BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
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February 1 | John Young NASA Astronaut Houston | From Apollo to Mars. Past, Current and Future space projects. Recorded at Public Lecture, Canberra. Listen or download (20 min 44 s - 19.4 MB) |
March 8 | Rhea Seddon NASA Astronaut Houston | Viewing Australia from space and what it tells us about geography. (Recorded at St Catherine's School, Toorak) Listen or download (44 min 55 s - 42.1 MB) |
March 15 | Duncan Steel Anglo-Australian Observatory and University of Adelaide | Would we be told of an impending asteroid impact? (Recorded at Melbourne University) Listen or download (1 min 26 s - 1.3 MB) |
May 3 | John Young NASA Astronaut Houston | Extraterrestrial life, UFOs. Recorded at Public Lecture, Canberra. Listen or Download (1 min 29 s - 1.3 MB) |
June 7 | Andrew Prentice Monash University Clayton | Cosmology and the Hubble Space Telescope. Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Moorabbin. Listen or Download (2 min 49 s - 2.6 MB) |
June 7 | Colin Norman Johns Hopkins University Baltimore | The Hubble Space Telescope and how it was fixed. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. NOTE: This speaker was peripatetic, so audio quality was barely broadcastable. Listen or Download (20 min 0 s - 18.7 MB) |
June 7 | Duncan Steel Anglo-Australian Observatory and University of Adelaide | Justifying astronomy. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. Listen or Download (2 min 10 s - 2.0 MB) |
June 14 | Duncan Steel Anglo-Australian Observatory and University of Adelaide | Double Asteroid Toutatis. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. Listen or Download (2 min 24 s - 2.2 MB) |
July 5 | Andrew Prentice Monash University Clayton | Describing Colin Norman. Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Moorabbin. Listen or Download (1 min 22 s - 1.2 MB) |
July 12 | Rhea Seddon NASA Astronaut Houston | Experience of spaceflight, observing environmental degradation from space. (Recorded at St Catherine's School, Toorak) Listen or download (6 min 38 s - 6.2 MB) |
July 12 | Colin Norman Johns Hopkins University Baltimore | The Hubble Constant, dark matter. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. NOTE: This speaker was peripatetic, so audio quality was barely broadcastable. Listen or Download (7 min 58 s - 7.4 MB) |
August 2 | Andrew Prentice Monash University Clayton | Formation of Solar System, refuting ideas of Ben Zuckerman. Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Moorabbin. Listen or Download (15 min 0 s - 14.0 MB) |
August 9 | Carl Meade NASA Astronaut Houston | The SAFER astronaut backpack for spacewalks. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. * Introduction by Alison Couts, Engineering Graduate, now employed by Telecom Listen or Download (4 min 14 s - 3.9MB) * Part One Listen or Download (13 min 28 s - 12.6 MB) * Part Two Listen or Download (21 min 31 s - 20.1 MB) |
October 4 | Paul Scully-Power Oceanographer/Astronaut USA (ex-Australia) | Astronaut Training. Recorded at Australian International Space School, Sydney. Listen or Download (14 min 38 s - 13.4 MB) Picture |
November 8 | Jill Tarter Project Leader Project Phoenix USA | Setting up Parkes Radiotelescope for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. Listen or Download (7 min 25 s - 6.9 MB) |
November 22 | Duncan Steel Anglo-Australian Observatory and University of Adelaide | Diverting asteroids. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. Listen or download (2 min 06 s - 1.9 MB) |
N.B. The dates are the broadcast date, not the date on which they were recorded.