by Emily Carney | Jun 29, 2019 | Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” – Neil Young, “Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)” According to a previous blog post by This Space Available, when a proposed reboost mission carried out via Space Shuttle was ruled out as...
by Emily Carney | Jun 23, 2019 | Apollo, Book Reviews, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney This anniversary year has turned up a wealth of Apollo 11-related content, some wholly original, some not. It would be easy for writers and filmmakers to simply rehash the general story, just like it has been told scores of times...
by Emily Carney | Jun 1, 2019 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney When most people think of spaceflight within the United States in terms of geography, minds tend to wander towards Houston, Texas (because astronauts are there), and Kennedy Space Center in Florida (because astronauts and crewed...
by Emily Carney | May 11, 2019 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Last week’s This Space Available blog post discussed the attrition within NASA’s 1967 Astronaut-Scientist Group Six, christened the “Excess 11” because it became apparent that, for them, flight opportunities wouldn’t arise for...
by Emily Carney | May 3, 2019 | Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Two books – one released this week, and one released nearly half a century ago – give insight into the gradual whittling-down of...
