Dateline May 8, 2006, Space News from the Internet

• Go check out the Space Review. Good as always. Jeff Foust has comments of Burt Rutan's comments at ISDC 2006. I have to disagree with Burt on one point. Regarding the Rocket Racing League, he says “Maybe there’s some money in it, but for God’s sakes, we’re not doing this for money, we’re doing this to fly humans in space.” Some of us have to be doing it for money or none of us will be doing it for long. This is a cash source to fund loftier goals.
• Peter Diamandis is setting up Mars colonization. Sign me up, Pete!
• Missile Defense (at least the Navy version) seems to be working.
• Michael Belfiore has a post on Space-Shot.com
• More on the Mars space suit by North Dakota students.
• The B612 is working to get Congress to declare someone responsible for saving us from killer asteroids.
• Peter Diamandis made a error in judgment on his speech, and apologized.
• China says they are upbeat about cooperation with NASA.
• STS-115 (after STS-121) may slip.
• Venus express is having problems.
• Tricia Ware has information on X-Prize Cup plans and the Lunar Lander Competition.
• Oklahoma's spaceport evironmental assessment is officially released.
• Armadillo is detouring their rocket to build a vehicle for the Lunar Lander contest.
• XP Cup will host two space elevator challenges.
• Richard Branson talks about trips to the Moon.
• More about Virgin Galactic.
• India is very proud of their space program.
• NASA is testing a space drill.
• Jeff Foust says Ansari may fly to the ISS before Charles Simonyi.
• The X-Prize Foundation will be releasing some marketing viral videos.

New Mars Space Suit