| BROADCAST DATE |
GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 25 | Apollo 1 | Marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Saturn 204 (later Apollo 1) fire on the launch pad that killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, a "virtual" interview with astronauts Neil Armstrong (Gemini 8 and Apollo 11), Frank Borman (Gemini 7 and Apollo 8), Jim Lovell (Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13), Wally Schirra (Mercury 8, Gemini 6 and Apollo 7) and Alan Shepard (Mercury 3 and Apollo 14). (audio inserts courtesy JSC Oral History Unit)
Listen or download (24 min 24 s - 23.4 MB) |
| February 8 | Duane Ross Manager Astronaut Candidate Selection and Training Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | How long it takes to select and train astronauts; medical criteria; exployment contracts; the case of Lisa Nowak; Duane's career history; flight assignments; and Australian Andy Thomas. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download (18 min 17 s - 17.6 MB) |
| Februsry 15 | Carlo Leone Amateur Radio Operator VK3BCL Geelong Amateur Radio Club Geelong | The Geelong Amateur Radio Club; amateur licensing; Oscar 7; meteor scatter; moon bounce; costs involved.
Listen or download (13 min 3 s - 12.2 MB) |
| February 22 | Fran Bagenal Professor Laboratory for Astmospheric and Space Physics University of Colorado Boulder Colorado | The New Horizons finding about Pluto's interaction with its space environment.
* Listen or download (5 min 6 s - 4.9 MB) * Listen or download response to question about Pluto's icy crust. (1 min 4 s - 1 MB) * Listen or download response to question about Pluto's geology (0 min 34 s - 0.6 MB) |
| March 8 | Unknown Teacher NASA USA | Advantages of flying student experiments on the space station over the space shuttle.
Listen or download (1 min 56 s - 1.9 MB) |
| March 15 | Robert Brand Entrepeneur Sydney | Mars MEDIAN Mission. Methane Detection by In-Situ Analysis with NanoLanders is a project to land a network of probes on Mars. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download (12 min 41 s - 12.2 MB) |
| March 22 | John Le Marshall Senior Principal Research Scientist Bureau of meteorology Melbourne | The COSMIC constellation of satellites
Listen or download (1 min 44 s - 1.7 MB) |
| March 22 | Colin Burgess Space History Author Sydney | How he became interested in space; his interest in the human aspect of spaceflight rather than the technology; the Mercury 13 women; his Mercury books; "Fallen Astronauts"; Apollo 1 and Apollo 13; Betty Grissom; and books on the astronaut groups. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download (38 min 0 s - 36.5 MB) |
| April 12 | Shaun Moss Author "The International Mars Research Station" Brisbane | An overview of the book; the Bigelow inflatable; his plan and Robert Zubrin's plan for Mars; using the Martian atmosphere and solar energy; the architecture of landing on Mars; making methane and oxygen propellant; and reuseable Mars Transfer Vehicles.
Listen or download (20 min 13 s - 18.9 MB) |
| April 19 | Igor Rozemberg Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | The 50th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Komarov aboard Soyuz 1. Included music and sound bytes.
Listen or download (38 min 14 s - 36.7 MB) |
| June 21 | Iver Cairns Professor in Space Physics University of Sydney | Contacting the "lost" Inspire-2 cubesat; the QB 50 project and Inspire-2's role in it; applications of the data from Inspire-2; the Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs and Their Applications; viewing the Atlas 5 rocket launch the Cygnus cargo craft bearing the three Australian cubesats.
Listen or download (18 min 34 s - 17.8 MB) |
| July 19 | Stuart McAndrew Amateur Spacecraft Builder Perth Western Australia | The OzQube 1 project - its purpose, launch and crowd finding appeal.
Listen or download (6 min 29 s - 16.2 MB) |
| August 16 | Alan Stern Associate Vice President Space Science and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute Boulder Colorado | His role in the New Horizons mission; Triton compared to Pluto; findings about Pluto and Charon; description of what it might be like to stand on Pluto; Charon and Pluto compared; the small moons of Pluto; the journey to Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69; naming 2014 MU69; desired studies by any future Pluto missions.
Listen or download (16 min 57 s - 16.3 MB) |
| August 30 | Andrew Dempster Director Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research University of New South Wales Sydney | Space science research in Australia; funding; policies; and opportunities.
Listen or download (8 min 33 s - 8.2 MB) |
| September 27 | Megan Clark Chair Expert Reference Group Canberra | The review of Australia's space industry capability. Listen or download (6 min 36 s - 6.4 MB) |
| October 4 | Igor Rozenberg Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | To mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 a discussion with Igor about Sputnik 1, Soviet launch sites, the R-7 missile, and related matters. Programme included a Caltech feature on tracking the world's first artificial satellite, and Soviet era music.
Listen or download (37 min 32 s - 36.0 MB) |
| November 29 | Richard Tonkin Member Australis Oscar 5 Team Melbourne University | Eyewitness account of the launch of Wresat 1, and how it beat the Australis Oscar 5 satellite into orbit.
Listen or download (10 min 9 s - 9.7 MB) |
| December 13 | Russell Boyce Professor UNSW Director UNSW Space Canberra | The Buccaneer satellite; launch of BRMM, the Buccaneer Risk Mitigation Mission; successfully working; COSPAR ID confusion; data expected; the pending BMM, the Buccaneer Main Mission; why there has been a resurgence in Australian satellite building; his involvement in the current government enquiry into Australia's space activities; and forthcomming satellites such as RAAF M1 and M2, QKD and the Rutherford Appleton upper atmosphere carbon content mission.
Listen or download (21 min 11 s - 20.3 MB) |
| December 20 | Andreas Antoniades Director and Lead Engineer Obelisk Systems Hunter Valley New South Wales | The aims of Obelisk Systems; affordable hardware; the Asimov payload and its use in schools; cubesats.
Listen or download (3 min 29 s - 3.3 MB) |
| December 20 | Jay Kudakaev Member Southern FM | A discussion about the movie "Star Wars - The Last Jedi" and its characters.
Listen or download (25 min 52 s - 22.0 MB) |
