Brazilian villagers, descendants of slaves, built a log blockade to prevent workers from expanding the country’s rocket base. An feature story in today’s The Wall Street Journal covers it all, but I’ll give the outlines here. The Brazilian Space Agency has been expanding their Alcântara launch facility. Nearby inhabitants are not happy. They say it [...]

A group called “SaveSpace” is planning an April 11th rally to rescue the Constellation space program and NASA’s all but canceled plans for an ambitious manned program beyond earth orbit. At least 3 astronauts—Jon McBride, Bob Springer and Winston Scott—will address the crowd. Also attending: a congressman, a senator and a governor. Of course, it’s [...]

The editors of The New York Times came out against Charles Bolden Jr. as the new NASA administrator. Alleged shortcomings of Bolden Bolden, a former astronaut, is unqualified according to The Times for a number of reasons: He has insufficient expertise in space science and engineering Past ties to the aerospace industry creates a conflict [...]