Faster, better, cheaper anti-matter is on the horizon. (Thank heavens!)

The Leonid Meteor Shower is tonight/early tomorrow am. NASA has released some Palm Pilot software to help you keep track.
Get as far away from the city lights as you can and enjoy the show!

Mining asteroids has never looked so cool:
NASA Reveals New Plan for the Moon, Mars & Outward
By Leonard David for Space.com
You gotta check out the Lagrangian point presentation and the Raver Space Miner Video embedded within the article (and linked to at the bottom of both pages, if you have trouble with any of the links above).

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(Note: I almost categorized this one under “Celebrity Bitchfights.”)
Here’s the story on it by the BBC:
Boeing tries to defy gravity.

It seems to me like we should have several more years’ worth of successful missions under our belt before we start sending non-superpeople “up there”…(but nobody asked me 🙂

See the AP story:
NASA plans to send teacher into space.

CNN covers NASA’s latest “Tumbleweed Rover” probe: CNN.com – Big ball would make Mars study a breeze (August 21, 2001).