| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 | Colleen Hartman Director of Solar System Exploration NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. | Possibility of sending a spacecraft to orbit the icy moons of Jupiter. (Courtesy NASA) |
| April 2 | Noel Schmidt Chairman Melbourne Brach Royal Aeronautical Society South Yarra | Introduction to astronaut Franklin Chang-Dìaz. (Recorded Royal Aeronautical Society, South Yarra) Listen or download (3 min 00 s - 2.8 MB) |
| April 2 | Franklin Chang-Dìaz NASA Astronaut Director Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center Houston | Plasma propulsion - what it is, how it works, and its possible future. (Recorded Royal Aeronautical Society, South Yarra) Listen or download (10 min 34 s - 9.9 MB) |
| April 2 | Brian Embleton former Executive Director Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems Canberra | Building Fedsat. (recorded at Australian Space Research Institute, Adelaide) Listen or download (10 min 21 s - 9.7 MB) |
| April 9 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | Future AMSAT Satellites being developed to follow AO-40. (recorded at Moorabbin and District Radio Club, Highett) Listen or download (3 min 43 s - 3.5 MB) |
| April 16 | Bryan Gaensler Astronomer 1999 Young Australian of the Year | The Death of Stars. How different types of stars, including our Sun, live and die. (Recorded for The Space Show by Museum of Victoria's Sarah Edwards) Listen or Download (13 min 24 s - 12.5 MB) |
| April 30 | Brian Embleton former Executive Director Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems Canberra | Where next for Australia in space? (Recorded at Australian Space Research Institute, Adelaide) Listen or download (7 min 36 s - 7.1 MB) |
| May 7 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | Description of a plaque carried by the AO-40 amateur radio satellite. (Recorded at Moorabbin and District Radio Club, Highett) Listen or download (3 min 04 s - 2.9 MB) |
| May 14 | Kim Karr Senator Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Canberra | The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope which may be built in Western Australia. (Courtesy National Press Club, Canberra) |
| June 11 | Lachlan Thompson Associate Professor Aerospace Design RMIT University Melbourne | How the proposed Aibo robotic lunar mission might stimulate new opportunities for Austalian youth to participate in space activities. (Recorded at Institution of Engineers, North Melbourne) Listen or download (19 min 22 s - 18.1 MB) |
| June 18 | Robin Haighton President AMSAT North America Burlington Ontario | Software used to control amateur radio satellites. (Recorded at Moorabbin and District Radio Club, Highett) Listen or download (0 min 59 s - 0.9 MB) |
| June 18 | Geoffrey Bruce Ames Research Center Mountain View California | A description of computer software that can compare specified objects. (Recorded at Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Strathmore) Listen or download (5 min 37 s - 5.2 MB) |
| July 16 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | The Cassini orbitier mission to Saturn and the Huygens lander mission to Titan. (Recorded at State Library of Victoria, Melbourne) Listen or download (18 min 00 s - 16.8 MB) |
| July 23 | William Boynton Co-investigator Phoenix Mission University of Arizona Tuscon Arizona Samuel Kounaves Michael Hecht Leslie Tamppari | The Science Briefing held to describe the Phoenix science instruments and their objectives. (Courtesy University of Arizona) |
| July 30 | Burt Rutan Scaled Composites | The progress being made towards commercial manned spaceflight, and the hindrances to that endeavour. |
| August 6 | Harrison Schmitt former Apollo 17 astronaut, geologist, U.S. Senator. | How we might go about returning to the Moon. (Recorded at Redback Brewery Hotel, North Melbourne) Listen or download (4 min 02 s - 3.8 MB) |
| August 13 | Michael Meyer Chief Scientist Mars Exploration NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. Peter Smith Michael Hecht William Boynton | The Press Conference at which it was announced the discovery of perchlorate whilst exploring the Arctic Plains of Mars with the Phoenix Lander. (Courtesy HASA HQ) |
| August 20 | Harrison Schmitt former Apollo 17 astronaut, geologist, U.S. Senator. | What the reactions of his parents had been to his trip to the Moon. (Recorded at Redback Brewery Hotel, North Melbourne) Listen or download (4 min 42 s - 4.4 MB) |
| August 20 | Carolyn Porco Scientist Cassini Mission Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Saturn and Titan. Findings by the Cassini spacecraft about Saturn and its moon Titan. (Courtesy JPL) |
| September 3 | David Southwood Director of Science European Space Agency Paris France | The Cassini/Huygens, Double Star, Cluster, Venus Express, Smart 1, SOHO and Hubble Space Telescope missions. (Recorded at State Library of Victoria, Melbourne) Listen or download (14 min 14 s - 13.3MB) |
| September 24 | Harrison Schmitt former Apollo 17 astronaut, geologist, U.S. Senator. | Response to question seeking his views of claims that fossil life had been found in a martian meteorite. (Recorded at Redback Brewery Hotel, North Melbourne) Listen or download (3 min 41 s - 3.5 MB) |
| September 24 | Robert Zubrin Founder The Mars Society | The use of nuclear power during Mars missions, the effect of gravity on plants, supplying food on Mars, the role of corporations and government on mars, and ethical questions that might face settlers on Mars. (Recorded at Story Hall, RMIT, Melbourne) Listen or Download (23 min 19 s - 21.8 MB) |
| October 8 | David Hoffman Documentary Film Maker | How The Space Race Began. |
| November 5 | Rand Sinberg former Aerospace Engineer | Comments on the space polocies of the candidates in the United States Presidential election. (Courtesy PM) |
| December 17 | Bob Cabana former astronaut Director Kennedy Space Center Florida | Comments on the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first elements of the international Space Station. (Courtesy KSC) |
