STP141 - Skylab - The 50th Anniversary - with Searching For Skylab Director Dwight Steven-Boniecki
On May 14th 1973, Skylab was launched so we started our 50th anniversary celebrations of America’s first Space Station by talking to Dwight Steven-Boniecki, the director of the most amazing Skylab documentary: Searching for Skylab.
Dwight Steven-Boniecki:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-steven-boniecki-b8b63811a/
Searching For Skylab:
https://searchingforskylab.com/
Trailer:
Searching for Skylab Screening, Warminster, PA:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/searching-for-skylab-americans-forgotten-triumph-movie-event-tickets-599173051727?fbclid=IwAR1MiV1bFWvsgerkkgNcuFid9QQCQVOXPig_gEyTaga2kJxI73N1Kn7db6g
Ed Who?
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/30/archives/ed-who-how-do-you-explain-the-fact-that-more-americans-know-who.html
Skylab Anniversary Events:
Museum Of Flight, Seattle, Washington: 13th May:
https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/calendar-of-events/7771/skylab-anniversary-program
Kennedy Space Center: 15th May:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2023/may/skylab-50th-event
Coffee at The Cosmo: 18th May:
https://cosmo.org/#event-1684
Space Center Houston: 19th May:
https://spacecenter.org/featured_events/skylab-50th-anniversary-celebration/
Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Virgin Galactic is just weeks away from next astronaut test flight, eyes space tourist flights soon:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-fifth-spaceflight-late-may-2023
BluShift Aerospace Engine Test:
Samuel Durrance, astronaut who flew with telescope he built, dies at 79:
https://www.space.com/astronaut-samuel-durrance-obituary
Christopher Fowler Obit:
http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/remembering-christopher-fowler/
NASA platform used to launch Apollo 11 to the moon set for demolition:
https://www.space.com/apollo-11-mobile-launch-platform-demolition
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 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/
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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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