It appears that NONE of the top three missions that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been tasked with have anything to do with space.  Witness see this interview with head of NASA, Charles Bolden on Al Jazeera (via Weasel Zippers and with their bold) “Bolden: I am here […]

Taking a break from political goings-on, some Space Shuttle-related news…. This morning (Monday) the shuttle Discovery will land at Kennedy Space Center at 8:48 EDT (1248 GMT). The craft will make a rare “descending node” overflight of the continental US en route to landing in Florida. Here are maps of […]

Treehugging, possibly lycanthropic web-2.0 campaigners have launched a petition intended to “stop NASA from bombing the Moon!”. The organisers of the petition claim that the space agency is turning unspoiled lunar wilderness into a “firing range” for space weapons, and that US “imperialists” intend to colonise the moon “without regard […]