| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 8 | Dave Kusnierkiewicz Systems Engineer New Horizons Mission Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University | The New Horizons spacecraft mission and the early stages of its voyage to Pluto. (Courtesy KSC) |
| February 8 | Mike Johnson Technical Officer International Launch Services | The Atlas 5 rocket and its use to launch the New Horizons spacecraft. (Courtesy KSC) |
| February 8 | Colleen Hartman Deputy Assistant Administrator Science Mission Assets NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. | New Horizons spacecraft in the context of other NASA goals. (Courtesy KSC) |
| February 15 | Nigel Henbest Writer United Kingdom | Mars and Earth rocks compared. (Recorded at Science Communicators, Redback brewery Hotel, Melbourne) Listen or Download (6 min 26 s - 6.0 MB) |
| February 15 | Robert Zubrin President Mars Society USA | The Mars Direct Plan to send humans to Mars. (Courtesy US Senate) |
| February 15 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | The LISA project to place three spacecraft into orbit to seek gravitational waves. (Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne) Listen or Download (3 min 56 s - 3.6 MB) |
| March 22 | Franklin Chang-Dìaz Director Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center Houston and NASA Astronaut | Humans reach into the Cosmos. The difference between near-Earth missions such as Mir space station or lunar landings, and deep space missions to the planets. Why humans seek to go into space. Recorded at the Air Force Club, South Yarra. Listen or Download (12 min 05 s - 11.3 MB) |
| April 5 | Edward Stone Professor of Physics California Institute of Technology California | The journey of the Voyager spacecraft beyond the outer planets. (Courtesy JAXA) |
| April 12 | Paul McCartney Musician England | A recording of the live concert broadcast from California to the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and their responses. Included the songs "Good Day Sunshine" and "English Tea". (Courtesy NASA) |
| April 19 | Manfred Warhaut Flight Operations Director ESA David Southwood Don McCoy Håken Svedhem | Comments made after the successful placement of the Venus Express into orbit around Venus. (Courtesy ESA) |
| May 24 | John Grotzinger Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology California Institute of Technology California | The Mars Exploration Rovers. (Courtesy, University of Texas) |
| May 31 | John Grotzinger Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology California Institute of Technology California | The Mission of the Mars Exploration Rovers. (Courtesy, University of Texas) |
| June 7 | Melissa McGraf Deputy Director Solar System Division NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | Introduction to the New Horizons , the first mission to Pluto. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 7 | Alan Stern Principal Investigator New Horizons South West Institute Boulder Colarado | The science background of the New Horizon's mission, and an introduction to the relatives of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 7 | Richard Binzel Co-investigator New Horizons Massachussetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachussetts | What we already know about Pluto. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 7 | William McKinnon Co-investigator New Horizons Washington University St Louis Missouri | Pluto and Charon. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 7 | Dale Cruickshank Co-investigator New Horizons NASA Ames Moffet Field California | Pluto's icy surface and atmosphere. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 7 | Fran Bagenal Co-investigator New Horizons University of Colarado Boulder Colorado | Pluto as a comet. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 7 | New Horizons Science Team | Resposes to reporter's questions. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 14 | Venus Express Team | Responses to reporter's questions following orbit insertion. (Courtesy ESA) |
| June 21 | Venus Express Team | Additional responses to reporter's questions following orbit insertion. (Courtesy ESA) |
| June 21 | John Grotzinger Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology California Institute of Technology California | The blueberries and cross-bedded rocks discovered on the surface of Mars by the Mars Exploration rovers. (Courtesy, University of Texas) |
| June 28 | Charles Brodell Program Manager STS 107 Space Experiment Module Goddard Space Flight Center Maryland | Student experiments aboard the STS 107 mission. (Courtesy KSC) |
| June 28 | Ilan Ramon Payload Specialist Astronaut Israel | The Medditerranean dust experiment and Israel's attitude to future astronaut missions. (Courtesy KSC) |
| June 28 | Dan Burch Mike Bloomfield Stephen Frick Lee Morin Ellen Ochoa Rex Walheim Jerry Ross Stephen Smith NASA Astronauts Houston Texas | Comments on aspects of their work in the Shuttle and International Space Station programmes. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 5 | Stephanie Sillson Discovery Flow Manager William Geleltm STS 121 Preparations (Courtesy NASA) | |
| August 30 | Hal Weaver New Horizons Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Laurel Maryland | Science as a driver of the New Horizons mission to Pluto (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 30 | Dinnis Reuter RALF Instrument Goddard Spaceflight Center Greenbelt Maryland | The RALF instrument aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 30 | Alan Stern Project Scientist New Horizons Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | The Ultraviolet Spectrometer aboard New Horizons, and its use to detect airglow. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 30 | Len Tyler Radio Science Experiment Stanford University Palo Alto California | How radio telescopes on Earth will measure radio signals passing through Pluto's atmosphere from the New Horizons spacecraft. (Courtesy NASA) |
| November 15 | Andrew Thomas Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | His experiences as an astronaut. (Recorded Crown Entertainment Complex, Melbourne. Broadcast truncated because of stereophonic phasing error in Crown's audio mixing console. To be rebroadcast in 2007.) |
| November 22 | Robert Zubrin Founder The Mars Society USA | Is Mars Affordable? Zubrin puts the case for sending humans to Mars, and describes an Australian initiative to help prepare for future missions. (Recorded Story Hall, RMIT, Melbourne) Listen or Download (22 min 42 s - 21.2 MB) |
| November 22 | Lachlan Thompson Associate Professor Aerospace Design RMIT University Melbourne | The Hyperion project to study the heliopause, the boundary between the solar magnetosphere and the interstellar medium. (Recorded at Institution of Engineers, North Melbourne) Listen or Download (19 min 32 s - 18.3 MB) |
| November 29 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | History of British space activities from 1957 to the present. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or Download (7 min 23 s - 6.9 MB) |
| December 6 | George W Bush President United States of America | Into the Cosmos. (Coutesy White House) |
| December 20 | David Finley Dean Of Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora | Intoduction to Professor Southwood. Listen or Download (2 min 42 s - 2.5 MB) |
| December 20 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | An overview of ESA's current space science activites. (Recorded at State Library of Victoria) Listen or Download (11 min 30 s - 10.8 MB) |
