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| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 24 | Peter Aylward Councillor Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Soyuz 37 and Vietnamese cosmonaut (Pham Tuan) display in Vietnam. |
| January 31 | Margaret Mazzolini Astronomy Coordinator Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Hawthorne Victoria | Online Graduate Certificate Course in Astronomy offered by Swinburne University. |
| Broadcast from Avalon Airshow February 17, apparently not rebroadcast on The Space Show) | Dave Wright Exhibitor Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corporation USA | The Lockheed Martin display at the Avalon Airshow. Listen or download (3 min 26 s - 3.2 MB) |
| February 21 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Ian Honery Chief Executive Airshows Downunder Geelong | The organisation of the Avalon airshow, and how buniness is transacted and contacts made. (Interviewer: John Flavell, 88.3 Sothern FM) Listen or download (7 min 9 s - 6.7 MB) |
| February 21 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Michael Weinberg "The Roulettes" Royal Australian Air Force Sale Victoria | The Roulettes and their aerobatic display routine and training. Listen or download (6 min 23 s - 6.0 MB) |
| February 21 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Commander Tom Bourbeau Test Pilot United States Navy Umah USA | Flying the FA-18 Super Hornet (Interviewer: John Flavell, 88.3 Sothern FM) Listen or download (6 min 43 s - 6.3 MB) |
| February 28 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Major Roger Demer United States Air Force | New defence technologies on diplay at the Avalon Airshow. Listen or download (6 min 21 s - 5.9 MB) |
| February 28 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Doug Williams Friends of the RAFF Museum Point Cook Victoria | The Sopwith Pup as part of a display celebrating 100 years of the Australian Defence Forces. Listen or download (4 min 30 s - 4.2 MB) |
| February 28 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Ellen Lemand-Hollman The Boeing Company USA | The Boeing Military Exhibit at the Avalon Airshow. Listen or download (4 min 25 s - 4.1 MB) |
| February 28 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Greg Hughes Defence Community Relations Australian Defence Forces | An audio tour of the display "Defence - The First 100 Years" at the Avalon Airshow. Listen or download (6 min 18 s - 5.9 MB) |
| March 7 | Gene Austin X-33 Programme Manager NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville Alabamba located at | The X-33 research vehicle and the Venture Star and NASA efforts to provide new technologies to access Earth orbit and beyond. Listen or download (13 min 4 s - 12.2 MB) |
| March 7 (originally broadcast from airshow Feb 17) | Barry Puttee 62nd Fighting Falcons Combat Simulation Group Brisbane | Simulated tactical air combat using networked personal computers and modified Falcon 4 flight simulation software. Listen or download (7 min 16 s - 6.8 MB) |
| March 28 | Robert Braun Aerospace Engineer NASA Langley Research Center Hampton Virginia | Mars Surveyor 2001 and other missions to expore Mars. Also entry techniques and instrumentation that would have been used on the cancelled 2001 Mars Lander. Listen or download (8 min 13 s - 7.7 MB) |
| March 28 | John-David Bartoe Research Manager International Space Station NASA former NASA Astronaut former Solar Scientist | Science on the International Space Station. Listen or download (5 min 30 s - 5.1 MB) |
| April 4 | Robert Braun Aerospace Engineer NASA Langley Research Center Hampton Virginia | Mars Exploration missions, current and planned. Career at NASA, including work on Pathfinder. Listen or download (7 min 13 s - 6.7 MB) |
| April 4 | Glenn Cunningham Manager Surveyor Flight Operations Project former Manager | Exploring Mars with the Mars Global Surveyor. Listen or Download (15 min 35 s - 14.5 MB) |
| April 11 | Jim Harford former Executive Director Emeritus American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics now Author | The life and achievements of Korolyov, the "Great Designer". How Harford researched his book on Korolyov (published by John Wily and Sons). Listen or download (14 min 8 s - 13.2 MB) |
| April 18 | Kirby Iken Space Insurance Manager GIO Insurance Sydney | Space insurance (rebroadcast from 1991 April 14 as part of The Space Show 20th Anniversary documentary. Listen or Download (12 min 58 s - 12.1 MB) |
| April 18 | Martin Kirkby Manager Australian Space Insurance Group Melbourne | Insurance loss when Anik E2 fails to deplay antenna (rebroadcast from 1991 April 14 as part of The Space Show 20th Anniversary documentary. Listen or Download (5 min 57 s - 5.6 MB) |
| May 2 | Dan Brandenstein Executive Vice President and Program Manager Kistler K1 Program former NASA Astronaut | A veteran of four Space Shuttle missions, Brandenstein describes the Kistler K1 programme, and the intention to use the Woomera range in South Australia as both launch and landing sites. Listen or Download (11 min 6 s - 10.4 MB) |
| May 2 | Robert Huddleston Volunteer Guide Kennedy Space Center Florida | Former NASA employee describes the Kennedy Space Center and his career there (Shuttle), at Downey (Apollo), and St Louis (Gemini). Interviewer: Peter Aylward. Listen or download (7 min 26 s - 6.9 MB) |
| May 2 | Andrew Klaussman Software Engineer United Space Alliance Kennedy Space Center Florida | The use of laptop computers in the space shuttle programme. Included discussion of how Shuttle flight software is written and tested. Interviewer: Peter Aylward. Listen or download (6 min 50 s - 6.4 MB) |
| May 16 | Rodney Buckland Open University United Kingdom | The Humble Space Telescope (note: Humble, not Hubble). Plans to launch a telescope into orbit that could be accessed by students around the world via the Internet. Listen or download (11 min 53 s - 11.1 MB) |
| May 16 | Wubbo Ockels Professor Technical University of Delft The Netherlands also Director Outreach Activities European Space Agency former ESA Astronaut | Lunarsat, a projected mission designed by students to reach lunar orbit. Listen or download (6 min 32 s - 6.1 MB) |
| May 23 | Wubbo Ockels Professor Technical University of Delft The Netherlands also Director Outreach Activities European Space Agency former ESA Astronaut | Experiences as an astronaut doing experiments aboard the Spacelab. Career path that led to his becoming an astronaut. Listen or download (3 min 6 s - 2.9 MB) |
| May 23 (originally broadcast live-to-air 2001 February 17) | Barry Spencer Event Coordinator Federation Air Shows In The Outback also Director Special Events Airshows Downunder Geelong | A travelling airshow planned for 2001 July in outback Queensland. Listen or download (8 min 54 s - 8.3 MB) |
| May 30 | Tim Lawder Business Developmemt Manager Auspace Canberra | Projects being undertaken by the Australian company Auspace. Includes the Along Track Scanning Radiometer for ERS and Envinsat, studies of communications satellites for the Australian Department of Defence, the Aries remote sensing satellite, and a class-100 cleanroom in Mitchell. Listen or download (9 min 14 s - 8.6 MB) |
| May 30 | Takanori Iwata Associate Senior Engineer ALOS Project Team Office of Earth Observation Systems National Space Development Agency Tokyo Japan | The Advanced Land Observation Satellite, ALOS, development, expected launch, and data to be returned about the Earth's environment. Listen or Download (5 min 46 s - 5.3 MB) |
| May 30 | David Lynch Research Scientist Aerospace Corporation El Segundo California | Airborne astronomy using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Studies in infrared of comets, cosmic dust. Looking forward to the Sofia observatory aboard a Boeing 747. Use of the Parkes Radio Telescope. Listen or Download (11 min 4 s - 10.3 MB) |
| June 6 | Simon Cheng Lian Shearer Alix Twedie Jane Marsden Australian Students Space Association Melbourne | Organisation of the 2001 Victorian Youth Space Forum, experiences at the 2000 Forum, and the activities of the Australian Students Space Association. |
| June 6 | Michael Pakakis Science Coordinator Strathmore Secondary College Strathmore Victoria | The Victorian Space Education Centre to be established in the grounds of the Srathmore Secondary College. The genesis of the idea as a result of a school excursion to Space Camp, in Huntsville. 'Selling' the idea to the government. Some of the activites planned for the centre. |
| June 13 | Joseph Loftus Assistant Director for Engineering Space and Life Sciences Organisation Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Management of the geostationary orbit environment. What geostationary orbit is, need to keep it clear of clutter, and ways of achieving this. Listen or download (7 min 42 s - 7.2 MB) |
| June 13 | Mark Hemsel President British Interplanetary Society London United Kingdom | The history and activities of the British Interplanetary Society. Hemsel's career, including the HOTOL study. Listen or download (7 min 50 s - 7.3 MB) |
| June 20 | Robert Braun Aerospace Engineer NASA Langley Research Center Hampton Virginia | How to land a spacecraft on Mars. The successful Pathfinder, the ill fated Mars Polar Lander, the cancelled 2001 Lander and the expected 2003 missions discussed. Listen or download (6 min 36 s - 6.1 MB) |
| June 27 | John-David Bartoe Research Manager International Space Station NASA former NASA Astronaut former Solar Scientist Naval Research Laborartory | Naval Rsearch Laboratory solar science, Spacelab, SOHO, Solrad, Skylab, SMM, Astro missions, experience as astronaut, International Space Station science. Listen or download (18 min 2 s - 16.9 MB) |
| June 27 | Rolf Mamen Director General Space Operations Canadian Space Agency Ottawa Ontario | Radarsat Ocean Monitoring Workstation used to identify fishing vessels. Listen or download (7 min 27 s - 6.9 MB) |
| July 4 | Kaj Lundahl Programme Manager Space Science Systems Division Swedish Space Corporation Solna | Sweden In Space. Viking, Freja, Odin, Astrid and Kiruna. Listen or download (6 min 31 s - 6.1 MB) |
| July 18 | Phil Sumrall NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. | Future space transporatation systems - reducing the cost of access to space to make lunar and Mars missions possible, and to stimulate the entire space sector. X-33, Venture Star. Listen or download (12 min 4 s - 11.3 MB) |
| August 29 | Kevin Manning STARS Academy Melbourne | The STARS Academy and its activities to involve Australian school children in space experiments. Listen or download (14 min 6 s - 13.2 MB) |
| October 10 | Graham Logan Research Scientist Southern Margins Frontiers Project Petroleum and Marine Division Australian Geological Survey Organisation Canberra | Early life on Earth and the serach for fossil life on Mars. Formation of oil. Listen or download (13 min 43 s - 12.8 MB) |
| October 17 | Abhi Lobo Melbourne High School Melbourne | Participation in the 2001 Victorian Youth Space Forum. |
| October 24 | Gennady Riabkov Head Department of Foreign Relations Air Launch Aerospace Corporation Moscow | Air launch of space launch vehicles. The technical, business and political considerations behind the Air Launch proposal. Listen or Download (14 min 47 s - 13.8 MB) Listen or Download related documentary (3 min 1 s - 2.8 MB) |
| October 31 | Ron Caswell Engineer Lockheed Martin Kennedy Space Center Florida | His personal experiences working at the Kennedy Space Centre and travels to other launch centres. Maintains website Eyes On the Cape. Interview by Peter Aylward. Listen or Download (4 min 30 s - 4.2 MB) |
| December 12 | Matt Golombek Project Scientist Mars Pathfinder Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Pathfinders to Mars. A description of the Viking mission amd its findings, misssion planning for Pathfinder, landing site selection, the Ares Valley outflow channel, and locating the landers in Viking and Mars Global Surveyor imagery. Listen or download (14 min 45 s - 13.8 MB) |
| December 19 | Matt Golombek Project Scientist Mars Pathfinder Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Pathfinders on Mars. A description of the Mars Pathfinder mission, and the findings of the Pathfinder lander and the Sojourner rover. Listen or download (11 min 19 s - 10.6 MB) |
