The Space Association of Australia is proud to announce the broadcast of an exclusive 3 part interview with Apollo 16 Moonwalker Charlie Duke The tenth man to walk on the Moon will be our guest on The Space Show (Australia) radio program over three weeks during October. The former astronaut gave generously of his time during a recent visit to the studios of Southern FM (in Melbourne, Australia) and record an extended interview with Andrew Rennie & Peter Aylward. The Space Show (Australia) can be heard every Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 pm (AEDT) on Southern FM, which broadcasts on 88.3 MHz to Melbournes south-eastern suburbs. Or you can stream live at: southernfm.au/?s=%22The+Space+Show%22 The interviews will also be podcast after broadcast and will be available here: southernfm.au/space/ Each of our three discussions with Charlie Duke will start at about 7:15 pm (following the space news segment of the show) and will include illustrative audio from the Apollo 16 mission, which was launched on 1972 April 16 and returned to Earth 11 days later. Astronauts Duke and Young spent 71 hours in the Descartes region of the Moon. October 15 Program 1 : Duke discusses his formative experiences, his military aviation career, astronaut training and his role in the early Apollo missions. October 22 Program 2 : Duke describes the Apollo 16 mission to the Moon, his work on the Space Shuttle development, his decision to leave NASA and his life since then. October 29 Program 3 : Duke responds to questions submitted by listeners. International broadcast times: Melbourne (Australia - Victoria) Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 7:00 PM AEDT UTC+11 hours New York (U.S.A. - New York) Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 4:00 AM EDT UTC-4 hours Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California) Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 1:00 AM PDT UTC-7 hours Corresponding UTC (GMT) Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 08:00 Special note and thanks go to The Space Show Australia’s Producer and presenter Andrew Rennie for his work editing and adding relevant material to build out the interview. The Apollo 16 crew, particularly John Young, were not very communicative during their mission, and provided few memorable quotable comments. On one day recently Andrew spent 5 hours scouring the transcript of the entire 11 day mission searching for comments other than technical readouts such as battery voltages. Another 4 hours was spent the next day locating the relevant audio file, matching it to the transcript, and then re-recording and editing them (including removing most of the annoying squelch beeps that defined, for some people, the Apollo missions) and then deciding where to place them in Dukes narrative. Unfortunately, the memorable quotes didnt usually match Dukes interview with us, i.e. the things that Duke spoke about usually had no available mission audio. Add to that the 3 or 4 hours taken to edit and log Dukes interview. All in all, a very big effort and we hope you enjoy the shows! The Space Show is on tomorrow night and the Duke interviews commence the week after, we hope you enjoy! Best regards, Peter Aylward 0413993231 President - The Space Association of Australia Inc. Www.space.asn.au Co-organiser Melbourne Space Network Meetup Group meetup/MelSpaceNet/ About The Space Show (Australia): The Space Show is a one hour radio program presented every Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 p.m. and is now celebrating 23 years on air! It aims to promote a public understanding of spaceflight and astronomy, and to provide the public and members of the Space Association of Australia with up-to-date news of space related events. To do so it covers a wide range of current space and astronomical events. The Space Show began in 1991 as a fortnightly half hour program on Sunday afternoons. Within a few months it had so impressed the stations Programming Committee that it was promoted to one hour per week, and later in 1991 switched to Wednesday evenings. It has never missed a week since. The Space Show includes: space and astronomy news; interviews; recordings of lectures; the night sky; media alerts or previews; media reviews; historical documentaries; explanations of the science behind the space events and astronomical discoveries; Space Association and community event notices; and occasionally music. Needless to say, most of the material broadcast are exclusive to The Space Show. They will not be heard on any other station because we record most of our own material and also because no other Australian radio station devotes an hour per week to covering space and astronomy.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 06:07:30 +0000
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