| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 24 | John Charles Mission Scientist Office of Biological and Physical Reearch NASA | Spacehab experiments aboard STS 107. (Recorded before flight) |
| January 24 | Kelly Beck Lead Flight Director STS 107 Johnson Space Center Houston | Expected use of Columbia after STS 107 (Recorded before flight) |
| January 24 | Dave Israel Principal Investigator LPT Investigations | Communications and Navigation Technology Tests aboard STS 107. (Recorded before flight) |
| January 24 | Nikyla Smith Artist Queensland John Beasley Will Richards Dush Velcek | Opening of "Looking Forward - Looking Back" exhibition of aviation art. Will Richards's career path and memories of his gradfather, Reg Ansett. (Recorded at Hilton Hotel, Melbourne Airport, Tullamarine) Listen or Download (2 min 32 s - 2.3MB) Listen or Download (9 min 33 s - 8.9 MB) |
| January 31 | Tammy Brown Project Scientist Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment | Description of the ozone mapping experiment carried aboard STS 107. (Recorded before flight) |
| February 7 | Franklin Chang-Dìaz NASA Astronaut Director Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Plasma propulsion to Mars using nuclear reactors. (Recorded at Royal Aeronautical Society, South Yarra) Listen or Download (4 min 53 s - 4.6 MB) |
| February 7 | John Grotzinger Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology California Institute of Technology California | Lake bed salts on Mars. (Courtesy, University of Texas) |
| February 14 | Franklin Chang-Dìaz NASA Astronaut Director Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Responses to audience questions on his spaceflight experiences and on plasma propulsion. (Recorded at Royal Aeronautical Society, South Yarra) Listen or Download (19 min 09 s - 17.9 MB) N.B. Because the audience questions were barely audible on the recording, the questions were read out in the studio for broadcast, but this reading was not recorded, so this download features Franklin's responses only. |
| February 21 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | Getting Amateur Radio satellites Into Space by hitch-hiking. (Recorded at the Moorabbin & District Radio Club, Moorabbin) Listen or Download (3 min 36 s - 3.3 MB) |
| February 28 | Robert Zubrin President Mars Society | Reactions of the American public to suggestion of human exploration of Mars. (Courtesy U.S.Senate) |
| March 7 | Brian Embleton former Executive Director Co-operative Research Centre for Satellite Systems Canberra | The CRSS and Fedsat. (Recorded at Australian Space Research institute, Adelaide) Listen or Download (9 min 49 s - 9.2 MB) |
| March 14 | Lachlan Thompson Associate Professor Aerospace Design RMIT University Melbourne | Responses to audience questions about the proposal to solar sail the Hyperion spacecraft to the heliopause, and about the Gaia satellite that would map the locations of 3 billion stars. (Recorded at Systems Engineering Society, North Melbourne) Listen or Download (11 min 36 s - 10.9 MB) |
| March 14 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | His personal views on manned spaceflight and our future in space. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or Download (3 min 41 s - 3.4 MB) |
| March 21 | Lisa Randall Professor Department of Physics Harvard University | Warped Passages: Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. (Resorded at Science Communicators Group, Redback Hotel, North Melbourne) Listen or Download (11 min 54 s - 11.1 MB) Listen or Download (8 min 13 s - 7.7 MB) Listen or Download (8 min 34 s - 8.0 MB) Listen or Download (7 min 40 s - 7.1 MB) Listen or Download (12 min 11 s - 11.4 MB) |
| March 28 | Lisa Randall Professor Department of Physics Harvard University | Writing the book "Warped Passages: Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions" and her future career. (Resorded at Science Communicators Group, Redback Hotel, North Melbourne) Listen or Download (7 min 18 s - 6.8 MB) |
| April 4 | Andrew Thomas Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Flight experiences as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle, Mir and the International Space Station. (Recorded at Crown Entertainment Centre, Melbourne) Listen or Download (42 min 52 s - 40.1 MB) |
| April 11 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | The AO-40 satellite and its dramatic story. Part One. (Recorded at the Moorabbin & District Radio Club, Moorabbin) Listen or Download (16 min 51 s - 15.8 MB) |
| April 16 | George W Bush President United States of America | Announcement of decision to send humans to the Moon by 2020. (Courtesy NASA) |
| May 2 | Andrew Cheng Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Laurel Maryland | The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager aboard the New Horizons spacecraft now enroute to Pluto and about to pass Jupiter. (Courtesy NASA) |
| May 2 | Ralph McNutt Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Laurel Maryland | The Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation instrument aboard the Pluto bound spacecraft New Horizons. |
| May 9 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | The AO-40 satellite and its dramatic story. (Part Two) (Recorded at the Moorabbin & District Radio Club, Moorabbin) Listen or Download (14 min 28 s - 13.6 MB) |
| May 9 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | Why Europeans are enagaged in space science. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or Download (5 min 06 s - 4.8 MB) |
| May 23 | John Grotzinger Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology California Institute of Technology California | The Mars Science Laboratory, due to search for life on Mars in 2009. (Courtesy, University of Texas) |
| May 23 | Michael Davis Australian Space Industry Chamber of Commerce Canberra ACT | Space Business In Australia. The phases of space exploration and their implications for Australia. Australia's regulatory system. (Recorded at Australian Space Research Institute, Adelaide) Listen or Download (25 min 15 s - 23.7 MB) |
| May 30 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | The AO-40 satellite and its dramatic story. (Part Three) (Recorded at the Moorabbin & District Radio Club, Moorabbin) Listen or Download (12 min 17 s - 11.5 MB) |
| May 30 | John Grotzinger Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology California Institute of Technology California | Responses to questions about Mars exploration posed by an audience. (Courtesy, University of Texas) |
| June 6 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | The AO-40 satellite and its dramatic story. (Part Four) (Recorded at the Moorabbin & District Radio Club, Moorabbin) Listen or Download (9 min 12 s - 8.6 MB) |
| June 6 | David McComas Southwest Research Institute San Antonio Texas | Description of the Solar Wind at Pluto instrument aboard the New Horizons spacecraft, and its expected results. |
| June 6 | Tiffany Finley Project Manager Student Dust Counter University of Colarado Boulder Colarado | How the first student designed and built instrument on a planetary mission, the Student Dust Counter, will operate during the trip to Pluto and beyond, and its role in engendering student participation in space activities. |
| June 13 | Bryan Gaensler Astronomer Sydney | Supernova 1987a and his work in studying its evolution. (Recorded for The Space Show by Museum of Victoria's Sarah Edwards) Listen or Download (14 min 54 s - 13.9 MB) |
| June 20 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | Opportunities for Australia to take part in ESA Science Acitivities. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or Download (6 min 02 s - 5.6 MB) |
| July 4 | Geoffrey Bruce Ames Research Center Mountain View California | Software that allows one to take a Virtual Field Trip to the Pilbara and other places, "interview" scientists there about their research and use a virtual microscope to look for evidence of life in the rocks. (Recorded at the Victoria Space Science Centre, Strathmore) Listen or Download (11 min 56 s - 11.1 MB) |
| July 4 | Carol Oliver Centre for Astrobiology Macquarie University Sydney | Using the software application "World Wind" to tour the Earth and Mars. Listen or Download (8 min 29 s - 7.9 MB) |
| August 22 | Barbara Morgan Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Morgan talks by amateur radio from the International Space Station with school students in Idaho. |
| September 5 | Barbara Morgan Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | Morgan talks from the International Space Station about life on the station. |
| September 19 | Michael Griffin Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Wahington, D.C. | The Space Economy. What NASA has achieved in the nearly 50 years since its formation, and what it plans for the future. (Courtesy, NASA) |
| October 10 | Bruce Davidson Manager Exhibitions Philatelic Group Australia Post Melbourne | Personal reminiscnces of Sputnik 1 and its impact on the West. The "Blast-off - 50 Years In Space" Exhibition. (Recorded at Post Master Gallery, Melbourne) Listen or Download (2 min 42 s - 2.5 MB) |
| October 10 | Freya Baskcomb Year 6 Student Melbourne | "Blast Along", a short story read at the opening of the "Blast-off - 50 Years In Space" Exhibition. (Recorded at Post Master Gallery, Melbourne) Listen or Download (11 min 2 s - 10.3 MB) |
| October 10 | Perry Vlahos Vice President Astronomical Society of Victoria Melbourne | Sputnik 1 and the Space Age. (Recorded at Post Master Gallery, Melbourne) Listen or Download (17 min 39 s - 16.6 MB) |
| October 17 | Bruce Davidson Manager Exhibitions Philatelic Group Australia Post Melbourne | Description of the "Blast-off - 50 Years In Space" Exhibition. (Recorded at Post Master Gallery, Melbourne) Listen or Download (0 min 50 s - 13.1 MB) |
| October 17 | Sunita Williams NASA Astronaut International Space Station | Responses to questions posed by people areound the world. (Courtesy JSC) |
| October 17 | Arthur C Clarke Author Sri Lanka | Comments on the occassion of a close flyby at Saturnian moon Iapetus by the Cassini spacecraft. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 24 | Stephanie Stillson Discovery Flow Director Kennedy Space Center Florida Sandra Magnus Pam Melroy Scott Parazynski | The STS 120 shuttle assembly mission to the International Space Station. (Courtesy KSC) |
| Novemer 28 | Brian Embleton former Director Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems Canberra | The goals of the Fedsat satellite project. Broadcast on the cessation of functioning of Fedsat. (Recorded at Australian Space Research Institute, Adelaide) Listen or Download (10 min 23 s - 9.7 MB) |
