In this podcast the President of the Royal Astronomical Society, Michael Rowan Robinson, defends the study of Astronomy from the savage cuts that could end the United Kingdom’s eminence in the subject. He points out that space inspires children like nothing else. Listen here.
STFC boss reveals all
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Man of the moment Prof Keith Mason, CEO of STFC spoke recently at the 3rd Appleton Space Conference. Listen here to find out what he had to say.
David Williams, Director General of the BNSC describes in this talk given to the 3rd Appleton Conference that the UK has to collaborate with other nations to accomplish the grand ideas. Listen to his talk here.
Ian Pearson, the Minister for Science, has stated that “It is only a matter of time before human spaceflight happens”. The comment was made about UK manned spaceflight at the 3rd Appleton Space Conference. Listen to the entire speech here.
Interview with Prof Carl Murray (Queen Mary, University of London)
Nick Rattenbury talked to Carl Murray about the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission orbiting Saturn.
Interview with Dr Leonid Gurvits (JIVE)
Nick Rattenbury and Stuart Lowe talked to Leonid Gurvits about VLBI observations which recovered lost data from ESA's Huygens lander which landed on Titan. He also describes observations of SMART-1 with VLBI.
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