| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 15 | Soyeon Yi Astronaut Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea | Her career, the Korean Astronaut selection and her flight to the International Space Station. Listen or download (16 min 43 s - 15.6 MB) Photographs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (All except 1 © K. Doolan) Listen also to documentary about Soyeon Yi (33 min 25 s - 30.0 MB) |
| March 7 | Andrew Hyslop Senior Aerospace Engineer Emergent Space Technologies Greenbelt Maryland | His education in Hamilton, Victoria, and at RMIT University in Melbourne. Working at the European Space Agency on the YES tethered satellites, then his move to NASA to develop robotic systems for refueling satellites. The Robotic Refueling Mission to begin testing this week aboard the International Space Station. Plans to use a GOES weather satellite as a test of the refueling system. Listen or download (23 min 29 s - 21.9 MB) |
| March 21 | Michael Foale Astronaut Houston Texas | His career and experiences as an astronaut on six space missions which included living on the Mir and International Space Stations. Listen or download interview and introduction (18 min 39 s - 17.0 MB) |
| March 21 | Heather Couper Broadcaster and Communicator United Kingdom | What got her interested in astronomy, television production, new technologies in film making, and balancing entertainment and scientific content. Listen or download (16 min 53 s - 15.6 MB) |
| March 28 | Milorad Cerovac Physics Teacher The King David School Armadale Victoria Josh Marlow Isaac Mouton | The CanSat competition to design and test a satellite payload that can fit inside a soft drink can, and their hopes to go to France to test launch their entry, PandoraSat. They would welcome sponsorship. Listen or download 25 min 31 s - 23.3 MB) Photo |
| June 6 | Members of the Astronomical Society of Victoria, including Perry Vlahos (President, ASV), Barry Adcock, Jim Dale, Mike ?, Havec Walthever and many others. | Comments from astronomers and the public during today's transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. Recorded in the gounds of the Melbourne Observatory. Listen or download (36 min 12 s - 33.0 MB) |
| June 13 | Tom Allen Bus Driver Kennedy Space Center Florida | His 52 years at Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, including early rocket firings, the Mercury and Gemini manned missions, the tragic Apollo 1 fire, the excitement of the Apollo moon missions, Skylab, Space Station and the end of the Shuttle programme. Listen or download (9 min 24 s - 8.8 MB) |
| June 20 | Sam Beddingfield Former Test Pilot, Aeronatical Engineer and Space Shuttle Manager Kennedy Space Center Florida | How he was persuaded by Gus Grissom to join NASA, why he was given NASA employee number 4, and his experiences working on the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programmes. Listen or download (21 min 17 s - 19.6 MB) |
| June 20 | Sam Beddingfield Curator and Guide Space Walk of Fame Museum Titusville Florida | Sam guides us on a tour of the Space Walk of Fame Museum in Titusville. Sam has anecdotes about the Atlas Centaur Firing Room, the Apollo-Soyuz project, and the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle Rooms. Listen or download (29 min 33 s - 27.7 MB) |
| July 25 | Alfred McEwan Principal investigator HiRISE Camera Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | Detection of landslides on Mars. (Courtesy PS) |
| August 1 | Rob Gold Payload Manager Messenger Applied Physics Laboratoary Johns Hopkins University | Thermal protection and design of interpantary spacecraft. (Courtesy JHU) |
| August 1 | Peter Aylward Space Association of Australia Mulgrave | How the public can attend the event being held at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre to hear talks about Curiosity and to watch the landing on Mars. |
| August 8 | Adrian Brown Planetary Scientist SETI Institute Mountain View California. | The entry, decent and landing sequence of the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity. (Interview by the Space Show's Peter Aylward) Listen or download (8 min 59 s - 8.4 MB) |
| August 8 | Participants Curiosity Landing Party Victorian Space Science education Centre Strathmore | Comments made minutes after the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, on Mars. Listen or download clip 1 (2 min 54 s - 2.7 MB) Listen or download clip 2 (2 min 0 s - 1.8 MB) Listen or download clip 3 (2 min 19 s - 2.1 MB) Listen or download clip 4 (2 min 40 s - 2.5 MB) Listen or download omnibus - combination of clips 1 to 4 above and clip 5 below (16 min 56 s - 15.6 MB) |
| August 15 | Participants Curiosity Landing Party Victorian Space Science education Centre Strathmore | Comments made minutes after the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, on Mars. Listen or download clip 5 (2 min 51 s - 2.6 MB) |
| August 29 | Len Halprin and Peter Aylward Members Space Association of Australia Melbourne | How, in 2011, they met Neil Armstrong. Listen or download (11 min 47 s - 16.1 MB) View Pictures 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
| September 5 | Colin Mackellar Apollo Historian Honeysuckle Creek | The hunt for the best quality recordings of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. New videos reproducing what the astronauts saw during landing. Neil Armstrong's relationship with the crews of the Autralian tracking stations. Armstrong's last visit to Australia. The Honeysuckle Creek website. (Inteview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (21 min 5 s - 19.7 MB) |
| October 4 | Lachlan Thompson Associate Professor Aerospace Design RMIT University Melbourne | His work at RMIT. The case for a Southern Hemisphere Space Agency. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (45 min 55 s - 42.9 MB) Download PDF of Proposal Photos by Helena Binns: Thompson Thompson Aylward and Thompson |
| October 17 | Don Garretson KSC Tour Guide, naturalist, writer, raconteur and photographer Titusville Florida | The work of the Kennedy Space center's Space Station Processing facility; his careers before the space programme; viwing the Apollo 8, 11 and 12 launches; spectra gunships and shuttle launch security; engineering on oil rigs; instrument work at McDonnell-Douglas; childhood rocket observations; the future of spaceflight; writing, photography and wild-life tours. Listen or download (38 min 29 s - 35.1 MB) See also Florida Diary page 11 and page 47 |
| October 31 | Bruce Jakowsky Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The MAVEN spacecraft that is being built to orbit Mars. (Courtesy E&S) |
| October 31 | Group of Scientists Monash University Clayton | An impromptu discussion, as Curiosity landed on Mars, about the chances of finding microfossils on the red planet. Listen or download (4 min 6 s - 3.7 MB) |
| November 14 | Steve Mardigian BEST Wrecking (Retired) California | Fate of the Apollo mobile launch towers at the Kennedy Space Center. (Interview by P Aylward) Listen or download (14 min 21 s - 13.4 MB) |
| November 21 | Jonathan Barrett School Pupil Sydney | Viewing the 2012 November 14 total eclipse of the Sun in Port Douglas. Listen or download (1 min 42 s - 1.6 MB) |
| November 21 | Eclipse viewers Four Beach Port Douglas | Vox-pop interviews with people gathered on Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas, Queensland, to view the 2012 November 14 total solar eclipse. Listen or download the pre-totality comments (15 min 22 s - 14.4 MB) Listen or download the post-totality comments (12 min 51 s - 12.0 MB) (slightly marred by wind rumble) See also The Space Show In Port Douglas eclipse photos |
| November 21 | Deborah Scherrer Solar Physics Institute Stanford University Palo Alto California | The Eclipse Megamovie Project and the trial run carried out in northern Queensland during the 2012 November 14 solar eclipse. Listen or download (2 min 19 s - 2.1 MB) |
| November 21 | Steve Mardigian BEST Wrecking (Retired) California | Trying to save the Apollo mobile launch towers at the Kennedy Space Center, and their eventual demolition. (Interview by P Aylward) Listen or download (14 min 49 s - 13.5 MB) |
| November 28 | Seth Shostak Astronmer SETI Institute Mountain View California | Possibility of fossil life on Mars, life in Universe may be common but intelligent life unlikely, making artificial life, and the book Sharing The Universe. Broadcast as part of documentary feature on Project Phoenix - See 2012 Documentaries page. Listen or download (11 min 1 s - 10.3 MB) |
| November 28 | Jill Tarter Director Project Phoenix SETI Institute Mountain View California | The history of search for extraterrestrial intelligence, bringing Project Phoenix to Australia, the movie Contact. Broadcast as part of documentary feature on Project Phoenix - See 2012 Documentaries page. Listen or download (10 min 38 s - 9.9 MB) |
| December 19 | Len Halprin Space Association East Brighton Kate Doolan Peter Aylward | On the day of the 40th Anniversary of the return to Earth of Apollo 17, the final Apollo lunar mission, the Space Show posed the question: What might have happened had U.S. President Kennedy not made his 'To The Moon' speech to Congress on 1961 May 25? Listen or download (52 min 57 s - 48.3 MB) Photo |
