World Space Week 2002 Plans

The Star Class astronomy education website (based in Canberra) will be holding an on-line chatroom session on the 'Space and Daily Life' theme of World Space Week on the evening of October 5.

The National Museum of Australia in Canberra will be holding two events just before World Space Week that are relevant: 

• On Sunday Sept 29, John Sarkissian, Operations Scientist, CSIRO, Parkes Radio Observatory, will present a free public lecture on Australia's role in the Apollo moon program
• From Monday 30 September to Friday 4 October, the museum will conduct a special media workshop for young people called Creating the News. This series of 5 x 3-hour sessions, with some distinguished radio and television journalists will encourage teenagers to develop and film their own TV program inspired by the 'To Mars and Beyond: Search for the Origins of Life' exhibition.

The NASA Visitors Centre at the Tidbinbilla Tracking Station plans to present a small exhibition about space spinoffs.

Because of the focus on the Star Wars exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, its World Space Week programs will be focussed at its Sydney Observatory branch. As it will be the school holiday period, the Observatory will have a large number of astronomy-based public programs that week, and the Spring holiday program is being billed as 'incorporating World Space Week'. Saturday October 5 has been particularly advertised as WSW Day and will include a special lecture about the ISS by Wayne Short, from the National Space Society of Australia.

Victoria plans to celebrate World Space Week. Details are to be announced.

The Australian Space research Institute will also be holding its Spring sounding rocket launch campaign at Woomera during World Space Week. These launches are open to the public and are used to fly small student payloads, so they have a strong educational focus.

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