STP67 - The Father, Son and Holy Shuttle - with Mike and Patrick Mullane.
This week we're joined by 3 time Space Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane and his son Patrick to talk about some of their experiences of astronaut life in the 80s. Both have written wonderful books which we thoroughly recommend you checking out.
Mike Mullane: https://mikemullane.com/
Riding Rockets: https://mikemullane.com/product/riding-rockets/
Patrick Mullane: https://www.pjmullane.com/
The Father, Son and Holy Shuttle: https://www.pjmullane.com/product-page/the-father-son-and-holy-shuttle-paperback
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mullanehbs
This Week’s Launches:
Thur 2 Dec 2021: Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-3 & Blacksky:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5342
Sun 5 Dec 2021: French Guiana: Arianespace: Soyuz ST-B/Fregat-MT: Galileo FOC FM23-FM24:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4090
Tues 7 Dec 2021: China: Galactic Energy: Ceres-1: Golden Bauhinia 1-03 and Others:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6870
Tues 7 Dec 2021: Florida: ULA: Atlas V 551: STP-3
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/390
Wed 8 Dec 2021: Kazakhstan: Roscosmos: Soyuz 2.1a: Soyuz MS-20: Space Adventures
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2971
This Week’s News:
Japanese Space Tourist Will Join Human Health Research Effort:
https://www.space.com/maezawa-space-tourist-mission-health-research
NASA Name 10 New Astronaut Candidates For Future Space Missions:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-120621a-nasa-astronaut-candidate-class-2021.html
NASA Astronauts On Spacewalk Replace Faulty Antenna:
https://www.space.com/nasa-astronauts-spacewalk-faulty-antenna-replaced
Space Station Dodges Space Debris From Decades-old Pegasus Rocket:
https://www.space.com/space-station-dodges-pegasus-rocket-space-debris
NASA returns Hubble Space Telescope Back To Full Science Operations:
https://www.space.com/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-science-instruments-fully-operational
NASA Orders Megarocket Boosters for Moon Missions Through 2031:
https://www.space.com/nasa-megarocket-booster-order-through-2031
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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/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EmilyLCarney
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyCarneySpace/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/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
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davejgiles
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