| BROADCAST DATE |
GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| February 10 | Rylan Jardine Maryborough Education Center Ishdeep Singh Chabbra & Chahat Singh & Ritik Chawla & Nirbhay Sing Phumrapee Pisutin Thilipong Lawphongpanich Unidentified Varun Iyer | Poster presenters describe their findings at the International Student Science Fair, which was organised by the Sir John Monash Science School at the Australian Synchrotron, Clayton. Topics included the end of the Universe, inhabited planets, air mass and stellar magnitude, the age of the universe and supernovae neutrino modelling. Listen or download (15 min 21 s - 14.0 MB) |
| February 24 | Andrea Boyd Flight Operations Engineer International Space Station Cologne Germany | Her job and how she got it; Degree from Adelaide University; experiments on the ISS and her role in them; Young Australian of the Year finalist; learning languages; experience as an Australian at ESA Listen or download (45 min 59 s - 44.1 MB) |
| March 2 | Peter Aylward President Space Association of Australia Black Rock | Forthcoming Space Association events: Talk by Ed van Cise (ISS Flight Controller) and Film Screening and Q&A by Gene Cernan (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 - the last man on the moon).
* Listen or download (3 min 14 s - 3.1 MB) * Photo: Gene Cernan with Members of the Space Association of Australia |
| March 30 | Paul Spudis Senior Staff Scientist Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston Texas | A plan to use lunar resources for a sustainable lunar base. (Interview by Nancy Atkinson) |
| April 6 | Jessica Rye Spokesperson ATK Space Systems Florida | The Athena, Athena 1C and 2C rockets; the cost of access to space; wind-down of the Space Shuttle programme. Listen or download (5 min 1 s - 4.8 MB) |
| April 6 | Tracy Yates Media relations Specialist United Space Alliance Cape Canaveral Florida | What United Space Alliance is; preparing a space shuttle for launch; the role of commercial companies in NASA operations; and the future of Alliance exployees in the wake of the closure of the shuttle programme. Listen or download (4 min 58 s - 4.8 MB) |
| April 6 | Gene Cernan Former Astronaut Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 | His life story; the way the Apollo missions changed his outlook on life; the origins of the film Last Man On The Moon; his pending visit to Melbourne. (Interviewers Shane Huntington (3RRR) and Peter Aylward (3SCB))
* Listen or download (31 min 51 s - 30.6 MB) * Photo: Gene Cernan with Peter Aylward |
| April 13 | James Rigney Member Space Association of Australia Melbourne | Who Was Edgar Mitchell? A discussion about Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon. Included an explantion by Mitchell about his beliefs. (Audio removed from archive at request of interviewee.) |
| April 13 | Peter Aylward President Space Association of Australia Black Rock | The pending visit to St Kilda by Apollo 17 moonwalker Gene Cernan to present the film The Last Man On The Moon, which is about his life.
* Listen or download (6 min 4 s - 5.8 MB) * Photo: Gene Cernan |
| April 13 | Jackie Slaviero Founder One Giant Leap Australia Sydney | Providing space related educational resources for everyone; the "Launch Box" project; cubesats on the International Space Station to provide microgravity experimental experience to children; the "Zero Robotics" project at Normanhurst Boys High School; and Space Camp in Turkey. Listen or download (9 min 35 s - 9.2 MB) |
| April 20 | Peter Aylward President Space Association of Australia Black Rock | More about the pending visit to St Kilda by Apollo 17 moonwalker Gene Cernan to present the film The Last Man On The Moon, which is about his life. Also announcement of a free ticket giveaway to members of the Space Association of Australia. Listen or download (15 min 37 s - 15.0 MB) |
| May 18 | Josh Richards, Candidate, Mars One, Melbourne | Mars One; setting up a settlement on Mars; aspiration to launch in 2026; selection criteria; his career - past and future. Listen or download (9 min 9 s - 8.8 MB) |
| May 18 | Gene Cernan Former Astronaut Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 | The subject of the film Last Man On The Moon discusses his pending visit to Melbourne. (Interviewers Shane Huntington (3RRR) and Peter Aylward (3SCB))
* Listen or download (3 min 33 s - 3.4 MB) * Photo: Gene Cernan with Peter Aylward |
| May 25 | Mike Dinn Deputy Station Director DSS-42 Tidbinbilla | How he became involved in the Apollo 17 mission whilst in the United States. (Interviewer: Peter Aylward) Listen or download (2 min 40 s - 2.6 MB) |
| June 1 | Mike Dinn former Deputy Station Director DSS-42 Tidbinbilla | Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Surveyor 1 soft landing on the Moon, a conversation with Mike Dinn. Part of a special feture on Surveyor 1. (Interviewer Peter Aylward)
* Listen or download full programme (47 min 48 s - 45.9 MB) * Listen or download Mike Dinn's introductory comments (2 min 49 s - 2.7 MB) * Listen or download Mike Dinn (10 min 50 s - 10.4 MB) * Photo of Mike Dinn circa 1968 * The awakening of Surveyor 1 after the 14 day lunar night occurred when one of Mike Dinn's shift leaders, Paddy Johnstone, was on duty. He got the "Prince Charming" award from JPL. Photo of Paddy Johnstone, Hal French (Hughes station operations chief) and Bob Leslie (Station Director - Mike Dinn's boss.) |
| June 8 | Mike Dinn former Deputy Station Director DSS-42 Tidbinbilla | Marking the 50th Anniversary of the successful Surveyor 1 soft landing on the Moon, a conversation with Mike Dinn. Part of a special feture on Surveyor 1. (Interviewer Peter Aylward)
* Listen or download full feature (24 min 32 s - 23.6 MB) * Listen or download Mike Dinn (14 min 46 s - 14.2 MB) |
| August 3 | Vince Alder Habitat Concept Developer Facebook Mars4Real Elwood | A plan to use laser cutters to carve out a habitat under the surface of Mars. Listen or download (17 min 21 s - 16.7 MB) |
| August 31 | Ed van Cise Flight Director Johnson Space Center Houston Texas | His role at NASA and what this involves; a typical day in the life of a Flight Director; what happens when things go wrong; his career path; and what brought him to visit Melbourne. * Listen or download introduction (3 min 33 s - 3.4 MB) * Listen or download interview (23 min 18 s - 22.7 MB) * Photo: NASA photo of Ed van Cise * Photo: Ed at work in Mission Control |
| September 7 | Nana Liu Post Doctoral Fellow Singapore University of technology and Design and Centre for Quantum Technologies National University od Singapore formerly Clarendon Scholar Oxford University | Her three part thesis on "Power of photonic states: from computation to cosmology" for a D.Phil; the three pillars of modern theoretical physics; the thermodynamics of quantum processes; the origin of matter; the Miscius quantum satellite; applications of her work to a quantum internet and to banking; and what she will be doing in her post-doctoral fellowship.
* Listen or download introduction (3 min 9 s - 3.0 MB) * Listen or download interview (24 min 30 s - 33.5 MB) |
| September 21 | Ellen Stofan Chief Scientist NASA HQ Washington D.C. | The OSIRIS-REx mission. (Courtesy KSC) |
| September 28 | Simon Barraclough Space Research Engineer University of New South Wales Canberra | His role in designing and building the Rosetta spacecraft; the end of the Rosetta mission; his work on the thruster profile.
Listen or download (5 min 44 s - 5.5 MB) |
| November 2 | Richard Garriot Space Tourist USA | His experiences as a Space Flight Participant in 2008 (Soyuz TMA-13 and Soyuz TMA-12) and his aspiration to skydive from outer space. (Courtesy RN) |
| November 9 | James Waldie Senior Research Associate RMIT University Melbourne | The Gravity Loading Countermeasures Skin Suit. The genesis of the skin suit; space adaptation by the body to microgravity; task of the skin suit; suit design and evolution; alterative approaches to control bone loss; lunar and martian gravity; how the European Space Agency got involved; manufacturing garment; test by Andreas Morgensen; future modifications. Followed by an update interview announcing six month flight test by Thomas Pesquet starting in mid-November (Soyuz MS-03). (Recorded at Space Association of Australia meeting, Elsternwick.)
* Listen or download lecture (39 min 39 s - 38.1 MB) * Listen or download update interview (4 min 45 s - 4.6 MB) * Photo: James Waldie * Photo: Andreas Morgensen wearing a skin suit aboard the ISS |
