NASA News
- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is aerobraking to finalize it's Martian orbit. It is now in a 25 hour orbit.
- opportunity, one of the long lasting Mars rovers, is close enough to see the Victoria Crater, which it has been moving towards for more than a year.
- NASA has selected the crews for the two shuttle missions for 2007. If you were wondering, I am not in either group.
- Spirit took a picture of bumpy rocks on Mars.
- Apparently the GRC CEV announcement was a leak and a broader announcement is coming in June.
- GRC has given a contract to GASL, Inc to build a 7500 LBF main engine for the CEV.
- They found a planet that may be habitable in the HD69830.
- Astrobiology Magazine has an interview with Harrison Schmitt.
International Space News
- Planetary aerobots and other "intelligent" (or at least autonomous) robots from SciSys.
- Russia is doubling their Soyuz production with the help of foreign investors.
New Space News
- More on the SpaceX lawsuit that was dismissed.
- The Lunar Lander Challenge Weblog is up.
- Space Advocacy to save Earth.
- Space.com has a multimedia report on space tourism. It is very good, actually.
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