Good news: The US has become a net exporter of oil for the first time in nearly 20 years.
This is excellent news. It means that the corrupt Middle Eastern regimes are no longer getting our money!
Using lasers instead of spark plugs in your car.
A precursor for 2012? Canada’s Conservatives scored a massive election win yesterday.
New Space: Sierra Nevada plans to drop test its Dream Chaser spaceplane in 2012 using Scaled Composites’ WhiteKnightTwo.
Endeavour’s last launch has slipped to at least May 10, possibly later.
Did a microbe survive 2.5 years attached to Surveyor 3 on the Moon, and then come home on Apollo 12? New research says no.
An evening pause: Let’s go for a drive! Jeff Zwart in a Porsche runs Pikes Peak, setting a record for the fastest time.
More information on the asteroid “flyby” of Earth this coming November 8.
“On November 8, asteroid 2005 YU55 will fly past Earth and at its closest approach point will be about 325,000 kilometers [201,700 miles] away,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “This asteroid is about 400 meters [1,300 feet] wide – the largest space rock we have identified that will come this close until 2028.”
Justice: The U.S. military finally tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden yesterday.
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An evening pause:
Scaled Composites is ramping up the test rate for SpaceShipTwo.
The launch of space shuttle Endeavour has now been delayed by NASA until May 8 at the earliest.
