STP81: Should The Apollo 15 Space Walk Have Been Cancelled?
This week we talk about the spacewalk which shouldn’t have happened.
Emily’s Article:
The Deep Space EVA That Shouldn’t Have Happened: Apollo 15, Jim Irwin, and Medical Transparency at NASA, 1971:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/the-deep-space-eva-that-shouldnt-have-happened-apollo-15-jim-irwin-and-medical-transparency-at-c4e17a23a1dd
Apollo 50th Twitter:
https://twitter.com/apollo_50th
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 9 Mar 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-10:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5340
Tues 15 Mar 2022: Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska: Astra: Rocket 3: Spaceflight Astra-1:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6895
This Week’s Other News:
All systems go for rollout of NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket this week:
https://www.space.com/nasa-rollout-artemis1-sls-orion-ready
'The Crawler' is on the move ahead of Artemis 1 moon rocket rollout:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-crawler-rollout-begins
Spacewalking NASA astronauts prep space station for new solar array:
https://www.space.com/astronauts-spacewalk-irosa-solar-array-prep
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks record for longest US spaceflight:
https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-mark-vande-hei-longest-us-spaceflight-record
American astronaut will return to Earth on Russian spacecraft despite Ukraine invasion, NASA says:
https://www.space.com/russian-invasion-ukraine-nasa-astronaut-earth-return
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 21st Red Planet flight:
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-aces-flight-21
Relive some top SpaceX highlights from its 1st 20 years:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1503380291976531968?s=20&t=GWCsUg6NVmD7se2daKealg
Virgin Orbit targeting this summer for 1st-ever orbital launch from UK soil:
https://www.space.com/virgin-orbit-1st-orbital-launch-uk-summer-2022
Astronaut Tim Peake opens Space Park Leicester:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-60712811
SNL's Pete Davidson will fly to space next week with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin:
https://www.space.com/pete-davidson-blue-origin-suborbital-spaceflight
Image Credits: North American Rockwell
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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.
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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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