This week we’re joined by Francis French to talk about Sally Ride as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first American woman to go to space on the STS7 mission. Francis used to work with Sally at Sally Ride Science so as well as being an incredible historian, his first hand stories about Sally are incredible.

Francis French:

https://www.francisfrench.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/F_French

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This week we cover a topic given to us by our Patreon subscriber Don Erwin: 

Covering space in the present: the various ways space is covered today from space agencies' and private companies' messaging and media relations, to broadcasting networks, to independent folks (YouTubers), and podcasters. How well is each reaching various audiences? What will the landscape of space coverage look like in the future? 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp145-space-and-the-media-the-past-present-and-future

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One final dose of Skylab history for a month or two, today we talk about SMEAT: the Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test, which was a 56 day earth analog simulation of a Skylab mission which took place from 26th July to 19th September in 1972 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The crew was Bob Crippen, Karol Bobko and William Thornton

To take a look at this we speak to John Uri, the manager of the NASA History Office at Johnson Space Center.

John Uri:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-uri-85145545/

John’s SMEAT Articles:

50 Years Ago: Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test Begins:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-skylab-medical-experiment-altitude-test-begins

50 Years Ago: 56-Day Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test Ends Successfully:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-56-day-skylab-medical-experiment-altitude-test-ends-successfully 

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After the 10 day delay, the first crewed mission launched to visit and fix Skylab on 25th May 1973, so to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that launch we’re joined by David Hitt, the author of ‘Homesteading Space’ to find out more about the mission, the crew and the legacy of Skylab.

David Hitt: http://davidhitt.net/about/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidhitt

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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/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDTSfyFTTY 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp142-being-in-mission-control-for-skylab-with-bill-moon

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On May 14th 1973, Skylab was launched so we started our 50th anniversary celebrations of America’s first Space Station by talking to Dwight Steven-Boniecki, the director of the most amazing Skylab documentary: Searching for Skylab.

Dwight Steven-Boniecki:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-steven-boniecki-b8b63811a/ 

Searching For Skylab:

https://searchingforskylab.com/

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/704925044 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp141-skylab-the-50th-anniversary-with-searching-for-skylab-director-dwight-steven-boniecki

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Before we spend a few weeks looking at the past, we wanted to take another look at the future, so today we speak to Barry Matsumori, COO of Impulse Space who are teaming up with Relativity Space to attempt the first private landing on Mars in 2026.

Barry Matsumori:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-matsumori-35676/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AZBammer 

Impulse Space:

https://www.impulsespace.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gotoimpulse/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoToImpulse 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impulse-space/ 

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Following the launch of the SpaceX Starship prototype we wanted to talk about the bigger picture of the space industry. It just so happens that a brand new documentary is being made by filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann and the team behind the High Frontier documentary. Torsten very kindly gave us some of his time to talk to us about the documentary and his opinions on the industry.

Torsten Hoffmann:

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FORTITUDE: https://www.fortitudemovie.com/

https://youtu.be/qijlsreCUnk 

Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitcointheendofmoney/fortitude-forging-the-trillion-dollar-space-economy?ref=1ojcfm 

Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp139-fortitude-the-story-of-the-emerging-space-industry-with-filmmaker-torsten-hoffmann

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This week we wanted to talk about what’s the United Kingdom and spaceflight, so we thought we’d talk to The Space Boffins, Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to out more about what has happened, what is happening and what might happen.

Sue Nelson:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-nelson-boffin-media-27969329/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceNelson

Space Boffins Podcast:

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/astronomy-podcasts/space-boffins 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceboffins 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceBoffins 

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This week sees the launch of ESA’s Jupiter Icey Moons Explorer (JUICE) from French Guiana. So we wanted to find out more about it so today we’re talking to Professor Michele Dougherty, the principle investigator for the magnetometer on board the spacecraft.

Professor Michele Dougherty:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.dougherty

JUICE:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice 

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