THE AIS SPECIALIST LECTURE PROGRAMME

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A growing service from AIS is our comprehensive range of specialised lectures and presentations. The lectures are adaptable according to the age, size and technical knowledge of our audience, and are suitable for enthusiasts and interested parties from early school years to retirement age. This programme is highly suitable for social functions and after dinner speaking.

Equipment can be supplied to support the lecture, including audio / visual aids, display boards. We can also provide support and materials for exhibitions and points of contact for other related equipment and displays.

Many of these talks are based upon published works by Dave Shayler and can be supported by a book signing where applicable,  each presentation lasts up to 90 minutes but can be adapted as required.

If you cannot find a suitable topic listed below, contact Dave at AIS and we will try to accommodate your preferences.

At Home in Space - Eating, drinking, going to the toilet and being sick

A house in space - Amercia’s space station Skylab

Accidents in space - The risk of human spaceflight

A universal spacecraft - The Soviet/Russian Soyuz programme

The British are coming - a story of Britain’s astronauts

Challenger - The story of the space shuttle

The first Cosmonauts - the Gagarin era

Columbia - The first space shuttle

Divine vessels - China’s manned space programme

Do you have the right stuff? - The making of a space explorer

Following Valentina - The story of women in space

From planet Earth - International space explorers

Go at throttle up - A flight on the space shuttle

The heavenly twins - Gemini the forgotton programme

Intrepid eagles - ‘The story of Apollo’s lunar module

Leaving Earth - Riding rockets into space

Marswalk one - First steps on a new planet

Moon race - US and Soviet race for the moon in the 1960’s

Moonwalk one - The story of Apollo II

One small step - Apollo’s mission to the moon

Seventeen - The last Apollo

Christmas around the moon - The story of Apollo 8

Red giant - Development of Soviet Cosmonautics Gagarin to Mir

Right stuff, wrong skills - Scientist Astronauts

Space Station - A century in the making, the evolution of ISS

Giant strides - development of spacewalking tecniques

Stretching the shuttle - extended duration shuttle missions

Tower clear - milestone of US manned space exploration - Project Mercury to Mars

When stars fall from the sky - Space rescue and recovery

Zero G and I feel fine - adapting to the space flight environment

Astronaut - John Young, a career in space

Blueprints for zero G - workstations in space

Where blue skies turn black - the X15 rocket plane

To the stratosphere - high altitude balloon flights

Christmas in space - celebrating seasons and festivals off earth

Camera in space - development of space photography

From the Moon to Mars and beyond - the future of human space exploration

Astronomical society presentations

These presentations are suitable for any astronomical society and reveal how human spaceflight can assist and supplement the science of astronomy. Each presentation lasts up to 60 - 90 minutes as required.

A new look at an old sun - The Skylab telescope mount

Astro - the shuttle borne astronomy missions

Keeping an eye on the universe - the hubble service missions

Stargazing - astronomy from manned spacecraft including the astronomer astronauts