The Space Shuttle Atlantis is about to lift-off on mission STS-125, Hubble Servicing Mission 4, the last scheduled servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope – launch time 7.01pm [BST]. BBC report here. As usual, there’s a launch blog and NASA TV has live coverage. And, if you missed it, here’s my Hubble 19th anniversary post again. Update Added launch video. And Related BBC report on Hubble.
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »