Dateline August 16, 2006, Space News from the Internet

• Mark Whittingham has an article on Bigelow's Space Hotel.
• We may be getting three new planets in our solar system if and IAU panel of Astronomers has their way. They want to add Ceres, Charon, and "Xena" to the list. The proposal says any body that has enough gravity to be round and is not a moon or star is a planet. According to Mike Brown, who discovered Xena, it would give us 53 planets right now. Works for me. More from MSNBC.
• Part 3 of an interview with Elon Musk.
• Planet Space is building a space port in Nova Scotia?
• Interview with Mike Griffin.