On The Space Show for Wednesday, 21 June 2023:

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) extended mission phase

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and the Hera mission follow-up

Sixty Years of Women in Space: Marking the 60th anniversary of Valentina Tereshkova's Vostok 6 flight and the 40th anniversary of Sally Ride's STS-6 mission, a celebration of several female astronauts. Also, "Women in Space", a talk, recorded at the Space Association of Australia in South Melbourne, by Kerrie Dougherty (Management Team Member, Space Discovery Centre, Australian Space Agency in Adelaide) mentioning many other female astronauts.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 14 June 2023:

Australian Defence Science and Technology Roadmap

A presentation by Andrew Seedhouse, Chief, National Security and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division, at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation about the Defence Science and Technology Roadmap.

Themes include: accessing space; satellite technologies; assurance of access to space; satellite constellation options; space situational awareness; space cloud service; and the DST Roadmap. (Recorded at the 2019 Space Industry Association of Australia Conference, South Melbourne)

Message in a Bottle: details of how you can send your name to Jupiter aboard the Europa Clipper mission exploring Jupiter’s icy moon.

Spirit - Part Two:

Marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover, The Space Show presents the story of the Spirit mission in word, poetry and song. (Insert courtesy GSFC)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 7 June 2023:

In Praise of Mystery: A poem for Europa

Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, in conversation with Dr Carla Haden, Librarian of Congress, Washington D.C.

A conversation about, and the reading of a poem to be inscribed aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft that will be sent to Jupiter. Also details of Message in a Bottle⁠ and how you can send your name to Jupiter with that poem aboard the Europa Clipper mission exploring Jupiter’s icy moon. (audio insert courtesy NASA)

Spirit - Part One:

Marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover, The Space Show presents the story of the Spirit mission in word, poetry and song.

Beagle 2 lander and Mars Express orbiter 20th anniversary livestream from Mars orbit. (audio insert courtesy ESA)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 May 2023:

Space Show News

As this episode of The Space Show was broadcast live to air, there were a record 17 people orbiting the Earth, from five countries. The previous record, set during the privately funded Inspiration4 mission in September 2021, was 14 people.

The record count was comprised of the following four seperate crews:

The challenges of clinical medicine in space:

* Preliminary comments by Skylab 2 astronaut Dr Joe Kerwin, the second medical doctor to fly in space. Taken from an exclusive interview recorded at the Space Association of Australia, May 2023 public meeting in South Melbourne.

* A presentation by Dr Rowena Christiansen, a Medical Educator at the Melbourne Medical School at the Moon Village Association 2019 meeting, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

The official announcement of Chinese crewed lunar landing objectives by 2030

Planet Earth Season 4 — Episode 53:

* Tropics 3 & 4 launch with Rocket Lab

* RainCube

* Freshwater lakes dwindling

* U.S. Space Council reports from USGS, NOAA and the Department of Agriculture

* MARVEL

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 May 2023:

Marking the 50th anniversary of Skylab: America’s first space station

The Skylab 2 mission was one of the great 'saves' of the space age. The story is told in mission audio and the words of astronaut Joe Kerwin recorded in conversation with the Space Association of Australia. (Mission audio inserts courtesy JSC)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 May 2023:

Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Director, Space Technology at the Australian Space Agency and now also Australia’s first astronaut candidate in training with the European Space Agency, presents the 2022 Warren Centre Innovation Lecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney.

Katherine is introduced by Professor Ben Thornber, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney.

Katherine presents a comprehensive look at the ambitions of the Australian Space Agency and the potentialities of the space industry in Australia, including:

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 May 2023:

Space Show News:

The Federal Budget has made some cuts to the funding allocations for the Australian Space Agency and the national space industry.

Planet Earth: Season 4 - Episode 52

The TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) satellites launched from New Zealand after a delay caused by an atmospheric river. (Inserts courtesy TV1, NewsHub, Rocket Lab)

Skylab: America’s first space station

Marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Skylab space station, detailing the realisation that there were serious problems. Comments by Skylab 2 astronaut Joseph Kerwin, recorded at the Space Association of Australia. (Inserts courtesy JSC)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 May 2023:

Follow along as Japan's commercial space company, ispace, confirms that its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failed its lunar landing attempt.

ispace is a lunar exploration company with a vision to extend human presence into outer space and create a sustainable world.

Our story features "Sorato", the music of Sakanaction from Japan, a recording of which travelled aboard the ill-fated M1 Lander.

Planet Earth: Season 4 - Episode 51

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 April 2023:

Lunar Mining and Robotics — Part 2 of a panel discussion with the Moon Village Association recorded at Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne in March 2019, featuring:

* Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Senior Research Fellow, Geo-environmental Studies, University of Queensland

* Carlos Espejel, iSpace, Luxembourg

* Bohan Deng, CEO Spherospace, Sydney

* Daniel Ricardo & Henry Lourey, Nova Rover Team, Monash University

Space Show News:

* SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launch report

* Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to deliver Australia’s first sovereign military satellite communications constellation MilSatCom.

* Fleet Space Technologies has signed a $6.4M contract with the Australian Defence Space Command

China’s future space missions revealed:

* A mission to Ceres and a large dark matter space telescope

* A clear and independent long-term vision for space

* A pathway for lunar and deep space exploration

What's happening on Mars:

* NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has completed 51 flights across the surface of the Red Planet

* More on plans for future investigations of the Perseverance Mars rover

NASA and the Department of Energy are collaborating on an innovative lunar experiment to attempt first of its kind measurement of the dark ages of the universe — the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night)

Planet Earth: Season 4 - Episode 50

* The TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution) mission

* The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 19 April 2023: