STP135 - 16 Sunsets Podcast - The Extraordinary Untold Story of the Space Shuttle - with Dr.Kevin Fong
With this being our 135th podcast, we knew we had to have a space shuttle theme, and fortunately Dr. Kevin Fong and the team behind the "13 Minutes To The Moon" podcast have just launched a kickstarter to make a full length podcast devoted to the Space Shuttle, so today we speak to Dr. Kevin to find out all about it.
Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16-sunsets-podcast/sixteen-sunsets-podcast?ref=project_link
Dr. Kevin Fong:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kevin_Fong
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-fong-0bb92a99/
“What does it take to be an astronaut? After dreaming of the stars, I decided to find out”: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/04/astronaut-european-space-agency-stars
16 Sunsets: https://sixteensunsets.com/
Twitter https://twitter.com/16Sunsets
Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Virgin Orbit restarts operations with 'small' team as it works on finance deal: reports:
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-resumes-operations-small-team-finance-deal
Relativity Space launches world's first 3D-printed rocket on historic test flight, but fails to reach orbit:
https://www.space.com/relativity-space-terran-1-test-launch-failure
An up-close look at Terran 1 lifting off last week: pic.twitter.com/k4KbISkr3A
— John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos) March 27, 2023
Blue Origin says it finally knows what caused its New Shepard rocket launch to fail last year:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-mishap-engine-nozzle-failure
Leaky Soyuz spacecraft at space station returns to Earth in speedy landing:
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-resumes-operations-small-team-finance-deal
How to watch NASA's Artemis 2 moon crew reveal live online on April 3:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-2-moon-crew-announcement-livestream
Image Credits: Telltale Industries
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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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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/
