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 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... -
John Glenn’s First Spaceflight
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsOn 20 February 1962, John Glenn (b1921) became the fifth human to enter space. For his spaceflight Glenn, a US Marine Corps aviator was strapped into a tiny Mercury capsule... -
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... -
Soyuz 11: The Truth About the Salyut 1 Space Disaster
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsIt is June 30 1971, and a ground crew in Kazakhstan are waiting to recover three cosmonauts from the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. The trio, the first space station crew, are... -
Alan Shepard: First American in Space
Posted on May 4, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe first American in space, Alan Shepard, made his historic flight fifty years ago. Part of Project Mercury, the flight of Freedom 7 followed mere weeks after Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering... -
Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
Posted on April 11, 2011 | 11 CommentsYuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, paved the way for space exploration and truly went where no man had been before. He was the first human in space, Sinead McNicholl tells his... -
Space Shuttle: A thirty year history of tragedy and triumph
Posted on April 7, 2011 | 1 CommentThis year will see both the end of space flights by NASA’s Shuttle fleet and the thirtieth anniversary of the first orbital mission by this historic spacecraft. Our coverage of... -
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... -
Christmas Day in Space
Posted on December 15, 2010 | 1 CommentWhile you are opening your presents under the Christmas tree, singing some Christmas carols or sitting down to tuck into your turkey dinner on 25 December, spare a thought for...