STP76 - Building Model Spacecraft - with Mike Mackowski
Have you ever built a model of a space craft? Or have you ever wanted to? Well this week we decide to talk to an expert on this wonderful hobby to find out all about it, yes, we’re joined by Mike Mackowski of Space in Miniature fame.
Mike Mackowski:
Books, reference material, merchandise, photos etc;
https://www.spaceinminiature.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceinminiature
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjmackowski
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/spacecitymike
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjmackowski
Mike’s Space Advocacy Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Space-Advocacy-Personal-Activism-ebook/dp/B00WDMVWDW
International Plastic Modellers’ Society:
US: https://ipmsusa.org/
UK: https://ipmsuk.org/
Space Modellers IO:
https://groups.io/g/space-modelers/
Facebook Groups:
Historical Space Models:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/311943259359353
Space Modelling:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceModeling
Ed Rafacz Space Shuttle Interactive Virtual Spacecraft Museum:
https://spaceshuttleguide.com/
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 2 Feb 2022: Vandenberg SFB, California: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: NROL-87:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1149
Thur 3 Feb 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-7:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5338
Sat 3 Feb 2022: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia: VKS RF: Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M: Cosmos 2553:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2289
This Week’s Other News:
Astra Rocket Aborts 1st Florida Launch Attempt At Last Second:
https://www.space.com/astra-scrubs-first-florida-launch-after-abort
Ingenuity 19th Flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-19th-flight-success
NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket to carry Mars samples back to Earth:
https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-sample-return-rocket-lockheed-martin
NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission rocket faces new delays:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-mission-rollout-delay
NASA prepares for moon's dark south pole in eerie lights-out 'spacewalk'
https://www.space.com/lights-out-artemis-spacewalk-practice-underwater
Dr. Alice Gorman Article on Moon Archaeology:
https://theconversation.com/a-rogue-rocket-is-on-course-to-crash-into-the-moon-it-wont-be-the-first-175834
The International Space Station will plunge into the sea in 2031, NASA announces:
https://www.space.com/international-space-station-deorbit-water-grave-date
Image Credits: Mike Mackowski
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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.
Full info: https://www.davejgiles.com
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