STP80 - Apollo 1 - Researching the Fire - with George Leopold and Matthew Beddingfield
This week we talk to George Leopold and Matthew Beddingfield about their new blog Recalling Apollo, which attempts to document the events and lasting consequences of the Apollo 1 fire.
Recalling Apollo:
https://recallingapollo.substack.com/
https://www.instagram.com/recallingapollo
George Leopold:
https://twitter.com/gleopold1
https://gleopold.wordpress.com/
Matthew Beddingfield:
https://twitter.com/MJBeddingfield
“Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom”:
http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781557537454
Whistleblowers Make Spaceflight Safer, Says Witness to Apollo Tragedy:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whistleblowers-make-spaceflight-safer-says-witness-to-apollo-tragedy/
Emily’s Article:
https://www.celestis.com/blog/celestis-connects/
This Week’s Launches:
Thu 3 Mar 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-9:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5335
Sat 5 Mar 2022: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2C: Yinhe-1 (x6) & others:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6891
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Tue 8 Mar 2022: Shahrud Missile Test Site, Iran: IRGC: Qased: Nour 2:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6902
Video Unavailable
This Week’s Other News:
OneWeb pulls employees out of Baikonur Cosmodrome, suspends launches from site:
https://www.space.com/oneweb-pulls-employees-out-of-baikonur-cosmodrome-roscosmos-demands
Russia stops rocket engine sales to US as space cooperation frays:
https://www.space.com/russia-stops-rocket-engine-sales-space-cooperation-frays
Germany switches off black hole telescope on Russian satellite, halts space cooperation:
https://www.space.com/germany-halts-russia-black-hole-telescope-space-cooperation
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance snags 7th Red Planet rock sample:
https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-collects-7th-sample
China's Yutu 2 rover beams back stunning image after 3 years on moon's far side:
https://www.space.com/china-yutu-2-moon-rover-3-years-panorama
NASA gearing up for rollout of Artemis 1 mission next week:
https://www.space.com/nasa-gearing-up-artemis-1-rollout
NASA's 1st Artemis moon landing will likely slip another year to 2026:
https://www.space.com/artemis-moon-landing-likely-slip-to-2026
Rocket Lab will build Neutron, a next-generation reusable booster, in Virginia:
https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-building-neutron-launch-vehicle-virginia
NASA orders 3 more SpaceX Crew Dragon flights to space station:
https://www.space.com/nasa-orders-more-spacex-crew-dragon-launches
Romania signs the Artemis Accords for space exploration cooperation:
https://www.space.com/romania-signs-artemis-accords
A rogue 3-ton piece rocket debris just collided with the moon:
https://www.space.com/rogue-rocket-stage-hit-moon-today
BluShift conducts first biofuel rocket engine test:
https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/videos/blushift-conducts-first-biofuel-rocket-engine-test.html
Moon Gallery on ISS:
https://www.facebook.com/Moon.Gallery.Foundation/posts/606172697453193
Image Credits: US National Archives
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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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