| BROADCAST DATE |
GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 21 | Kenya Wilkins Composer and Musician Sydney | The inspiration for her music; the Ephemera Ensemble; her musical training; availability of her compacr discs; descriptions of some of her pieces; and two examples. Preceeded and followed by music by Australians Cyclone Tess (Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) and Ben Rodgers (Pluto).
Listen or download (38 min 54 s - 37.4 MB) |
| March 14 | Ron Woods former Overseer Flight Crew Equipment Preparation Kennedy Space Centre Florida now Artist New Hampshire | His life story; parachute rigging in Army; starting at Johnson Space Center; Apollo 1 fire; testing space suits; working for ILC, as spacesuit technician; suiting up astronauts; closeout of lunar module on launch pad; Skylab preparations; three Apollo spacesuits; sewing on crew mission patches; gloves on lunar spacesuits; suiting up Buzz Aldrin; transition from Apollo to Shuttle; ejection seats on Columbia; the Neutral Boyancy Laboratory; zero-G flying; degree in art; painting spacesuits; SpaceFest; Alan Bean; retirement. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
* Listen or download (50 min 24 s - 48.4 MB) * Photo: Ron suiting up Buzz Aldrin * Painting: Lunar boots * Painting: Apollo suit rack * Photo: Ron in his art studio |
| March 28 | Igor Rozenberg Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne John Glenn | The 50th Anniversary of the death of Yuri Gagarin. John Glenn describes his spaceflight experience and jokes about getting old. (Glenn courtesy NASM)
Listen or download (42 min 1 s - 40.4 MB) |
| May 9 | Peter Aylward President Space Association of Australia Melbourne Michael Davis Anna Moore | Federal Budget 2019. Reactions to the allocation of funding for a National Space Agency and for enhancements to the accuracy of the Global Positioning System.
Listen or download (33 min 20 s - 32.0 MB) |
| May 9 | Rick Houston Author Book Go Flight - The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control Associate Producer Documentary Movie Mission Control - The Unsung Heroes of Apollo North Carolina Committee Members | The book; Gene Kranz, Chris Kraft and others in Mission Control; sitting a shift in ISS control; Apollo 13; the challenge of getting past the mythology to the truth of the work of mission controllers.
Listen or download (15 min 49 s - 15.2 MB) Gareth Dodds, Rick Houston and Keith Haviland at the Astor |
| May 16 | Rick Houston Author Book Go Flight - The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control Associate Producer Documentary Movie Mission Control - The Unsung Heroes of Apollo North Carolina | Duration of service by Flight Controllers; capsule communicators as interpreters; John Young and Charlie Duke's cases of beer; what got Rick interested in mission control; the genesis of the book; Apollo 11; Gemini 4; finding retired flight controllers and building trust. Also some exerpts from the film and commentary materials.
Listen or download (29 min 33 s - 28.4 MB) Charlie Duke and Rick Houston on stage at the Astor |
| May 23 | Rick Houston Author Book Go Flight - The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control Associate Producer Documentary Movie Mission Control - The Unsung Heroes of Apollo North Carolina | Publishing the book and audio book; making the film in 2015; cinema screenings; the Astor Cinema; availability on Netflix; currently working on First Man, a film about Neil Armstrong. Also some exerpts from the film.
* Listen or download (25 min 1 s - 24.0 MB) * Listen or download full interview only (42 min 0 s - 40.3 MB) * Audience watches Q&A at the Astor * Gerry Griffin, Charlie Duke and event compere Lisa Harvey-Smith * Gerry Griffin and Charlie Duke with members of the Space Association of Australia. |
| May 30 | Daniel Shaddock Professor Department of Quantum Science Research School Of Physics and Engineering College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences The Australian National University Canberra | The Grace satellites; his involvement; the laser ranging system; working with JPL and DLR; testing the satellites over the next few months; application of lasers in deep space missions. Began with some audio courtesy of SpaceX.
Listen or download (19 min 57 s - 19.2 MB) Listen or download an update report (1 min 10 s - 1.1 MB) |
| June 13 | Igor Rozenberg Member Space Association of Australia South Yarra | The Russian connections depicted in the film 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Part of a Space Show documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the release of the film.
Listen or download (12 min 25 s - 11.9 MB) |
| June 27 | Akash Arora PhD Candidate Roboticist Australian Centre of Field Robotics University of Sydney Sydney | Extending the autonomous science capabilities of planetary rovers.
Listen or download (2 min 41 s - 2.6 MB) |
| July 11 | Amanda Caples Lead Scientist Victoria Government | Victoria's bid to host the Australian Space Agency; Victoria's advantages; decision to be made by end of 2018; her role in formulating government policy; her career path.
Listen or download (6 min 5 s - 5.9 MB) |
| July 25 | Gabriela Hobbs Ph.D. Student Asteroid Mining University of New South Wales Canberra | Using local mines as an analogue for Mars.
Listen or download (6 min 59 s - 6.7 MB) |
| August 1 | James Kirby Undergraduate Student RMIT University Melbourne | Rhabdomancer - a proposed mission to prospect for water resources at the lunar south pole. Why the view has changed from a dry Moon to a Moon with dark icy polar craters; design of a hopping lander able to collect multiple samples; use of the mooted Lunar Gateway space station; visit to Florida for judging of the RASC-AL design competition; and his studies at RMIT.
Listen or download (15 min 32 s - 14.9 MB) |
| August 22 | Peter Aylward President Space Association of Australia Melbourne Michael Abdilla | Developments seen at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Included interviews with Derrick Matthews (Public Affairs Officer, Kennedy Space Center) about launch pad changes and the view from atop the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Listen or download (24 min 9 s - 23.2 MB) View some of the pictures Peter took at KSC. |
| August 22 | Derrick Matthews Public Affairs Officer Kennedy Space Center Florida | The changes being made to the historic launch pads that were used for Apollo and Space Shuttle missions. The perspective of the Kennedy Space Center as seen from the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download Pad 39B chat(4 min 34 s - 4.4 MB) Listen or download VAB roof-top chat (4 min 43 s - 4.5 MB) |
| August 29 | Karl Kruszelnicki Sydney University Sydney | A chat with "Dr. Karl" about the Australian film Living Universe and some of the issues discussed in it. Artificial intelligence, extrasolar planets, nuclear fusion drives, interstellar travel, and the screening at IMAX Melbourne.
Listen or download (20 min 53 s - 20.1 MB) |
| September 5 | Tamara Davis Professor School of Mathematics and Physics The University of Queensland Brisbane | Her role as the voice of "Captain Artemis" in the movie Living Universe, and her scientific work on dark energy.
Listen or download (4 min 18 s - 4.1 MB) |
| September 5 | Marcus Gillezeau Producer Living Universe Sydney | The documentary feature Living Universe; the genesis of the film; exoplanets; themes of the film; contributions of the experts who appear in the film; choice of the narrators; what he learnt in making the film; the computer generated graphics; and options to see the film.
Listen or download (32 min 11 s - 30.9 MB) |
| September 12 | Peter Aylward President Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Visit to SpaceFest and the Kennedy Space Center. Included interviews with Mike Stewart (computer restorer) about Apollo era computers and Derrick Matthews (Public Affairs Officer, Kennedy Space Center) about the Crawler Transporter.
Listen or download (20 min 16 s - 19.5 MB) View some of the pictures Peter took at KSC. |
| September 12 | Derrick Matthews Public Affairs Officer Kennedy Space Center Florida | The Crawler Transporter. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download (2 min 39 s - 2.5 MB) |
| September 12 | Mike Stewart Computer Restorer USA | The Apollo Guidance Computer and its restoration. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download (13 min 9 s - 12.6 MB) |
| October 3 | Len Halprin Committee Member Space Association of Australia Ormond | A review discussion about the film First Man
Listen or download (8 min 34 s - 8.2 MB) |
| October 3 | Eric Jones Editor Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Wodonga | His research meetings with Armstrong, Aldrin, Mitchel, Shepard and Duke; astronaut biographies; and his memories of Apollo 11. (Interview by Peter Aylward)
Listen or download (8 min 6 s - 7.8 MB) |
| Octoner 17 | Nick Lomb Dark Sky Association Bentleigh | The twinkling of stars; the causes and effects of light pollution; the change from mercury vapour to light emitting diode street lights; and the availability of the Australian Sky Guide 2019".
Listen or download (19 min 19 s - 18.6 MB) |
| October 24 | Ray Slanina Manager International Business Development Tactical Data Link Systems ViaSat Carlsbad California | ViaSat's activities and Australian involvement; mobile antennae.
Listen or download (4 min 8 s - 4.0 MB) |
| November 28 | Malcolm Phillips Retired Aerospace Engineer Seattle | His role at the Weapons Resaerch Establishment, with the ELDO launches of the Europa 1 rocket from Woomera, with ELDO in Paris and Kourou, and with various companies in the United States.
Listen or download (19 min 12 s - 18.4 MB) |
| December 5 | Christopher Capon Ph.D. Student University of New South Wales Canberra | Orbital debris detection using ionospheric wake modelling.
Listen or download (4 min 50 s - 4.6 MB) |
| December 12 | Michael Vincent Payload Systems Engineer New Horizons | His evolving roles with the New Horizons mission to Pluto and Ultima Thule; the challenges he faced; the radio occultations experiments; Australia's role in the New Horizons mission; his career path; and some music about Pluto.
* Listen or download interview and music (22 min 52 s - 22.0 MB) * Listen or download interview only (15 min 50 s - 4.6 MB) |
| December 12 | Michael Afful Ph.D. Student Aerospace Research Centre RMIT University Melbourne | Characterising space objects; orbital debris proliferation; prediction of satellite orbits; and his work with the African Union Commission.
Listen or download (8 min 48 s - 8.5 MB) |
