The countdown has started, and astronauts in are preparing for a journey that will take them to our Moon. The button is pressed and the space shuttle begins on its assent.

At this point, we may start to imagine that astronomy is not just about telescopes and taking pictures of objects in space. As that space shuttle begins to go, it needs fuel to go. And here we find our first science - chemistry.

The mixture of fuel which includes oxygen is one which needs top chemists to figure out what is needed to safely propel and bring back those astronauts. There is a need for mathematicians to figure out with the weight and all the other information and data, how much fuel is necessary to make that space shuttle go.

But, what about the space shuttle? We have forgotten about the engineers that had to make up this fine specimen of engineering. What materials they would have needed to be made out of. And what about those who had to make those parts?

We can forget that there is a lot to astronomy today, and that a lot of different sciences had to go into making the space shuttle do the famous Neil Armstrong landing on the Moon. But, how did we get Neil Armstrong onto the Moon?

Space has no oxygen, and any human that tries to go into it, would die instantly! Biologists had to figure out how this was all possible. It required the science of biology to figure out how to keep astronauts alive all that time, from food, to other human essentials.

We have just looked at the space shuttle and have uncovered many different branches of the sciences that go into making a space shuttle, and its expeditions to be successful.

We have almost forgotten that it needed creative people who were not necessarily scientists. For example, the artists who had to make up designs for certain things which are necessary in the beginning, before the space shuttle was even made.

The sciences in astronomy also have other aspects such as those required to make radio telescopes possible. The computer technicians, programmers, and even the electronics professionals that have to possibly make up the equipment for the telescope.

As we can see there are many different areas that go into making astronomy what it is today. There is more to astronomy than telescopes. And there is more to astronomy than simply looking out into space. The field of astronomy helps in knowing when brownouts may occur on Earth, and other things about Earth which we never knew before.