STP189 - Remembering George Abbey - with Michael Cassutt
On 24th March of this year, George Abbey died at the age of 91. One of the most influencial people working behind the scenes at NASA for many years and someone who has come up many times during many interviews. So we wanted to spend an episode to pay tribute to his contributions. To do this we’re joined by Michael Cassutt, author of the 2018 book “The Astronaut Maker - How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation”
George Abbey NASA Obituary:
https://www.nasa.gov/people/george-w-s-abbey/
Michael Cassutt:
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The Astronaut Maker:
https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/the-astronaut-maker-products-9781613737002.php?page_id=30&cid=347961
Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane:
https://mikemullane.com/product/riding-rockets/
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough:
https://www.4thestate.co.uk/products/dragonfly-nasa-and-the-crisis-aboard-mir-9781841150871/
What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
NASA picks 3 companies to design lunar rover for Artemis astronauts to drive on the moon:
https://www.space.com/nasa-lunar-terrain-vehicle-artemis-moon-rover-contracts
Blue Origin will launch Ed Dwight, the 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, to space on next New Shepard rocket flight:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-seventh-human-spaceflight-crew-announced
Final Delta IV Launch:
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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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