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....
by Emily Carney | Dec 19, 2020 | Astronauts, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Newly unearthed 1967 photo negatives made accessible via the Digital Public Library of America show three 1967 MIT astronaut-scientists, apparently before their names were unveiled to the general public. Credited to the Boston...
by Emily Carney | Nov 27, 2020 | Astronomy, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney It was an announcement that rocked the astronomy and planetary science community last week: Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, which has endured significant structural damage, would be decommissioned after 50+ years of service. It...
by Emily Carney | Nov 19, 2020 | Astronauts, Project Mercury, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney The eight-episode Disney+ series The Right Stuff, which comes to its season conclusion Friday, has depicted some of the struggles, stresses, and situations faced by NASA’s first astronaut cadre, better known as “The Mercury Seven.”...
