by Emily Carney | May 23, 2023 | Astronauts, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In 2019 when Apollo 11 50th anniversary mania was underway, space photo historian J.L. Pickering received a phone call that would kickstart his latest project alongside co-author John Bisney: the son-in-law of legendary NASA...
by Emily Carney | May 14, 2023 | Skylab Space Station, Apollo, Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The 50th anniversary of Skylab’s launch is upon us and will be marked by several anniversary events, including this one at Kansas’ Cosmosphere Thursday, May 18. Many of us are familiar with the stories of Skylab’s three crews and...
by Emily Carney | May 2, 2023 | Space Colonization, The Space Movement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Save for the recent book Humanizing Space: The Life of Gerard K. O’Neill written by Dylan Taylor with John Desimone and the documentary The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill, the life and work of the legendary...
by Emily Carney | Mar 31, 2023 | Astronauts, Space Shuttle, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney By the mid-1970s, Space Shuttle development was in full swing, even though the Space Transportation System wouldn’t fly until 1981 (and the delays that plagued the early Shuttle program deserve their own story). One part of the...
by Emily Carney | Feb 26, 2023 | Astronauts, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one. – Ronald McNair The recently-released book The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith Bagby...
by Emily Carney | Feb 8, 2023 | Apollo, Astronauts, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Apollo 9’s Russell “Rusty” Schweickart began the 1970s with a quest to figure out why he’d suffered from unwelcome bouts of space sickness aboard his March 1969 Earth orbital flight. After submitting himself to a series of taxing...
by Emily Carney | Nov 6, 2022 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Fiction, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney On November 3rd, This Space Available celebrated 12 years; it’s certainly been a long, strange trip from brainstorming blog posts while working at a department store perfume counter (as I was back then) to the present. One...
by Emily Carney | Oct 22, 2022 | Apollo, Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney One “semi-myth” about the Apollo program is that they all followed the exact same template of “sequential steps” — first, test the command module; second, orbit the Moon; third, test the lunar module; perform a lunar landing dress...
