Moondust & Bits of Apollo Spacecraft Alan Bean is an incredible artist who is always providing a first hand image of his experiences on the moon. His paintings are even more special because of what he adds to his paint.  It is no ordinary mix. In fact it is out of ... Read More

Art Lunacy at its best! Remember that some time ago I wrote a letter to Alan Bean about  sending a small painting of his to the moon! Well, some great news. He said Yes, but the news does not stop there. Yesterday Team Stellar officially announced that it would take Project ... Read More

Team Stellar Outreach By Stjepan Bedić (Team Stellar CEO) Team Stellar made a visit to the kindergarten "Tockica" ("dot") in Croatia. Kindergartens in Croatia have a "space theme" for this year, so they are going to cover space related subjects throughout the year. Here are a few cool questions/answer from the kids, and at ... Read More

Space Innovation at its Best Today My son Jason and I visited a good friend Dr Jason Held at his office in Sydney Australia. His company is Saber Astronautics and they create software for satellites and mission control centres and even hardware and software systems for spacecraft. We were looking at ... Read More

Catch up with Some Audio It seems that I'm on the radio every week and that is accelerating. I don't mind, but it is time consuming and it is something that I have to do to get known if I want to get the word out about space. Here are a ... Read More

Rankins Springs Sunday 5th May We will be launching our biggest balloon yet from our favourite launch spot in Rankins Springs, NSW, Australia. UpLift 15. I will be meeting with another balloon team who will launch at 10am. Our flight will be at 10:20am - weather permitting. The first balloon will be a ... Read More

Lecture: Mittagong, NSW, Australia, May 30th 2013 Engineers Australia – Sydney Division Southern Highlands & Tablelands Regional Group Website: http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/shtrg Dinner & Guest Speaker Australia’s Aerospace Opportunities & Barriers Robert Brand, Regional Operations Manager, PlusComms Pty Ltd This presentation will discuss PlusComms’s current aerospace projects, which include: development of a High Altitude Balloon platform for testing spacecraft ... Read More

It's Blowing in the Wind - Median As detailed previously, Median is simply a bunch of methane detectors that I have to disperse in the atmosphere as a secondary payload and soft-land on Mars in some sort of pattern, then have them communicate and locate themselves in some way and then ... Read More

MEDIAN This was the initial proposal submitted for the start of the Median Project. I am not sure who this went to, but it got a green light and then funding and as per the previous post on Median, it is just finished testing in the Moroccan desert at a Mar ... Read More

Aerospace: Will Australia Miss Another Opportunity? By Linda Mottram ABC Australia Interview with Robert Brand direct from the ABC website. Robert Brand is on a mission to send a spaceship to the moon… and push Australia into the aerospace industry. Download or play this mp3 file – interview A perennial cry in Australia has been ... Read More