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From Engadget, there’s this posting about the next X-Prize to the Moon sponsored by Google. Send a Spacecraft to the moon and travel 2km across the surface and return a gig of images and video by 2012 and win $20M. This time, you can be number 2 and win $5M. There’s also […]

From Engadget, there’s this posting about the next X-Prize to the Moon sponsored by Google. Send a Spacecraft to the moon and travel 2km across the surface and return a gig of images and video by 2012 and win $20M. This time, you can be number 2 and win $5M. There’s also […]

Just now on NASA TV: Mission control instructed space walking astronauts to give the solar panels they’ve been folding up a shake.
Mission Control: “You’re go for three shakes”
Astronaut: “Is that One, Two, Five?”
In mission control, there was much laughter.

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Anousheh Ansari, of the same Ansari family of X-Prize fame is onboard the International Space Station. I like the X-Prize ball cap. Nice touch!
On a side note, I see the X-Prize Foundation uses the WordPress blogging service.

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The firing of Charlie Carmada and the no-go, but go ahead decision last week indicate the cultural problems with NASA continue. Carmada’s disagreement stems from the way NASA selects members of its management teams, “I cannot accept the methods I believe are being used by this Center to select future leaders. I have always […]

This can be the greatest achievement since the Enron’s creative accounting system. “Where did that $95 billion Space Station go?” “It’s cloaked. Take my word for it.”
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From NASA Watch: Celestron and Boy Scouts Venture Where NASA Can’t (Or Won’t). Again, private enterprise succeeds where government has no interest.
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NASA recently started carrying a podcast of agency news. This week they posted a Mars Rover update with Steve Squyres, so it’s not just the week in review.

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Here is a recording of last the Space Shuttle’s Sonic Boom recorded from Tehachapi.

I should have set up a camera, because shortly before the boom, a bright light appeared to the south west, got increasingly brighter and passed directly over head. It was the Space Station, catching up with and passing by Discovery making […]

Burt Rutan and Richard Branson have announced they will form a The Spaceship Company to build and fly commercial suborbital spacecraft based on White Knight/Spaceship One. So far, it’s been reported here and here.