STP158 - The Real Astronaut Wives - with Jessica Carr and Bruce McCandless III
Following the death of Marilyn Lovell at the age of 93 last week, we wanted to talk about what it must have been like to be the wife of an astronaut in the Apollo era, so we asked Jessica Carr, daughter of Jerry and Joann Carr, and Bruce McCandless III, son of Bruce and Bernice McCandless to talk about their mothers experiences and to ask what it was like living in Houston in an astro house in the 1960s.
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What’s Caught Our Eye This Week:
Marilyn Lovell Obituary:
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/28840941/marilyn-lillie-lovell/lake-forest/illinois/wenban-funeral-home
SpaceX's Crew-6 astronauts splash down after 6-month stay on ISS:
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-6-dragon-endeavour-landing
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record-breaking 62nd mission of the year:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-6-12
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flies on Mars for the 56th time:
https://www.space.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-flight-56
India launches Aditya-L1 solar observatory, its 1st-ever sun probe:
https://www.space.com/india-launches-aditya-l1-first-solar-probe
Crucial test of Europe's long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket delayed:
https://www.space.com/esa-ariane-6-testing-delay
Old Soviet satellite breaks apart in orbit after space debris collision:
https://www.space.com/soviet-satellite-breaks-apart-after-debris-strike
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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.
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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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