Dateline October 23, 2006: Space News from the Internet
- The Space Elevator Games opened at the X-Prize Cup yesterday. U of Saskatchewan came 2 seconds away from winning!
- Review of the X-Prize Cup. Here is some more. And some more. Apparently, about 20,000 people showed up.
- X Racer is called the Thunderhawk.
- And check out the rest of today's space review.
Why I Want to go to Space
To see stuff like this up close:
This is the HiRISE image of the Victoria Crater the Mars Rover Opportunity drove through. Go here for more information.Battlestar Galactica is back
The single greatest show on television (since Firefly went off the air) is returning for Season 3 Friday night. Get your popcorn & mountain dew ready.
If you haven’t ever seen it, The Story so Far.
If you haven’t seen the 9 webisodes between Season 2 and Season 3, take a look.
BTW: I am a colonial. Try [...]
Dateline October 3, 2006: Space News from the Internet
The Lunar Surface Module will be called Artemis. I wish NASA would put out as much new hardware as it does new names.
A new survey on space tourism from Spaceport Associates and Incredible Adventures shows. Apparently, $25,000 for suborbital and $500,000 for orbital is the sweet spot as 2/3 of respondents would go at that [...]
Dateline October 2, 2006: Space News from the Internet
[Editor - Sorry I have been out of action. I have a lot more stuff on me than I used to and it has taken some time to get schedule set so I could get everything done. Should be find now -djs]
NASA is checking out possible commercial uses for the shuttle landing landing strip at [...]
