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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Space Shuttle Archive
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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... -
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... -
Remembering Challenger: the end of innocence
Posted on January 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsAn older generation will never forget where they were when they heard the news of President Kennedy’s murder Alas, I have three such memories. The 2001 terror attacks in the... -
Challenger remembered: An irony of history
Posted on January 28, 2011 | No CommentsToday is the anniversary of the deaths of the crew of the shuttle Challenger in 1986. The tragedy was of course recognised world-wide and letters of sympathy flooded in to... -
Christmas is cancelled for Shuttle Discovery
Posted on December 15, 2010 | No CommentsThis year we could have witnessed a Christmas-time shuttle flight as November’s STS-133 mission had been re-scheduled to 17 December, but once again Discovery’s final flight has been postponed, this...