X-37B Returns After 15 Months

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47842589/

Whatever could it be doing up there for 15 months?  Talking to Aliens, of course...

Beautiful 3D Renditions Of Space

Um, according to the Danish web site, they plan to send humans into space, in a trash can type container, who's parachute fails to open.  Sign me up!!

The Greaterst Human Lightshow (Nukes In Space)

Narrated by Bill Shatner!


The whole story is here; http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128170775

Ikaros, Working

The first serious Solar Sail test, pretty cool, because you don't have to rely on planetary gravity boosts, you can just head straight toward your target, as long as that is away from the sun.

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/06/20100611_ikaros_e.html

The "Known Universe" animated

Kind of cool.

Iran Launches “Living Creatures” Into Space

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8811141089

They collected “empirical data”. Apparently to the Space Station??

The Shuttle Arrives At ISS

Perfectly done too. This mission is going too good.

Satellites Collide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7885051.stm

It's not a shock to me, all the crap we have in orbit around the planet is staggering. Maybe they will all crash into each other like a Nascar race pile-up.

Perfect Launch

The US Space Shuttle Atlantis had a perfect launch a few minutes ago. I tear up at the sight, because I am patriotic and these are a huge win for our country.

I am jacked up that we plan to send people to the moon again, I just hope we find something more meaningful for them to do there this time. I don't know I will live to actually see it happen, but I will watch the progress closely.

It will of course scare people when we start screwing with the moon, which we will. There has to be something up there we can use, which we will. In the next few generations they will have to grapple with rights to the moons of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which will all be treasures. Liquid Methane lakes, um, what's something like that worth?

We are on the brink of ultimate war or greatness. It will be up to the people at the top to let this all happen nicely, but knowing the animal that in Mankind, I expect you kids will see more war and death. It is our "Nature" to do so.