| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 17 | Michael Thompson University of Sheffield United Kingdom | Global oscillations in the Sun, the SOHO satellite, what helioseismology tells us about the solar interior, and how the Solar Dynamics Observatory will help solve the challenges facing helioseismology. Listen or download (15 min 17 s - 14.4 MB) |
| March 17 | Ian Bryce former Engineer Asia Pacific Space Center Sydney | The new Soyuz ST rocket, and its new launch pad in Kourou, French Guyana. Listen or download 16 min 04 s - 15.1 MB) |
| March 24 | Bill Wood former Crew Supervisor Deep Space Tracking Network Goldstone California | His role in the Apollo lunar and Skylab missions, and the Voyager odyssey to the outer planets. Why the Apollo 11 moonwalk television pictures were initially upside down. Listen or download 9 min 50 s - 9.2 MB) |
| April 5 | Andrew Rennie President Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Just hours before the launch of STS 131, a report on activities at the Kennedy Space Center. (Interview by Janette B) Listen or download 8 min 4 s - 7.4 MB |
| April 7 | Terry Lloyd former Engineer (Computers) Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Canberra | Overview of career and how he came to work at Honeysuckle Creek during Apollo 11. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download 10 min 22 s - 9.7 MB |
| April 7 | Andrew Rennie President Space Association of Australia Melbourne | The launch of STS 131 as seen from the Press Site at the Kennedy Space Center. (Inteview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download 26 min 41 s - 25.0 MB |
| April 14 | Andrew Rennie President Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Events at the Kennedy Space Center, including the ongoing STS 131 mission, a political rally at Cocoa to "SaveSpace", rollover of Atlantis from Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vertical Assembly Building in preparation for the STS 132 mission, and preparations to see President Obama's visit to the Kennedy Space Center. (Inteview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (30 min 15 s - 28.4 MB) {See note about mains hum.} |
| April 21 | Michael Abdilla Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | What Andrew Rennie (Producer/Presenter, The Space Show, 88.3 Sothern FM, Mentone) did at the Kennedy Space Center. Included seeing president Obama, landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of STS 131, and preparations for the launch of Atlantis on STS 132. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (17 min 36 s - 16.5 MB) {See note about mains hum.} |
| April 28 | Andrew Rennie President Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Attending the "American Space program 21st Century Conference" at the Kennedy Space Center with U.S. President Obama as a temporary member of the White House Press Corps. Synopsis of discussions held with Buzz Aldrin, Andy Thomas, Neil Tyson, John Grunsfeld, Edward Crawley and others. (Interview by Michael Abdilla) Listen or download (31 min 17 s - 29.3 MB) {See note about mains hum.} |
| May 5 | Andrew Rennie Producer/Presenter The Space Show 88.3 Southern FM Melbourne | His trip to Florida to see the launch of STS 131, the preparations to launch STS 132 and President Obama's space policy speech. (Inteview by Michael Abdilla) Listen or download (58 min 38 s - 54.9 MB) {See note about mains hum.} |
| May 5 | Edward Crawley Member Augustine Commission also Professor of Engineering MIT | The future for privately developed spacecraft, Obama's vision for space exploration and the development of a global enterprise. Listen or download (6 min 46 s - 6.4 MB) (also included in item above) |
| May 12 | David Cox Project Manager ESS Research Kennedy Space Center Florida | Plant experiments aboard STS 131. Kennedy Space Center biological research on the space shuttle and the International Space Station. Listen or download (12 min 07 s - 11.4 MB) |
| May 12 | Shuji Araki Adviser to the Director ISS / JEM Public Affairs and Information System Unit Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tsukuba Space Center Japan | Kibo, STS 131, astronaut Yamazaki, public support for Japan's space efforts, return of hayabusa to Australia, and Australian-Japanese cooperation. Listen or download (6 min 37 s - 6.2 MB) |
| May 12 | Jay Chladek Nebraska Press Association | The STS 131 launch experience compared to the Aries 1X launch. Listen or download (5 min 31 s - 5.2 MB) |
| May 19 | Alan Walters Photographer Universe Today Florida | Impressions of seeing the landing of STS 131. Listen or download (1 min 11 s - 1.1 MB) |
| May 19 | Marion Chevalier Public Affairs Officer Kennedy Space Center Florida | At Launch Complex 39 with the rotating service structure about to be rotated open to expose space shuttle discovery the day before the launch of STS 131. listen or download (2 min 01 s - 1.9 MB) |
| May 19 | Peter Aylward Membership Secretary Space Association of Australia Melbourne | His experience of seeing the STS 132 crew walkout from thier preparation quarters and viewing the launch of STS 132 from the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Also his subsequent trip to the Marshall Spaceflight Center. Listen or download (23 min 19 s - 21.9 MB) |
| May 26 | Peter Aylward Membership Secretary Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Visit to Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston during STS 132. His experience talking to the STS 132 and ISS crew as they orbited the Earth. Listen or download (12 min 02 s - 11.3 MB) |
| May 26 | Alan Stern Principal Investigator New Horizons South West Institute Boulder Colarado | The future of spaceflight and the exploration of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft. (Courtesy E&S) |
| May 26 | Jerry Ross Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston | His current job in NASA, the STS 132 Crew arrival at the Kennedy Space Center for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, and his pending retirement. Listen or download (2 min 29 s - 2.3 MB) |
| June 2 | Peter Aylward Membership Secretary Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Eyewitness account of the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis at the conclusion of the STS 132 mission. Flying one of the Space Shuttle simulators at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Listen or download (24 min 00 s - 22.5 MB) |
| June 2 | STS 132 Crew | Responses by each of the six crew members of STS 132 to questions. (Courtesy KSC via P Aylward) |
| June 2 | Mani Perala Media Escort Kennedy Space Center Florida | What happens in the Orbiter Processing Facility, the rollover of Atlantis from the OPF to the Vehicle Assembly Building and the activities that will take place in the VAB to prepare Atlantis for its STS 132 mission. Listen or download (2 min 57 s - 2.8 MB) |
| June 16 | Peter Jenniskens Meteor Astronomer Ames Research Center and SETI Institute Mountain View California | Observations of the Hayabusa reentry from the NASA DC8 aircraft, and what the observations he collected will be used for once analysed. Also his earlier observations of the Stardust reentry. Listen or download (8 min 27 s - 7.9 MB) |
| June 16 | Christina Gianapapa The Netherlands Her role in developing the TERRAS instrument that she will use to observe the reentry of Hayabusa from the NASA DC8 aircraft flying out of Melbourne. Her earlier experience observing the European Space Agency's ATV reentry. The advantages of spectroscopic observations. | Listen or download (2 min 10 s - 2.0 MB) |
| June 16 | Thomas Mariovsky Institute of Space Systems University of Stuggart Germany | His role aboard the NASA DC8 as it flew out of Melbourne to observe the rentry of Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft as it returned to Earth near Woomera. Listen or download (0 min 27 s - 0.4 MB) |
| June 16 | Bridgette Berman 16-year old Junior Southfield School Brookline Massachusetts | How she qualified to be invited to fly aboard the NASA DC8 aircraft flying out of Melbourne to observe the reentry of Hayabusa, and her role aboard the aircraft. How she will analyse her data and her career aspirations. Listen or download (4 min 33 s - 4.3 MB) |
| June 16 | Andrew Thomas Astronaut Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | His current role within NASA on the Constellation project and how that might change in the light of the annoucements made a few minutes earlier by US President Obama. His wife's pending launch aboard Soyuz TMA-19 on a six month mission to the International Space Station. How hard Shannon Walker had worked to earn the position of Soyuz Flight Engineer, and his intention to travel to Baikonur Cosmodrome to see her launch. Listen or download (4 min 05 s - 3.8 MB) |
| June 16 | Angelo Di Grazia Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | A brief summation of his visit to the Kennedy Space Center to see the launch of STS 132. Listen or download (2 min 07 s - 2.3 MB) |
| June 23 | Bridgette Berman 16-year old Junior Southfield School Brookline Massachusetts | Why, at age 14, she wrote the book Dorie Witt's Guide To Surviving Bullies, which is a diary of a teenager suffering bullying. Listen or download (1 min 45 s - 1.6 MB) |
| June 30 | Angelo Di Grazia Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | A detailed description of his visit to the Kennedy Space Center to see the launch of STS 132. How he planned his visit and the launch viewing experience. Listen or download (13 min 39 s - 12.8 MB) |
| July 14 | Chris Russell Principal Investigator Dawn Mission | A discussion about the Dawn spacecraft's mission to explore asteroids Vesta and Ceres. (Courtesy Elaine Marconi, JPL) |
| August 11 | James Neihouse Director of Photography Hubble 3D, Space Station 3D and Mission To Mir | How he taught astronauts how to use IMAX cameras, his experiences at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the new movie Hubble 3D and the emerging possiblities opened by nascent camera technologies. Listen or download (10 min 27 s - 9.8 MB) |
| August 11 | David Booty Senioor Technical Adviser IMAX Melbourne. | A tour of the projection box at IMAX Melbourne. Differences between IMAX and 35 mm projection, the IMAX audio system, the projector lamps, the screen and how 3D films are projected. Listen or download (9 min 11 s - 8.6 MB) |
| August 25 | Peter Aylward Clark Aylward Martin Aylward | Review of the Hubble 3D IMAX movie. Listen or download (22 min 25 s - 20.5 MB) |
| September 8 | Kate Doolan Author of "Fallen Astronauts" Chelsea | The prospects for an additional spaceflight by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Included many extracts from relevant NASA press conferences with comments by John Shannon (Mangaer, Space Shuttle Program), Kurt Shireman (Deputy Manager, International Space Station), Robert Cabana (Director, Kennedy Space Center), Pete Nickolenko (STS 131 Launch Director), Bill Gerstenmaier (NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations) and Mike Moses (Space Shuttle Launch and Integration Manager). Listen or download (36 min 27 s - 34.2 MB) |
| October 20 | Crowley Peters Brown University Jessica Sunshine | Evidence for water on the Moon. (Courtesy LSI) |
| October 20 | John Mather Nobel Laureate Astrophysics Division Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Maryland | The cosmic background radiation, his role in the measurement of it, and the effect on him of being awarded a Nobel Prize. (Courtesy GSFC) |
| November 10 | Tim Larson Project Manager EPOXI Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Overview of the EPOXI part of the Deep Impact spacecraft's mission. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| November 10 | Rick Grammier Director Solar System Exploration Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The deep Impact mission in the context of exploring the solar system. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| November 10 | Mike A'Hearn Principal Investigator EPOXI University of Maryland Maryland | The objectives of the Deep Impact spacecraft as is passes Comet Hartley 2. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| November 10 | Cladia Alexander Project Scientist Rosetta European Space Agency | The Rosetta spacecraft's mission, which is enroute to orbit and land on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| November 10 | Don Yeomans Manager Near Earth Objects Office NASA HQ Washington D.C. | What we might expect from Deep Impact as it flies past Comet Hartley 2. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| November 17 | Malcolm Hartley Astronomer Siding Springs Observatory Coonabarabran | How he discovered the comet that now bears his name. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| November 17 | Don Yeomans Manager Near Earth Objects Office NASA HQ Washington D.C. | Description of the first pictures from Deep Impact as it flew past Comet Hartley 2. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| December 01 | Charles Elachi Director Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Comments on the successful flyby by the Deep Impact spacecraft of Comet Hartley 2. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
