On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 January 2024:

Artemis: Return to the Moon — Part 2

The Space Show’s Andrew Rennie continues his conversation with Space Association of Australia Committee member, Angelo Di Grazia (@GoCats2007) about the delay to the Artemis II and Artemis III crewed lunar missions and the future of the Artemis lunar exploration program, including commentary on:

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 17 January 2024:

Peregrine 1: The perilous flight of the falcon

The Space Show examines the failure of the Peregrine 1 lunar lander after a successful launch on the maiden flight of the Vulcan Centaur rocket.

Artemis II & III Delay with Angelo Di Grazia (@GoCats2007)

Angelo discusses the announcement that the Artemis II and Artemis III crewed lunar missions have been delayed to September 2025 and September 2026 respectively. The conversation includes commentary and analysis on the following:

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 January 2024:

SpIRIT in the Sky: The Space Show in conversation with Clint Therakam, Thermal Engineer, Melbourne Space Laboratory at the University of Melbourne discussing the SpIRIT satellite, its experiments, and Clint’s role in the project. Also his work on the design of the Australian Roo-ver lunar rover.

Space Show News — Artemis and Peregrine 1: Announcement that the Artemis II and Artemis III crewed lunar missions will be delayed; and news of the failure of the Peregrine 1 lunar lander after a successful launch on the maiden flight of ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket. (Audio inserts courtesy NASA)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 3 January 2024:

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 December 2023:

Apollo 8: The Journey Home

The homeward journey, President Johnson's remarks, and musical tributes.

Final call to send your “Message in a Bottle” to Jupiter aboard the Europa Clipper spacecraft

SLIM and Peregrine 1

The arrival into lunar orbit of Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander, and a description of the instruments aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine 1 lunar lander that is due to be launched to the Moon in January 2024. (Audio insert courtesy NASA)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 December 2023:

Planet Earth — Season 4 Episode 58:

Launch of iQPS-SAR-5, otherwise known as Tsukuyomi 1, by an Electron rocket from New Zealand, with a synthetic aperture radar to collect high-resolution images of the Earth.

Skylab 4 — Part II:

Continued from last week, how the three Skylab 4 crewmen earned the one-armed paper-hanger's award, played midwife to some moths, and made observations of Comet Kohoutek and talked to Lubos Kohoutek.

Apollo 8: Christmas from the Moon:

The outbound flight, lunar orbit and Christmas Day. The significance of the mission and profile of the crew.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 13 December 2023:

Space News:

* Neumann Space electric propulsion engine successfully tested in space aboard an unidentified Skykraft 3 air traffic control satellite.

* Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket is scheduled to launch the Earth-imaging satellite QPS-SAR-5

* Sydney based company HEO is a space technology company delivering on-demand non-Earth imagery and intelligence on spacecraft of interest so that space players can confidently act in space and on Earth.

Planet Earth — Season 4 Episode 57:

How the European Space Agency is contributing to the Global Stocktake for the Paris Climate Accords meeting in Dubai. (Audio insert courtesy ESA)

NASA’s Message in a Bottle:

Have your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, an ocean world that may support life.

From Kitty Hawk to Jezero Crater:

Marking the 120th anniversary of the four flights by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, how they led to today's aviation industry, and how parts of the Flyer went to the Moon and Mars. Told in diary entries and narration.

Skylab 4 with Joe Kerwin:

Skylab 2 astronaut Joe Kerwin sets the record straight on the so-called Skylab 4 'strike' that occurred 50 years ago. (To be continued next week). (Audio insert recorded by Peter Aylward, Space Association of Australia)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 December 2023:

SpIRIT launched: The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal satellite, or SpIRIT, was launched for the Melbourne Space Laboratory by a Falcon 9 rocket after pre-launch secrecy. (Audio inserts courtesy Melbourne University, SpaceX, Neumann Space)

Message in a bottle: Join the mission and have your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, an ocean world that may support life.

Australia’s lunar rover named: Australia's first Moon rover to be named Roo-ver, after public competition receives more than 8,000 submissions.

US, UK, and Australia announce trilateral Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability initiative: The new program is designed to provide 24/7, all-weather capabilities that will increase the ability to detect, track, identify and characterise objects in deep space. The memorandum of understanding between the three countries will last 22 years.

Cancellation of Science, Technology and Research (STaR) Shots Australian defence satellite program: Reports that the Defence Science Technology Group's RMS satellites have been cancelled without public announcement after two satellite buses had been built. Rod Smith (Leader, Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot, DST, Adelaide) explains the project's rationale. (Audio inserts courtesy Sky, DST).

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 November 2023:

Space Show News

InSight Mars Lander:

Marking the 5th anniversary of the landing of the InSight spacecraft on Mars (Audio inserts courtesy BBC, DLR)

WRESAT (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite):

With the launch of Melbourne University's SpIRIT satellite pending, a look back to the launch, 56 years ago, of WRESAT and six years ago of Buccaneer, and of other Australian satellites. (Audio inserts courtesy DST)

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 November 2023:

Marking the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this special episode of The Space Show plays and interprets both JFK’s public speeches about space in 1963 and the secretly recorded private Oval Office conversations in which space was discussed.

These recordings reveal the president’s doubts and conflicted attitude towards space activity, particularly the Apollo manned lunar landing program, and his advocacy for cooperation in space with the Soviet Union, all the while with an eye on the forthcoming 1964 presidential election. (Audio inserts and transcripts courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)