- A story on Anousheh Ansari's upcoming flight to the ISS and women in space. Don't forget her blog. Alan Boyle has more.
- ATK, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Form Team to Compete for Ares I Upper Stage.
- An article on the Orion Program recently given to Lockheed Martin.
- An interview with Danny Davis, manager of the Ares I upper stage.
- Micheal Belfiore has some comments on Orion. Wait Micheal, tell us what you really think.
- He also has two articles in Octobler's Popular Science. One on Bigelow Aerospace and one on the Lunar Landing Challange.
- Infomation on the upcomming Rocket Racing League.
- Xena, the newest dwarf planet, has offically been named Eris. I kind of liked Xena, myself.
- Weird new planet found.
- Bigelow Aerospace has added games to their web site.
- HobbySpace has a new page devoted to New Space.
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ReplyDeletenot a space news but an interesting proposal for the Orion design:
I think that a (small SM, TEI-only) Orion is like a (single purpose) "CorkScrew", while, a (big SM, multi purpose) Orion may be the "SwissKnife" of space exploration since it can perform autonomous (manned and unmanned) missions also without the LSAM.
I explain my opinion in details (with a curious image and a list of TEN advantages of the bigSM Orion) in my latest article [ "CorkScrew Orion or SwissKnife Orion?" ] here: http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/014swissCEV.html
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