Dateline Feb 13, 2006, News from the Internet

• The new issue of The Space Review is out. Some neat stuff
  
  
  
  • Jeff Foust talks about what NASA's purpose is and should be
  
  
  • Taylor Dinerman talks about the good and bad of the COTS program
  
  
  • Michael Huang writes a Jonathan Swift like article on the pro-human humans vs anti-human robot debate.
  
  
  • Bill White talks about markets for Lunar platinum
  
  
  • Jeff Foust reviews Infinite Worlds, a book of speculative illustrations of extrasolar planets
  
  
  • A group of big names endorses Mr. James A. M. Muncy receiving the Heinlein Prize (no the NSS one)
  
  


• NASA says the Glenn Research Center does have the management ability to handle a major role in the Vision.


• Mike Griffin says that TPF and other science missions are simply being delayed, not canceled. He also says a Hubble servicing mission will happen within two years.


• Starchaser says they will build sounding rockets first, to get the investors involved and build more complex ships later.