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 training and working with his Russian counterparts on the International Space Station in more recent times.

10th Anniversary of the New Horizons flyby of Pluto:

Astrobiologist, Dr David Grinspoon, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and NASA, reflecting on Pluto and the human imagination. A talk about Pluto and the New Horizons spacecraft that flew past the dwarf planet ten years ago. (Courtesy PSI)

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 interviews with Eric Jones and information about the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, go to The Space Show website and click on the Alphabetical List of People (who have been on, or discussed on, the Show) and select "J" for Jones.

Turn Back Time:

The stories of Proton 1, Zond 3 and Mariner 4 told in narration and contemporary news reports.

Mariner 4 video and PDF tribute by Glen Nagle on the Honeysuckle Creek website:

• Video - https://youtu.be/haM4We_QdPU

• PDF - https://honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/tidbinbilla/Mariner_4_index.html

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.