Record of Events & Activities for 2003

Month	Date	Speaker	Organisation	Topic
February	24	John Cullen	Astronomical Society of Victoria Time Plus Communications	Astronomy Society and Astronomy Equipment
March	31	Members	SAA TBA	Committee Election TBA
April	28	Dr Nick Hoffman	3D-GEO Research Lab School of Earth Sciences University of Melbourne	Water on Mars Was the Erosion on Mars Caused by H2O or CO2?
May	26	Dr Jim Penman	Latrobe University Monash University Jims Mowing	Civilization Cycle in Space Colonies
June	30	Guy Murphy	Mars Society of Australia	Life in a Tuna Can Guy will give us a report on his experience in the USA earlier this year when he participated in an analogue experiment simulating living in a Mars station. The Mars station has the same shape as a tuna can. Many ideas were tested including new space suit designs.
July	28	John Coleman & Andrew Rennie	Australian Space Research Institute & Space Association of Australia	Report from Woomera , John gave us a report and have photo's of ASRI's recent activities at Woomera Shuttle Disaster Report . Andrew presented a report on the Shuttle Disaster
August	20	Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz & Prof. Rod Boswell	Space Plasma and Plasma Processing PRL/RSPhysSE Australian National University	Fast, Power-Rich Space Transportation Key to Human Space Exploration and Survival
September	29		Space Association of Australia	Gemini Andrew looked at the early space missions of NASA
October	27	Prof Matthew Bailes	Swinburne University of Technology	Swinburne Uni in Space Matthew Bailes looked at Swinburne's courses and activities in Space Sciences including things such as their Astro Tour and other simulations
November	24	TBA	TBA	TBA
December	15	TBA	TBA	TBA