This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 25 November 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. GETTING THERE: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live here and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV.  

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 28 October 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. GETTING THERE: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl4RKKX2GM and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV.   Feature Presentation: Space Medicine 101 - A Primer on the Challenges and Pitfalls of the Human Body in Space with Dr Rowena Christiansen Dr Christiansen will provide an overview of what happens to the human body in space including the challenges for surgery and anaesthesia in the space environment and also take a look at the potential pitfalls of space tourism.   Dr Christiansen is not scared to ask the tough questions: Is space tourism a disaster waiting to happen from a medical perspective? Is my appendix useful, and should I take it with me if I'm going to Mars? These and other questions will be answered in this fascinating presentation. About the speaker: Dr Rowena Christiansen (BA Hons, LLB, Grad Dip Ed, MBA, MB BS, ACCAM, DCH, Master of Emergency Health, Grad Cert Space Studies) is a medical educator in the Melbourne Medical School, and also works as a prehospital emergency doctor. She has undertaken post-graduate training in emergency medicine and critical care, women and children’s health, aviation medicine and space studies, disaster health, and emergency management. Rowena enjoys sharing her knowledge as a BLS, ALS, and PALS instructor, and pursues special interests in disaster management, prehospital and wilderness medicine, extreme environments, and aerospace medicine.

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 23 September 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. GETTING THERE: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN30oqZixDo - and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV.  

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 26 August 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. GETTING THERE: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live here https://youtu.be/vMu29-VnUsc and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV. FEATURE: The Artemis program is an ongoing crewed spaceflight program carried out by NASA, U.S. commercial spaceflight companies, and international partners such as ESA, with the goal of landing "the first woman and the next man" on the lunar south pole region by 2024. Artemis would be the first step towards the long-term goal of establishing a sustainable presence on the Moon, laying the foundation for private companies to build a lunar economy, and eventually sending humans to Mars. [Source: Wikipedia]

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 22 July 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US:  The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. GETTING THERE: By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 (via Collins Street), Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV. This meeting will include part 11 and final in our monthly feature series leading up to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11: Footsteps to the Moon: Countdown to Apollo 11. This series provides monthly progress reports on the lead up to and execution of the Apollo 11 Moon landing that took place in July 1969. Each month we will summarise the key activities and missions flown in that month 50 years ago between September 1968 and July 1969. This will culminate at our July 2019 meeting, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.   ACRUX-1 Part 2: Into Orbit The meeting will also feature a special presentation on the successful launch and operation of the ACRUX-1 cubesat with Blake Fuller from the Melbourne Space Program.  On 29 June 2019 at 2.40pm AEST, the Melbourne Space Program’s student-built CubeSat, ACRUX-1, was launched from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 aboard an Electron rocket, on a mission entitled “Make It Rain”. Launch Complex 1 is located on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.

This will be Melbourne's signature one-off event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. MOON LANDING LIVE lets you experience the complete Apollo 11 moonwalk, exactly as it happened 50 years ago, when Neil Armstrong took his first step on the Moon on the afternoon of July 21, 1969. MOON LANDING LIVE will transport you back in time to that historic moment and allow you to relive (or experience for the first time) this giant leap in human history. MOON LANDING LIVE lets you experience the Apollo 11 moonwalk through the eyes of the astronauts with photographs taken in sequence, the TV and colour film footage is shown in sync with the radio communications and with the photos, allowing you to see rare and unusual details of the historic event from multiple viewpoints. All the astronauts' communications are subtitled for clarity as a complement to the Air to Ground audio. Your ticket includes entry, finger food throughout the afternoon and your choice of two non-alcoholic drinks. The afternoon kicks off at noon and we'll wrap up after Neil and Buzz have closed the hatch at around 5 pm. Come dressed in your best 60's gear to go into the running for our best-dressed prize too! This will be an afternoon to remember and seating is very limited, so book now, bring your friends and relive history. MOON LANDING LIVE at the historic Sun Theatre in Yarraville on Sunday, July 21 to coincide with the actual moonwalk timeline: LM Hatch open 12:39 Armstrong: "I'm on the porch" 12:51 TV on 12:53:54 First Step 12:56:48 Buzz on surface 13:15 Plaque reading 13:24 Flag raised 13:40 President Nixon's phone call 13:48 Armstrong climbs ladder 15:09 The Sun Theatre is handling ticketing for our MOON LANDING LIVE event, with tickets being sold as part of their Moon Film Festival and open to the general public. The ticket price include finger food platters plus two non alcoholic drinks: $35 non-members (general public) $27 members (SAA members and friends can use the following link to book now!) Discount tickets on sale here now: MOON LANDING LIVE TICKETS MOON LANDING LIVE schedule: 12:00 -­ Introduction and welcome 12:30 ­- Powered Decent Insertion to landing on the big screen, showing the full Apollo 11 landing 12:53 - The Moonwalk "live" + 50 years (literally all of it as it happened) 15:09 ­- Continue with TV coverage to hatch close 16:00 -­ Post Moonwalk presentations 17:00 ­- End 19:10 - Post MOON LANDING LIVE session screening of APOLLO 11 * movie         * ticketed separately and not included in your MOON LANDING LIVE ticket 

The Glenroy Library is planning a week of activities to recognise the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The Space Association of Australia's Andrew Rennie will deliver a talk to the community about the mission. Andrew will present:     A short history of manned spaceflight     The Apollo 11 mission and the astronauts     A brief overview of Australia’s role in the Moon landing     Questions & Answers Come along to this facinating and informative free public event. Brought to you by the Space Association of Australia and Moreland City Council. For more deatils please phone: 8311 4100

Apollo 11 | Directed by Todd Douglas Miller Join with us to launch the Moon Film Festival and celebrate the liftoff of the first lunar landing mission with the gala premiere screening of Apollo 11, the stunning new film from director Todd Douglas Miller. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future. Tickets available here from the Sun Theatre, Yarraville.

The Sun Theatre, in partnership with the Space Association of Australia, proudly presents the Moon Film Festival: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. This July, 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon. A defining moment in history that to this day, leaves people aghast at the audacity of the achievement. To celebrate the 50th anniversary, the Sun Theatre presents the Moon Film Festival, from the 16th to 24th of July 2019, the same nine days that Apollo 11 embarked on her audacious mission. Opening night, with a magnificent full moon no less, will feature a 70mm presentation of Apollo 11 (2019) - the stunning new film by Tod Douglas Miller. In the years before and since, the Moon has featured in stories of exploration, especially so in the movies. The Moon Film Festival, curated by Adventurer of the Year Michael Smith, will showcase a selection of favourite, obscure, short and even the “cheesy” films as late shows, that feature our beloved Moon. There will be screening events within the cinema and the park in front of the Sun, to suit all ages. “We choose to show films of the Moon, and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard” quipped Michael Smith, cheekily paraphrasing JFK’s speech, that launched the Voyage to the Moon. Further details and tickets can be found on the Sun Theatre's Moon Film Festival page. 

A special event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, proudly presented by the Melbourne Branch - Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division in association with the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, RMIT University and the Space Association of Australia Inc. DATE: Wednesday, 10 July 2019 TIME: 6.00-9.30 pm (AEST) VENUE: RMIT University, Swanston Academic Building, 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne COST: Free DETAILS & REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/2Ey36Gt The Australian film, "The Dish", highlighted the role played by the Parkes Radio Telescope in tracking and communicating with the Apollo 11 mission. However, the events depicted in this film represent only a single snapshot of the role played by Parkes in the exploration of the Solar System by NASA. From Mariner 2 in 1962 to Voyager 2 in 2019, the Parkes Radio Telescope has been contracted by NASA on many occasions to support interplanetary spacecraft. The highlight of the NASA support was its critical role in the Apollo lunar landing missions. In July 1969, the Parkes telescope brought TV pictures of the historic Apollo 11 moonwalk to 600 million viewers world-wide (1/6th of mankind at the time). This talk will describe the Parkes Telescope’s role in the Apollo 11 mission, and the impact it has had on tracking spacecraft in deep space, generally. SPEAKER BIO: John Sarkissian OAM, is an Operations Scientist at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. His main responsibilities are the science operations at the radio telescope, and the support of remote astronomers with their observations. In addition, he is involved in pulsar research - an exciting field of radio astronomy. DETAILS & REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/2Ey36Gt

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 24 June 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US: The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 travels along Collins Street, passes Southern Cross Station then heads south along Spencer and Clarendon Streets towards St Kilda. Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live here and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV. This meeting will include Part 10 of our monthly feature series leading up to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11: Footsteps to the Moon: Countdown to Apollo 11  | Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. This series provides monthly progress reports on the lead up to and execution of the Apollo 11 Moon landing that took place in July 1969. Each month we will summarise the key activities and missions flown in that month 50 years ago between September 1968 and July 1969. This will culminate at our July 2019 meeting, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. The meeting will also feature a special presentation on the Australian Universities Rocket Competition with James Kirby and the winning RMIT HIVE Engineering Team.

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome! DATE: Monday, 27 May 2019 TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 pm VENUE: Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne HOW TO FIND US: The Golden Gate Hotel is on the north-western corner of the intersection of Clarendon and Coventry Streets. Take the stairs or lift up to level 1 - we'll be in the Coventry Room. By car: Car parking is best in Coventry Street west of Clarendon Street. By tram: Route 12 travels along Collins Street, passes Southern Cross Station then heads south along Spencer and Clarendon Streets towards St Kilda. Stop 127 (York Street, then walk south) or Stop 128 (Dorcas Street, then walk north). MEALS AVAILABLE: Place your meal order in the Coventry Room and have it delivered to your table.  The meeting will be streamed live here and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV.   Notice of Annual General Meeting 2019 The 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members of the Space Association of Australia Inc. (Registration No: A0000295B) will be held in the Coventry Room, Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne, Victoria on Monday, 27 May 2019 from 7.00 pm (AEST).     The May Public Meeting will immediately follow the AGM.   This meeting will include Part 9 of our monthly feature series leading up to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11: Footsteps to the Moon: Countdown to Apollo 11. This series provides monthly progress reports on the lead up to and execution of the Apollo 11 Moon landing that took place in July 1969. Each month we will summarise the key activities and missions flown in that month 50 years ago between September 1968 and July 1969. This will culminate at our July 2019 meeting, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.