Trekzone • Artemis Mission
NASA’s ambitious return to the moon to stay.
Monday, November 24 2025
•Matt
A two-week simulated space mission – the only one of its kind in Australia to join concurrent missions around the world – put a crew through their paces while performing space experiments at the University of Adelaide.
Saturday, March 22 2025
•Matt
Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while travelling in space, and international researchers believe these issues are likely due to the overly sterile nature of the International Space Station.
Tuesday, February 11 2025
•Matt
NASA announced late last year it intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface. They expect to assign demonstration missions to these current human landing system providers to mature designs following the design certification reviews.
Wednesday, October 23 2024
•Matt
Adelaide scientists have announced the development of a distress monitoring and rescue beacon for future astronauts visiting the Moon
Thursday, October 17 2024
•Matt
SpaceX has successfully managed to "catch" the booster rocket from Starship around seven minutes after take-off.
Monday, September 16 2024
•Matt
A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027
Monday, September 9 2024
•Matt
US scientists say it may be possible to use metal nanorods made from Martian iron and aluminum to thicken Mars' atmosphere
Saturday, April 6 2024
•Matt
NASA has chosen the first science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during Artemis III.
Friday, March 1 2024
•Matt
The first clear images of the Odysseus lander on the lunar surface have been released, a week on from it's semi-successful soft landing.
Thursday, February 29 2024
•Matt
It’s Thursday the 29th of February 2024, these are the science and space headlines you need to know now… HyImpulse En Route To Koonibba for historic launch, the moon landing...
Thursday, January 11 2024
•Matt
It’s Wednesday the 10th of January 2024, these are the science and space headlines you need to know now… The first Commercial Lunar Payload is doomed to fail, following a...
Thursday, November 9 2023
•Matt
Oxygen on Venus… an incredible find backed up seventeen times. wearable tech helping astronauts find themselves and a rogue star thought to heading our way now isn’t… the reanalysis that’s...
Tuesday, April 11 2023
•Matt
When Artemis II flies next year and breaks free from Earth’s gravity, they’ll be talking via one of three relay stations in the Deep Space Communication Network. Goldstone in California,...
Friday, April 7 2023
•Matt
A second coronal hole has been detected on the sun as Gilmour Space continues construction efforts at the Bowen Spaceport. Plus – NASA announces the Artemis 2 crew… our deep...
Tuesday, March 21 2023
•Matt
NASA and Australia confirm a strategic lunar partnership, Gilmour Space signs on to get a leg up in orbit, revolutionising communication with satellites, has evidence of subsurface oceans been found...
Friday, January 13 2023
•Matt
Orion Vehicle Manager Frank Lin beams in to give us the low down on what’s next for the first human rated spacecraft in fifty years to reach the Moon.
Thursday, January 5 2023
•Matt
Remembering Apollo 7’s Walter Cunningham, Skykraft Launches, a coronal mass ejection recorded, two lunar mission successes and we peer behind Sharpless 54…
Wednesday, November 16 2022
•Matt
Hurricanes, fuel leaks and a faulty temperature sensor may have forced NASA’s hand for the first three launch attempts – but now we’re on track to launch our next adventure...
Friday, September 23 2022
•Matt
Artemis update, Martian discoveries, Fast Radio bursts and more… lets get into the week’s Talkin’ Science…
Wednesday, September 7 2022
•Matt
As NASA engineers attempt to troubleshoot the fuel leak that’s nixed two Artemis launch attempts in a week – we wait for word on the next attempt to get the...
Monday, August 29 2022
•Matt
Almost fifty years since the final Saturn V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, NASA is set to make their triumphant return to the moon with Artemis I. While uncrewed,...
Tuesday, August 23 2022
•Matt
As scientists use a new supercomputer to detail a supernovae remnant, researchers think they’ve cracked the way to make Iron on Mars and NASA announces landing site candidates for the...
Tuesday, August 16 2022
•Matt
It’s a jam packed edition of the Talkin’ Science headlines today… Matt’s got details of Artemis’ early roll out to the launch pad, new technology for Australia’s Siding Springs and...
Wednesday, July 27 2022
•Matt
We’ve got a trio of launch stories headlining this week’s Talkin’ Sciennce. Plus details about Chinan’s latest space junk addition and some pretty cool research projects back here on Earth.
Thursday, November 18 2021
•Matt
In a special, solo, edition of Talkin’ Science Matt brings you the latest in the world of science and space. We’ve got everything covered in a bite sized podcast –...
Tuesday, October 20 2020
•Matt
Several countries sign on to NASA's Artemis Accords, a new study suggests the moon helped Earth survive the sun's teenage years and a very close call for two bits of space junk over Antarctica.
Tuesday, September 29 2020
•Matt
It's Tuesday September 29 2020. This is Talkin' Science. Detailed images emerge of M-87's heart, a supermassive black hole, Artemis is on track for a return to the moon according to NASA and analysing archive data pays off for researchers... finding three salt water lakes on Mars.
Friday, May 22 2020
•Matt
As we gear up for next week's crewed Dragon test flight, NASA is looking further ahead by putting out the rules for companies and countries collaborating on the Artemis missions to the moon. Interestingly the US hasn't signed the treaty as yet...
Thursday, May 7 2020
•Matt
SpaceX and Blue Origin have been awarded contracts by NASA to aid in their Artemis missions to the moon.
Tuesday, May 5 2020
•Matt
Dr Brad Tucker drops by with details of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, SpaceX and Blue Origin winning contracts for NASA's Artemis missions to the moon and Hubble spotting comet Atlas' breakup as the power of the sun got too much for the iceball.
Friday, March 27 2020
•Matt
Our final story of the week sees Airbus quietly achieving it's targets with Artemis' crew capsule.
Sunday, September 22 2019
•Matt
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended NASA Headquarters overnight to commit Australia's new space agency to aiding the US in its return to the Moon by 2025.
