by Emily Carney | May 15, 2021 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney By 1970, budget cuts were forcing NASA to cancel Apollos 18, 19, and 20, and lunar landing sites and scientific priorities were being reshuffled into other missions. In addition, the first Apollo Applications Program space station,...
by Emily Carney | Apr 18, 2021 | Movies and Videos, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, which premiered last night on the Space Channel, paid much overdue tribute to the figure who is regarded as the father of the space settlement movement. The film, a...
by Emily Carney | Apr 11, 2021 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “Sputnik 1 was launched in [October 1957], which meant that the space age was really here, but I was still stuck in Sydney [Australia]. One morning just before Christmas, I received a phone call in my lab at Philips from Fred...
by Emily Carney | Mar 13, 2021 | Apollo, Astronauts, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Children's Books, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The last two years have brought us several Apollo 50th anniversaries and celebrations (some in person and, during the last year, strictly online). In July, we will celebrate 50 years since Apollo 15, a mission that revealed three...
by Emily Carney | Feb 27, 2021 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney On February 19th, Apple TV’s For All Mankind debuted its second season, and catches up with the women characters we’ve gotten to know during the show’s first season. Perhaps the most notable and unique characteristic of FAMK is how...
by Emily Carney | Feb 6, 2021 | Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen I don’t know when But just saying it could even make it happen – Kate Bush, “Cloudbusting” By mid-1981, Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill’s popularity was reaching the crest of...
by Emily Carney | Jan 16, 2021 | This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Who are giants? They aren’t always those who fly in space; some happen to write about space. Some spaceflight books occupy a permanent space on bookshelves, and 1988’s The Soviet Manned Space Programme (published by Salamander in...
by Emily Carney | Jan 2, 2021 | Book Reviews, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Thousands of books have been written about spaceflight concerning its technicality and history. The “Astronaut Autobiography/Biography” is a sub-genre of spaceflight literature that still garners attention with each new release....
