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When Iran launched a satellite a few days ago, it joined the fairly exclusive club of space-faring nations. Is an ICBM next? But this is not necessarily a happy occasion. As long as Iran is launching small, scientific satellites..well, that’s not so bad. But one can’t help but worry that this technological achievement is a [...]

I’ve added The Space Movement blog to my blogroll. It’s interesting, intelligent stuff…and all about a subject that I dearly love. That said, my first comment there was a critical view of their support for the Obama space plan. They think that the big problem is that NASA made a mistake with the shuttle, and [...]

The long-awaited Orion spacecraft has been unveiled by Lockheed Martin. The vehicle was conceived as a flexible manned craft, ultimately capable of taking people back to the moon, and on to Mars. A technological upgrade of Apollo, the spacecraft was designed for one trip only. It was also planned to take astronauts to the International [...]