STP162 - Space: 1999 - The Eagle Has Landed - with Jeffrey Morris

"Space: 1999" is a cult British science fiction television series that aired from 1975 to 1977. And there’s a brand new documentary being made about it called “The Eagle Has Landed” - so today we’re talking to the filmmaker Jeffrey Morris to find out more.

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The Eagle Has Landed:
https://eagledocumentary.com/
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1924935609/the-eagle-has-landed-sci-fi-documentary?fbclid=IwAR02_Nj6MUCb3YFcezvVTdAH6M2aJDr-pQPUS4qFvk9SHvjXNiECR1OrJoE 

Jeffrey Morris: 
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What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Why We’ll Never Live In Space:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-well-never-live-in-space/

Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live On The Moon, Then Mars:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/realestate/nasa-homes-moon-3-d-printing.html

Psyche Mission: 
https://psyche.asu.edu/

NASA to address concerns about Mars Sample Return mission's 'unrealistic budget’:
https://www.space.com/nasa-to-address-fiscal-concerns-mars-sample-return-mission 

FAA closes investigation of Blue Origin launch failure:
https://www.space.com/faa-closes-investigation-blue-origin-launch-failure 

 "I used to think I was scared of heights, but now I know I was just scared of gravity.”:
https://mashable.com/article/nasa-artemis-2-moon-commander-reid-wiseman 

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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 became an ambassador for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions and currently works as the Manager of Public Engagement and Social Media at the Space 3.0 Foundation.

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 50,000 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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