Dateline December 5, Space News from the Internet

• China's Sinosat 2 is toast.
• Debate over whether the Ares I first stage should be recoverable or not.
• The Washington Post has an article on the VSE and NASA implememtation of it.
• Glenn is working on tuna cans to boost the Ares I.
• Jeff Foust has a plan to skip the Moon altogether and go to Earth-Mars L2 point.
• Discussion of the Ares plan and alternatives.
• Taylor Dinerman talks about arms control in space.
• Budget worries about NASA's plan to go to the Moon.
• New Mexico likes the idea of mining the Moon for Helium-3.
• NASA is going to the Moon permantly in 2024. MSNBC has more.
• A write up of space developments in 2006.
• NASA is about to relase a major annoucement about water on the surface of Mars.