STP171 - Sew Sisters - The Untold Story of NASA’s Seamstresses - with Jean Wright
This week we want to share with you the story of the Sew Sisters, a group of women who used their skills to hand sew the thermal blankets used to protect the Space Shuttle. To do this we’re joined by one of the seamstresses, Jean Wright, who has just had a book written about her by Elise Matich called: “Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses.”
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What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission:
https://spacenews.com/hubble-glitch-renews-talk-about-private-servicing-mission/
Mikhail Marov, Founding Father of Russia’s Space Program, Dies at 90:
https://bnn.network/world/russia/mikhail-marov-founding-father-of-russias-space-program-dies-at-90/
NASA Honors Steve Jurczyk, Former Acting Administrator, Space Leader:
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-honors-steve-jurczyk-former-acting-administrator-space-leader/
NASA Remembers Trailblazing Astronaut, Scientist Mary Cleave:
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-remembers-trailblazing-astronaut-scientist-mary-cleave/
NASA's Artemis 3 astronaut moon landing unlikely before 2027, GAO report finds:
https://www.space.com/artemis-3-2027-nasa-gao-report
China releases 1st images of complete Tiangong space station (photos):
https://www.space.com/china-tiangong-space-station-shenzhou-16-photos
The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks:
https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/
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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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