STP148 - Photographing America's First Astronauts - with JL Pickering and John Bisney
In this week’s episode we speak to JL Pickering and John Bisney about their latest book: “ Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub.” It features over 600 photos and is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. What makes it different from other Mercury books is that these photos are from the collection of NASA’s first staff photographer. JL and John have published 6 photo books in total now after becoming known for their online archive: Retro Space Images.
Retro Space Images: https://retrospaceimages.com/
Get the Books: https://retrospaceimages.com/books
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JL Pickering:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-l-pickering-b9760632/
John Bisney:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-bisney-8907938/
Emily’s Articles:
“Photographing America’s First Astronauts” Reveals Unseen Dimension of Mercury Program:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/photographing-americas-first-astronauts-reveals-unseen-dimension-of-mercury-program-ce2d68414245
What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Is NASA Prepared For An ‘Internet Apocalypse?”:
https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/nasa-internet-apocalypse-18169102.php
Virgin Galactic to launch its 1st commercial spaceflight on June 29:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-sets-date-1st-commercial-spaceflight
Virgin Galactic's 1st commercial spaceflight launches this week. Meet the 6-person crew of Galactic 01:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-first-commercial-spaceflight-meet-crew
ULA delays 1st launch of Vulcan Centaur rocket again:
https://www.space.com/ula-delays-launch-vulcan-centaur-rocket-modifications
Penultimate Delta IV Heavy Launch:
Europe's BepiColombo spacecraft zooms within 150 miles of Mercury in close flyby:
https://www.space.com/mercury-flyby-bepicolombo-spacecraft-june-2023
India and Ecuador sign Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration:
https://www.space.com/artemis-accords-india-ecuador-peaceful-moon-exploration
NASA identifies potential major cost growth in Mars Sample Return:
https://spacenews.com/nasa-identifies-potential-major-cost-growth-in-mars-sample-return/
Image Credits: Purdue University Press.
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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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