Beer drinker to be Virgin Galactic space traveler

The BBC has an excellent video of NASA’s next-generation lunar rover. This includes a short clip of the vehicle taking to the street during President Obama’s inaugural parade.

A small bat, possibly with a broken wing and other physical problems, lifted off with the space shuttle Discovery on Sunday—clinging to the external fuel tank. NASA officials concluded that it would not pose a risk to the shuttle…but that the prospects for the bat were not good. Not the first time During an earlier [...]

Bigelow Aerospace, a company that is developing inflatable space stations (and hotels!) is seeking astronauts. Seems premature and slightly bizarre…but Bigalow is probably a real player. Their space stations won’t exactly be “inflatable”—that was tongue in cheek—but they do expand after launch. The founder of Bigelow, Robert Bigelow, made his money from his company Budget [...]