STP167 - Remembering Thomas K. Mattingly - with Andrew Chaikin
Sad news this week, we’ve lost another of our Apollo heroes. Kenneth T. Mattingly, command module pilot of Apollo 16 and commander of STS4 and STS51c has passed away aged 87. Today we pay our tributes talking to author and space historian Andy Chaikin.
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T.K. Mattingly Oral History Interviews:
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/MattinglyTK/mattinglytk.htm
Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin – Online Short Course (February 21-22, 2024):
https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/courses-workshops/detail/principles-of-success-in-spaceflight-from-andrew-chaikin-online-short-course?fbclid=IwAR3d210fJZg4Quw9vHLhgvjNdDezVBpWdrg61Vz4DMPRl_zLrzcIsRlVtrM
What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
The Artist & The Astronaut Texas Premiere:
https://www.theartistandtheastronaut.com/screenings/houston
Searching For Skylab Screening and Panel at Kennedy Space Center:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2023/november/searching-for-skylab-panel-and-screening
Meet 'Tenacity:' Sierra Space unveils 1st Dream Chaser space plane (photos):
https://www.space.com/sierra-space-completes-first-dream-chaser-space-plane-tenacity
Future moon astronauts may 3D-print their supplies using lunar minerals:
https://www.space.com/titanium-3d-printing-astronaut-shelter-uv-radiation
Blue Origin shows off moon lander prototype for NASA's Artemis program:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-lunar-lander-mockup
NASA's Juno probe detects organic compounds on huge Jupiter moon Ganymede:
https://www.space.com/jupiter-moon-ganymede-organics-salts
Can humans reproduce in space? Mouse breakthrough on ISS a promising sign:
https://www.space.com/international-space-station-mouse-embryo-reproduction
China launches new 3-astronaut crew to Tiangong space station:
https://www.space.com/china-launches-shenzhou-17-crew-tiangong
China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts apparently landed with a ripped parachute (photo):
https://www.space.com/china-shenzhou-16-landing-parachute-hole
Surprise! Asteroid 'Dinky' is actually a double space rock, NASA's Lucy probe reveals (photo):
https://www.space.com/lucy-asteroid-flyby-dinkinesh-binary-system
LAUNCH: Virgin Galactic-05 - Dr. Stern and Kellie Gerardi fly on Spaceship Two:
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 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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