| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 18 | Stephen Volz Assistant Administrator NOAA Satellite and Information Service Silver Spring Maryland Tom Berger Stephen Clarke Jason Cothern Hans Koenigsmann | The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission's objecvtives. |
| March 11 | Brian Schmidt Nobel Prize Winner Australian National University Canberra | Fifty years of European Space Astronomy. (Courtesy ESA) |
| March 18 | Bryan Gaensler Professor Physics Department University of Sydney Sydney | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a large radio telescope to be built in Australia and South Africa. Part one of this talk covers: The "Big Questions" of astronomy 100 years ago and today; Gravity; Stars and Magnetism; Is there life elsewhere in the universe; the cosmic symphony; the new generation of telescopes; the science of the SKA; testing Einstein; Hubble and the unexpected; from the Big Bang to the present; the formation of stars; matter, dark matter and dark energy; baryon acoustic oscillation; and the billion galaxy survey. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or download (28 min 52 s - 27.0 MB) |
| March 25 | Bryan Gaensler Professor Physics Department University of Sydney Sydney | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Part two of this talk covers: What is gravity; pulsars and relativity; gravitational waves; finding the unexpected; the nuts and bolts of the SKA, data handling; location of the SKA in a radio quiet place; cost; SKA Pathfinders; and summary. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or download (27 min 3 s - 25.3 MB) |
| April 29 | Tim Gibson Winner X-COR Suborbital Flight Competition Melbourne | His thwarted desire to be a fighter pilot; entry into XCOR competition; the testing and selection process; meeting Buzz Aldrin; zero-g aircraft flight. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Oakleigh) Listen or download (24 min 48 s - 23.3 MB) |
| May 6 | Tim Gibson Winner X-COR Suborbital Flight Competition Melbourne | Responses to audience questions about his forthcoming prize of a flight on the XCOR Lynx suborbital spaceplane. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Oakleigh) Listen or download (14 min 42 s - 20.1 MB approx.) |
| May 13 | Chris Hadfield, former Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Author Canada | The author of the books An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth and You Are Here : Around the World in 92 Minutes discribes the preparations for launch into space, the experience of being launched aboard Shuttle and Soyuz, his life goals, and his first book. Recorded in Melbourne. Listen or download (17 min 32 s - 16.4 MB approx.) |
| May 13 | New Horizons Approaches Pluto | Alan Stern (Principal Investigator, New Horizons, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado) and Ed Stone (Project Scientist, Voyager, California institute of Technology) respond to reporter's questions about the search for moons of Pluto, how New Horizons is powered, the search for Kuiper belt objects that New Horizons might visit after flying past Pluto, the technology advances made from Voyager to New Horizons and the challenges of operating a spacecraft in the outer Solar System. (Courtesy NASA) |
| May 20 | Chris Hadfield, former Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Author Canada | The author of the books An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth and You Are Here : Around the World in 92 Minutes discribes the view from space, his reasons for writing his first book, learning to communicate with foreign language speakers, the effects of weightlessness, why he took 45 000 pictures, Music Monday in Canada, and his efforts to share his space experience. Recorded in Melbourne. Listen or download (12 min 47 s - 12.0 MB approx.) |
| May 20 | Edgar Mitchel Apollo 14 Astronaut | The sixth man to walk on the Moon decribes some of his experiences growing up in Roswell, New Mexico, how his moonflight altered his perspectives, and why he set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences. (Courtesy Exopolitics) |
| May 27 | Chris Hadfield, former Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Author Canada | The author of the books An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth and You Are Here : Around the World in 92 Minutes experienced 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day and passed through the Aurora Australis whilst living aboard the International Space Station. He describes his views of Australia from orbit, and how he had to make an emergency space walk to fix an ammonia leak. Recorded in Melbourne. Listen or download (10 min 37 s - 9.9 MB approx.) |
| June 3 | Chris Hadfield, former Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Author Canada | The author of the books An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth and You Are Here : Around the World in 92 Minutes describes his views of the Australian outback from orbit, how he felt connected to people on Earth, the return to Earth aboard a Soyuz capsule, how he felt after landing, and how he is no sharing his experience with his books. Recorded in Melbourne. Listen or download (6 min 53 s - 6.4 MB approx.) |
| June 10 | Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 Astronaut New Mexico | Training as an astronaut, the flight to the Moon, walking and geology on the Moon, and the return to Earth. (Recorded at La Trobe University) Listen or download (43 min 41 s - 39.9 MB approx.) |
| June 24 | Barbara Cozzoni Engineer Philae Lander Control DLR Cologne Germany | The status of Philae after it awakening from hibernation and plans for further operation of the lander on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (Courtesy ESA) |
| June 24 | Jean-Pierre Bibring Philae Lead Scientist Institute d'Astrophysique Spatiale Orsay France | The scientific findings of the Philae lander and plans for post-hibernation science. (Courtesy ESA) |
| July 1 | John Grunsfeld Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | An overview of NASA's exploration missions in the context of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. (Coutesy NASA) |
| July 1 | Jim Green Director Planetary Sciences NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | The historic three stages of planetary exploration. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 1 | Alan Stern Principal Investigator New Horizons South-West Research Institute Boulder Colorado | The genesis of the New Horizons mission to Pluto; an explanation of the Kuiper Belt and definition of dwarf planets; the 2003 Decadal Survey; a description of the spacecraft; a summary of what is already known about Pluto; and the scientific objectives of New Horizons. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 1 | William McKinnon Co-investigator New Horizons Washington University St. Louis Missouri | The reasons for going to Pluto; fomation of Pluto and Charon; dwarf planets; the scientific objectives of the seven instruments aboard New Horizons. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 1 | Cathy Olkin Deputy Project Scientist New Horizons South-West Research Institute Boulder Colorado | What data will be returned by New Horizonns and the timeline for transmitting it to Earth during 2015 and 2016. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 8 | Jim Green Director Planetary Sciences NASA HQ Washington, D.C. | The New Horizons mission as a symphony of automated operation. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 8 | Glen Fountain Project Manager Applied Physics Laboratory John Hopkins University Laurel Maryland | Details of the New Horizon spacecraft, including its radioisotope thermoelectric generator that provides temperature control and poweres its instruments and radio transmitter. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 8 | Alan Stern Principal Investigator New Horizons South-West Research Institute Boulder Colorado | The hazards of flying through the uncharted Pluto system, the search for additional moons and debris, and plans for contingency data return. (Courtesy NASA) |
| July 8 | Hal Weaver Project Scientist Applied Physics Laboratory John Hopkins University Laurel Maryland | The scientific objectives of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, including imaging, spectra and atmospheric studies. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 12 | Why Neil? | Part One: James Hansen (Professor of History, Auburn University, Alabamba), Neil Armstrong's official biographer, describes: Neil's origins in Ohio; the widespread belief the Moon landings never happened; why Wilbur and Orvile Wright and Charles Lindberg were first in their fields; Armstrong's changing attitude towards autograps; evolution crew assignments during Apollo; the cancellation of Apollos 18, 19 and 20; and the Apollo 8 mission. Introduction by Peter Aylward (President, Space Association of Australia, Inc, Melbourne) and Murray Stinson (Chaiman, Melbourne Branch, Royal Aeronatical Society). Musical links. (Recorded at the Royal Melbourne Institure of Technology) * Listen or download full programme (57 min 56 s - 52.9 MB approx.) * Listen or download introductions only (5 min 43 s - 5.2 MB approx.) * View photo Peter Aylward listening to Hansen * Listen or download lecture only (33 min 19 s - 30.4 MB approx.) * Why Neil? * View Photo of Hansen delivering lecture * Illustration of the Apollo mission types * Illustration of Apollo Mission types H to J * Geroge Low's Apollo 8 * The Apollo 8 crew * Early Apollo crew assignments |
| August 19 | Why Neil? | Part Two: James Hansen (Professor of History, Auburn University, Alabamba), Neil Armstrong's official biographer, describes: The Apollo 9 and 10 missions; changing crew assignments during the Apollo programme; the crewing of Apollo 11; Buzz Aldrin's assignment to Apollo 11; how Neil Armstrong became commander of firt lunar landing by chance; Armstrong's childhood, his passion for aeroplanes, and his career through naval aviation, test pilot school and astronaut selection; Armstrong's engineer research orientation and focus on non-nominal situations; Gemini 8; the LLTV accident; and Tindlegrams. Musical links. (Recorded at the Royal Melbourne Institure of Technology) * Listen or download full programme (58 min 45 s - 53.6 MB approx.) * Listen or download lecture only (28 min 4 s - 25.6 MB approx.) |
| August 26 | Why Neil? | Part Three: James Hansen (Professor of History, Auburn University, Alabamba), Neil Armstrong's official biographer, describes: The Apollo 11 crew as "amiable strangers"; the decision on who would be first to walk on the Moon; pictures show Aldrin not Armstrong; Neil leaves NASA; divorce; visits to Australia; and death. Programme also contained a reading of a letter written by Buzz Aldrin and a description of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft. Musical links. (Recorded at the Royal Melbourne Institure of Technology and the Astronaut Hall of Fame, with SLS item courtesy NASA) * Listen or download full programme (55 min 51 s - 51.0 MB approx.) * Listen or download lecture only (14 min 13 s - 13.0 MB approx.) * Listen or download a reading of Buzz Aldrin's letter (4 min 45 s - 4.4 MB approx.) * Listen or download unbroadcast Q&A session (not of broadcast standard, but will reward patient listener) (13 min 12 s - 12.3 MB approx.) |
| September 9 | Brittany Schmidt Post Doctoral Fellow Institute Geophysics University of texas Austin Texas Tom Wagener Tory ? Louise Proctor | Europa Mission: Plans for a mission to explore the Jovian moon's subsurface lakes. (Courtesy NASA HQ) |
| September 23 | Len Halprin Committee Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | In a talk titled "A Bridge Too Far", Len puts the reality brakes on proposals for manned missions to Mars, advocating that there is no alternative to chemical propulsion to get into space from Earth, and that there is no political or commercial will to fund expensive space endeavours. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Oakleigh) * Listen or download (23 min 26 s - 21.4 MB approx.) * Photo of Neil Armstrong with Len Halprin |
| September 30 | Len Halprin Committee Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | After his talk titled "A Bridge Too Far" (boadcast last week), Len answers questions put to him by members of the Space Association of Australia. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Oakleigh) Listen or download (10 min 40 s - 9.7 MB) |
| September 30 | Andy Weir Author The Martian | His background and career, how he came to write the book, interest from publishers, and the making of the movie. (Courtesy LLNL) |
| October 7 | Ellen Ochoa Director Johnson Space Center Houston former astronaut Sebastian Stan Mackenzie Davis Mike Hopkins Pooja Jesrani Kirk Shireman Stephen Stich | A discussion centred around the movie The Matian and NASA's manned spaceflight activities. (Courtesy JSC) |
| October 28 | Alan Stern Principal Investigator New Horizons South-West Research Institute Boulder Colorado and colleagues | Findings by the New Horizons spacecraft about Pluto. (Inserts courtesy NASA) |
| November 11 | Mark McCaughrean Senior Science Advisor European Space Agency | An overview of the Rosetta and Philae missions to Comet 67p?Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The principal findings and the current status, one year after Philae's landing. (Courtesy ESA) |
| November 18 | Graham Bell Marten Jurg Dean Mosseveld RMIT Bundoora | The aims of the RMIT Space Technology Association, and its work on the Ausroc 2.5 and other projects. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Oakleigh) Listen or download (12 min 21 s - 11.5 MB) |
| November 25 | Steven Hawley NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | The history of the Apollo programme, and his meetings with some of the astronauts involved. (Courtesy KCPL) |
| November 25 | Kark Hemphill Tripoli Rocketry Association Victoria | The construction of a full scale model of a V-2 Rocket that was later launched. (Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Oakleigh) Listen or download (12 min 40 s - 11.8 MB) |
| December 2 | Steven Hawley NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Space telescopes and the revolutions they have wrought in astronomy. Also his experiences as an astronaut. (Courtesy KCPL) |
| December 16 | Jake Garn former U.S. Senator and NASA Astronaut Salt Lake City | His graduation before Sputnik; his use of an aviation grade global positioning system receiver; preparing for his flight aboard Space Shuttle STS 51-D and his spaceflight experience; his religeous perspective; visits to Germany and Russia; death of his wife and remarriage. Recorded at Church Function, Melbourne. Listen or Download (52 min 28 s - 50.3 MB) Listen or Download Introduction (5 min 59 s - 5.4 MB) |
