| BROADCAST DATE | LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 14 | Andrew Thomas Australian Born NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Preparation for flight, the STS 77 Payload. Recorded at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Listen or download (22 min 21 s - 20.9 MB) |
| January 14 | Eugene Shoemaker Astronomer Lowell Observatory Flagstaff Arizona | Fate of Committee Report on possible comet or asteroid impacts with the Earth. |
| January 21 | Andrew Thomas Australian Born NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Description of flight aboard STS 77. Recorded at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Listen or download (18 min 49 s - 17.6 MB) |
| January 28 | Vaughn Clift Chief Scientist Medical Sciences Products NASA Johnson Space Centre Houston Texas | An Australian who wants to be an astronaut describes the preparation of a Shuttle for launch. Recorded at the Australian International Space School, Sydney. Listen or Download (5 min 3 s - 4.7 MB) |
| February 11 | Ed Stone Project Manager Galileo Mission Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | The Galileo Probe Fiindings, and unanswered questions about Jupiter. Recorded at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Listen or Download (10 min 12 s - 9.6 MB) |
| February 18 | Jill Tarter Project Leader Project Phoenix Parkes Radio Telescope Parkes | Responses to audience questions on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. Listen or Download (26 min 28 s - 24.8 MB) |
| March 18 | Andrew Thomas Australian Born NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Responses to questions by school children. Recorded at schools session at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Listen or Download (29 min 15 s - 27.4 MB) NOTE: The following items were not broadcast. Some were very similar to other talks given by Thomas that day and already broadcast earlier in the year on "The Space Show". * Listen or Download introduction by Melbourne Community Television (2 min 47 s - 2.6 MB) * Listen or Download welcome speeches (8 min 41 s - 8.1 MB) * Listen or Download Thomas' talk during which he used illustrative slides (13 min 53 s - 13.0 MB) * Listen or Download Thomas' narration of his mission video (18 min 16 s - 17.1 MB) * Listen or Download the votes of thanks (3 min 43 s - 3.4 MB) |
| March 18 | Ed Stone Project Manager Galileo Mission Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Were any impacts seen on the moons of Jupiter during the Galileo mission? (Not yet.) Recorded at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Listen or Download (0 min 54 s - 0.8 MB) |
| April 1 | Vaughn Clift Chief Scientist Medical Sciences Products NASA Johnson Space Centre Houston Texas | Wide ranging talk through the Russian space programme, the impact of photos of the Earth from space, life sciences stidies, commercialisation of space, space suits, space "spins offs", and the International Space Station. Recorded at the Australian International Space School, Sydney. Listen or Download (0 min 54 s - 0.8 MB) |
| April 8 | Andrew Prentice Mathematics Department Monash University Clayton | The Solar System beyond Pluto. Dr Prentice extends his theories of the formation of the Solar System to make predictions about what Pluto and other outer Solar System objects will be like. Recorded at the Space Association of Australia, Moorabbin. Listen or Download (11 min 9 s - 10.4 MB) |
| April 8 | James Hurtak Co-Author "The Face On Mars" | Ancient Biosphere on Mars. Mr. Hurtak puts his case for the existence of an ancient biosphere on Mars, citing Viking Lander results as evidence. He also asserts that there was once either intelligent life on Mars, or Mars was visited by aliens, and offers the "face on Cydonia and pyrimidal shapes in support of his argument. Recorded at Monash University, Clayton. NOTE: The Space Show does NOT endorse the content of this recording. This lecture was NOT organised by Monash University. Listen or download (15 min 34 s - 14.6 MB) See 1996 Lectures (November) for more recordings of this lecture. |
| April 15 | Elio Grahoviz Space Policy Unit Department of Science, Technology, Industry and Tourism Canberra | Pending Legislation to license space launches and register satellites. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or download (9 min 53 s - 9.2 MB) |
| April 22 | John O'Connor Lecturer Council for Adult Education Melbourne | Promoting the lecture series Discussions in Cosmology, about to commence at the CAE. |
| April 22 | Elio Grahoviz Space Policy Unit Department of Science, Technology, Industry and Tourism Canberra | Timing of Industry Assistance measures to promote Australian space industry. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or download (2 min 1 s - 1.8 MB) |
| April 29, repeated Jun 3 | Andrew Thomas Australian Born NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Comments about life aboard the Mir Space Station, and his desire to work aboard the International Space Station. Recorded from NASA TV and at Melbourne Press Conference. Listen or Download (15 min 31 s - 14.6 MB) |
| May 6 | Brian Embleton Executive Director Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems Canberra | Organisational changes that led from the CSIRO Office of Space Science and Applications to the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (11 min 8 s - 10.5 MB) Listen or Download full talk (19 min 45 s - 18.5 MB) |
| May 6 | David Malin Astronomer Anglo-Australian Observatory Coonabarabran | An examination of the evidence for Star Formation. Recorded at the Australian International Space School, Sydney. Note: The 20 minute radio edit was erased after broadcast. The following unedited recording has many visual references. Listen or Download (26 min 24 s - 24.7 MB) |
| May 13 | Shanon Lucid NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Part One of a press conference at which Lucid describes her experiences aboard the Mir Space Station. (Recorded from NASA Television.) |
| May 13 | Warwick Jones Australian Space Insurance Group Melbourne | Insuring the Space Station, cancellation insurance, space insurance as foreign exchange earner for Australia. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (6 min 35 s - 6.1 MB) |
| May 20 | Shanon Lucid NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Part Two of a press conference at which Lucid describes her experiences aboard the Mir Space Station. (Recorded from NASA Television.) |
| May 27 | Andrew Thomas Australian Born NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Responses to questions from an audience of adults. Recorded at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. * Listen or Download (23 min 18 s - 21.8 MB) * Listen or Download introduction to lecture which was not broadcast (3 min 50 s - 3.5 MB) * Listen or Download the vote of thanks, which was not broadcast (5 min 56 s - 5.5 MB) |
| June 10 | Elio Grahoviz Space Policy Unit Department of Science, Technology, Industry and Tourism Canberra | Lack of an Australian National Space Policy. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or download (4 min 58 s - 4.6 MB) N.B. This was a part of a one and a half hour talk that was not broadcast in full due to its technical nature. The final hour of this talk is offered here for those with an interest in Australian space policy issues of the late 1990s. It has not been edited to broadcast standard. Listen or download talk (1 h 6 min 21 s - 62.2 MB) |
| June 10 | Susan Tereby Extrasolar Research Corporation Pasadena California | Press conference discussion of the discovery of an extrasolar planet apparently escaping from its parent star. |
| June 17 | Scott Parazynski NASA Astronaut Houston Texas introduced by | Description of experiences aboard STS 86, a Mir docking mission. Recorded at The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, South Melbourne. Listen or download (20 min 13 s - 18.9 MB) |
| June 24 | Mark Blair Ausroc Projects Australia Space Research Institute Canberra | The Ausroc rocket programmes. Recorded at Australia Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download as Broadcast (9 min 35 s - 8.9 MB) Listen or Download Full Talk including parts not broadcast (32 min 54 s - 30.8 MB) |
| July 1 | Michael Davis International Space University Adelaide | The International Space University. Recorded at Australia Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or download (6 min 27 s - 6.0 MB) Listen or download part of talk that was not broadcast (14 min 3 s - 13.1 MB) |
| July 7 | Warwick Jones Australian Space Insurance Group Melbourne | The launch statistics of various satellite launch vehicles, and their insurance rating. Recorded at Australia Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (23 min 35 s - 22.1 MB) |
| July 15 | Geoff Perry The Kettering Group Kettering United Kingdom | Educational aspects of satellite tracking. Tracking Prospero, Ariel 1, Cosmos 40, DongFangHong 1, China 19. Recorded at La Trobe University. NOTE: The broadcast edit was 16 minutes. Listen or Download (24 min 40 s - 23.1 MB) Listen or Download Full Lecture (58 min 11 s - 54.5 MB) Listen or Download Unnarrated Telemetry recordings used in lecture (10 min 58 s - 10.5 MB) |
| Not Broadcast | Geoff Perry The Kettering Group Kettering United Kingdom | Types of satellites and their uses. Recorded at Space Association meeting, Monash University, Clayton. NOTE: This talk was never broadcast because of frequent visual references and variable sound quality. Listen or Download Introduction by Mark Hillyer of the Space Association. (2 min 1 s - 1.8 MB) Listen or Download Talk (53 min 16 s - 49.9 MB) |
| July 15 | Brian Embleton Executive Director Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems. | The trend towards small satellites. Recorded at Australia Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (3 min 46 s - 3.5 MB) |
| July 15 | Carl Meade NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Describes his space shuttle mission and extravehicular activity. Recorded at Melbourne University, Melbourne. Listen or Download (7 min 28 s - 7.0 MB) |
| July 22 | Gordon Pike Optus Communications Sydney | Chinese missiles and early satellite launch vehicles. Recorded at Institution of Engineers, Melbourne. (Rebroadcast of 1996 April 17) Listen or Download (6 min 52 s - 6.4 MB) |
| August 26 | Elio Grahoviz Space Policy Unit Department of Science, Technology, Industry and Tourism Canberra | History of the Australian Space Office and the projects it fostered. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (7 min 20 s - 6.8 MB) |
| September 2 | Andrew Prentice Mathematics Department Monash University Clayton | The Galileo Mission to Jupiter. Dr. Prentice applies his supersonic turbulence theory to make some predictions on what Galileo will find out at Jupiter (this lecture was recorded before Galileo arrived at Jupiter). He also makes predictions about the composition of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Objects. Recorded at Monash University, Clayton. Note: Sound quality problems and frequent visual references meant that this recording had to be edited for broadcast. This 30 minute edit was erased immediately after broadcast, so what is presented here is the unedited recording. The introduction is by Monash University's Professor Ron Davies. Listen or Download (38 min 0 s - 35.6 MB) |
| September 9 | Mark Blair Ausroc Projects Australia Space Research Institute Canberra | The Zuni Sighter Rocket programme. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (1 min 40 s - 1.5 MB) |
| September 9 | Ed Stone Project Manager Galileo Mission Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Responses to audience questions on Jupiter's magnetosphere, Voyager 1 and 2 status, the Galileo Probe's parachutes, metallic hydrogen, volcanic activity on Io, lifetime of Galileo Orbiter and gravity assist manoeuvres. Recorded ay Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Listen or Download (15 min 9 s - 14.2 MB) Listen or Download to an offcut not broadcast (2 min 25 s - 2.2 MB) |
| September 16 | Gil Yanow Head Educational Outreach Educational Affairs Office Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California | Global student programme to monitor solar ultraviolet radiation. Recorded at the Australian Intenational Space School, Sydney. NOTE: Because this talk was very visual only a small portion was broadcast. Listen or download broadcast talk (2 min 17 s - 2.1 MB) Listen or download full unedited talk (53 min 51 s - 50.4 MB) |
| September 23 | Gordon Pike Institution of Engineers Sydney | The Woomera rocket range. Recorded at Institution of Engineers, Melbourne. Listen or Download (6 min 8 s - 5.6 MB) |
| September 23 | Vaughn Clift Chief Scientist Medical Sciences Products NASA Johnson Space Centre Houston Texas | Space spin-offs. Earthy applications of space technology. Recorded at the Australian Intenational Space School, Sydney. Listen or Download (3 min 41 s - 3.4 MB) |
| October 7 | Greg Talbot Centre for Australian Space Education Sydney | Science Experiments in Space, a programme that allows Austrslian school students to design and fly an experiment aboard the Space Shuttle. Also the Dreaming In Space competition which will allow a student painting to fly aboard the Space Shuttle. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or Download (7 min 44 s - 7.2 MB) |
| October 14 | Scott Parazynski NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Answers student questions about his two Space Shuttle missions. Broadcast timed to coincide with his third mission (with John Glenn). Recorded at The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, South Melbourne. Listen or download (7 min 44 s - 7.2 MB) |
| October 21 | Andrew Prentice Mathematics Department Monash University Clayton | Dr. Prentice comments on those who have attacked his modern Laplacian theory of the formation of the Solar System. Recorded at Space Association of Australia, Moorabbin. |
| October 21 | Scott Parazynski NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Answers further student questions about his two Space Shuttle missions. Broadcast timed to coincide with his third mission (with John Glenn). Recorded at The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, South Melbourne. Listen or download (13 min 6 s - 12.2 MB) |
| October 26 | Scott Parazynski NASA Astronaut Houston Texas | Answers still more student questions about his two Space Shuttle missions. Broadcast timed to coincide with his third mission (with John Glenn). Recorded at The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, South Melbourne. Listen or download (14 min 42 s - 13.7 MB) |
| November 18 | Barry Epstein Manager Space Station External Affairs NASA Headquarters Washington D.C. | Coperation with the Russians on the International Space Station. Also the contributions of other nations to the station. Recorded at Scienceworks Museum, Spotswood. Listen or Download Part 1 (10 min 16 s - 9.6 MB) Listen or Download Part 2 (2 min 16 s - 2.1 MB) |
| December 2 | Barry Epstein Manager Space Station External Affairs NASA Headquarters Washington D.C. | Possible Australian involvement in the International Space Station. Also, the Space Station and popular culture. Thoughts of Skylab and 2001 : A Space Odyssey, and of a public outreach programme. Recorded at Scienceworks Museum, Spotswood. Listen or Download Part 1 (4 min 46 s - 4.4 MB) Listen or Download Part 2 (5 min 56 s - 5.5 MB) |
| December 9 | Suvit Vibulsresth Deputy Permanent Secretary Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment Bankok Thailand | Forum Series 1: A desription of Thailand's space programme, which is heavily weighted towards remote sensing and international cooperation. Recorded at the International Astronautical Federation Congress, Melbourne. Listen or Download (9 min 7 s - 8.5 MB) |
| December 16 | Robert Wang Kister Aerospace Kirkland Washington | Outline of the Kister K-1 rocket, and Australian involvement. |
| December 16 | Elio Grahoviz Space Policy Unit Department of Science, Technology, Industry and Tourism Canberra | Hazard analysis for space launch vehicle insurance. Recorded at the Australian Space Research Institute, Melbourne. Listen or download (1 min 42 s - 1.6 MB) |
