STP163 - Life on the International Space Station at a Time of War - with Stephen Walker

This week we welcome back Stephen Walker who recently published in the Guardian about life on the ISS during a time of war. It’s a fascinating piece and once again, Stephen Walker proves himself to be a wonderful interviewee.

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Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/26/its-like-doing-an-arctic-expedition-with-german-scientists-in-1943-life-on-the-international-space-station-at-a-time-of-war 

What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
For The Third Time In A Year, Russian Hardware On The Space Station Is Leaking:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/for-the-third-time-in-a-year-russian-hardware-on-the-space-station-is-leaking/

Public invited to watch solid rocket motors arrive for shuttle Endeavour exhibit in L.A:
https://www.space.com/california-science-center-space-shuttle-endeavour-srms-arrival

Axiom Space partners with fashion house Prada to design Artemis 3 moon suits:
https://www.space.com/axiom-space-prada-artemis-3-moon-spacesuits

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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.

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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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