by Emily Carney | Feb 1, 2020 | Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “Our country has not survived its first two centuries on the basis of promised happiness…rather, on the promise that the search for happiness could go on.” Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill In the last installment of this series, we saw Dr....
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...
by Emily Carney | Sep 21, 2019 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In last week’s This Space Available post, we introduced Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, a Princeton physicist, who, at mid-career, was struggling to bring his ideas about space settlement to a wider audience. We left with him finally...
by Emily Carney | Sep 12, 2019 | Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In last week’s This Space Available blog post, we ended with Dr. Brian O’Leary’s April 1968 resignation from the NASA astronaut corps, which left a bad taste in the mouths of many of his former colleagues. After accepting a...
by Emily Carney | Sep 7, 2019 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In a previous This Space Available blog post, I wrote about Dr. Brian O’Leary, the “Excess Eleven” astronaut candidate. A planetary scientist by trade, O’Leary applied for and joined NASA’s ranks in August 1967 with the overly...
by Emily Carney | Sep 2, 2019 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney This weekend, many of us on the United States’ eastern coast made preparations for Hurricane Dorian, the devastating tropical cyclone that has been parked over the Bahamas for close to an entire day. While Dorian’s slow speed and...
by Emily Carney | Aug 28, 2019 | Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In July 2013, I was honored to attend the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s gala dinner celebrating Skylab’s 40th anniversary at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Saturn V Center. I had been a massive Skylab fan pretty much...
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...
