Astronomy Down Under

No shuttle yesterday

19 Sep at 14:08 by Wilson

The pass of the ISS - Atlantis “binary system” (Atlantis had already undocked and was, apparently, very visible as a separate point of light besides the ISS) over Australia yesterday was completely obscured by clouds in Melbourne, but Ian Musgrave, from Adelaide, got nice pictures of the event.

In the meantime, Anousheh Ansari, the first female “space tourist” is on her way to the ISS, and she is blogging from space, which is probably another first. It wasn’t widely reported outside Australia, but Ansari was an online student of Melbourne-based Swinburne Institute of Technology’s astronomy program.