STP192 - Talking About the Moon and Poetry with Christopher Cokinos

We can’t get enough of talking about the moon and we love a bit of poetry, so it was a joy talking to Christopher Cokinos for this week’s podcast. Christopher has just released a book called ‘Still as Bright - An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow’ - and it’s a must read!

Christopher Cokinos: 
https://www.christophercokinos.com/

Still As Bright:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Still-As-Bright/Christopher-Cokinos/9781639365692 

What’s Caught Our Eye In Spaceflight This Week:
Sterling Crawford exhibit celebrates Greenville man’s walk on the moon:
https://towncarolina.com/the-artist-and-the-astronaut-sharing-space/ 

NASA's Hubble pauses science due to gyro issue:
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-hubble-science-due-gyro.html#google_vignette 

NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/27/nasa_psyche_data_speeds/ 

Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates:
https://www.space.com/news/live/boeing-starliner-live-updates

Image Credits: Pegasus Books

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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.

NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
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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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