Dateline April 17, 2006, Space News from the Internet

• US Space News is reporting that the SRB is going back to 4 segments. There is apparently some back and forth on different designs and ideas at NASA about this. Well see what comes out of it.


• California is looking at giving Mojave Spaceport $11 Million for a "passenger terminal to house training facilities and other customer amenities for commercial spaceflight operations."


• Business Online has a nice article on the private space race.


• China is claiming they are going start a manned moon landing test and a joint lunar base construction program beginning 2017.


• This week in The Space Review…
  
  
  
  • Battle of the new spaceports
    
    
  • Apocrypha now redux: more space stories that just aren’t true
    
    
  • Human orbital spaceflight: the ultralight approach
    
    
  • The challenges of manned Mars exploration
    
    
  • The right path
    
    
  • Review: Cosmic Collisions
    

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