STP91 - Becoming Off-Worldly - with Laura Forczyk
This week we’re joined by Laura Forczyk to discuss her new book: Becoming Off-Worldly: Learning From Astronauts To Prepare For Your Spaceflight Journey.
Becoming Off-Worldly:
https://www.astralytical.com/becoming-offworldly
Laura Forczyk:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraForczyk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauraforczyk/
Becoming Off-Worldly Together:
https://becomingoffworldly.com/
Astralytical:
https://www.astralytical.com/
This Week’s Launches:
Wed 18 May 2022: Kennedy Space Center:, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-18:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6935
Thu 19 May 2022: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia: VKS RF: Soyuz 2.1a: Cosmos 2556:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/356
No Video Available.
Thu 19 May 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida:: ULA: Atlas V N22: Starliner OFT-2:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4105
Fri 20 May 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2C/YZ-1S: RSW-04-06:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6949
No Video Available.
Wed 25 May 2022: Kennedy Space Center:, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Transporter 5:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6804
This Week’s Other News:
Touchdown! Boeing's Starliner returns to Earth from space station:
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-oft-2-landing-success
James Webb Space Telescope practices tracking an asteroid for the 1st time:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-tracks-moving-target
NASA to roll Artemis 1 moon rocket back out to pad for testing in early June:
https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-moon-rocket-rollout-early-june
Voyager 1 glitch? Strange signals from venerable probe has NASA baffled:
https://www.space.com/voyager-1-telemetry-issue
NASA shelves routine spacewalks for now due to leaky spacesuit helmet:
https://www.space.com/nasa-suspends-spacewalks-spacesuit-water-leak-investigation
Groundbreaking set for launchpad-like display of retired space shuttle Endeavour:
https://www.space.com/california-science-center-endeavour-groundbreaking
Image Credits: Laura Forczyk
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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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