| BROADCAST DATE | SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Stardust | The Stardust mission and its collection of dust as it passed Comet Wild-2. (See also interviews.) |
| January 7 | Spirit at Gusev Episode 1 | Coverage of the landing of the Mars Exploration Rover at Gusev Crater. Included mission overview, and the NASA commentary of the approach, entry and landing. |
| January 14 | What If The Earth Had No Moon? | An exploration in words and music of what the Earth might be like if there were no Moon. About the music used. |
| January 14 | Spirit at Gusev Episode 2 | More coverage of the landing of Spirit on Mars. |
| January 21 | Spirit at Gusev Episode 3 | More coverage of the landing of Spirit on Mars. Included aspects of mission design, and navigation in interplanetary flight. |
| January 28 | Opportunity at Meridani - Episode 1 | The landing of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Included NASA's commentary. |
| February 4 | Opportunity at Meridani Episode 2 | Additional coverage of the landing of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Included NASA's commentary. Explanation of why Opportunity seemed to be bouncing long after it had rolled to a stop. |
| February 18 | Roving Mars Episode 1 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| February 25 | Roving Mars Episode 2 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| March 3 | Roving Mars Episode 3 | The past week's activities on Mars, including the announcement of evidence of past water at Meridami, and discussion of snow gullies on Mars. |
| March 10 | Roving Mars Episode 4 | The past week's activities on Mars. Also a special feature on the challenges of getting to Mars. |
| March 17 | Sedna | Description of discovery of a new body in the outer solar system, and the mythology of its name. |
| March 17 | Roving Mars Episode 5 | The past week's activities on Mars. The drive to Bonneville Crater. |
| March 17 | Mars Odyssey | A description of the spaceecraft and its findings so far. |
| March 17 | Fire In The Sky | A tribute in words and music to the crews of the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger. About the music used. |
| March 24 | Roving Mars Episode 6 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| March 24 | Saturn X-ray Puzzle | An examination of the Chandra Xray Observatory's observations of x-rays from Saturn. |
| March 24 | What If The Earth Had No Moon? | An exploration in words and music of what the Earth might be like if there were no Moon. (Rebroadcast of January 14 feature). About the music used. |
| March 31 | Roving Mars Episode 7 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| March 31 | Lights Out | The findings of a group of European and American astronomers that stars are dying faster than they are being born. |
| April 7 | Roving Mars Episode 8 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| April 7 | Solar Max | A review and description of the IMAX movie "Solar Max", just released in Melbourne. |
| April 14 | Roving Mars Episode 9 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| April 14 | Gravity Probe B | An explanation of how the satellite mission will test two aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity. |
| April 14 | Shuttle Launch Sounds | An exploration in word, sound and music of the experience of watching a space shuttle launch. Included digital audio recordings made at the Kennedy Space Center of shuttle launches. About the music used. |
| April 14 | Huygens and Titan | A description of the Huygens spacecraft, and how it will arrive at and land on Titan. Description of conditions on Titan. How to see Saturn in the night sky. |
| April 21 | Gravity Probe B launch | Description of the launch of the satellite, and comments on the previous day's abandonned launch attempt by Rex Geveden, GP-B Programme Manager for the Marshall Space Flight Center. |
| April 21 | Roving Mars Episode 10 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| April 28 | Roving Mars Episode 11 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| April 28 | Materials Science in Space | How new materials are being developed for use in space and on Earth. (Courtesy NASA). |
| May 5 | Dance On The Ceiling | A discussion in works and music of how zero gravity has been portrayed in films. About the music used. |
| May 5 | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | A description of the planned 2005 spacecraft - its mission and instrumentation. |
| May 5 | Roving Mars Episode 12 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| May 5 | Mars On Earth | Jim Garvin, NASA's Lead Scientist for Exploration, takes us on a tour of Surtsey and explains why it is similar to Mars. (Courtesy NASA) |
| May 12 | Spirit at Gusev Episode 5 and Roving Mars Episode 13 | More coverage of the landing of Spirit on Mars. Included aspects of mission design, and navigation in interplanetary flight, plus the past week's activities on Mars. |
| May 12 | Beyond the Sky | An exploration of the music of Judy Collins, written in celebration of shuttle pilot Eileen Collins. About the music used. |
| May19 | Roving Mars Episode 14 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| May26 | Roving Mars Episode 15 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| June 2 | Roving Mars Episode 16 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| June 2 | Dogs In Space | A whimsical exploration in sound and music of dogs in space. About the music used. |
| June 9 | Roving Mars Episode 17 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| June 9 | Six Minutes of Terror | A description of the atmospheric entry and landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers. (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 16 | To Touch A Star | A vision in sound and music of future space exploration. About the music used. |
| June 16 | Cassini Arrival At Saturn Preview | Coverage of the anticipated arrival of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. Included elements listed below. |
| June 16 | Icy Moons of Saturn | Robert Mitchell Cassini Programme Manager JPL (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 16 | Shaping Saturn's Rings | Amanda Hendrix Planetary Scientist JPL (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 16 | Atmosphere of Titan | Amanda Hendrix Planetary Scientist JPL (Courtesy NASA) |
| June 16 | Cassini Arrival Overview | John Smith Cassini Mission Planning Team JPL Julie Webster Kevin Grazier Bob Mitchell |
| June 16 | Cassini Ring Plane Crossing | David Seal Cassini Science Planning Engineer JPL Shin Huh Kelley Perry |
| June 16 | Roving Mars Episode 18 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| June 23 | Roving Mars Episode 19 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| June 23 | Spaceship One | The suborbital flight of Spaceship One to what at the time was reported to be over 100 kilometres (but later turned out to be 97 km). |
| June 30 | Roving Mars Episode 20 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| June 30 | Cassini Appoaches Saturn | The final approach of Cassini to Saturn, and the expected events during orbit insertion and the science operations. Programme elements taken from Cassini Press Conference listed on Lectures page. |
| July 7 | Cassini Arrival At Saturn Part One | Coverage of the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. |
| July 7 | Roving Mars Episode 21 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| July 7 | Titan's Surface Imaged | How the Cassini spacecraft imaged the surface of Titan during its approach to Saturn. |
| July 14 | Cassini Arrival At Saturn Part Two | More coverage of the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. |
| July 14 | Roving Mars Episode 22 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| July 14 | Aura Launch Abort | Live broadcast from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, of the aborted attempt to launch the Aura atmospheric studies spacecraft. Included comments by Ghassem Assar, NASA Associate Administrator, Office of Earth Science. |
| July 21 | Aura Launch | Coverage of the launch of the Aura spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. |
| July 21 | Roving Mars Episode 23 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| July 21 | Apollo 11 - 35th Anniversary | A celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing. Included inflight comments on the significance of the mission by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins. |
| July 28 | Roving Mars Episode 24 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| July 28 | Cassini Encounters Saturn's Bow Shock | Description of the magnetospheric bow shock of Saturn, and playing of the plasma wave recordings made by the cassini spacecraft. |
| July 28 | Voyager 1 Plasma Wave Recordings | The plasma wave recordings made by the Voyager 1 spacecraft over a 22 year period were played and explained, and the impending arrival of the 2003 solar shock wave was discussed. |
| July 28 | The Lunar Laser Retroreflectors | Description of the Apollo retroreflectors and what thay have taught us about the Earth-Moon motion, and how they are being used to test Einstein's equivalence principle. |
| July 28 | Blue Moon | Description of why we call the second full moon in a month a "blue moon". |
| August 4 | Roving Mars Episode 25 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| August 4 | Messenger Launch | Recording of the commentary on the aborted attempt to launch the Messenger spacecraft to the planet Mercury, and of the successful launch the next day Included the comment of Ralph McNutt, Project Scientist, Messenger Mission. |
| August 11 | Legends | An examination in music and sound of the loss of space faring vision. About the music used. |
| August 11 | Driving Uphill Backwards | Julie Townsend, Avionics Sytems Engineer, and Joe Melko, Senior Mechnaical Systems Engineer, test various ways to drive the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit backwards with a locked up front wheel. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 11 | Roving Mars Episode 26 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| August 18 | Mars On Iceland | Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist for Exploration, NASA, takes us on a guided tour of the Reykjaynes Peninsular in Iceland to see how we can read the geological record of water on Earth and Mars. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 18 | Others Standing By | A musical examination of our quest to go into space. About the music used. |
| August 18 | Roving Mars Episode 27 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| August 25 | Cassini Science | A look at the science investigations planned for the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. (Courtesy NASA) |
| August 25 | Big Blue Sky | Music as a promotional aspect of humanity's spacefaring endeavours. About the music used. |
| August 25 | Arctic Sea Ice Melting | What satellite observations are telling us about the melting of artic sea ice and global environmental change. |
| September 1 | Mars Express | A look at the Super/High resolution Stereo Colour Imager aboard the Mars Express spacecraft, in orbit around Mars. |
| September 1 | The Challenge | Words and music used to contrast the attitudes of Australians and Americans towards spaceflight. About the music used. |
| September 1 | Roving Mars Episode 28 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| September 8 | Gravity Probe B | The beginning of science operations of the Gravity Probe B, and why it took so long to get the satellite operating. (Courtesy NASA) |
| September 8 | Roving Mars Episode 29 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| September 8 | Genesis Recovery | A preview of tomorrow's anticipated recovery of the Genesis spacraft after flying in interplanetary space to gather samples of the solar wind. (Courtesy NASA) |
| September 22 | Roving Mars Episode 30 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| September 22 | Magnetar Flares | How particles from a pulsar have caused ionisation of the Earth's atmosphere. (Courtesy NASA) |
| September 22 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 1 | Submissions made to the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond. Introduction to the Commission by President Bush, opening remarks by Pete Aldridge and comments by Raymond Ernst, Chairman of the Aeronautical Insdustry Association's Space Council. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| September 29 | Roving Mars Episode 31 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| September 29 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 2 | Submissions made to the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond. President Bush discussed Moon-Mars initiative in terms of past explorations, such as Lewis and Clark. Address to Commission by Mark Bitterman, representing the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Space Enterprise Council. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| October 6 | Roving Mars Episode 32 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| October 6 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 3 | Submissions made to the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond. Address to Commission by Norm Augustine, Chairman of the 1990 Advisory Committee on the future of the United States Space Programme. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| October 13 | Vale Gordon Cooper | To mark his death, a look at the life of Leroy Gordon Cooper, Air Force pilot, Test Pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, and NASA astronaut (Mercury-Atlas 9 and Gemini 5). |
| October 20 | Roving Mars Episode 33 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| October 27 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 4 | Submissions made to the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond. Address to Commission by General Tom Stafford, former Gemini and Apollo astronaut, in which he reported the findings of the Synthesis Group, which published the "Report on America one the Threshold". (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| October 27 | Roving Mars Episode 34 | The past week's activities on Mars. Also a description of the OMEGA instrument aboard the Mars Express spacecraft, and of the plan by the Mars Society and AMSAT to fly a balloon in the martian atmosphere. |
| November 3 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 5 | Submissions made to the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond. General Tom Stafford, former Gemini and Apollo astronaut, responds to questions put by the Commissioners. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| November 3 | Roving Mars Episode 35 | The past week's activities on Mars. Also a description of an instrument aboard the Mars Express spacecraft. |
| November 10 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 6 | Submissions made to the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond. Cort Durocher, Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics makes an oral submission and then responds to questions from the Commissioners. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| November 10 | Roving Mars Episode 36 | The past week's activities on Mars. Also a description of the MARIS instrument aboard the Mars Express spacecraft. |
| November 10 | Face On Cydonia Episode 1 | A look at crazy radio in America, where the idea that there is an alien carved human face on the surface of Mars is taken as being true. |
| November 17 | Face On Cydonia Episode 2 | A further look at crazy radio in America, which peddles the idea that there is an alien carved human face on the surface of Mars and that there is a NASA conspiracy to hide it. |
| November 17 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 7 | Responses by the Commissioers of the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond to questions posed by reporters and the public. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| November 17 | Roving Mars Episode 37 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
| November 24 | Moon, Mars and Beyond - Programme 8 | Additional responses by the Commissioers of the United States President's Commission for Moon, Mars and Beyond to questions posed by reporters and the public. (Audio inserts courtesy Moon-Mars Commission). |
| November 24 | Roving Mars Episode 38 | The past week's activities on Mars. Included a description of the PFS instrument aboard the Mars Express spacecraft. |
| December 1 | Cosmic Ocean | The search for water on the planets and in the cosmos. |
| December 15 | Roving Mars Episode 39 | The past month's activities on Mars. |
| December 15 | The A to Z of ELVs | A description by George Diller, a NASA launch commentator, of expendable launch vehicles. (Courtesy NASA) |
| December 15 | Astrophotography from the Space Station | Description of how Don Petit, ISS Science Officer aboard the International Space Station is taking advantage of his vantage point to make some astronomical observations. (Courtesy NASA) |
| December 22 | Roving Mars Episode 40 | A description of the SPICAM instrument aboard the Mars Express, and an update on the Mars Exploration Rovers. |
| December 22 | The Huygens Mission and Rock'N'Roll to Titan | A description of the Huygens spacecraft and its mission to Titan, featuring Enrico Flamini, John Zarnicki and Charles Elachi. Also a feature about the placement of the music of Julien Civange and Loius Haéri aboard Huygens. (Courtesy NASA and Music2Titan) |
| December 22 | Makeshift Repairs In Space | How astronauts could perform makeshift repairs using soldering irons in space. |
| December 29 | John Young's Career | A special programme to mark the retirement of John Young from the NASA astronaut corps. Looked at the man and his space missions. |
| December 29 | Roving Mars Episode 41 | The past week's activities on Mars. |
