by Emily Carney | Aug 8, 2020 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney A previous installment of This Space Available discussed Dr. Brian O’Leary’s ubiquity in op-eds and media before and after the publication of his 1970 memoir, The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. While there is not enough space in a blog...
by Emily Carney | Jul 30, 2020 | NASA, This Space Available
This Space Available by Emily Carney The National Space Society applauds United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA for the successful launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, feted as the agency’s most sophisticated geological and astrobiological Mars mission yet,...
by Emily Carney | Jul 25, 2020 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney During this past year, This Space Available has profiled Dr. Brian O’Leary, perhaps the most (in)famous and controversial ex-NASA astronaut, and Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, a physicist who, while not quite making it to O’Leary’s...
by Emily Carney | Jun 13, 2020 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In the previous installment of This Space Available, Dr. Philip Chapman brainstormed one of the Apollo program’s most famous televised experiments, resigned from NASA’s astronaut corps following the cancellation of Skylab B, and...
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,...
