STP131 - SpaceX Crew 6 Mission Preview

The Crew-6 mission is due to launch on March 2nd, so we thought we’d preview the mission for you. 

Crew 6 Fact Sheet: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/crew_6_mission_overview_0.pdf 

Emily’s Articles:
Space in the Seventies: TFNGs and Saudis — Transforming the Narrative:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-seventies-tfngs-and-saudis-transforming-the-narrative-5ccf71109cac 

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Serhiy Korolyov The Ukrainian:
https://fthgurdy.tumblr.com/post/681460603883257856/thank-you-for-making-this-post-korolyov-is-a?fbclid=IwAR1Yrzivo-MNov3M3UDMGvouMUveBg5Uir5KiYIEJqdzaVDb6WqZhNjGrjg 

The New Guys:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-new-guys-meredith-bagby?variant=40424020279330 

California Science Center reopens retired space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay:
https://www.space.com/space-shuttle-endeavour-inspection-boom-california-science-center 

Solar Orbiter catches Mercury crossing the sun:
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-spots-mercury-transit-sun 

Image Credits: NASA

Space and Things:

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/spaceandthings1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaceandthingspodcast
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceandthingspodcast/

Merch and Info: https://www.spaceandthingspodcast.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Spaceandthings

Business Enquiries: info@andthingsproductions.com

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
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyCarneySpace/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilycarneyspace/
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
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davejgiles
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davejgilesmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davejgiles
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-giles-1286ab1a3/ 

Previous
Previous

STP132 - An Interview with Rusty Schweickart - Apollo 9, Skylab, Asteroids and so much more…

Next
Next

STP130 - Soviets In Space - with Colin Burgess