When the shuttle is retired, how will NASA astronauts get to the International Space Station? In the past, when the shuttle suspended operations due to the Columbia disaster, NASA astronauts rode to the ISS via a Russian Soyuz. It was, pretty much, the only way to get there. But soon that might not be true [...]

The NY Times has an interesting piece about India’s moon mission and Hinduism.

As NASA’s next manned spacecraft seems destined to be mothballed, SpaceX—a private space company—prepares to ready its Falcon 9 rocket for a first flight. If the United States decides to privatize manned spaceflight—and that seems to be the Obama administration’s plan—then post-Shuttle astronauts may ride aboard a Falcon 9. All the pieces of the Falcon [...]