| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 5 | Matt Golombek Project Scientist Mars Exploration Rover Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena | Deciding where to land the Mars Exploration Rovers on Mars. (Courtesy JPL) |
| January 5 | Kevin Baines Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena | Cassini's flyby of Titan. (Courtesy JPL) |
| January 12 | James Kennedy Director Kennedy Space Centre Florida | Overview of the Deep Impact mission. (Courtesy JPL) |
| January 12 | Mike Staffor Mission Integration Manager Deep Impact Mission Tom Shaw | Preparing and Launching the Deep Impact Mission. (Courtesy JPL) |
| January 26 | Claudio Solazzo Head Huygens Operations Unit European Space Operations Centre Darmstadt Germany | Huygens Descent Report made whilst the probe was still descending through Titan's atmsphere. (Courtesy ESA) |
| January 26 | Jean-Pierre Lebreton Mission Manager Huygens Noordwijk The Netherlands | Huygens descent update - still transmitting good science data. (Courtesy ESA) |
| January 26 | Alphonso Diaz Associate Science Administrator NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | NASA support for the Huygens mission, congratulations to ESA. (Courtesy ESA) |
| February 2 | European Space Agency Officials | Response to media qusetions at press conference immediately following the landing of Huygens on Titan. (Courtesy ESA) |
| February 9 | Jim Erickson Project Manager Mars Exploration Rover Jet Propulsion Laboaratory Pasadena Steve Squyres Firouze Naderi | One Year On Mars Briefing - Part One. A description of the first year of surface operations by the Mars Exploration Rovers. (Courtesy JPL) |
| February 16 | Charles Elachi Director Jet Propulsion Laboaratory Pasadena Sean O'Keefe Jim Garvin | One Year On Mars Briefing - Part Two. A description of the first year of surface operations by the Mars Exploration Rovers. (Courtesy JPL) |
| March 9 | Martin Harwit Professor Emeritus of Astronomy Cornell University New York | Developments in infrared detectors for astronomy. (Recorded at Scienceworks, Spotswood) Listen or Download (3 min 20 s - 3.1 MB) |
| March 23 | John Brumby Minister for Innovation Victorian Government | Opening of the Australian Synchrotron. (Recorded at Australian Synchrotron, Clayton) |
| March 23 (repeated March 30 and April 13) | Andy Thomas Astronaut Johnson Space Centre Houston | Announcing a children's essay competition. (Courtesy News Limited) |
| April 13 | Richard Cook Flight Systems Manager Mars Exploration Rover Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Use of airbags to land on Mars, first tested on Pathfinder and then used on the two Mars Exploration Rovers. |
| June 22 | Kate Reitdyk Winner Honourable Mention Earth & Sky Young Producers Contest Student The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School Melbourne | Frizzy Hair
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| June 22 | Karen Ong Contestant Earth & Sky Young Producers Contest Student The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School Melbourne | Chameleons |
| June 22 | Lian Jin and Sathika Titakaratne Contestants Earth & Sky Young Producers Contest Student The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School Melbourne | Tears |
| June 29 | Bryan Gaensler Young Australian of the Year 1999 Hubble Fellow | Life of Stars. A description of the birth, life and particularly death of stars. (Recorded Victorian Youth Space Forum, Melbourne University, Melbourne) Listen or Download (22 min 8 s - 20.7 MB) |
| July 27 | Andrew Thomas NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | STS 114 crewmember answering student questions about his earlier spaceflight experiences. (Recorded at Victorian Youth Space Forum, Melbourne University) Listen or download (11 min 13 s - 10.5 MB) Listen or download part of session not boadcast because of audio quality (18 min 51 s - 17.6 MB) |
| August 3 | George W Bush President United States of America | Talk to astronauts of the STS 114 Discovery and the International Space Station. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 24 | James Graf Project Manager Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Michael Malin Howard Eisen Philip Barela Richard Zurec Randy Walker Arden Acord Laryssa Densmore Vazrick Gharakian Paul Hardy Tammy Harrington | The preparation and launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 24 | Steve Robinson STS 114 Astronaut | The first podcast from space. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 24 | Crew of STS 114 | Tribute in Honour of Fallen Astronauts from aboard the Discovery during the flight of STS 114. (Courtesy NASA) |
| September 14 | Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report - 2nd anniversary. | A look at the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report two years after its publication. |
| September 21 | Deep Impact's Final Approach and Impact. | A recording of the commentary from Don Yeoman and others at the Jet propulsion Laboratory as as the Deep Impact spacecraft arrived at Comet Temple 1. (Courtesy NASA) |
| September 28 | Wes Huntress former Associate Administrator for Space Science NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. | What could we learn by going back to the Moon? (Courtesy U.S. Senate) |
| October 19 | Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest Writers and Radio/TV Producers United Kingdom | Discussion between Heather and Nigel on the question of whether there is exraterrestrial life. (Recorded at Science NOW, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne) Listen or Download (50 min 55 s - 47.7 MB) |
| November 2 | Piers Sellers Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Use of his Earth systems science experience to observe the Earth. (Courtesy NASA) |
| November 2 | Heather Couper Writer and Radio/TV Producer United Kingdom | Simulating living on Mars on Devon Island. (Recorded at Science Communicators, Redback Brewery Hotel, Melbourne) Listen or Download (6 min 34 s - 6.3 MB) |
| November 16 | Nigel Henbest Writer and Radio/TV Producer United Kingdom | Human trips to Mars, and the possibility of terraforming the planet. (Recorded at Science Communicators, Redback Brewery Hotel, Melbourne) Listen or Download (3 min 11 s - 3.0 MB) |
| November 23 | Lachlan Thompson Associate Professor Aerospace Design RMIT University Melbourne | The GAIA project to make a stereoscopic census of our galaxy. (Recorded at Institution of Engineers, North Melbourne) Listen or Download (22 min 34 s - 21.1 MB) |
| November 30 | Yasunari Matogawa Associate Executive Director JAXA Japan | The Longest Day of Hayabusa. Description of the landing of the Hayabusa on asteroid Itokawa. (Read in studio) |
