by Emily Carney | May 31, 2021 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In the last two seasons of the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind, viewers have seen the show’s NASA build a nuclear-powered lunar base at Shackleton Crater, fly Skylabs docked with Space Shuttles in Low Earth Orbit, and conduct a...
by Emily Carney | May 29, 2021 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, Space Shuttle, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The Space Shuttle program recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first launch, and will soon pass 10 years since its swansong, STS-135. There is now a generation that wasn’t around to see Shuttle launches either in Florida...
by Emily Carney | May 15, 2021 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney By 1970, budget cuts were forcing NASA to cancel Apollos 18, 19, and 20, and lunar landing sites and scientific priorities were being reshuffled into other missions. In addition, the first Apollo Applications Program space station,...
by Emily Carney | Apr 18, 2021 | Movies and Videos, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, which premiered last night on the Space Channel, paid much overdue tribute to the figure who is regarded as the father of the space settlement movement. The film, a...
by Emily Carney | Apr 11, 2021 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “Sputnik 1 was launched in [October 1957], which meant that the space age was really here, but I was still stuck in Sydney [Australia]. One morning just before Christmas, I received a phone call in my lab at Philips from Fred...
