I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but here’s a long piece from ABC News about the prospects for public space travel, and it seems to take it quite seriously.

This should make Mark Whittington happy, seeing as how he likes space races (real or not). The Swedes have plans to colonize space.

At least that’s what the headline says. Makes as much sense as saying that the Chinese have a program to be on the moon before us just because one of their bureaucrats say they have the technology.

Dwayne Day doesn’t believe in “Blackstar”:

it turns out that the atomic-powered bomber never existed, and the plane was never

Want to watch a rocket blow up on the pad, at night (warning: about a hundred-megabyte wmv file)? I’ve never heard so much cursing in such colorful European accents. It happened three and a half years ago at Plesetsk, in Russia. Here’s the story.

[Via Jim Oberg]

A test flight of the X-37 was postponed for snow. There are some beautiful, and rare shots of the phenomenon in the high desert and the Tehachapis over at the Mojave weblog.

I wonder how good the poppies will be this year? So far, it doesn’t look good.

[Via Clark Lindsey]