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...
by Emily Carney | Apr 28, 2019 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Fiction, This Space Available
Sometimes, young adult novels from the past define the desired values and “pulse” of an entire era. One book series, very aggressively marketed to teenage boys in the early 1960s, is the “Mike Mars” series written by science fiction author Donald A. Wollheim, and...
by Emily Carney | Apr 16, 2019 | Space Shuttle, This Space Available
“I always used to dream of the past But like they say yesterday never comes Sometimes there’s a song in my brain And I feel that my heart knows the refrain I guess it’s just the music that brings on nostalgia for an age yet to come” –Buzzcocks,...
by Emily Carney | Mar 16, 2019 | Apollo, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
The last six months have brought us two major movies about Apollo 11, and some of its figures: First Man (released October 2018), and Apollo 11 (currently playing in theaters). While this 50th anniversary year will bring many related films, documentaries, and books to...
by Emily Carney | Mar 9, 2019 | Movies and Videos, Skylab Space Station, This Space Available
The documentary Searching For Skylab, released on Vimeo on March 5th, is a treasure trove of as-yet-unseen archival footage of the much-underrated early 1970s U.S. space station, inter-cut with commentary from its astronauts, workers, major players, and experts....
