by Emily Carney | Nov 19, 2020 | Astronauts, Project Mercury, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The eight-episode Disney+ series The Right Stuff, which comes to its season conclusion Friday, has depicted some of the struggles, stresses, and situations faced by NASA’s first astronaut cadre, better known as “The Mercury Seven.”...
by Emily Carney | Nov 14, 2020 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney On November 3rd, 2010, I pressed the “create blog” button for This Space Available. In the decade that has passed since that fateful day, I went from writing crappy 200 word posts about stuff people already knew about to writing a...
by Emily Carney | Oct 2, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney On Saturday, March 2, 1974, the American network ABC released Houston, We’ve Got A Problem, the first known movie to have anything (tangentially or otherwise) to do with Apollo 13, the lunar mission that famously saw its landing...
by Emily Carney | Aug 8, 2020 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney A previous installment of This Space Available discussed Dr. Brian O’Leary’s ubiquity in op-eds and media before and after the publication of his 1970 memoir, The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. While there is not enough space in a blog...
by Emily Carney | Jul 30, 2020 | NASA, This Space Available
This Space Available by Emily Carney The National Space Society applauds United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA for the successful launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, feted as the agency’s most sophisticated geological and astrobiological Mars mission yet,...
