Welcome to Astronotes
Hello, I’m Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the Planetarium’s official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!
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Apollo Archive
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Apollo 16: 40 Years On
Posted on April 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsThree years later after the first men walked on the Moon, the Apollo 16 mission, launched 16 April 1972 , landed men on the moon successfully for the fifth time... -
Hello Earth!
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsFewer than 600 people have ever seen our world from space and only a couple of dozen have travelled far enough away to seen the Earth as a planet against... -
Russia’s Rival to Apollo
Posted on November 25, 2011 | 2 CommentsA few years ago there was a vogue among historians to write about ‘counterfactuals’. A counterfactual examines the importance of an event for subsequent history by asking what if that... -
Apollo 18: Astronotes Goes to the Movies!
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 8 CommentsApollo 18, a movie hybrid of horror and science fiction is stirring up a lot of interest. Your intrepid reporter decided to see what the fuss was about. Here is... -
NASA’s Lunar Module: Everything You Need to Know
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsThe Lunar Module was an iconic spacecraft which carried two-man crews to and from the Moon’s surface during NASA’s Apollo Program of the 1960s and ‘70s. Along with the Saturn... -
Apollo 15: Into the Mountains of the Moon
Posted on July 28, 2011 | 4 CommentsApollo 15 was sent to the Moon in July 1971, its primary mission goals to explore the spectacular Hadley-Appenine region, carry out scientific experiments from orbit and evaluation of new... -
Apollo in Hollywood: 8 Moonlanding Movies
Posted on June 9, 2011 | 2 CommentsUnlike previous voyages of exploration, humanity’s first steps on the Moon did not inspire great works of art and literature. In fact Project Apollo has rarely even intruded in to... -
Apollo 18: the truth about the lost Moon missions
Posted on February 22, 2011 | 92 CommentsApollo 18 is a forthcoming SF/Horror movie presented as newly-found film footage taken by the crew of a lost 1970s lunar landing mission. In reality there was a planned Apollo... -
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard’s fight for the Moon
Posted on January 31, 2011 | No CommentsForty years ago, NASA’s Apollo 14 mission landed the fifth and sixth men on the Moon. Apollo 14 was a triumph for one man in particular. Alan Shepard fought debilitating... -
2011′s Space Odysseys
Posted on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment2011 will be a year of exciting and historic upcoming events in space exploration. It is is also a significant anniversary year of some triumphs and tragedies in space history....