Space games: celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy (that's space science to you and me) and also the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing - the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

Maybe one day, you'll get your chance to go into space...

Till then, how about playing some cosmic space games from science museums, centres and organisations round the UK?

Here's Orby from Eureka, the National Children's Museum in Halifax.


Picture courtesy Eureka

Help Orby launch her landing pod over 3 hills to get to Eureka in Blast Off!



Screenshot courtesy Eureka

How about
Glasgow Science Centre's games?

Their Asteroid Defence game is brilliant.

Can you hold your nerve and blast those asteroids before they hit your space ship?

Screenshot courtesy Glasgow Science Centre

Stay out of this world with
Time Twins on the physics.org website.

Feeling spaced out?

When you're done fighting those pesky aliens, you'll find
lots of other games to play at Planet Science.


Screenshot courtesy physics.org

The Science Museum has a great game called
Martin's Maze.

Help Martin get ready to explore different planets and collect samples along the way.


Screenshot courtesy Science Museum

There's more in our Show Me piece Blast Off! First Moon landing anniversary and International Year of Astronomy 2009.

Don't forget you can investigate science and space at these amazing museums and science centres:

Catalyst Science Discovery Centre Widnes
Magna Science Adventure Centre Rotherham
Life Science Centre Newcastle
Thinktank Birmingham
Green's Mill & Science Centre Nottingham
National Space Science Centre Leicester
The Observatory Science Centre Herstmonceux
South Downs Planetarium and Science Centre Chichester
Science Museum London
Inspire Norwich
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Cambridge
At-Bristol Bristol
Techniquest Cardiff
Sensation Science Centre Dundee
Glasgow Science Centre Glasgow
w5 (Whowhatwherewhenwhy) Belfast
Armagh Planetarium Armagh

Why not see what activities your nearest venue has on?

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