STP99 - Alone On The Moon - A Soviet Lunar Odyssey - with Gerald Brennan
This week we welcome back author Gerald Brennan, who we previously spoke to on episode 54. He has just released a brand new book called “Alone On The Moon - A Soviet Lunar Odyssey” - so we decided it’s the perfect time to have a catch up.
Gerald Brennan:
http://www.tortoisebooks.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jerry_brennan
Altered Space Series:
Zero Phase
Public Loneliness
Islands of Clouds
Infinite Blues
Alone On The Moon (http://www.tortoisebooks.com/store/alone)
Emily’s Article:
Rattled by the Rush: Secrets and Lies on For All Mankind’s Mars:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/rattled-by-the-rush-secrets-and-lies-on-for-all-mankinds-mars-6669a601257b
This Week’s Launches:
Fri 15th July 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: CRS SpX-25:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4753
Fri 15th July 2022: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2C: SuperView Neo 2-01&02:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6982
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Sun 17th July 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-22:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6952
This Week’s Other News:
Europe ending cooperation with Russia on life-hunting Mars rover:
https://www.space.com/europe-ends-cooperation-russia-exomars-rover
Russia dismisses space agency chief in wake of international controversies:
https://www.space.com/roscosmos-russia-space-agency-director-rogozin-out
Russian cosmonaut will fly to space station with SpaceX this fall:
https://www.space.com/russian-cosmonaut-spacex-crew-5-mission-space-station
James Webb Space Telescope picture shows noticeable damage from micrometeoroid strike:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeoroid-damage
Virgin Galactic opening new spaceship factory in Arizona:
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-spaceship-factory-arizona
Sotheby's to auction Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 moon landing artifacts:
https://www.space.com/sothebys-buzz-aldrin-american-icon-auction
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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 now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.
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 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/
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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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