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 18, 2020 | Astronauts, Space Colonization, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney When I started researching and writing this series last year, it was months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived Stateside, entering the U.S. – and the entire world – by force into an uncertain new era. As these events and this...
by Emily Carney | Apr 15, 2020 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “That is no ship. That is no forest. That is no arrow. We just imagine the arrows because we fear them.” Okello, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) In the last article in this series, Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill’s final...
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 25, 2020 | Astronauts, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Books still matter. Throughout the last sixty-plus years of spaceflight, literature chronicling spaceflight history and heritage – which run the gamut from detailing hardware and rocketry to describing the features of the Moon and...
