STP95 - Transforming NASA and Launching A New Space Age - With Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver
This week we’re joined by former Deputy Administrator of NASA Lori Garver as she releases her new book: “Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age”
Lori Garver:
https://www.lorigarver.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lori_Garver
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-garver-64695362/
Emily’s Articles:
Fred Haise’s Autobiography Illuminates Untold Stories in Space History:
https://space.nss.org/fred-haises-autobiography-illuminates-untold-stories-in-space-history/
“For All Mankind” Season Opener Underscores Price of Human Progress:
https://space.nss.org/for-all-mankind-season-opener-underscores-price-of-human-progress/
A Day In The Life At Celestis, Part Three: Ascension Flight Launch:
https://www.celestis.com/blog/ascension_flight_launch/
This Week’s Launches:
Fri 17th June 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starling Group 4-19:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6799
Sat 18th June 2022: Vandenberg SFB, California, SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: SARah 1:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/76
Sat 19th June 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Globalstar FM15 & USA 328 to 331:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6968
Tues 21st June 2022: Naro Space Center, South Korea: KARI: KSLV-2: Test Flight 2:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6850
Wed 22nd June 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASIC: Kuaizhou 1A: Tianxing-1 :
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6976
No video available.
This Week’s Other News:
NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket passes crucial fueling test despite leak:
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-rocket-wet-dress-rehearsal-success
International Space Station dodges orbital debris from Russian anti-satellite test:
https://www.space.com/space-station-dodges-russian-satellite-debris
Planned space station boost by Cygnus freighter cuts off 5 seconds into burn:
https://www.space.com/space-station-reboost-cygnus-abort
China plans to return Mars samples to Earth in 2031:
https://www.space.com/china-return-mars-samples-earth-2031
NASA's InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science:
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9207/nasas-insight-gets-a-few-extra-weeks-of-mars-science/?site=insight
SpaceX employees draft open letter to company executives denouncing Elon Musk’s behavior:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk-internal-open-letter-behavior
SpaceX fires employees who wrote open letter complaining about Elon Musk:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/17/23172262/spacex-fires-employees-open-letter-elon-musk-complaints
'The Color of Space': Watch NASA's new documentary celebrating Black space explorers for Juneteenth":
Image Credits: NASA
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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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