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The Australian space industry is where Aussienauts® are born — usually somewhere between a launch countdown, a questionable amount of caffeine, and someone saying, “Yeah, nah, we can probably build that.”

Back in 1967, Australia launched WRESAT on a US Redstone rocket, reaching low Earth orbit and making Australia the third OECD nation on Earth to place its very own satellite into space. Not bad for a country better known internationally for beaches, snakes, meat pies and pretending every problem can be fixed with a “she’ll be right, mate”.

Fast-forward to today, and Australia is once again getting serious about space. With commercial launch activity, our own national space agency, growing space manufacturing capability, universities pushing the boundaries, and businesses having a proper crack at Space 2.0, the Australian space sector is no longer just “something overseas people do with bigger budgets and more dramatic music.”

Aussienaut® interviews the people behind the Australian and global space industries — from universities and startups to manufacturers, launch companies, engineers, educators and the occasional brave soul willing to explain rocket science to the rest of us without making it sound like a tax seminar.

Aussienaut on YouTube is a non-traditional platform. Aussienaut® provides companies, businesses, universities and individuals a platform to talk about what they want, not the cut-down, “we only had 17 seconds left after the weather” version traditional media often offers. It gives them room to tell their story properly, showcase what they do, and reach a global audience — because the Australian Space Industry deserves more than a polite nod and a stock photo of Earth.

Through ongoing partnerships with One Giant Leap Australia, Aussienaut helps connect students, classrooms and future space tragics with the real Australian space industry. Add in collaborations with Tom Dune with UK Space News and the Space Oddities Podcast, plus co-hosted livestream coverage with Launch Heaven, and Aussienaut is building a bigger, louder, more useful platform for Australian space stories.

The mission of Aussienaut® is simple: inform, educate and inspire people about the Australian and global space industries.

Or, put another way: show the world that Australia is not just watching the next space race from the couch — we are turning up, building things, launching things, and occasionally asking where the extension cord went.

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