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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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... -
Columbia Tragedy: A Horrifying Memory
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No Comments1 February 2013 will be the tenth anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew. After a routine science mission the orbiter was making a daytime... -
2013′s Space Odysseys
Posted on January 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis year has started off with perhaps a little more promise than the last, not only did the world not end but a new Mayan calendar has started, mysterious planet... -
Sally Ride, Astronaut, Scientist and Teacher
Posted on July 24, 2012 | No CommentsSpace enthusiasts world-wide have been shocked and saddened by the death of NASA astronaut Sally Ride after a prolonged struggle with cancer.Dr Ride, a physicist, was recruited by NASA in... -
Image of the Month: Rockets Then and Now
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsOnce upon a time rockets were exciting symbols of a glorious and exciting future when everyone would get their chance to have a holiday on the Moon. Well the future... -
The Shuttle and Me
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 3 CommentsNASA’s final Shuttle flight is due this week, in this article Colin Johnston reveals what this historic space project has meant to him. (This article is a sequel to... -
NASA’s Space Shuttle: End of an Era
Posted on June 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Shuttle era is coming to an end this year thirty years after the launch of Columbia. While it can boast many successes and certainly caught the imagination of the... -
10 Space Shuttles which never flew
Posted on May 12, 2011 | 5 CommentsNASA’s Space Shuttles have become a familar sight in their thirty years of service, but there have been other shuttle designs which never left the ground.Some were ingenious alternative concepts... -
Space Shuttle: A thirty year history of tragedy and triumph
Posted on April 7, 2011 | 3 CommentsThis 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...