STP172 - I Was A Teenage Space Reporter - Getting Up Close To The Launch of Apollo 11 - with David Chudwin
This week we’re joined by David Chudwin, author of a wonderful book called “I Was A Teenage Space Reporter” – David was among the only college journalists accredited to cover the 1969 Apollo 11 launch and first landing on the Moon. At age 19, he was one of only a handful of teenagers with official press passes at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch. He gives us a wonderful insight to what it was like being at the launch of the most famous space mission of all time, Apollo 11.
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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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