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NASA history book – “The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – John Bisney interview

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John Bisney has worked as a reporter, on news radio, in public relations and is a NASA enthusiast. We talked about the latest book he has co-authored “The Space Age presidency of John F. Kennedy” which is a photographic history of NASA’s work during JFK’s presidency.

1:03 – John talks about how he got into studying and writing on this subject.

7:35 – John talks briefly about NASA illustration art.

7808 – John talks about how they lay out the book.

11:23 – John talks about doing research at the Kennedy library.

13:34 – John talks about his favorite photos in the collection. He touches on Alan Shepherd in the White House Rose Garden.

15:24 – John talks about how he chose the pictures they used.

18:03 – John talks about the companies that worked on the space program.

22:21 – John talks about other important people found in the photos.

23:43 – John talks about interesting people who also show up in the pictures.

36:54 – John talks about video of JFK’s travels.

43:35 – The other co-author of the book has a website Retrospaceimages.com

Links of interest

https://unmpress.com/books/space-age-presidency-john-f-kennedy/9780826358097

https://retrospaceimages.com/

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Guests: John Bisney

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science, NASA, gemini, apollo, cape canaveral, jfk, space program, LBJ, congress, john glenn, white house, air force

Air Force and NASA history book – “Come Fly With Us” (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) – Mel Croft and John Youskauskas interview

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Mel Croft and John Youskauskas are both space program enthusiasts who have previously written a book on the NASA space program. They recetly wrote another book on space shuttle payload specialists and we discussed this new book.

1:414 – They talk about how they got into writing on this subject.

2:27 – They talk about how they organized the book.

3:18 – They explain what the pauload specialist program is.

6:51 – They discuss some of the interesting aspects of the program.

9:58 – They talk about writing on STS-51L.

12:26 – They talk about the reactions people had to being chose as payload specialists.

29:47 – They talk about what they might do with all the information they obtained that didn’t end up in the book.

35:44 – They talk about what the specialists thought when they saw they Earth from orbit.

45:28 – They talk about how the DoD affected the shuttle design and missions.

48:38 -They talk about how payload specialists handle being called astronauts.

54:06 – They talk about the X-37B.

57:33 – They’re both on collectspace.com. They’re also on cmflywithusbook.com.

 

Links of interest

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803278929/

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Guests: Mel Croft and John Youskauskas

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: NASA, space program, shuttle, STS, challenger, accident, payload specialist, hunstville, space center, astronaut, X-37B, air force