| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 6 | David Reneke Astronomy lecturer and teacher NSW Robert Brand Lachlan Thompson Len Halprin | Space activities in Australia. Discussion on the soon-to-be released Australian National Space Policy. Listen or download (45 min 45 s - 41.7 MB) |
| February 13 | Bill Barrett Senior Vice President Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants and Member The Space Industry Association of Australia Sydney | The history of space policy development in Australia; the regulation of Australian space activities; a survey of Australian organisations involved in space; a preview of the new policy and its incremental framework. Listen or download (38 min 19 s - 35.9 MB) N.B. The URL for the Australian Government is http://www.space.gov.au, not the URL stated in the interview. |
| February 27 | Marlene Kanga National President Engineers Australia Canberra | The role of engineering in the aerospace industry and in Australia at wide. The advantages Australia has in reaching out to Asia. Listen or download (6 min 17 s - 5.7 MB) |
| February 27 | Thomas Melia Sales Support Engineer Curtis Wright Controls Dublin Ireland | Working on the Space-X Dragon docking system, Virgin Galactic and Sierra Nevada space ventures. How an Irish company got into the space business and seeks out clients. New space hardware development. Listen or download (5 min 55 s - 5.4 MB) |
| March 7 | Andrew Johnston Search and Rescue Officer Australian Maritime Safety Authority Canberra | The COSPAS-Sarsat satellite system for receiving signals from distress beacons. New Global Positioning enabled beacons. Listen or download (11 min 2 s - 10.3 MB) |
| March 13 | David Blair Associate Professor Physics Department University of Western Australia Perth | Black holes, quasars, galaxies, galactic jets and the effects of approaching a black hole. Listen or download (24 min 17 s - 22.7 MB) |
| March 13 | Crystal Forrester Space Generation Advisory Council Melbourne | The work of the Space generation Advisory Council. Listen or download (3 min 31 s - 3.3 MB) |
| March 13 | Takeshi Nikawa Principal Investigator MyoLab Professor Department of Nutritional Physiology Institute of Health Bioscciences The University of Tokushima Graduate School Tokushima Japan | The MyoLab experiment to be flown on STS 131 to the International Space Station and its importance to reasearch into muscle atrophy. Listen or download (6 min 58 s - 6.6 MB) |
| March 27 | Bryan Kidder Director of Communications Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Canoga Park California | The role of Pratt and Whitney in the space programme, the early days of rocketry, Saturn 5 engines, Space Shuttle main engines and the future of his company's engines. Listen or download (6 min 21 s - 5.9 MB) |
| April 17 | Naomi Mathers Member Space Industry Innovation Council Mount Stromlo | Australia's Satellite Utilisation Policy. Listen or download (23 min 58 s - 23.0 MB) Picture: Naomi Mathers |
| April 24 | Robert Brand PlusComms Sydney | His views on Australia's Satellite Utilisation Policy. Listen or download (21 min 29 s - 20.1 MB) Photo of Robert and Jason Brand |
| May 8 | Kate Lundy Senator Parliament Canberra | The Australian Satellite Utilisation Policy, its implementation, its reception by industry, and aspirations for future developments. (Interview by A. Rennie and P. Aylward) Listen or download (26 min 36 s - 24.9 MB) Picture: Andrew Rennie, Senator Lundy, and Peter Aylward |
| June 12 | Dick Manchester Astronomer Australia Telescope National Facility Narribri | Twentieth anniversary of an astronomy award and millisecond pulsars discovery. Listen or download interview (7 min 56 s - 7.4 MB) Listen or download pulsar 0437-4715 (34 s - 0.5 MB) Listen or download Pulsar 1937+21 Integrated (23 s - 0.3 MB) Listen or download Pulsar Crab Integrated (19 s - 0.3 MB) |
| June 12 | Kristian Grayson Undergraduate Student Mechanical Engineering University of Melbourne Melbourne | Microgravity and how it can be achieved by dropping payloads from ballons at an altitude of 25 km. Listen or download (7 min 4 s - 6.4 MB) |
| July 3 | Jennifer Heldmann Research Scientist Ames Research Center Mountain View California | The LCROSS mission and her roles in it. Listen or download interview (6 min 15 s - 5.7 MB) Listen or download interview and music (12 min 13 s - 11.1MB) |
| July 3 | Brian Lim CEO and Founder Think N' Tinker Sydney | The Australian Satellite utilisation Policy, what Australia should do in space, venture capital funding and entrepeneural activities. Listen or download (20 min 47 s - 19.0 MB) |
| July 3 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Sydney | To mark the 20th anniversary of its publication, a first discussion of the book "Space Australia". Listen or download (9 min 42 s - 8.4 MB) |
| July 10 | Kerrie Dougherty Curator Space technology Powerhouse Museum Sydney | To mark the 20th anniversary of its publication, a second discussion of the book "Space Australia". Listen or download (6 min 45 s - 6.2 MB) |
| July 10 | David Buttsworth Research Scientist Hypersonic Testing Facility University of Southern Queensland | Hypersonics, testing hypersonic models, scramjets and applications of his research. Listen or download (14 min 34 s - 13.3 MB) |
| July 24 | Sean Herron NASA Representative Space Apps Challenge NASA HQ The origins of the Space Applications Challenge, his visit to Australia, his role in NASA and the desire to make the wealth of data stored by NASA avaialable to the public. (Interview by Edward Pollit, 2SER) | Listen or download (15 min 55 s - 21.8 MB) |
| July 24 | Cynthia Chen NASA International Space Apps Challenge Melbourne | Organising the event, the types of applications to be developed and how the judging will occur. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (12 min 56 s - 11.8 MB) |
| July 24 | Zhi Qiao Space Apps Contestant Melbourne | Developing a computer application to report available wind energy. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (2 min 25 s - 2.1 MB) |
| July 24 | Guillaume Prevost Nicholas Aubry Space Apps Contestants Melbourne | Developing a computer application that will allow people to report sightings of meteors. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (3 min 35 s - 3.2 MB) |
| July 24 | Mauro Maiorca Space Apps Contestant Melbourne | Deciding how to develop an application for the Challenge. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (3 min 17 s - 2.9 MB) |
| July 24 | Audrey Sidorov Space Apps Contestant Melbourne | Developing a smart phone application to allow people to spot the International Space Station. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (2 min 13 s - 1.9 MB) |
| July 24 | Louis Chiu Organiser Australian Youth Aerospace Association Melbourne | The activities of the Australian Youth Aerospace Association and the Space Apps Challenge. (Interview by Peter Aylward) Listen or download (4 min 45 s - 4.3 MB) |
| July 31 | John Grunsfeld Director Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore Mayland | His work and astronaut experience repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. (Courtesy GSFC) |
| July 31 | Nick Sytland Manager Open Innovation Project NASA | The 2013 NASA SpaceApps Challenge. (Courtesy JSC) |
| August 21 | Brian Agnew Director Training Area Management Department of Defense Canberra | The Woomera Test and Evaluation Range: its history and current activities. (Recorded in Adelaide in 2002 - an update was given at end of interview) Listen or download (13 min 29 s - 12.3 MB) |
| August 21 | Jim Kirkpatrick former Engineer Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Australian Capital Territory | An annecdote about the difficulties of getting to Honeysuckle Creek after a rockfall on the road. Listen or download (3 min 12 s - 2.9 MB) |
| August 21 | Phil Maier and Neil Sandford Data Decoders Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Australian Capital Territory | Their roles, including contacting Skylab daily, and some anecdotes about the station. Listen or download (9 min 54 s - 9.0 MB) |
| August 21 | John Saxon former Operations Supervisor Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Australian Capital Territory | His thirteen years working at Honeysuckle, the missions worked, and the closure of the station in 1981. Listen or download (6 min 4 s - 5.5 MB) Photographs by The Space Show: Plaque from Honeysuckle Creek, now at Tidbinbilla. John Saxon and Hamish Lindsay at Honeysuckle Creek. At DSS43 anniversary, left to right, John Saxon, Mike Dinn and Jim Kirkpatrick. |
| September 4 | David Cole Retired Director Ionospheric Prediction Service Federal Department of Industries, Tourism and Resources Canberra | Highlights of his career, links between the sun and climate, predicting solar activity, public education, uses of spaceweather predictions, the STEREO spacecraft, Australian Ionosonde, International Telecommunications Union, and software for radio frequency management. Listen or download (22 min 10 s - 20.7 MB) |
| September 18 | Russell Scott Director Hidden Universe 3D Swinburne Productions Hawthorn | About the new IMAX movie Hidden Universe 3D, his role in directing it and the precursor work done at the Centre for Astrophysics at Swinburne Univesity of Technology that built the expertise necessary for making a large screen three dimensional movie. * Listen or download programme feature (38 min 30 s - 35.5 MB) * Listen or download interview only (31 min 59 s - 30.0 MB) |
| September 25 | Zebb Prime Research Associate University of Adelaide Adelaide | Hypersonic vehicles, scramjets and the ScramSpace effort. His involvement and where hypersonic research may go in the future. Listen or download (9 min 38 s - 9.0 MB) |
| October 2 | Jon McBride Vice President Educations and Planning KSC Visitor Center Florida former NASA Astronaut | The types of aircraft he has flown, flying chase at the landing of STS 1, the crew of STS 41-G, his role on the mission, Paul Scully-Power, why he left NASA, and his role at the Visitor's Center. * Listen or download (16 min 50 s - 15.7 MB) * Read about this interview in Florida Diary |
| October 9 | "Hidden Universe" Vox Pops | Comments by people as they left a screening of the Melbourne-made IMAX documentary "Hidden Universe". Listen or download (2 min 53 s - 2.7 MB) |
| October 30 | Justin Keller Director Advanced Systems Communicatyions Satellites Lockheed martin Sunnyvale California Megan Stewart | The AEHF (Advanced Extremely High Frequency) and MUOS (MultiUser Objective System) military communications satellites. Listen or download (13 min 11 s - 12.3 MB) |
| October 30 | James Hansen Biographer Professor of History Auburn University Auburn Alabama | His book "First Man" and how he came to know, and build a rapport with, Neil Armstrong. (Interview by Peter Aylward) * Listen or download full programme feature (35 min 32 s - 32.5 MB) * Listen or download interview Part 1 only (9 min 46 s - 8.9 MB) * Listen or download inteview Part 2 only (8 min 4 s - 7.3 MB) * Listen or download interview Part 3 only (9 min 46 s - 8.9 MB) |
| November 6 | James Hansen Biographer Professor of History Auburn University Auburn Alabama | His book about Neil Armstrong, "First Man," and how he set the ground rules for the biography. Also how the decision was made about who would be first to set foot on the Moon, Armstrong's last visit to Australia and how he died. (Interview by Peter Aylward) * Listen or download full programme feature (37 min 40 s - 34.4 MB) * Listen or download interview Part 1 only (8 min 29 s - 7.7 MB) * Listen or download inteview Part 2 only (13 min 41 s - 12.5 MB) * Listen or download interview Part 3 only (5 min 19 s - 4.8 MB) |
| November 13 | James Hansen Biographer Professor of History Auburn University Auburn Alabama | His book about Neil Armstrong, "First Man." Armstrong, reunions and anniversary events. John Young, Apollo 14 and desire to visit Australia. (Interview by Peter Aylward) * Listen or download full programme feature (25 min 41 s - 23.5 MB) * Listen or download interview Part 1 only (8 min 59 s - 8.2 MB) * Listen or download inteview Part 2 only (10 min 16 s - 9.4 MB) |
| December 4 | Rick Mastracchio NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | How he became an astronaut, and his memories of his spaceflight experiences. (Courtesy JSC) |
| December 4 | Rick Mastracchio NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | His spacewalking experiences, work on spacesuits with Hamilton Standard, flight controlling, what a shuttle landing is like, his pending decision on his future career, and his impressions of the International Space Station. (Interview by Peter Aylward at Kennedy Space Center, Florida) Listen or download (13 min 6 s - 12.0 MB) |
