Emily Carney

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This Space Available, By Emily Carney. By the mid-1970s, Space Shuttle development was in full swing, even though the Space Transportation System wouldn’t fly until
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. The recently-released book The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. We catch up with NASA’s rebel with many causes during his 1970s era.
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. To celebrate twelve years of This Space Available, here are twelve spaceflight books – in no particular order, some
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. A new book reveals unseen facets of 1969's Apollo 9 mission.
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. During one brief, shining moment, Landsat crossed paths with the airplane-spaceship-cargo vessel approved the same year the first of
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. Fred Haise has probably experienced more near-misses and “what-ifs” than any other astronaut in spaceflight history.
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. The newest season of For All Mankind continues to spotlight that no human is immune to the sometimes-ugly price
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. While NORAD calculated Skylab's impact time as 12:37 PM EDT on July 11, 1979, this time was disputed by
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. By early 1978, it was clear that Skylab was coming down more quickly than predicted, and ground controllers worked
Deke Slayton becoming the “boss of the astronauts” served as (kind of) a consolation prize, and even though he wasn’t able to fly in space,
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. Across the Atlantic during 1975, the newly-formed European Space Agency (ESA), like NASA, started using a freshly-designed logo as
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