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, Medical Educator, University of Melbourne Medical School.

Quinlan Buchlak, Data Scientist in Space Medicine.

Topics discussed:

* Oxygen toxicity

* Gut health

* Planetary protection

* Human evolution

* Fluid-filled EVA suit

* Altered mental state

* The “overview effect”.

(Recorded by The Space Show at Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne)

Australian Space Industry 2025 — Part 9:

* Lunaria One Moon plant funding

* Aussie payloads and technology on the SpaceX Transporter 14 rideshare mission

* Gilmour Space and Japan’s Space BD announce a new collaboration

* Winnebago.

(Audio insert courtesy Rocket Lab)

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World:

The Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery is to be moved from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, to Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas.

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) becomes so high due to the accumulation of space pollution that collisions between these objects cascade, exponentially increasing the amount of space debris over time. The scenario was first proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 25 June 2025:

Space Show News:

The explosion of Starship 36 on the test stand at Starbase, Texas.

(Insert courtesy NSF)

Turn Back Time:

NASA’s Scout small satellite launcher program

(Feature courtesy The Space Story, NASA 1989)

Is Elon Musk's plan to settle Mars a visionary dream, or a nightmare folly?

* Elon Musk outlines his plan for using Starships to put a human settlement on Mars

* Reactions to that plan by the Planetary Society's Bill Nye and the Mars Society’s founder and president, Robert Zubrin.

(Inserts courtesy SpaceX and Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit)

Listen to the late David Willson, Research and Development Engineer, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center and Vice President of the Mars Society Australia talk about SpaceX Red Dragon — a collaboration between SpaceX and NASA.

(Recorded by The Space Show in Melbourne, Australia at a joint meeting of the Mars Society Australia and the Space Association of Australia in 2016. Note: Red Dragon was cancelled in July 2017).

See Dr Robert Zubrin’s full presentation, “How to Make the Mars Initiative Successful”, at the 2025 Humans to the Moon and Mars Summit.