NASA News
- NASA has awarded the contract for the J-2X engines to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. of Canoga Park, Calif. The contract is worth $50 million.
- Is the shuttle really safe yet? I doubt it.
- Update on the Senate hearing for NASA today.
- Mike Griffin welcomes the Russians to future space missions.
- An article on the Mars Science Lab.
New Space News
- Bigelow's Orbital test flight has been delayed to at least July. “We have just been informed that there will be a three- to four-week delay of our first launch,” Chris Reed, publicist for the Las Vegas-based company, said in an e-mail advisory. “We are told that if there are no other delays, our new launch time frame will be between July 4th and July 14th.”
- The Lunar Lander challenge has been postponed due to the rules not being finalized.
- Lucky Bastards get to pilot spaceship2.
- NSS's Space Blitz is in Washington.
- Carmack updates the Armadillo status.
International Space News
- China is reportedly working aggressively on anti-satellite weapons.
Astronomy
- New kinds of planets (or moons?)
Dan, the Lunar Lander Challenge isn't postponed, but the deadline for teams to enter has been eXtended because the rules haven't been finalized yet. The Suborbital Payload/Non-Toxic Reusable Rocket/Rapid Re-Flight Challenge (or whatever it will be called) has been postponed until 2007.
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