STP65 - The Remarkable and Tragic Story of Enos The Astrochimp 60 years on. Plus Other Space Animals with Stephen Walker

Written By Dave Giles

This week we are joined once again by Stephen Walker and this time to discuss the 60th anniversary of the mission of Enos, the only chimpanzee to have orbited the Earth in space. He also taught us so much about the use of animals in space from the very beginning right up until what is happening now.

Stephen Walker released a new book earlier this year called Beyond, about the incredible race to put the first human in space, but his research covered the whole of that early space program and the book opens with accounts of some the dogs who were flown into space by Russia, and so it seemed like a good fit to discuss Enos with him. Stephen previously joined us on episode 49 to talk about Gherman Titov and on episode 32 to talk about that first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin.

Stephen Walker (find out more and buy his book): https://www.stephenwalkerbeyond.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SWalkerBEYOND

Emily’s Articles:
Gus Grissom and the Tale of the Lost Liberty Bell:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/gus-grissom-and-the-tale-of-the-lost-liberty-bell-42124f7e9ea

Dial “M” For Mutiny: The Greatest Spaceflight Controversy That Didn’t Happen:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/dial-m-for-mutiny-the-greatest-spaceflight-controversy-that-didnt-happen-f8d879cee7cc

A “Voyager” Entering New Realms: The Enterprise Flight, And Its Heritage:
https://www.celestis.com/blog/a-voyager-entering-new-realms/ 

This Week’s Launches:
Thu 18 Nov 2021: New Zealand: Rocket Lab: Electron/Curie: I Love At First Insight:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6827 

Sat 20 Nov 2021: China: CASC: Long March 4B: Gaofen-11 03:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6861 

Sat 20 Nov 2021: Alaska: Astra: Rocket 3: STP-27AD2:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6849

Mon 22 Nov 2021: China: CASC: Long March 4C: Gaofen-3-02:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6862

Wed 24 Nov 2021: California: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: DART:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1373 

Wed 24 Nov 2021: Kazakhstan: Soyuz 2.1b: Progress M-UM Pritchal:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/959 

Wed 24 Nov 2021: China: ExPace: Kuaizhou 1A: Shiyan 11
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5760

Blue Origin Announcement:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-ns19-shepard-strahan-passengers 

Dylan Taylor’s Blog:
https://dylantaylor.org/journey-to-the-dream-part-i/ 

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 hosted by the National Space Society.

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 20,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

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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