STP204 - Our Favourite Space Missions
This week, Emily and Dave talk about their favourite space missions, both crewed and uncrewed. What are your favourites? Let us know, we’d love to hear from you.
What Caught Our Eye In Space This Week:
Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates:
https://www.space.com/news/live/boeing-starliner-live-updates
Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2439695-moon-of-saturn-has-an-equivalent-of-freshwater-rivers-and-salty-oceans/
SpaceX wants to resume Falcon 9 rocket launches while FAA completes investigation:
https://www.space.com/spacex-resume-falcon-9-rocket-launches-faa-investigation
NASA looking at what artifacts to preserve from space station before 2030 demise:
https://www.space.com/international-space-station-deorbit-artifact-preservation
Polaris Dawn crew shows off new SpaceX spacesuits for 1st private spacewalk (photos):
https://www.space.com/spacex-polaris-dawn-eva-suit-acceptance-testing-photos
NASA delays ISS spacewalks indefinitely to investigate spacesuit coolant leak:
https://www.space.com/nasa-spacewalk-indefinite-delay-iss-coolant-leak
Astronauts could ditch diapers on spacewalks thanks to new device that lets them drink their pee:
https://www.space.com/astronaut-spacesuit-recycle-urine
NASA cancels $450 million VIPER moon rover due to budget concerns:
https://www.space.com/nasa-cancels-viper-moon-rover-budget
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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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