| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 8 | Hollywood Meets The Labcoats - Part Three | Movie monsters are the topic in this panel discussion on how science fiction films portray living in space. Chaired by Rod Quantock the panelist were: Heather Couper (TV Producer, UK); Gail Jennings (Science Journalist, ABC TV); David Lowe (Research Director, Walter Eliza Hall Institute); David Smith (Director, Mind Body and Soul, Museum Victoria); Barbara Crean (Cinema Studies, Melbourne University); and Kevin Manning (Managing Director, STARS, Aerospace Education International). (Recorded at Science NOW, Melbourne Exhibition Centre) Listen or download discussion (29 min 32 s - 27.7 MB) |
| March 7 | Lunar Chronology | How counting craters seen in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images is helping work out a chronology of the Moon. (Courtesy NASA) |
| April 25 | Dragon's Flight Readiness Review | The press conference held at the Johnson Space Center to announce the completion of the Flight Readiness Review for the planned flight of Space-X's Dragon spacecraft to the international Space Station. Speakers included: * Bill Gerstenmaier (Associate Administrator, Human Exploration and Operations, NASA HQ); * Mike Suffredini (International Space Station Program Manager); * Alan Lindenmoyer (Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Manager); * Elan Musk (Chief Executive Officer and Chief Designer, Space-X); and * Holly Ridings (Flight Director, JSC). (Inserts courtesy JSC) |
| May 16 | 2012 NASA Budget Hearing | A testy exchange between NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and U.S. Congressmen Schiff and Culberson on NASA's actions in regard to the Decadal Survey Report, and in particular Exomars. (Courtesy USC) |
| May 30 | Senator John Glenn | The third human to orbit the Earth, 90 year old John Glenn's speech at the handover ceremony for Space Shuttle Discovery to the Air & Space Museum. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 13 | Ray Bradbury Poem | To mark the death of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, a 1971 reading by Bradbury of a poem written to mark the entry into martian orbit of the Mariner 9 spacecraft. (Courtesy JPL) |
| July 18 | Curiosity | John Grotzinger (Project Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) descibes the scientific aims of Curiosity and the instruments that achieve thosee aims. (Courtesy NASM) |
| July 25 | The Trails and Tribulations of Mars Express | David Southwood (Director of Science, European Space Agency, Paris) relates a story of how the radar antenna on the ESA spacecraft Mars Express failed to deploy, and what was done to open it. (Recorded at State Library of Victoria) Listen or download (7 min 51 s - 7.1 MB) |
| August 1 | Mike Watson Mission Manager Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The characteristics of the Curiosity rover, the landing process and a description of the final four candidate landing sites. (Courtesy JPL) |
| August 1 | Dawn Sumner Geologist Uinversity of California - Davis California | The geology of Gale Crater and the areas of highest scientific interest. (Courtesy JPL) |
| August 8 | John McIntosh President Victorian Division Engineers Australia | Curiosity, an engineering achivement. Reminiscence of the Apollo 11 landing. (Recorded at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Strathmore) Listen or download (1 min 45 s - 1.6 MB) |
| August 8 | Marion Anderson Member Curiosity landing Site Selection Committee Lecturer | The site selection criteria and the features of Gale Crater, (Recorded at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Strathmore) Listen or download (13 min 1 s - 12.2 MB) |
| Not Broadcast | Francesco Pignatale Swinburne University Hawthorn | Creating a 3D movie about Mars using images returned by the spacecraft already at Mars. Not broadcast as talk was too visual for radio and the speaker at times moved away from our microphone. Recorded at Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Strathmore. Listen or download (9 min 36 s - 8.7 MB) |
| August 15 | Curiosity and Space Exploration | A discussion between John Grunsfeld (former astronaut and now Associate Administrator for Science at NASA HQ), Charles Elachi (Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and members of the media, hours before the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity in Gale Crater. (Courtesy JPL) |
| August 22 | Curiosity and Space Exploration | More of last week's discussion between John Grunsfeld (former astronaut and now Associate Administrator for Science at NASA HQ), Charles Elachi (Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and members of the media, hours before the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity in Gale Crater. (Courtesy JPL) |
| August 22 | Curiosity News Briefing | Michael Meyer (Chief Scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA HQ, Washington, D.C.) describes NASA's scientific objectives on Mars. (Courtesy JPL) |
| August 22 | Curiosity News Briefing | Dan Hassler (Principal Investigator, Radiation Assessment Detector, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado) describes the science done by the RAD instrument aboard Curiosity whilst en-route to Mars, and the planned measurements on Mars. (Courtsy JPL) |
| September 5 | Mike Malin Principal investigator MARDI and Mastcam Malin Space Science Systems San Diego California | The camera systems on board the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity. (Courtesy JPL) |
| September 26 | David Blake Principal Investigator Chemistry and Mineralogy Sample Analysis Mars Science Laboratory Ames research center Mountain View California | The function and pupose of the Chemistry and Mineralogy Sample Analysis instrument aboard the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover. (Courtesy JPL) |
| September 26 | Mike Malin Principal Investigator MARDI and Mastcam Malin Space Science Systems San Diego California | The mast camera system on board the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity. (Courtesy JPL) |
| September 26 | Doug McCuitsion Director Mars Exploration Program NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | Overview of the NASA's Mars Exploration Program. (Courtesy JPL) |
| September 26 | John Grotzinger Project Scientist Mars Science Laboratory California Institute of Technology | The science to be done by the Curiosity rover. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 10 | Colin Dundas Research Geologist U.S. Geological Survey | How the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found active gullies that look like water carved active gullies. (Courtesy NASA HQ) |
| October 10 | Alfred McEwan Principal Investigator HiRISE Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter University of Arizona | How observations of Mars have shown changes, apparently caused by liquid water. What needs to be done to comfirm this finding. (Courtesy NASA HQ) |
| October 10 | Thomas Martin-Mar Chief Navigation Team Mars Science Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Navigating Curiosity through interplanetary space and to a "pin-point" landing in Gale Crater. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 10 | Ashwin Vasada Deputy Project Scientist Mars Science Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The weather on Mars and how it could have affected Curiosity's descent amd landing. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 10 | Pete Theisinger Project Manager Mars Science Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The MSL mission and how Curiosity will land on Mars. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 10 | Adam Steltzner Lead Entry, Descent and Landing Phase Mars Science Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The landing proceedure of the Curiosity rover. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 24 | Lindley Johnson Near Earth Object Observation Program Executive NASA HQ Washington, D.C. Amy Mainzer Tim Spaur Lucy McFadden | NEOWISE - the findings of the WISE satellite about the population of near-Earth asteroids. (Courtesy NASA HQ) |
| October 24 | Paul Mahaffy Principal Investigator | How the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument aboard Curiosity will collect and analyse samples of Martian soil. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 24 | Roger Wiens Principal Investigator Chemistry and Camera Mars Science Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory | The function of the Chemistry and Camera instrument aboard the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity. (Courtesy JPL) |
| October 31 | Phil Christensen Geophysicist Arizona State University | Evidence for possible liquid water on Mars, and why scientists are interested in martian water. |
| October 31 | Lisa Pratt Biogeochemist Indianna University | Planning missions to Mars to search for life. The origin and source of water flows on Mars. |
| November 7 | Greg Talbot Centre for Australian Space Education Adelaide | The genesis of the Australian International Space School and its activities. (Recorded at Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne) Listen or download Part 1 (11 min 47 s - 11.0 MB) Listen or download Part 2 (7 min 52 s - 7.4 MB) Listen or download Part 3 (10 min 23 s - 5.3 MB) Listen or download Part 4 (5 min 43 s - 5.3 MB) |
| December 5 | Brice Billson Nepean Group Rotary International Frankston | Introduction to Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt (Recorded Mornington Racecourse). Listen or download (3 min 23 s - 3.1 MB) |
| December 5 | Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 Astronaut New Mexico | His experiences on the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission. (Recorded Mornington Racecourse) Listen or download (34 min 16 s - 32.1 MB) |
| December 12 | Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 Astronaut New Mexico | Responses to audience questions about his experiences on the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission. (Recorded Mornington Racecourse) Listen or download (15 min 20 s - 14.8 MB) |
| December 12 | Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 Astronaut New Mexico | Do we need to go back to the Moon in order to get to Mars? (Recorded Redback Brewery Hotel, North Melbourne) Listen or download (1 min 29 s - 1.4 MB) |
| December 12 | Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 Astronaut New Mexico Brice Billson | Schmitt's experiences growing up in New Mexico, and Rotary International's fundraising for the Polio Plus campain. (Recorded Mornington Racecourse). Listen or download (5 min 22 s - 35.9 MB) |
