by Emily Carney | Nov 24, 2019 | Apollo, Space, This Space Available
This summer, Quest magazine – the premier spaceflight history magazine – published an issue filled with “What Ifs” by prominent space history authors, each proposing a world where something – from seemingly infinitesimal changes to large diversions – changed the...
by Emily Carney | Sep 21, 2019 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In last week’s This Space Available post, we introduced Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, a Princeton physicist, who, at mid-career, was struggling to bring his ideas about space settlement to a wider audience. We left with him finally...
by Emily Carney | Sep 12, 2019 | Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In last week’s This Space Available blog post, we ended with Dr. Brian O’Leary’s April 1968 resignation from the NASA astronaut corps, which left a bad taste in the mouths of many of his former colleagues. After accepting a...
by Emily Carney | Sep 7, 2019 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In a previous This Space Available blog post, I wrote about Dr. Brian O’Leary, the “Excess Eleven” astronaut candidate. A planetary scientist by trade, O’Leary applied for and joined NASA’s ranks in August 1967 with the overly...
by Emily Carney | Sep 2, 2019 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney This weekend, many of us on the United States’ eastern coast made preparations for Hurricane Dorian, the devastating tropical cyclone that has been parked over the Bahamas for close to an entire day. While Dorian’s slow speed and...
