STP181 - Telling The Story Of The Space Shuttle - with Dr. Jennifer Levasseur
There are only 3 Space Shuttle Orbiters left. Atlantis is on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Endeavour will be on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Discovery is at the Udvar-Hazy Center just outside of Washington DC. While we were in Washington we caught up with Dr. Jennifer Levasseur, the curator of the Space Shuttle Program for the Smithsonian and we tried to find out how you use a Space Shuttle to tell it’s history and inspire the next generation.
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Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/jennifer-levasseur
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center:
https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center
Being Discovery’s Curator by Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/being-discoverys-curator
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast Featuring Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:
https://www.apollo13minute.com/cm/episodes/minute-009-give-me-a-lever-long-enough/
What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
Mars Sample Return At Serious Risk:
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4741/1
879 days! Russian cosmonaut breaks record for total time spent in space:
https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-oleg-kononenko-breaks-record-time-in-space
Virgin Galactic mothership loses alignment pin during space plane launch, FAA investigating:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-glitch-sixth-commercial-suborbital-spaceflight
20 people in space! Humanity quietly tied a record last month:
https://www.space.com/human-spaceflight-record-20-people-in-space-2024
SpaceX Dragon carrying Ax-3 astronauts splashes down in Atlantic to end longest private spaceflight for Axiom Space:
https://www.space.com/spacex-ax-3-astronaut-mission-splashdown
Mars helicopter Ingenuity's final resting place named after 'Undying Lands' in 'Lord of the Rings’:
https://www.space.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-final-resting-place-lord-of-the-rings-tolkein
SpaceX rolls giant Starship rocket to launch pad ahead of 3rd test flight (photos):
https://www.space.com/spacex-rolls-starship-pad-third-test-flight-photos
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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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