STP175 - Celestis Memorial Spaceflights - with CEO Charles Chafer
A new year brings in a new first, a new rocket from United Launch Alliance, the Vulcan Centaur, is due to launch on January 8th and the first private Lunar Lander. So we want to learn more about one of the payloads on board. With that in mind we speak to Charles Chafer, CEO of Celestis Memorial Spaceflights about their second Luna mission and their first deep space Voyager mission.
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Charles Chafer:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-chafer-8652684/
Countdown to Vulcan:
https://www.ulalaunch.com/rockets/vulcan-centaur/countdown-to-vulcan
Vulcan Payload Blog:
https://blog.ulalaunch.com/blog/vulcan-cert-1-payloads-mounted-atop-rocket-for-launch
What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
End of year, end of exhibit: Space shuttle Endeavour goes off view for a few years:
https://www.space.com/space-shuttle-endeavour-exhibit-closing-california-science-center
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches mysterious X-37B space plane for US Space Force after delays:
https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-x-37b-space-plane-launch-success
History-making SpaceX Falcon 9 booster mostly destroyed in post-flight topple:
https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-9-first-stage-1058-lost-recovery
Image Credits: Celestis Memorial Spaceflights
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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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