| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 5 | Joe Veverka Principal Investigator Stardust-NEXT Cornell University Ithica New York | How the Stardust spacecraft, rebadged as Stardust-NEXT, will visit Comet Temple 1. This comet was the original target of the Deep Impact spacecraft. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill, JPL) |
| January 20 | Ed Weiler Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | Comments after the 2010 November 5 flyby of the Deep Impact spacecraft of Comet Hartley 2 as part of the craft's EPOXI mission. (Courtesy Gay Yee Hill. JPL) |
| February 23 | William Burochi Principal Investigator Ames Research Center Jack Lissauer Jack Morrissey | The objectives of the Kepler mission to search for extrasolar planets. (Courtesy Jessie Carpenter, ARC) |
| February 23 | Pete Nickolenko STS 131 Launch Director Kennedy Space Center Florida | Family and public involvement in the final space shuttle missions. Listen or download (1 min 18 s - 1.2MB) |
| March 09 | Stewart Gangell Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | His experience viewing the launch of STS 133 from a boat in the Banana River near Port Canaveral. Listen or download (18 min 47 s - 17.6 MB) |
| March 16 | Peter Aylward Membership Secretary Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Invitation for listeners to join in Yuri's Night celebrations on 2011 April 12, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. Listen or Download (5 min 54 s - 5.6 MB) |
| March 16 | Glen Nagel Media Liason Deep Space Network Tidbinbilla ACT | The Messenger spacecraft and Tidbinbill'a prime role during Friday's orbit insertion burn to place the interplanetary spacraft into orbit around the planet Mercury. Listen or Download (20 min 22 s - 19.1 MB) |
| March 23 | Naomi Mathers Programme Developer Victorian Space Science Education Centre Strathmore | Events planned at the Centre for Yuri's Night, a celebration of Yuri Gagarin's space flight aboard Vostok 1 on 1961 April 12. Also the educational activities at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre Listen or Download (7 min 02 s - 19.1 MB) |
| April 13 | Becky Voskoboinik Presenter Southern FM Mentone former Engineer | Her memories of Yuri Gagarin's space flight aboard Vostok 1 and Valentine Tereskova's aboard Vostok 6. Listen or Download (11 min 52 s - 11.1 MB) |
| April 20 | Susan Cliff Author Space Harmonic Melbourne | Description of the children's show "Space Harmonic", which is to be performed in July. Listen or Download (22 min 52 s - 21.5 MB) |
| May 18 | Angelo Di Grazia Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | His experience viewing the landing of STS 132 at the Kennedy Space Center. Listen or download (13 min 37 s - 12.4 MB) |
| May 18 | Gene Feldman Oceanographer Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Maryland | The now completed 13 year mission of the SeaWiFS satellite. (Courtesy GSFC) |
| June 1 | Buzz Aldrin Former Astronaut | How Australia can support the space programme. (See Pictures) Listen or download (2 min 51 s - 2.7 MB) |
| June 1 | John Grunsfeld former NASA Astronaut Deputy Director Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore | His views on Obama's space policy to send astronauts to asteroids.(Read Diary) Listen or download (4 min 24 s - 4.1 MB) |
| June 1 | Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") Vice President The Planetary Society | A snippet of his comments on importance of asteroids as goal for human exploration. Listen or download (0 min 57 s - 0.9 MB) |
| June 1 | Nancy Evans Director of Sales Marriott's Fairfield Inn and Suites Titusville Florida | Speaking as a private citizen and not as a representative of her employer, her reaction to President Obama's space policy speech made the day before at the Kennedy Space Center. The likely impact on Titusville of the policy. Listen or download (10 min 16 s - 9.6 MB) |
| June 8 | Robert Zubrin President Mars Society | His views on President Obama's space policy, and how we might get humans to Mars. (Courtesy MSA) |
| June 15 | Jeffrey Hangst CERN | Creating and trapping antimatter. (Courtesy E&S) |
| June 22 | Louise Proctor Project Scientist Messenger | The early findings from the Messenger spacecraft as it approached Mercury. (Courtesy APL) |
| July 27 | Adrian Brown Research Scientist Ames Research center Mountain View California | The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, its mission, landing site selection and his role at the SETI Institute. Listen or download (11 min 34 s - 10.9 MB) |
| August 24 | Hideyuki Majima Principal Investigator Neurorad Vice Dean, Professor and Chairman Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences Japan | His experiment, flown aboard STS 131 to the International Space Station, to investigate the biological effects of space radiation and microgravity on mamalian cells. Listen or Download (8 min 39 s - 8.1 MB) |
| August 31 | Peter Aylward Membership Secretary Space Association of Australia, Inc Mulgrave | His meeting and conversation with former NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong (Gemini 8 and Apollo 11). Listen or Download (10 min 43 s - 9.8 MB) View Pictures 1 2 3 4 5 |
| October 5 | Brian Schmidt Astrophysicist Australian National University Canberra | His work in the discovery of the accelerating rate of the universal expansion and the dark energy that presumably causes it, and the Nobel Prize in Physics that has been awarded because of it. (Courtesy RN) |
| October 5 | Morris Jones Writer and space analyst Sydney | The Tiangong 1 space station and the Shenzhou flights that are expected to dock with it. Listen or Download (14 min 26 s - 13.2 MB) |
| October 12 | Joy Hinterding Artist Melbourne | Her Earth Star artwork at the Star Voyager exhibition at the Australian Centre For The Moving Image, in which hydrogen alpha images of the solar chromosphere are shown. Correction: Hydrogen alpha has a wavelength of 659.3 nm, which is in the visble light and NOT ultraviolet part of the spectrum. Listen or Download (4 min 50 s - 4.5 MB) |
| October 19 | Dan and Dominique Angelero Artists Sydney and Berlin | As Soda Jerk they have a four channel installation on Afrofuturism at the Star Voyager exhibition at the Australian Centre For The Moving Image. Listen or Download (4 min 19 s - 4.0 MB) |
| October 26 | Andrew Dantzler Civil Programs Manager Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University | Current NASA planetary missions. (Courtesy JHU) |
| November 16 | Elizabeth Hayes Scientist Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Maryland | The Fermi satellite observes blazars. (Courtesy GSFC) |
| December 7 | Andrea Farmer Public Relations Manager Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex | A tour of the kennedy Space Center and its visitor complex. The IMAX cinema, Shuttle Launch Experience and bus tours to the launch pads, the Saturn 5 building and Internation Space Station centre. Also the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville. (Read Florida Diary and see pictures) Listen or download (31 min 34 s - 29.6 MB) |
| December 14 | Sarah Tutton Curator Star Voyager Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne | A walk around tour of the "Star Voyager" exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Exhibition has a mix of actual space artifacts and movies, science fiction movies and space themed artworks. Listen or download (38 min 18 s - 35.9 MB) |
| December 21 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Ultimo Sydney | The experiential Space Station exhibit - its conception, its objectives and visitor reactions to it. Listen or download (12 min 02 s - 11.2 MB) |
| December 21 | Colonel Romandonia (Retired, USAF) Tour Guide Warbirds Air Museum Titusville Florida | Description of the Warbirds Air Museum and its activities. Listen or download (4 min 47 s - 4.5 MB) |
