Dateline August 4, 2006, Space News from the Internet

• John Kavanaugh has asked about COTS and NASA competition (I will have something on this later today). Clark Lindsey and Mark Whittington.
• Liftport is building a wi-fi balloons for internet access.
• Ares rockets will still have foam, but it doesn't matter.
• Louis Friedman is just wrong.
• Clark Lindsey has a writeup of Elon Musk and Mike Griffin's speeches at the Mars Society Conference. So does Jeff Foust over at Space Politics.
• I like Joe Lieberman, but is a mission statement really that important?
• MSFC is under the gun to get the Ares I out.
• An article on Space Adventures.