STP154 - How To Build Huge Structures In Space - with ThinkOrbital CEO Sebastian Asprella and President Lee Rosen.
It’s been over a year since we spoke to the people at ThinkOrbital so we wanted to have a catch up and find out what’s been going on. Of course, they’ve had a very busy year. This time we speak to CEO Sebastian Asprella and President Lee Rosen.
Seven US Companies Collaborate with NASA to Advance Space Capabilities:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/seven-us-companies-collaborate-with-nasa-to-advance-space-capabilities
Think Orbital:
Info and Store: https://thinkorbital.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinkorbital/
X: https://twitter.com/ThinkOrbital
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpcrdC9t__3CaWbgHC9yYqw
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Sebastian Asprella:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-asprella/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sebastian_asprella/
X: https://twitter.com/sebaasprella/
Lee Rosen:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leewrosen/
What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Space buff Ozzie Osband, the 'father' of Brevard's countdown 321 area code, passes away:
https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/2023/08/08/ozzie-osband-the-father-of-brevards-321-countdown-area-code-dies-in-titusville-florida/70548478007/
Distant NASA spacecraft captures breathtaking views of volcano world:
https://mashable.com/article/nasa-io-images
NASA's interstellar Voyager 2 probe resumes communication with Earth:
https://www.space.com/voyager-2-interstellar-probe-resumes-communication
SpaceX launch pad work delays Crew-7 astronaut launch for NASA to Aug. 25:
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-7-nasa-astronaut-launch-delay-launch-pad
Mars helicopter Ingenuity breaks 3-month flight gap with 53rd Red Planet hop:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-53rd-flight-complete
New Lego Technic Perseverance Mars rover was a 'thrill' says JPL advisor:
https://www.space.com/lego-technic-mars-rover-perseverance-jpl-review
Image Credits: ThinkOrbital
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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.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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