In this episode:
We continue our conversation with former NASA astronaut Lt. Col. Duane "Digger" Carey, USAF (Ret.) and current owner of One-Eighty Out, Inc. Among Digger’s accomplishments was piloting the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-109 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002.
In this second part of our conversation, Digger discusses the process of being selected by NASA, the supporting tasks that filled his years in NASA leading up to piloting the Space Shuttle Columbia, his memories of working Mission Control when the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy occurred in 2003, and the STEM education efforts he’s dedicated himself to since he retired from NASA.
Discussing his passion for space exploration, Carey says, “I flew in space and I saw the Earth without borders, and it sounds trite, but it’s a life-changing experience to see what the Earth really looks like from low Earth orbit, and you realize that human beings — if we put our minds to it, and we make the hard decisions, and we challenge ourselves — we can make all of these dreams come true.”
To learn more about Digger’s current efforts with One-Eighty Out Inc., visit the website at http://www.astronautbiker.com or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/astronautbiker/
Introductory and closing music: Paint the Sky by Hans Atom (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/hansatom/50718 Ft: Miss Judged
Alan Mittelman – Founder, CEO, and President of Eagle Eyes Optics
Jonathan Gardner – Deputy Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope
Joe Urso — Founder/CEO ActivePure Technologies
Jack Gregg — Author of ‘The Cosmos Economy’
Jason Reimuller – Executive Director, International Institute for Astronautical Sciences & Project PoSSUM
Emily Carney – Space Hipster, Writer, and Podcaster
Lori Garver & Courtney Stadd — Former Presidential Transition Staff Members
Sarah Cruddas – Space Journalist
Sarah Noble – NASA Program Scientist, Psyche Mission
Erin Macdonald – Tattooed Scottish-American N7 Rebel from Starfleet Academy
John Olver – Emisshield, Inc.
Dylan Taylor – Voyager Space Holdings & Space for Humanity
Katharine Forth – Zibrio
Steve Howard – Spaceport Camden
Sean Wilson – Northrop Grumman Space Systems
Robert Gregg & Toby Elery — Robotic Prosthesis Built with ISS Motors
Rebekah Hyatt and Adlena Jacobs — SystemsGo
Aaron Shepard – NASA Robotics Intern & Founder of Cogito
Giorgio Coraluppi and Michael Hockenberry — Compunetix
Meredith Garofalo – WeatherNation
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