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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Skylab: Everything You Need to Know
Posted on May 1, 2013 | 3 CommentsThis year marks 40 years since Skylab, NASA’s first post-Moon landings project, was sent into orbit. I plan to cover each of the missions flown by the astronauts who worked... -
Spacesuits: Fashion of the Future!
Posted on February 14, 2013 | 2 CommentsEver fancied yourself in a spacesuit? Whether in fact you believe that a spacesuit makes desirable fancy dress, it is undoubtedly, more so than any other profession in which a... -
5 Goofy Moonlanding Hoax Theories
Posted on January 30, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe idea that the Apollo missions to the Moon were a hoax can be found in books, DVD documentaries and many websites. These claim that sending crews to the Moon... -
NASA’s Lunar Rover: Everything You Need to Know
Posted on January 18, 2013 | No CommentsAfter an amazingly brief 17 months of designing and testing, the ‘Moon buggy’, the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), or Lunar Rover was used from 1971-1972 as a key component of... -
Apollo 17: Last Men on the Moon
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsBack in December 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt spent 75 hours on the Moon before joining their comrade Ron Evans in lunar orbit for the return to Earth.... -
Up Goer Five: Image of the Month
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsNASA’s Saturn 5 is still the most amazing rocket ever built. The reign of Saturn was both short and shockingly long ago: the first launched the unmanned Apollo 4 45... -
Flying Saucers From NASA
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsSpacecraft with a lenticular design (that is, shaped like a biconvex lens) were actively studied by NASA and US industry in the late 1950s and early ‘60s.A craft of such... -
The Moon in the Daytime
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsI was visiting the Tall Ships event in Dublin recently when I noticed something strange in the light blue daytime sky! Overlooking the River Liffey I could see something that... -
Neil Armstrong R.I.P.
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 1 CommentNeil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in 2012 in Ohio.Between those two dates he became immortal on the Moon. Think about it, as long as there... -
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...