edits for the University of Nebraska Press.

Colin Burgess isn’t on social media.

Outward Odyssey Books:
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/series/outward-odyssey-a-peoples-history-of-spaceflight/

Bibliography:

Aircraft, 1985
Pioneers of Flight, 1988
Prisoners of War, with Hugh Clarke and Russell Braddon, 1988
Laughter in the Air: Tales from the Qantas Era, with Max Harris, 1988
More Laughter in the Air: Tales from the Qantas Era, 1992
Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Australian POW Stories, with Hugh Clarke, 1993
Freedom or Death : Australia's Greatest Escape Stories from Two World Wars, 1994
Destination Buchenwald, 1995. Revised and expanded edition published 2022
The Diggers of Colditz: the classic Australian POW escape story now completely revised and expanded, with Jack Champ, 1997 and 2019
Australia's Dambusters: The Men and Missions of 617 Squadron, 2003, re-released in 2021
Bush Parker: An Australian Battle of Britain Pilot in Colditz, 2007, ISBN 098032047X
Space, the New Frontier, 1987
Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia's First Man in Space, Paul Scully-Power, 1995
Australia's Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999
Teacher In Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy, 2000, revised edition 2020
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, with Kate Doolan, 2003. Revised expanded edition, 2016
NASA's Scientist-Astronauts, with David Shayler, 2006
Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle, with Chris Dubbs, 2007
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965, with Francis French, 2007
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969, with Francis French, 2007
Astronomica, Ed. Fred Watson, 2007 (contributor)
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies, with Rex Hall, 2009
Australia's Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream, 2009
Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975, 2010 [3]
How Wickie Saved the World, 2010[4]
Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts, 2011[5]
Moon Bound: Choosing and Training the Lunar Astronauts, 2012
Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 2014
Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom, 2014
Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr., 2015
Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter, 2015
Interkosmos: The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program, 2015
Sigma 7: The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr., 2016
Faith 7: L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and the Final Mercury Mission, 2016
The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties, with David J. Shayler, 2017
Shattered Dreams: The Lost or Canceled Space Missions, 2019
NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, 2020
Australia's Greatest Escapes: Gripping Tales of Wartime Bravery, 2020
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration, 2021
Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier, 2022

Emily’s Articles:
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

Space in the Seventies: Space Mountain and Astronauts (1975–1977):
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-seventies-space-mountain-and-astronauts-1975-1977-12c2dc706be8

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:

Hugh Harris, the 'voice of NASA,' passes away after decades at Kennedy Space Center:
https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2023/02/15/voice-of-nasa-hugh-harris-dies/69906910007/

Taking Up Space Fundraiser:
https://www.facebook.com/donate/738252007947220/10159694803166173/

Image Credits: Reaction Books Ltd.

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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/

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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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