STP201 - Remembering Bill Anders - with Francis French

This week we pay our respects to Bill Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who died last month at the age of 90. To help us do this we’re joined by Francis French who had numerous visits to Bill Anders home while writing his book “In The Shadow of the Moon.”

Bill Anders Obituary: 
https://heritageflight.org/about/maj-gen-bill-anders/remembering-bill-anders/#:~:text=Major%20General%20William%20Alison%20Anders,the%20time%20of%20his%20passing

Francis French:
https://www.francisfrench.com/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francisjfrench/


What Caught Our Eye In Space This Week:
Skylab Reentry Anniversary LIVE Podcast:
https://www.facebook.com/events/870861194862075 

Despite indefinite landing delay, NASA insists Boeing Starliner crew not "stranded" in space:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-insists-boeing-starliner-crew-not-stranded-in-space/ 

Not-so-static fire: Private Chinese rocket accidentally launches during test:
https://www.space.com/space-pioneer-tianlong-3-rocket-accidental-launch

Image Credits: NASA


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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/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/  

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilycarneyspace/ 


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.

Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-giles-1286ab1a3/ 

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