Space and Things

Sad news this week as the space world mourns the loss of General Thomas P. Stafford, pilot of Gemini 6 and commander of Gemini 9a, Apollo 10 and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. A true legend of spaceflight and he will be missed.

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Tom Stafford Obituary: 

https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-thomas-stafford-obituary 

Bill Moore: 

https://www.facebook.com/bill.moore.18007218 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp186-remembering-general-thomas-p-stafford-with-bill-moore

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This week we conclude the interviews we recorded at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in January by asking about what it means to be a curator at the museum. We had three interview and we spoke to each of the individually about various aspects of life as a curator and have merged those aspects into this episode. We hope that you enjoyed the episode from our field trip and hope that we get to do more.

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Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp:

https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/margaret-weitekamp

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretweitekamp/

Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:

https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/jennifer-levasseur 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-levasseur-00695612a/

Dr Teasel Muir-Harmony: 

https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/teasel-muir-harmony

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teasel-muir-harmony-3a67519/

The Smithonsian Air And Space Museum:

https://airandspace.si.edu/ 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp185-the-art-of-museum-curation-with-dr-teasel-muir-harmony-dr-jennifer-levasseur-and-dr-margaret-weitekamp

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This week we speak to David Woods, the editor of a brand new movie called ‘Galileo Moon’ which is all about the Apollo 15 mission and is produced by the commander of that mission, Dave Scott.

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David Woods:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-woods-22979734/ 

Galileo Moon:

https://film.apollo15hub.org/

Apollo Space Journal:

https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/index.html 

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This week we speak to Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, the Space History Department Chair at the Smithsonian Institution and the curator of the Air and Space Museum’s social and Cultural history of spaceflight collection, more than 5,000 artefacts that include space memorabilia and space science fiction objects. Dr. Weitekamp also recently published Space Craze: America’s Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight, a wonderful book which we highly recommend. 

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Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp:

https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/margaret-weitekamp

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretweitekamp/

Space Craze: https://airandspace.si.edu/research/publications/space-craze

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: https://airandspace.si.edu/research/publications/right-stuff-wrong-sex-americas-first-women-space-program 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp183-space-craze-our-enduring-fascination-with-real-and-imagined-spaceflight-with-dr-margaret-weitekamp

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This week we speak to Logan Jaeren who is just about to launch STEAM4SPACE to try and use his extensive mission patch collection to help inspire the next generations.

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STEAM4SPACE:

https://steam4space.org/?page=section/home.html

Space exploration Patches:

https://sxpatches.com/ 

Logan Jaeren:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganjaeren/ 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp182-using-mission-patches-to-inspire-the-next-generation-steam4space-with-logan-jaeren

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There are only 3 Space Shuttle Orbiters left. Atlantis is on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Endeavour will be on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Discovery is at the Udvar-Hazy Center just outside of Washington DC. While we were in Washington we caught up with Dr. Jennifer Levasseur, the curator of the Space Shuttle Program for the Smithsonian and we tried to find out how you use a Space Shuttle to tell it’s history and inspire the next generation.

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Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:

https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/jennifer-levasseur 

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center:

https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center 

Being Discovery’s Curator by Dr. Jennifer Levasseur:

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/being-discoverys-curator 

Apollo 13 Minute Podcast Featuring Dr. Jennifer Levasseur: 

https://www.apollo13minute.com/cm/episodes/minute-009-give-me-a-lever-long-enough/ 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp181-telling-the-story-of-the-space-shuttle-with-dr-jennifer-levasseur

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A recent NASA report wasn't too encouraging about the use of space based solar power to help solve the planets energy problems, but we think there might be more to it than the report suggests so we speak to an expert on the subject John Mankins, who has been working on this since the 1990s.

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John Mankins: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mankins-a89a7130/ 

NASA’s Space-Based Solar Power Report: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/otps-sbsp-report-final-tagged-approved-1-8-24-tagged-v2.pdf?emrc=744da1

The Case For Space Solar Power book: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Space-Solar-Power/dp/099133700X 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp180-can-space-based-solar-power-save-the-planet-with-john-mankins

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Image Credits: NASA SPS-ALPHA concept by John C. Mankins

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February 8th 1974 marked the end of the crewed missions to Skylab, America's first space station. To celebrate this 50th anniversary we take a look at that mission and the legacy of Skylab. We're helped to do this by Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator of the Apollo Collection at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

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Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp179-the-mutiny-episode-skylab-4-50th-anniversary-with-dr-teasel-muir-harmony

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Part 2 of our deep dive into space policy with Casey Dreier the Chief of Space Policy at the Planetary Society. This week we learn about the Mars Sample Return mission and how the upcoming US election might affect NASA.

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Casey Dreier: 

https://www.planetary.org/profiles/casey-dreier

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-dreier-7371a054/

The Planetary Society:

https://www.planetary.org/

Space Advocacy 101 Course: https://www.planetary.org/courses

Planetary Radio: Space Policy Edition with Casey Dreier:

https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/space-policy-edition 

The Space Advocate Newsletter:

https://secure.planetary.org/site/SPageNavigator/advocacy_newsletter.html 

Planetary Society Day Of Action:

https://www.planetary.org/advocacy/day-of-action 

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This week we speak to Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at the Planetary Society. We’ve been wanting to take a deeper dive into space policy for a while now and Casey is the perfect person to help us understand how it all works. Part 2 of this interview will be in next week’s podcast.

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Casey Dreier: 

https://www.planetary.org/profiles/casey-dreier

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-dreier-7371a054/

The Planetary Society:

https://www.planetary.org/

Space Advocacy 101 Course: https://www.planetary.org/courses

Planetary Radio: Space Policy Edition with Casey Dreier:

https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/space-policy-edition 

The Space Advocate Newsletter:

https://secure.planetary.org/site/SPageNavigator/advocacy_newsletter.html 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp177-space-policy-aka-how-things-happen-in-space-with-casey-dreier

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