Sorry, but I was on the road until late last night, and had a lot to do to catch up with up here.

I was going to post some useful info about tomorrow night’s lunar eclipse, but Jay Manifold has already done it.

No posts before this evening. We’re driving up to San Bruno today.

John Weidner has some nice pics of Burt Rutan’s Spaceship 1 in flight.

You’ll have to find it in the archives–it’s a May 11 post, at 8:53 AM. Thanks, blogspot…

Wednesday is the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of our first space station, arguably superior to the existing one in many practical ways.

I’ll have more thoughts later this week.

This could be the excuse that Bush needs to back off from his support of an extension of the “assault weapons” ban. He said that he’d support renewal, but not an expansion.

The songmeister from Down Under has a theme song for Michigan Fats.

Pfc. Lori Piestewa reportedly went down fighting, buying time for her comrades.

I’ve been remiss in not pointing out that the annual International Space Developement Conference, sponsored by the National Space Society, is in San Jose, California this year, over Memorial Day weekend. It looks to be a good program, and the society will be aided by attendance, particularly from out of town. If you can make it, I highly recommend attending to find out what’s happening on the frontier.

Donald Luskin describes why weblogs may eventually take over the media, and why they still have a long way to go toward that goal.

Donald Luskin describes why weblogs may eventually take over the media, and why they still have a long way to go toward that goal.