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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 December 2025: SpIRIT on Orbit Professor Michele Trenti (Principal Investigator, SpIRIT, University of Melbourne) describes the Hermes instrument on the SpIRIT satellite and its results. (Conversation with The Space Show recorded at the 24th Australian Space Research Conference 2025 )   [ 10.01.2024 SpIRIT in the Sky: The Space Show in conversation with Clint The...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 November 2025:  Reflections on the 24th Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC) 2025 The ASRC is organised by the National Space Society of Australia , Mars Society Australia , and members of the Australian space research community. The ASRC is the primary annual meeting for Australian space research. It welcomes researchers, engineers, educators, business a...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 19 November 2025:  New Glenn (NG-2) Launches ESCAPADE The launch of the twin ESCAPADE Blue and ESCAPADE Gold spacecraft towards Mars by the second New Glenn rocket. (Inserts courtesy GSFC, Blue Origin)  Turn Back Time The bittersweet story of Venera 2, Venera 3 and Cosmos 96.  Shenzhou update The Shenzhou 20 crew lands in Shenzhou 21, leaving the Shenzhou 21 crew a...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 12 November 2025: Shenzhou-20 and orbital debris: The launch of Shenzhou-21, debris impact on Shenzhou-20, and options for the continued crew exchange on Tiangong. (Inserts courtesy CGTN) Turn Back Time — 1970-71: The Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1 mission. (Inserts NZBC, Radio Moscow) The Kessler Syndrome — Part One: Topic and speakers' introduction; definitions; meth...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 5 November 2025: The Ethics of Space Colonisation with Gordon Young, Principal at Ethilogical Consulting and Lecturer in Professional Ethics, School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne. (Recorded by  The Space Show at a meeting of the Space Association of Australia in South Melbourne)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 October 2025: From The Space Show archives (1990): NASA’s The Space Story: AMBLER — A six-legged rover for planetary exploration . Come train and fly with us: Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator & Pam Melroy, NASA Deputy Administrator, speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on 23 March 2023. The then Administrators comment on their agency's activiti...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 October 2025: The Karman Project: Building a cooperative future in space The Karman Project is a non-profit foundation promoting peace and security in space through strategic international cooperation. The project aims to unite global decision-makers to drive urgent, collaborative action for a sustainable and peaceful future in space — recognising the core role...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 October 2025: How to become an astronaut with Rose Tasker at the Moon Village Association, Deakin Edge, Melbourne. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen Born in Copenhagen, Denmark and selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009, Andreas completed extensive training in spacecraft operations, spacewalks, and extreme environment missions, including ESA C...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 8 October 2025: Kerrie Dougherty, Board Member, World Space Week Association * International Space Week - its origin, local events & theme. (Recorded Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, 2019) * World Space Week theme for 2025 is "Living In Space”. * Australia in Space by Kerrie Dougherty : This revised and updated edition of Space Australia tells th...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 October 2025: Artemis II Orion spacecraft named Integrity : * The crew of Artemis II explain the naming of their Orion capsule. (Courtesy NASA) Parker Solar Probe Completes 25th Close Approach to Sun : * Mission scientists discuss the series of perihelion passes that brought the Parker Solar Probe as close as 6.1 million kilometres of the solar surface at a recor...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 September 2025: Artemis II crewed lunar orbital mission confirmed by NASA is set fo r 2026 The announcement that while the target launch date for Artemis II remains April 2026, NASA will attempt to bring that forward to February 2026, without compromising crew safety or mission success. Four astronauts (Reid Wiseman, Commander; Victor Glover, Pilot; and Mission...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 September 2025: Merging Black Holes and Gravitational Waves - Part 2: The Hawking Black Hole Area Theorem Confirmation This week, The Space Show is in conversation with Teagan Clarke , PhD candidate and a lead researcher in gravitational-wave astrophysics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational...

Embargoed until Thursday, 11 September 2025: Prof. Eric Thrane , School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, explains the significance of the Hawking Black Hole Area Theorem confirmation in a Space Show exclusive. MONASH UNIVERSITY — MEDIA RELEASE 11/09/2025 | 08:13 AM AEST Australian astrophysicists help prove Stephen Hawking’s landmark black hole prediction A global team of astrophysic...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 September 2025: Merging Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: The Space Show is in conversation with Prof. Eric Thrane , School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, Clayton. When scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) recently announced they had seen a bizarre pair of rapidly spinning black holes, the astrophysics c...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 September 2025: Eric Philips: Australian Polar Explorer to Polar Orbiting Astronaut Eric Philips OAM (born 30 April 1962) is an Australian polar explorer, adventurer, polar guide and now private astronaut aboard the Fram2 mission. To learn more about Eric Philips and the Fram2 mission, listen to our two-part special episodes of The Space Show from October 2024: *...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 28 May 2025: The State of Space: My Perspective Sir Peter Beck , Rocket Lab Founder & CEO at the SmallSat Symposium, 4-6 February 2025 , Mountain View, California. Speaking from Auckland, New Zealand, Sir Peter Beck gives his personal views on the state of space in 2025, including launch vehicles, large constellations of satellites, funding, company failures, C...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 August 2025: Turn Back Time: * Sixty years since the record-breaking flight of Gemini V . * Fifty years since the launch of the Viking 1 & 2 missions to Mars. Space Show News: * Starship Flight 10. * NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites and other Earth observation satellites. The five satellites scheduled in the fleet are the currently-flyin...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 August 2025: James (Jim) A. Lovell Jr (1928-2025) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. This two-part special episode of The Space Show celebrates the 97-year life of the Gemini 7 & 12 and Apollo 8 & 13 astronaut. Largely told in his own words, hear how the flight of Apollo 8 , which saw the first crewed mission t...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 August 2025: James (Jim) A. Lovell Jr (1928-2025) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. This two-part special episode of The Space Show celebrates the 97-year life of the Gemini 7 & 12 and Apollo 8 & 13 astronaut. Largely told in his own words, listen out for his story about how he was almost “selected” to be the...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 August 2025: A Retrospective (2016): Searching for Life in the Outer Solar System A discussion of the proposed BRINE Discovery Mission to Enceladus and the status of the United States’ commercial space projects with the late Dr David Wilson, then Vice President of the Mars Society Australia and a research and development engineer at the Space Science and Astrobio...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 30 July 2025: Eris TestFlight-1: Gilmour Space takes first step towards Australian sovereign launch capability. Bowen, Queensland, Australia - 30 July 2025: Gilmour Space Technologies has completed the maiden test launch of Australia's first locally designed and built orbital rocket — a major milestone toward offering low-cost, responsive launch services for sm...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 July 2025: A Cold War Handshake in Space — The 50th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: * Apollo 7 astronaut, Walter Cunningham , shares his unique and candid perspective on the first international joint mission with America's Soviet adversaries. * Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) , another former NASA astronaut, shares his forthright reflections on train...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 July 2025: Space Show News: The U.S. Globalchange.gov website has been shutdown. Remembering space historian Dr Eric M. Jones (1944—2025): Marking the death of Eric Jones, the founder and chief editor of the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, with an interview with Eric about the artefacts left behind by Neil Armstrong. (Interviewer, Peter Aylward) For more interview...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 July 2025: Medicine and the Moon: A Moon Village Association event introduced and moderated by Dr Marc Jurblum, Doctor of Psychiatry, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. Speakers: Prof. Gordon Cable , Specialist in Aerospace Medicine, University of Adelaide. Dr Omar Eduardo Rodriguez , Neuro-radiology Registrar, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Dr Rowena Christiansen , Me...

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 2 July 2025: Prompted by the destruction of Kosmos 1408 , a history of anti-satellite tests, and a discussion from the European Space Agency on the problem of space debris and mitigation efforts. (Audio inserts courtesy ESA) * The Kessler Syndrome , also known as the Kessler Effect, describes a situation in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) beco...