STP134 - Getting A Job In the Aerospace Industry - with Tom Cooke - CEO of Spacely

This week we talk to Tom Cooke, who is the co-founder and CEO of Spacely, a digital marketplace connecting independent workers to the aerospace industry 

Spacely: https://www.spacely.work/

Tom Cooke:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cooke-spacelyceo/

Podcast That Tom Talked About: 
https://www.shoshinworks.com/#/live/ecosystemicfuturespodcast 

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:

Axiom Space reveals prototype spacesuit for Artemis astronauts on the moon:
https://www.space.com/axiom-space-artemis-moon-spacesuits-revealed

1st Artemis spacesuits to be worn on the moon will not return to Earth:
https://www.space.com/axiom-space-axemu-artemis-3-spacesuits-fate

Axiom Space targeting November 2023 for 3rd private astronaut mission to space station:
https://www.space.com/axiom-space-ax-3-astronaut-mission-november-2023 

Image Credits: Tom Cooke

Space and Things:

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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
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/