by Emily Carney | Jun 10, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In the last installment of This Space Available, the life and career of Dr. Philip Chapman, NASA’s first Australian-born astronaut, was discussed from the time he joined the exclusive cadre in 1967 to 1970, when he was doing his...
by Emily Carney | May 30, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney During the last year, This Space Available focused upon – and will continue to add to – the parallel, then wildly divergent stories of Brian O’Leary and Gerard K. O’Neill, two working scientists who, while both having brushes with...
by Emily Carney | May 24, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, Book Reviews, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The last two years have seen an influx of media involving Apollo 11 and, in turn, its enigmatic mission commander, Neil A. Armstrong. In October 2018, his life and career received the big screen treatment in First Man, a masterful...
by Emily Carney | Apr 29, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “Well, Apollo 7 became very important … If we had not had a success on Apollo 7, we really don’t know what would’ve happened to the space program. Another accident and the fainthearted in the country, as we have a tendency to be,...
by Emily Carney | Apr 4, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, Space Shuttle, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The engine is the heart of the airplane, but the pilot is its soul. Author unknown Fred Haise may be best known as the Apollo 13 lunar module pilot who, along with crew mates Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert, survived one of the most...
by Emily Carney | Apr 2, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney This post will spotlight two books that defined one sub-genre in spaceflight literature – the astronaut autobiography. These autobiographies are listed in chronological order, by publication date. While it would be impossible due...
by Emily Carney | Mar 19, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney I was very fortunate to be friends with Al Worden during his last decade on this planet, before he finally made the last 60 miles to Hadley Rille this week at age 88. I have a lot of Al stories, and someday when his loss hurts a...
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...
