The Space Show is a one hour radio programme presented every Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 p.m. by Andrew Rennie for 88.3 Southern FM.   It aims to promote a public understanding of spaceflight and astronomy, and to provide the public and members of the Space Association of Australia with up-to-date news of space related events. To do so it covers a wide range of current space and astronomical events.

The Space Show began in 1991 as a fortnightly half hour programme on Sunday afternoons. Within a few months it had so impressed the station's Programming Committee that it was promoted to one hour per week, and on 1991 November 13 switched to Wednesday evenings. It has never missed a week since.

The producer and presenter is Andrew Rennie. Peter Aylward goes international to secure material, while Alan Walker keeps the show on track by twiddling the knobs back in "Mission Control", making the occasional solo foray onto the airwaves, and digitally transferring material around the world.

The Space Show includes: space and astronomy news; interviews; recordings of lectures; the NASA Space Story; Science@NASA; the night sky; media alerts or previews; media reviews; historical documentaries; explanations of the science behind the space events and astronomical discoveries; Space Association, Astronomical Society and community notices; and occasionally music.

Needless to say, most of the material broadcast is exclusive to The Space Show. They will not be heard on any other station because we record most of our own material and also because no other Australian radio station devotes an hour per week to covering space and astronomy.

88.3 Southern FM   broadcasts in stereo on 88.3 MHz on the FM band, using a 250 watt transmitter on the Moorabbin Town Hall's clock tower. Polarisation is vertical. We can be received in most areas of Metropolitan Melbourne provided the listener has an efficient radio receiver with a vertical antenna. N.B. The owner of the radio above will NOT be able to receive us as the antenna is not vertical!!

During 1995 we moved into new studios. The move has resulted in better production facilities being available, allowing a higher standard of programme to reach the listener.

During 1998 the studios were equipped with minidisk players, replacing the ageing "cart" machines. We also installed a satellite dish, allowing us to access programming from ComRadSat, the Community radio satellite network, relayed via an Optus satellite.

During 1998 The Space Show recorded many events at the International Astronautical Federation Congress in Melbourne. We invite you to take a look at to some of the items we recorded there.