STP185 - The Art Of Museum Curation - with Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony, Dr. Jennifer Levasseur and Dr. Margaret Weitekamp
This week we conclude the interviews we recorded at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in January by asking about what it means to be a curator at the museum. We had three interview and we spoke to each of the individually about various aspects of life as a curator and have merged those aspects into this episode. We hope that you enjoyed the episode from our field trip and hope that we get to do more.
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Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp:
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/margaret-weitekamp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretweitekamp/
Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/jennifer-levasseur
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-levasseur-00695612a/
Dr Teasel Muir-Harmony:
https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/teasel-muir-harmony
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teasel-muir-harmony-3a67519/
The Smithonsian Air And Space Museum:
https://airandspace.si.edu/
Artemis I capsule to land in renovated Smithsonian gallery in 2026:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-013024a-smithsonian-air-space-museum-east-end-galleries-names.html
What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says:
https://www.businessinsider.com/oxygen-europa-life-surface-ocean-subsurface-earth-juno-mission-jupiter-2024-3?r=US&IR=T
Europa Clipper:
https://europa.nasa.gov/
FAA grants license for SpaceX's March 14 Starship launch:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-third-launch-faa-license
Private Varda Space capsule returns to Earth with space-grown antiviral drug aboard:
https://www.space.com/varda-in-space-manufacturing-capsule-landing-success
Image Credits: NASM
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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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