STP146 - Celebrating Sally Ride - 40 Years After STS7 - with Francis French
This week we’re joined by Francis French to talk about Sally Ride as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first American woman to go to space on the STS7 mission. Francis used to work with Sally at Sally Ride Science so as well as being an incredible historian, his first hand stories about Sally are incredible.
Francis French:
https://www.francisfrench.com/
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'Gay Astronauts - A Final Frontier' by Francis French: https://medium.com/the-vintage-space/gay-astronauts-a-final-frontier-9892d0987fa0
Francis on Space and Things Previously:
STP124: Remembering Walt Cunningham:
https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp124-remembering-walt-cunningham-with-francis-french
STP48: Celebrating Apollo 15:
https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/bnmcddpabge6669-2tylp-j3gk9-fk47l-dz7ae-jc6ft-7rn3l-8ew42-jf2mt-yfsp6-6dr7s-9kpx7
Remembering Michael Collins:
https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp-1-the-podcast-has-launched-d6e92-mpyzr-xswpe-5x8j3-3z645-xmxzf-a3ag7-5zrzp-rlrwg-nfkpj-s6pl3-64ppm-2z4ah-g8522-cfjmh-ajc53-erjzt-td6xz-dxd43-m7j3h-g279m-smt6x-jddx2-82b79-8t8mw-3d3wf-hjryh-s69fb
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/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/
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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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