STP142 - Being In Mission Control for Skylab - with Bill Moon
To continue our 50th anniversary of Skylab celebrations we’ve got something very special for you today. An interview with a man who was working the consoles in Mission Control in Houston during Skylab, Bill Moon.
You may recognise him from the wonderful movie: “Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo” - which you should watch if you haven’t already.
Bill Moon:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-moon-43313445
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonpawpaw/
Mission Control Movie: https://missioncontrol.movie/
Emily’s Articles:
Five for Fifty: Unsung Heroes of Skylab:
https://space.nss.org/five-for-fifty-unsung-heroes-of-skylab/
Dooce and the Double Standard of Being a Woman on the Internet:
https://medium.com/the-making-of-an-ex-nuke/dooce-and-the-double-standard-of-being-a-woman-on-the-internet-cb1fd5482128
Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
40th Anniversary of Women in Space | Afternoon Tea:
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2023/june/women-in-space-afternoon-tea-celebration
Axiom 2 Mission:
https://www.space.com/spacex-ax-2-astronaut-mission-go-for-launch
Image Credits: Haviland DIgital
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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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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-giles-1286ab1a3/