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The Space Show Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era — Episode 05 The Space Show podcast is on its annual summer hiatus for six weeks. In its place, we are pleased to present our Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era.  This episode features exploration mission requirements for the Artemis program with: * Harrison Schmitt  * Renee Weber  * Sheyna Gifford. Lunar Sc...

The Space Show Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era — Episode 04 The Space Show podcast is on its annual summer hiatus for six weeks. In its place, we are pleased to present our Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era.  This episode features the Apollo lunar samples with: * James Head  * Juliane Gross  * Chip Shearer  * Chiara Ferrari-Wong * Judy Allton. Luna...

The Space Show Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era — Episode 03 The Space Show podcast is on its annual summer hiatus for six weeks. In its place, we are pleased to present our Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era.  This episode features CLPS, LunaH-Map, Lunar Trailblazer, Halos, LEMS, VIPER, AEGIS and Moonba Microrover with: * Craig Hargrove  * Bethany Ehlmann * J...

The Space Show Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era — Episode 02 The Space Show podcast is on its annual summer hiatus for six weeks. In its place, we are pleased to present our Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era.  This episode features Artemis science at the lunar south pole with: * NASA Lunar Science Institute - now known as the Solar System Exploration Research Virt...

The Space Show Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era — Episode 01 The Space Show podcast is on its annual summer hiatus for six weeks. In its place, we are pleased to present our Summer Series: Lunar Science In the Artemis Era. Lunar Science focuses on the science to be done on, and around the Moon, by both robotic missions, and the crewed Artemis missions. This episode features: * Artem...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 14 December 2022: Space Show News: * Artemis I Mission Update — The Orion spacecraft returns to Earth and splashes down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California. * The HAKUTO-R and NASA's Lunar Flashlight spacecraft successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and are now both on course for the Moon.  50th Anniversary of Apollo 17 - Part...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 30 November 2022: The launch of Shenzhou 15: Six Chinese astronauts make historic gathering in space aboard Tiangong, the China Space Station .  The European Space Agency has announced the names of 17 new astronaut candidates for its 2022 astronaut class: Meganne Christian was born in 1987. In addition to British and Italian citizenship, she also holds Austral...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 November 2022: Space Show News: * Funding for a new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S) is announced. Artemis 1 Mission Update: * Outbound powered lunar flyby for insertion into distant retrograde orbit (DSO) * Orbital manoeuvring system (OMS) engine burn * Alexa around the Moon * Helga and Zohar medical phantoms * Artemis...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 November 2022: Liftoff! NASA’s Artemis 1 Mega Rocket Launches Orion to the Moon: * Following a successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the agency’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Carrying an uncrewed Orion spacecraft, SLS lifted off for its flight test debut at 5:47 p.m. AEDT on Wednesday, 16 November fr...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 November 2022:  Due to a power outage affecting the studios of Southern FM, this week's episode of The Space Show did not go to air. In its place, we are pleased to present a preview of a forthcoming series of programmes called, Lunar Science In the Artemis Era.  Lunar Science In the Artemis Era — Episode 1:  * Artemis project science overview...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 November 2022: Space Show News:  * NOAA’s JPSS-2 is set to launch atop an Atlas V rocket and will join the fleet of Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites.  * Rocket Lab prepares to launch its “Catch Me If You Can” Electron booster recovery mission carrying the MATS (Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy) satellite * Update on...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 October 2022: Space Show News:  * A breakdown of the Australian Federal Budget — What’s in it for space? Panel discussion — “Victorian Space Opportunities" recorded at Engineers Australia, Melbourne featuring: * Peter Moar, La Trobe University, Bundoora * Mark Fittock, OHP, Germany * Rebecca Allen, Astrophysicist, Swinburne University, Glenferrie * Mathew B...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 19 October 2022: In anticipation of next week's Federal Budget, a Space Show exclusive interview with Sussan Ley, Shadow Minister for Small and Family Business , on potential delays to funding space activities. Jenny Mitchell , Director, Civil Space Policy at the Australian Space Agency on space career opportunities, skill shortages and $1.2 billion dollars for Aus...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 12 October 2022:  Speaking at the Final Frontier Festival at Melbourne University, space historian Kerrie Dougherty ( @KerrieDougherty ) asks the question: “What’s space ever done for me?”  China’s involvement in the space field across the African continent .  BlueWalker 3 by AST SpaceMobile : A revolution in mobile telephony.  Space Show News:&...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 5 October 2022: National Space Council:  Scientific research on the International Space Station Space Traffic Awareness in low Earth orbit Chinese Moon exploration: Chinese scientists have discovered a new mineral in lunar samples they have called Changesite—(Y) Lunar Helium-3 analysis in lunar samples High pressure minerals in lunar regolith The identificatio...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 September 2022: NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully scores a direct hit on the asteroid Dimorphos:  Tom Slater, DART Program Scientist at NASA, describes the test objectives of the DART mission Elena Adams, DART Systems Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , answers questions from the media and takes us...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 21 September 2022: A conversation with the Space Association of Australia’s Angelo Di Grazia, reporting on his recent American space adventure including Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks at her second National Space Council meeting in Houston and a visit to the SpaceX Starbase in Boco Chica.   See NASA Spaceflight’s 360 degree drive through of SpaceX Starb...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 14 September 2022: 60th anniversary of JFK’s a ddress at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort : NASA Administrator, Bill Nelson U.S. Representative, Brian Babin U.S. Representative, Al Green Greetings from astronauts aboard the International Space Station French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and U.S. astronaut Shannon Walker Update on the status of Artemis I...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 7 September 2022: Angelo Di Grazia reports from the Kennedy Space Centre on the two scrubbed launch attempts for the Artemis I test mission Quinlan Buklap - A data scientist in space medicine takes us on a virtual journey to the Moon at the Moon Village Association conference MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) generates oxygen on the surfac...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 August 2022: Mike Sarafin (Artemis I Mission Manager, NASA) - Mission status Thomas Berger (Principal Investigator, German Aerospace Centre) - Helgar and Zohar Ramona Gaza (MARE Team Lead, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Houston) - Radiation experiments on Artemis I Shirit Schwarz (Director of Product Management, AstroRad at StemRad ) - AstroRad is personal protectiv...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 August 2022:  Artemis I mission milestones, priorities and science objectives Mike Sarafin (Artemis I Mission Manager) - Mission summary and priorities Bhavy Lal (TPS Associate Administrator) - Cubesats and Orion cabin science Sara Noble (Lead Lunar Scientist, NASA) - Lunar science - VIPER, LunaH-Map, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Pam Clark (JPL) - Lunar I...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 August 2022:  Part 2 of a two-part special episode marking the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing in and exploration of Gale crater on Mars — in this episode we find out what the rover has been doing in the 10 years since it landed in August 2012. Announcing Lunar Science in the Artemis Era : a new series by The Space Show in which we discuss...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 August 2022: Part 1 of a two-part special episode marking the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing in and exploration of Gale crater on Mars — we remember back to its landing day on 6 August 2012 and find out what it has been doing since. Announcing Lunar Science in the Artemis Era: a new series by The Space Show in which we discuss the scientific in...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 July 2022:   Space Show News: Lunar-VISE (Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer): NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon . VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) lunar rover: On 21 September 2021, NASA announced the landing site for its VIPER mission to the Moon’s south pole . On 19 July 2022, NASA resche...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 July 2022:  Planet Earth — Episode 44 The 50th Anniversary of the Landsat Earth Observation Program: The history of the Landsat satellites: a feature courtesy of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland The Space Show in conversation with David Hudson, Director of Satellite Programs for Satellite Land Imagery Collection at Geoscience Australia...