Dateline June 14, 2006: Space News from the Internet

• Stephen Hawkings says we have to get off this rock. I thought he was against human space exploration. Glad to hear I was wrong. Welcome to the club Stephen.
• The FAA has approved the Oklahoma's spaceport.

  "We are the planet's newest gateway to space," Bill Khourie, executive director
  of the Oklahoma Space Development Authority.



• Space Adventures hires another former astronaut.
• Using supercomputers to protect earth from killerasteroidss.
• Russia is simulating a manned Mars mission next year.
• More on the meteor strike in Norway.
• A podcast of Astronomy news.