We often get messages asking for advice on how to help encourage younger people with space flight. Well our guest this week has been doing that for over 25 years. Chris Barber founded ISSET space in 1998 and has had 60 different astronauts and cosmonauts involved with events around the globe to inspire people.

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ISSET Space: https://www.isset.space/

Mission Discovery: https://www.isset.space/pages/missiondiscovery

Chris Barber:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-barber-3478361a/ 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp176-how-to-inspire-people-using-spaceflight-with-isset-space-founder-chris-barber

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A new year brings in a new first, a new rocket from United Launch Alliance, the Vulcan Centaur, is due to launch on January 8th and the first private Lunar Lander. So we want to learn more about one of the payloads on board. With that in mind we speak to Charles Chafer, CEO of Celestis Memorial Spaceflights about their second Luna mission and their first deep space Voyager mission.

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Charles Chafer:

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Countdown to Vulcan:

https://www.ulalaunch.com/rockets/vulcan-centaur/countdown-to-vulcan

Vulcan Payload Blog:

https://blog.ulalaunch.com/blog/vulcan-cert-1-payloads-mounted-atop-rocket-for-launch 

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2024 is just around the corner so we carry on from last week and preview what we can hope to see in the upcoming year, to do this we're once again joined by the hosts of This Week In Space: Rod Pyle and Tarik Malik. 

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It’s time for our 2023 annual review and we’re joined by two big stars of the space world to take a look back at what’s happened this year, the hosts of This Week In Space: Rod Pyle and Tarik Malik. 

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Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp173-2023-year-end-review-with-rod-pyle-and-tariq-mallik

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This week we’re joined by David Chudwin, author of a wonderful book called “I Was A Teenage Space Reporter” – David was among the only college journalists accredited to cover the 1969 Apollo 11 launch and first landing on the Moon. At age 19, he was one of only a handful of teenagers with official press passes at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch. He gives us a wonderful insight to what it was like being at the launch of the most famous space mission of all time, Apollo 11.

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This week we want to share with you the story of the Sew Sisters, a group of women who used their skills to hand sew the thermal blankets used to protect the Space Shuttle. To do this we’re joined by one of the seamstresses, Jean Wright, who has just had a book written about her by Elise Matich called: “Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses.” 

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Sew Sister Book: https://www.tilburyhouse.com/product-page/sew-sister 

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With so much focus on new heavy lift vehicles at the moment, we wanted to talk about the iconic Saturn V, so we asked John Duncan, founder of ApolloSaturn.com to join us to talk about this iconic rocket.

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This week we talk to film maker Bill Muench about his brand new documentary “The Artist & The Astronaut” about Skylab 4 commander Jerry Carr and his wife Pat Musick. The 50th anniversary of Jerry’s mission has just started so this is the perfect start for us to kick start our own celebrations.

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Bill Muench:

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The Artist & The Astronaut:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIaiPcGTYY 

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Even more sad news this week. On November 7th, Frank Bowman, commander of Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 passed away at the age of 95. One of the true greats in space history. We speak to his friend Chris Henry from the EAA museum in Oshkosh to find out more about the man and to celebrate his life.

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Sad news this week, we’ve lost another of our Apollo heroes. Kenneth T. Mattingly, command module pilot of Apollo 16 and commander of STS4 and STS51c has passed away aged 87. Today we pay our tributes talking to author and space historian Andy Chaikin.

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Andrew Chaikin:

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https://twitter.com/andrewchaikin 

T.K. Mattingly Oral History Interviews:

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/MattinglyTK/mattinglytk.htm 

Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin – Online Short Course (February 21-22, 2024):

https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/courses-workshops/detail/principles-of-success-in-spaceflight-from-andrew-chaikin-online-short-course?fbclid=IwAR3d210fJZg4Quw9vHLhgvjNdDezVBpWdrg61Vz4DMPRl_zLrzcIsRlVtrM 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp167-remembering-thomas-k-mattingly-with-andrew-chaikin

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