STP75 - What Happened In January? - And A Look At Events Happening In 2022

Written By Dave Giles

This week is all about having a look back at what we missed in January, but we also have a little look forward at some events which have been announced or cancelled in 2022.

Dave’s Abbey Road Project: https://www.davejgiles.com/abbey-road 

Emily’s Articles:
Celestis Blog: https://www.celestis.com/blog/ 

Chaos, Crying, And Car Trips: Gerard K. O’Neill And Brian O’Leary, Circa Mid-1960s: 
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/chaos-crying-and-car-trips-gerard-k-oneill-and-brian-o-leary-circa-mid-1960s-79292468f5d3 

Space In The Seventies: Deke Slayton After Apollo-Soyuz:
https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-deke-slayton-after-apollo-soyuz/ 

Space in the Eighties: Vintage EPCOT, Gerard K. O’Neill, and A Little Spark of Imagination:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/space-in-the-eighties-vintage-epcot-gerard-k-oneill-and-a-little-spark-of-imagination-8303db6589ff 

Horizons at Epcot Center:

Events in 2022:
Novaspace Store: https://novaspace.com/ 
Spacefest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Spacefest 
Kelsey Poor on Space and Things: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/bnmcddpabge6669-2tylp-j3gk9-fk47l-dz7ae 

Legends of Space: https://www.legendsofspacelive.com/ 

Cosmosphere 60th Birthday: https://cosmo.org/news-and-events/calendar#event-1486 

Jasper Dark Sky Festival: https://jasperdarksk 

AirVenture 2022: https://www.eaa.org/airventure

National Aviation Hall Of Fame Induction 2022: https://www.nationalaviation.org/the-national-aviation-hall-of-fame-reveals-theclass-of-2022/ 

Book that Emily mentioned:
Story: The Way Of Water by Anne Lenehan


This Month’s Launches:
Thur 30 Dec 2021: Iran: ISA: Simorgh:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6886 

Thur 6 Jan 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-5:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5339

Sun 9 Jan 2022: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia: Black Brant IX: DXL:
https://www.space.com/sounding-rocket-launch-visible-east-coast-january-2022 

Thur 13 Jan 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Transporter 3:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2581 

Thu 13 Jan 2022: Mojave Air and Space Port: California: Virgin Orbit; LauncherOne: STP-27VPB/Above the Clouds:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6843 

Mon 17 Jan 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Shiyan 13: 
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6888 

Wed 19 Jan 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-6:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5337 

Fri 21 Jan 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: ULA: Atlas V 511: GSSAP 5&6 (USSF-8):
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/398 

Tue 25 Jan 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 4C: L-SAR 01A:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6892

Mon 31 Jan 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: CSG-2:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/418

Lee Silver: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/lee_silver.html  

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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/
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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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Dave Giles
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