Dateline August 29, 2006, Space News from the Internet

• A new survey on space tourism is out.
• Tickets for the X Prize Cup are on sale. You can buy them here.
• NASA has performed a drop test on the Ares I.
• Russia is planning to build a new space station in 2015 to better see all of Russia.
• James Van Allen's last paper was on the possibility of an asteroid smacking the Earth.