STP79 - Aldrin Art Space - with Andrew Aldrin and E. Lee Wilson

Written By Dave Giles

Sat 26 Feb 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 4C: L-SAR 01B: 
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6893
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Sun 27 Feb 2022: Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 8 (Core Only): Hainan-1, Jilin Gaofen-03D & Others:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/3082
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Mon 28 Feb 2022: New Zealand: Rocket Lab: Electron/Curie: The Owl’s Night Continues: 
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6896

Tues 1 Mar 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: ULA: Atlas V 541: GOES-T: 
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2668

This Week’s Other News:

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 20th flight on Red Planet:
https://www.space.com/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-20th-flight

China's moon rover spots 2 strange glass spheres on lunar far side:
https://www.space.com/china-moon-rover-finds-strange-glass-spheres 

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission, 1st flight of new megarocket, won't launch until May:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-launch-may-2022

James Webb Space Telescope is nearly halfway through its mirror alignment stages:
https://www.space.com/jwst-nearly-halfway-through-mirror-alignment

The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have myriad impacts on spaceflight:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-will-have-myriad-impacts-on-spaceflight/


Emily’s Article:
The War on Ukraine, and How It Will Affect Aerospace: Three Excellent Twitter Sources to Follow:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/the-war-on-ukraine-and-how-it-will-affect-aerospace-three-excellent-twitter-sources-to-follow-c5748197e674

Spagulo: The Geopolitics of Space Exploration:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-69125-7 

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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.

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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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