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Jim Reavis – Cloud Security Alliance

Gurbir — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:35:00 +0000

A short interview with Jim Revis recorded in London on 24th April during InfoSec 2013. In this interview Jim talks about the evolving definition of of Cloud Computing, the CSA’s Star Registry, CSA’s Cloud Computing Security Knowledge certification and his take on how cloud Computing has been and is evolving. During the interview, Jim refers [...]

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Episode 61: Reg Turnill on Wernher von Braun

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:34:57 +0000

Like so many in the “space community” I was saddened to hear of the passing of Reg Turnill. He was the BBC’s aerospace correspondent but is best known for covering the American Space program throughout the 60s and 70s that he documents so well in his book Moonlandings: An eye witness account. He was the [...]

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Episode 60: Square Kilometre Array

Gurbir — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:54:50 +0000

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a global science and engineering project to build a revolutionary new radio telescope with extraordinary scientific ambitions. With funding from ten nations the building of the SKA will start in 2016 and be fully operational in 2024. It will tackle some of the profoundest questions of cosmology associated with [...]

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Episode 59: Astrophotograpy

Gurbir — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:54:43 +0000

If you have ever been to London and used the underground Tube service, it may well have been driven by the speaker in this episode. That is his day job but Nik Szymanek is one of Britain’s best known astrophotographers. This interview was recorded during National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Manchester in 2012. [...]

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Episode 58: Astronauts Joe Engle and Ron Garan

Gurbir — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:05:28 +0000

The first interview in this episode is with astronaut Joe Engle was recorded during his visit to the UK in 2008. Joe Engle was at the front of the queue to go to the Moon when NASA cut its Apollo program. His place was taken by the geologist Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17 – the last manned [...]

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Episode 57: 15 October 2012 – Cassini Huygens Mission

Gurbir — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:01:49 +0000

Launched 15 years ago today, the Cassini Huygens mission has been one of the outstanding successes of solar system exploration and a model of NASA ESA collaboration. In episode 14 Professor John Zarnecki spoke about the science conducted from the surface of Titan by the Huygens lander in January 2005. The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe had [...]

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Episode 56: 7th October 2012 – SpaceguardUK

Gurbir — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:06:20 +0000

As the dinosaurs on the Earth 64 million years ago discovered, comets and asteroids have the potential for unexpected arrival with devastating consequences. The spectacular collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994 dramatically raised awareness and no doubt a little concern amongst the heads of governments across the planet. Since then, the [...]

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Ben Kepes – Future of Cloud Computing

Gurbir — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:01:49 +0000

When I speak to anyone in a time zone with a 12 hours difference and in opposite hemispheres it implies we are about as far as two people on the planet can be. You can play or download the recording at the bottom of this page. Ben is known for amongst other things, as the [...]

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Episode 55: 4 August 2012: Mars Curiosity Rover

Gurbir — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:22:50 +0000

Since the mid 1970s six spacecraft (Viking 1 & 2, Sojourner, Opportunity, Spirit and Phoenix) have successfully landed on the surface of Mars. In probably the most audacious, breathtaking and risky space missions, in less than two days, another Mars Curiosity Rover will arrive on Mars. Using a technique never used before, NASA has described [...]

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Mars Curiosity’s seven minutes of terror – in less than 3 minutes

Gurbir — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:58:31 +0000

Mars Curiosity landing in a nutshell (less than 3 minutes audio below) by Dr Anita Sengupta from the Entry Decent & Landing and Advanced Technologies group at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Full interview in Episode 55 – tomorrow.

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Episode 54: 23 July 2012 – Manchester Interplanetary Society and Stanley Davis

Gurbir — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:43:20 +0000

The August 2012 edition of Spaceflight, the monthly magazine from the British Interplanetary Society carried an article where I discuss the Northwest of England’s contribution in Rocketry during the 1930s. An extended version of that article is available for free download on Astrotalkuk.org - here. So on to today’ episode. In 1937, two teenagers Harry [...]

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Episode 53: 28th June 2012 – The Chinese Space program

Gurbir — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:40:35 +0000

Brian Harvey is a Dublin based writer, author, broadcaster and probably the most informed specialist on Chinese and Soviet/Russian space program in Ireland today. This conversation recorded during the Shenzhou-9 / Tiangong-1 mission orbiting the Earth with the three crew including the first Chinese female astronaut on-board. At the end of the interview Brian Harvey talks about the Space Cooperation Memorandum signed last week.

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Episode 52: 7th June 2012: Michael Wood Historian and Gagarin’s visit to Manchester

Gurbir — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:21:11 +0000

Historian Michael Wood's documentary, The Great British Story - A People's History, is currently being screened in the UK. Michael is from Manchester and was visiting Liverpool last weekend where he made time for this recording.

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Episode 51: 5th June 2012: Profile – Author David Shayler

Gurbir — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:23:43 +0000

You know what it is like, you buy a book on a subject of interest and enjoy it. Later you see a book on a similar subject that you probably were not going to buy but do so because it is from that same author. Gradually, you end up with several books from that author in your collection. David Shayler is one such author for me. During the Space Day event in Droitwich earlier this year organised by British Interplanetary Society West Midlands branch, I finally got to meet David. This is a short recording of our conversation I recorded then.

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Transit of Venus and the Great British Story

Gurbir — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:00:41 +0000

The last hour of so of the transit of Venus on 6th June 2012 will be visible during sunrise from northwest of England. The following links should answer most if not all your queries. Listen to a short interview above on Radio Merseyside with Roger Phillips today. For details of the Yuri Gagarin talk download [...]

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Episode 50: 26th March 2012: Manchester first Rocket Scientists

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:17:08 +0000

Robert Goddard in America , Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union and Herman Oberth in Germany are three names credit with the development of rocket propulsion during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Each led a very small group with more dedication then resources working on a shoestring budget usually in their own time after work. Their [...]

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Episode 49: 17th March 2012: National Astronomy Meeting 2012

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:34:23 +0000

This episode has no specific astronomical topic but draws attention to a very special astronomy meeting later this month. The Royal Astronomical Society’s annual National Astronomy Meeting last year was held in Wales, next year it will be in Scotland but this year it is in Manchester. National Astronomy Meeting 2012 or NAM2012 will be hosted by the University of Manchester in partnership with Germany’s equivalent to the RAS, the Astronomische Gesellschaft in the last week of March 2012.

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Episode 48: 13th February 2012: Mat Irvine, early BBC Special Effects Department and Sky at Night episode from 1963

Gurbir — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:30:50 +0000

The same year that the first woman made it in to space in 1963, a quaint children’s sci-fi series called Dr Who started on BBC television in the UK. Eventually it became popular around the world and has enjoyed success once more since it restarted again in 2005. Mat Irvine worked in the special effects [...]

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Gagarin Statue in Manchester – Quick Update

Gurbir — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:48:54 +0000

It appears that the public support for the statue to come to Manchester is not an issue once people get to know about the campaign. Half way target of 500 was met on Thursday last week. My thanks to all of you. Another name, Professor Carl Murray a scientist working on the Cassini probe currently [...]

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Episode 47:25th July 2011: Yuri Gagarin Statue in London

Gurbir — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:00:32 +0000

Links to audio and video below. The 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s UK visit was marked by the unveiling of an aluminium statue of Gagarin, an exact copy of the one outside Lyubertsy Technical School number 10 where Gagarin started his training as a foundryman. The statue, a gift from the Russian federal space agency [...]

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Episode 46:10th July 2011: Yuri Gagarin in London and Manchester. New Book and Personal recollections

Gurbir — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:38:07 +0000

On his first visit outside the eastern bloc, Yuri Gagarin arrived in London for a 5 day visit on Tuesday July 11th 1961. He was greeted with a tumultuous and sincere warm welcome everywhere he went including his meetings with the Prime minister and the Queen. The British government juggled with acknowledging Gagarin personal courage [...]

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Episode 45: 4th July 2011: Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden

Gurbir — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:00:10 +0000

Probably the most scientifically demanding Apollo mission, Apollo 15 was launched on 26th July 1971 on a two week mission. Al Worden in the command module orbited the Moon for 75 orbits whilst Dave Scott and James Irwin explored the south eastern edge of Mare Imbrium on the Moon’s surface. Apollo 15 launched with the [...]

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Episode 44: 15th May 2011: First Orbit and Manchester’s Yuri Gagarin Exhibition

Gurbir — Sun, 15 May 2011 14:22:24 +0000

Another Yuri Gagarin episode, I know the anniversary of the world’s first spaceflight is over but there is still lots going on over the next few months. There are two contributors in this episode, Chris Riley and Richard Evans. One of the most successful projects to mark the anniversary is the film First Orbit. The [...]

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Episode 43 April 18th 2011: Apollo 12 and Captain Richard Gordon

Gurbir — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:00:07 +0000

Scroll down for the audio and video. 1969 is remembered for the unique event in history, Apollo 11 and the first men, Neil and Buzz on the surface of the Moon. Before the year was out, another three men headed the same way. On November 19th, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean precision landed Apollo 12 [...]

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Episode 42: April 12th 2011: Rare video of Yuri Gagarin in Manchester

Gurbir — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:00:45 +0000

Scroll down for the audio and video. On a cold bright Wednesday morning fifty years ago in the Soviet town of Turatam, a rocket launched a man into space. A critical initial step for any civilisation that eventually travels to the stars. Any first is both special and trivial. Special because by definition it only [...]

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Episode 41: April 9th 2011: Yuri Gagarin and Reg Turnill

Gurbir — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:26:21 +0000

Scroll down for the audio and video. Reg Turnill joined the BBC in 1956 with the remit to cover aviation and defence. The launch of Sputnik 1 in the following year expanded his remit to include space. He is particularly well known for his coverage of the American Apollo program. In the UK, his name [...]

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Episode 40: April 2nd 2011: Gagarin in London : Captain Eric Brown

Gurbir — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Scroll down for the options to play audio and video. On the third of Gagarin’s five days in Britain, immediately following his meeting with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, on Thursday 13th July 1961, he had the only private meeting of his visit with Captain Eric Brown where the press was not invited, no photographs were [...]

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Episode 39: March 19th 2011: Spacecraft Operations

admin — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:24:00 +0000

Scroll to the bottom for the audio and video. Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, thousands of unmanned spacecraft have been launched, mostly to Earth orbit, but many have gone to the inner and outer planets, and four of them have pretty much left the Solar System altogether. European Space Agency’s Mars Express [...]

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Episode 38: January 23rd 2011: Want to be an Astronaut? Book a ticket online

Gurbir — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:30:07 +0000

Scroll to the bottom of this post to play the audio or watch the video. Going in to space was nothing more than a dream for many of us for such a long time. But things are changing profoundly and fast. Once human spaceflight was only possible as part of a national government project. Then [...]

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Episode 37: November 21st 2010 : Progress of Science through the Ages

Gurbir — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:46:28 +0000

Scroll to the bottom of this post to play the audio. On November 3rd this year, Professor Jim Al-khalili was to give three lectures in Liverpool on the same day (Quantum Physics, Advances in Mathematics in Medieval Islam and On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: the Forgotten Contribution of the Medieval Physicists). I did feel [...]

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Episode 36: October 11th 2010 – UK Space Policy and Yuri Gagarin’s visit to Manchester and London in July 1961

Gurbir — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:10:09 +0000

Next year April 12th 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s, mankind’s, first steps into space. It was a product of the accumulated technology of many countries over many years but particularly driven by the the political landscape resulting from the 2nd world war. Since then successful robotic missions have visited the planets, asteroids [...]

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Episode 35: 22nd July 2010: Dr Edgar Mitchell – Apollo 14

Gurbir — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:04:26 +0000

A man playing golf on the moon is one of the images permanently etched into the collective memory of humanity’s first exploration of the moon. The so called “golf player” was Alan Shepard the guy with him was Dr Edgar Mitchell whilst Stuart Roosa orbited the moon in the command module. Today, Ed Mitchell, two [...]

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Episode 34: May 31st 2010 Effelsberg Radio Telescope

Gurbir — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:12:26 +0000

Nestling in a valley amongst the rolling green hills of the Eifel region of western Germany is the 100m Effelsberg steerable radio telescope. Similar to the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank which is on the plains of Cheshire in northwest England which can be seen from miles away. The Effelsberg telescope is situated in a [...]

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Episode 33: January 27th 2010 : Ptolemy’s Almagest

Gurbir — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:15:33 +0000

If you had the task of gathering all of humanity’s knowledge of cosmology in one place, how would you do it? Answers to questions such as, How big is the Earth? At what date and time will the Moon be full again? What makes the Sun shine? How old is the Universe? Today a good [...]

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Episode 32: January 1st 2010 Sir Patrick Moore

Gurbir — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:23:06 +0000

Sir Patrick Moore is primarily known for his work on the long running TV series, The Sky at Night but he is an author, musician and an observational astronomer, too. He is also a former director of the Armagh Planetarium, a co-founder of the Society for Popular Astronomyand a former president of the British Astronomical [...]

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Episode 30: December 27th 2009 Prof. Barrie Jones

Gurbir — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:52 +0000

Today’s episode is a special recording with Professor Barrie Jones of the Open University. Special because during the Eighties, I studied several of the courses which he helped to develop and presented on the the late night OU TV programs. Professor Jones joined the Open University in 1972 and since 2006 is the emeritus professor of astronomy. He recalls people he worked with at Cornell including Tom Gold, Frank Drake, Carl Sagan and the early days of Gamma Ray astronomy from balloons.

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Episode 29: Venus

Gurbir — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:46:44 +0000

In size, mass and orbit Venus is the nearest Earth has to a twin in the Solar System. It is the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon, hottest planet in the solar system, has a day longer than its year, is named after the Roman goddess of love and yet it [...]

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Episode 28: Apollo 13

Gurbir — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:56:11 +0000

On this day 40 years ago the crew of Apollo 11 fulfilled one of mankind’s longest held dreams and walked on the surface of the Moon. One of them Buzz Aldrin in episode 12 of ATUK, recalled a little of that experience. Today’s episode is a short recording with Fred Haise when he visited Pontefract [...]

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Episode 27: Astronomy on the Web

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:36:42 +0000

A different, interesting and at times a little silly episode this week. Professor L Gay from the Southern University Edwardsville Illinois (SUEI) and Swinburne Astronomy Online but you will may be familiar with her voice on the probably most popular Astronomy podcast Astronomy Cast. This recording was made in Oxford during her visit in March [...]

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Episode 26: Antikythera Mechanism

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:01:55 +0000

Everyone who comes across the Antikythera mechanism goes through a phase initially of disbelief and then the awe inspiring realisation that something almost from another world actually exists in ours. Imagine William Shakespeare writing Hamlet using a laptop. Surely a ridiculous proposition he was about 300 years too early for that. He didn’t but today’s [...]

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Episode25:Science and Religion

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:09:30 +0000

Science is the product of human intellect, creativity and imagination. It helps answers the profoundest of all questions. Where did life come from? How old is the Earth? What is the structure of the universe? How did humans come to be? As the history of science shows, as it progresses so does the nature, accuracy [...]

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Episode24:Telescopes before Galileo? Part 2

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:58:57 +0000

Chris Lord of Blackpool & District Astronomical Society continues the story of the telescope leading up to its use by Galileo for astronomical observations. Ibn Sahl and Ibn al-Haythem were two scholars who during the 10th and 11th century developed the fundemental mathematical principles of refraction, reflection and dispersion and kick started the science of [...]

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Episode23:Telescopes before Galileo? Part 1

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:45:28 +0000

Hans Lipperhey’s patent application in the Netherlands for a telescope was formally denied on 2nd October 1608. Nonetheless, it is that individual, that place and that date which history associates with the invention of the telescope. Most of us are aware of the fundamental astronomical discoveries Galileo went on to make with it in the [...]

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Episode22:Interstellar Dust

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:26:52 +0000

As episode 21 indicated, the power of science fiction to motivate the imagination is perhaps as strong as science itself. 1957 is known for the launch of Sputnik but it was also the year that the scientist Fred Hoyle published a science fiction novel called The Black Cloud. One of its readers in Italy would [...]

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Episode21:Science, Science Fiction and Astrobiology

admin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:09:45 +0000

Professor Mark Brake from the University of Glamorgan has an eclectic interest. An academic, broadcaster and author of science and popular science books, he is the organising chair for the the third conference of the Astrobiology Society of Britain: ASB3: The Living Universe, will take place in Cardiff between July 1-4, 2008. We spoke about [...]

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Episode20:European City of Culture – Astronomy in Liverpool

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:43:37 +0000

As the European city of Culture, Liverpool has more than its fair share of activities this year. Many have an astronomy connection. In today’s episode Andy Newsam from Liverpool John Moores University, Joanne Coleman from the British Association for the Advancement of Science talks about the Science Festival between 6th and 11th of September and [...]

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Episode19:Astronomy Online

Gurbir — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:17:16 +0000

There are many ways to participate in and learn about astronomy online. In today’s episode, three examples of how the web is being used to share resources and build communities around Science http://www.sciencefile.org Space http://www.space.co.uk and Astronomy http://www.fedastro.org.uk . Many astronomical societies are preparing or have already completed a program of speakers for the 2008/9 [...]

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Episode18:European Space Agency

Gurbir — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:50:40 +0000

Since the days of Sputnik and Apollo, Space technology has matured to an extent that it is almost a routine commercial activity. China, India and Japan are well established players in addition to USA and Russia. Next year the Virgin Galactic will embark on space tourism. Since its establishment in 1975, the European Space Agency [...]

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Episode17:Gamma Ray Astronomy

Gurbir — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:51:05 +0000

As the most energetic photons, gamma rays are rare, difficult to observe, require special telescopes & detectors, and not many of them make it to the surface of the earth anyway. So why is gamma ray astronomy important? Its not an area of astronomy that amateurs usually dip even their big toe in and something [...]

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Episode16:Astronomy – A cultural perspective

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:56:52 +0000

You can’t think of Darwin without Wallace, Laurel without Hardy. In UK astronomy there is no more an enduring and familiar partnership than Henbest and Couper. Nigel and Heather have been writing, broadcasting, supporting and publicising astronomy for decades. Their most recent project is a series of daily radio programs for BBC Radio4 called Cosmic [...]

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