STP183 - Space Craze - Our Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight with Dr. Margaret Weitekamp
This week we speak to Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, the Space History Department Chair at the Smithsonian Institution and the curator of the Air and Space Museum’s social and Cultural history of spaceflight collection, more than 5,000 artefacts that include space memorabilia and space science fiction objects. Dr. Weitekamp also recently published Space Craze: America’s Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight, a wonderful book which we highly recommend.
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Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp:
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/margaret-weitekamp
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Space Craze: https://airandspace.si.edu/research/publications/space-craze
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: https://airandspace.si.edu/research/publications/right-stuff-wrong-sex-americas-first-women-space-program
What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
NASA's asteroid-impacting DART mission completely changed the shape of its target:
https://www.space.com/nasa-dart-mission-dimorphos-didymos-asteroid-impact-reshaping
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander tipped over on the moon during 'spicy' lunar landing:
https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lander-tipped-over
Why a VR headset on the ISS 'really makes a difference' for astronaut exercise:
https://www.space.com/iss-vr-headset-astronaut-mental-health-exercise
Astronauts celebrate success of 1st surgery robot on ISS: 'It's a real game-changer’:
https://www.space.com/iss-robot-surgery-astronaut-celebrate-science
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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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