STP136 - The New Guys - The Astronauts That Changed The Face of Space Travel - with Meredith Bagby

Apr 6

This week we talk to Meredith Bagby, author of a brand new book about NASA’s first diverse Astronaut class: Group 8, which was announced 45 years ago this year.

Meredith Bagby:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Merbagby
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-bagby-626758161/

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

Space in the Seventies: Simulating Enterprise — The Orbiter Aeroflight Simulator:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-seventies-simulating-enterprise-the-orbiter-aeroflight-simulator-da994d6719f8

Francis French Article:
https://medium.com/the-vintage-space/gay-astronauts-a-final-frontier-9892d0987fa0

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Newly named Artemis 2 crew to notch many firsts on historic moon mission:
https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-crew-firsts-records

Artemis 2 moon mission will lift companies, top Canadian space official says:
https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-mission-canada-business

Artemis 2's Canadian astronaut got their moon mission seat with 'potato salad’:
https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-mission-canadian-astronaut-seat-negotiations

Boeing delays 1st Starliner astronaut mission again, targets July 21 liftoff:
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-first-crewed-flight-delayed-july-2023

Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy after funding efforts fail:
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-files-for-bankruptcy

Busch Light Case Against Space:

Image Credits: NASA

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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 over 40,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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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.

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