STP138 - The UK Space Industry - with Space Boffins: Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham

Apr 20

This week we wanted to talk about what’s the United Kingdom and spaceflight, so we thought we’d talk to The Space Boffins, Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to out more about what has happened, what is happening and what might happen.

Sue Nelson:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-nelson-boffin-media-27969329/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceNelson

Space Boffins Podcast:
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/astronomy-podcasts/space-boffins
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceboffins
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceBoffins

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
NASA Astronaut and former SEAL completes Navy Flight Training:
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/442730/nasa-astronaut-and-former-seal-completes-navy-flight-training

New Horizons Should Remain a Planetary Mission:
https://laurelsplutoblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/new-horizons-should-remain-planetary.html

JUICE Launch:

Russian cosmonauts make their 3rd try at a spacewalk tonight:
https://www.space.com/international-space-station-cosmonauts-spacewalk-april-2023-livestream

SpaceX scrubs 1st space launch of giant Starship rocket due to fueling issue:
https://www.space.com/spacex-scrubs-first-space-launch-starship

Image Credits: The UK Space Agency

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/