Matterhorn Glacier Express
An evening pause: A ride on Europe’s highest cable car.
Year: 2011
Cutting the federal budget two weeks at a time
Cutting the federal budget — two weeks at a time.
Some unusual commercial caves
A look at some truly different commercial caves.
Russia lacks enough rockets to fulfill 2011 launch plans
This is both good and bad: Russia appears to lack enough available rockets to fulfill its 2011 launch plans.
Leonardo cargo module installed on ISS
The Leonardo cargo module was permanently installed on ISS yesterday.
Traffic and more roads
Puncturing the myth that more roads mean more congestion Key quote:
Read enough of these studies and you get a sense that much of the induced-demand hubbub is really a sub rosa extension of the war on the suburbs: Stop highway expansion and you can make life miserable enough for the minivan-driving masses that they’ll move out of their gauche “urban-fringe developments” and back to high-density metropolitan cores, where they belong.
In reading the full essay, I was struck by how much the scientific campaign against road construction reminded me of climategate.
X-37B launch set for March 4
The launch of the Air Force’s second X-37B is set for March 4.
29 Teams, One Purchased Ride, and One Mystery for The Google Lunar X Prize
29 teams, one purchased ride, and one mystery for the Google Lunar X Prize.
Some thoughts on a government shutdown and NASA
Some thoughts on how a government shutdown would affect NASA.
Station photo op cancelled
The Soyuz fly-around of the space station to photograph it with the shuttle docked has been canceled.
John Denver – Back Home Again
An evening pause: