STP176 - How To Inspire People Using Spaceflight - with ISSET Space Founder - Chris Barber
We often get messages asking for advice on how to help encourage younger people with space flight. Well our guest this week has been doing that for over 25 years. Chris Barber founded ISSET space in 1998 and has had 60 different astronauts and cosmonauts involved with events around the globe to inspire people.
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Chris Barber:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-barber-3478361a/
What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
ULA Vulcan Centaur Launch:
Success and setbacks:
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4721/1
NASA Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter's volcanic moon Io like never before in spectacular new images:
https://www.space.com/nasa-juno-spacecraft-jupiter-moon-io-photos
Image Credits: ISSET Space
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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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