Dateline May 25, 2006: Space News from the Internet

This is going to be quick, as I am swamped today

• Peter Diamandis has won the Heilein Award.
• Russia's schedule on the Explorer suborbital craft they are building for Space Adventures.
• As a former boy scout and a Celstron owner, I applaud this move.
• The GOES-N launch aboard the Delta-IV was a success.
• Seth Shostak explains why we are not transmitting directly to other worlds for SETI.
• Bart Leahy talks about the evolution of space advocacy to a business-like advocacy.
• Mars Express has captured lava tubes on the red planet.
• ESA ISS Module Columbus arrives at Kennedy on May 30.
• LiftPort, the space elevator company, has released a book on space elevators (which I was asked to review a couple of days ago. I am working on it).
• ESA is working on a fleet of solar probes.