| BROADCAST DATE |
SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Science Fiction. | Two stories written by Ray Bradbury. |
| January 14 | Science Fiction | Two stories wiritten by Ray Bradbury. |
| January 21 | Science Fiction | A story written by Ray Bradbury. |
| January 21 | Stranger Than Fiction | Senator and former astronaut Mark Kelly explains why he is taking legal action against the Secretary of Defense. |
| January 21 | Turn Back Time | The 40th anniversary of the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus. |
| January 28 | Turn Back Time | The 40th anniversary of the STS 51-L disaster that destroyed the Space Shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts, told in contemprory news reports, songs and poetry. Listen or download (54 min 50 s - 52.6 MB) |
| February 4 | Angelo Di Grazia Committee Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Artemis 2 delayed to at least April following hydrogen leak during wet dress rehearsal; analysis of the Ensuring American Space Superiority Executive Order from President Trump; and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman's speech to employees on his second day in the job. Listen or download (53 min 55 s - 51.8 MB) |
| February 11 | Turn Back Time | Ed Stone, Project Scientist, describes the findings of Voyager 2 at Uranus, 40 years ago. (Insert courtesy JPL) Listen or download (5 min 45 s - 5.5 MB) |
| February 11 | Steve Reid JPL Pasadena California | The status of the Perseverance rover, and future plans for exploration and rock sample collection. (Courtesy AGU) |
| February 11 | IAC 2025 Opening | The remarks of Governor-General Ms Sam Mostyn AC, and historical memories from Kerrie Dougherty, Owen Mace, John Saxon and Gordon Pike. (Inserts courtesy IAC) |
| February 18 | IAC 2025 Opening | Historical memories from Paul Scully-Powers, Katherine Bennell-Pegg and Roger Franzen, and presentation of the IAF World Space Award to the Chang'e 6 Team. (Inserts courtesy IAC & CGTN) |
| February 18 | Arrokoth | New Horizons team members Alan Stern, Cathy Olkin, Carly Howett and Jeff Moorerespond to reporter's question on the day after the 2019 January 1 flyby of the Kuiper Belt asteroid Arrokoth. (Courtesy JHU) |
| February 25 | Artemis 2 Delayed | After a successful wet-dress rehearsal, the Artemis 2 launch has been delayed at least until April by a helium flow problem in the Interim Cryogenic Upper Stage. |
| February 25 | Boeing CST100 Report | NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman describes the report on the problems with the Starliner spacecraft, and gives an assurance that it will not fly with a crew until it is certified safe. |
| February 25 | Total Lunar Eclipse | Times for the March 3 Total Lunar Eclipse, and dates of future eclipses, and eclipse poetry. |
| February 25 | Qibin Xu PhD Student University of New South Wales Sydney | Satellite signal processing in progressive integrity evaluation. Listen or download (1 min 0 s - 1.0 MB) |
| February 25 | Daniel Eddington-Mitchell Associate Professor Shock Laboratory Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Monash University Clayton | Resonance in rocket nozzles. Listen or download (3 min 44 s - 3.6 MB) |
| February 25 | Zac Warton Team Co-lead Nova Rover Monash University Clayton | The NOVA Rover competition, funding, rover improvements, sideways driving, promoting women's involvement. Listen or download (11 min 47 s - 11.3 MB) |
| March 4 | Dart AE | The launch of the Queensland Hypersonix Launch Systems Dart AE hypersonic aircraft by a modified Electron rocket. (Inserts courtesy HLS, Rocket Lab) Listen or download (11 min 16 s - 27.0 MB) |
| March 4 | Artemis Architecture Change | NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces significant changes to the Artemis lunar landing programme, including changing Artemis 3 from a lunar landing to an Earth orbital mission, and standardising the Space Launch System rocket. |
| March 4 | Turn Back Time | Sixty years ago, Cosmos 110 carried two dogs into the van Allen radiation belt; Intelsat decided to use geostationary satellites; Venera 2 and Venera 3 reached Venus; and Gemini 8 was being prepared for an ambitious flight. (Inserts courtesy NZBC, BBC, VOA, Radio Australia, Radio Moscow) Listen or download (25 min 4 s - 24.0 MB) |
| March 4 | Lost Armstrong | Bemoaning the fact that there is no definitive photograph of Neil Armstrong standing on the Moon. Listen or download (3 min 14 s - 7.8 MB) Armstrong On Moon |
| March 11 | Artemis 2 Crew Briefing | The four members of the Artemis 2 discuss their planned mission around the Moon. (Inserts courtesy JSC) |
| March 11 | Gemini 8 | The near disastrous flight of Gemini 8. (Inserts courtesy NZBC, VOA and ABC) Listen or download (22 min 7 s - 21.2 MB) |
| March 18 | Post-Shuttle Changes To KSC | As preprations are being made for the launch of Artemis 2 by the second SLS rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, we pop back to 2014 when Mike Bolger (Program Manager, Ground Systems Development and Operations, KSC, Florida) described the ground infrastructure changes being made in prepration for the SLS and commercial operators, and Chris Crumbly (Manager, Space Launch System Payload Integration and Evolution, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama) set out the status of the Space Launch System. (Inserts courtesy KSC) |
| March 18 | Stools In Space | The answer to every child's (everyones?) question about human space flight provided by Walter Cunningham (astronaut), Jim Lovell (astronaut), Richard Scheuring (NASA Flight Surgeon), Wally Funk (Mercury 13 candidate) and David Munns (researcher). Listen or download (31 min 20 s - 30.1 MB) |
| March 25 | Jared Isaacman Administrator NASA Washington, D.C. | Announcement of a major change in direction and focus for NASA. (Courtesy NASA HQ) |
| March 25 | Jeremy Kruckel Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Policy as a compass for Australia's Lunar Future Listen or download (2 min 35 s - 2.5 MB) |
| March 25 | Lunar Discoveries | A summary of the achievements of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter since its launch in 2009. (Courtesy GSFC) |
| March 25 | Turn Back Time | Sixty Years ago Luna 10 became the first craft to be placed into orbit around the Moon, and how a 'swifty' was pulled on the Communist Party Congress. Listen or download (16 min 28 s - 15.8 MB) |
| March 25 | Rowena Chritiansen Medical School University of Melbourne | Should spacefarers have their appendix removed before a long duration mission? Also the lack of aerospace medical training in Australia. Listen or download (10 min 4 s - 9.7 MB) |
