China's First Female Astronaut

Liu Yang is headed to space tomorrow (because of the time difference, it might be right now).

http://news.discovery.com/space/china-first-woman-space-astronaut-120615.html
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Condolences To Paolo Nespoli

His mother passed, and he is up on the ISS.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/magisstra/SEM9RJZ57NG_0.html

Space X Ready For People..

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-20110124,0,921834.story

I notice at the Space X website, we can get a Falcon 1 for $10M and put up 1010KG. We could get Palin, Beck, Hannity, Gingrinch, Rush, Bachmann, McCain and Bo[eh]ner in there and have room for 2 more to pick at random. We just fire them off and forget to mention it's a one way trip.