The question of life on other planets has been answered. M-I-C ... K-E-Y ... M-O-U-S-E, see ya real soon! SpaceX grabbed the headlines a few weeks ago, but they're not the only game in town. Up next on deck, Orbital Sciences: Under the COTS program, Orbital received $288 million in funding from NASA to develop its cargo launch capability. That's around $100 million less than SpaceX received, and Orbital has had around three years less time to develop the program.The company will be launching from a newly refurbished pad at NASA's Wallops Island launch facility on Virgina's east coast. Orbital will use its Antares rocket to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit. Like SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the Antares is a two-stage rocket using kerosene and liquid oxygen as propellant for the first stage. Antares' second stage is powered by a solid-fueled rocket.
- New cave art might possibly be Neander in origin, and that would be a big deal for paleoanthropology and human evolution.
- Later today China may launch their first female astronaut into low earth orbit.
- Expect creationists and fundies alike to suddenly embrace radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis as irrefutable, at least in this case: the bone frags are reportedly from a crypt in Bulgaria said to contain the remains of John the Baptist .
- Most half decent companies ran for the hills when the Heartland Institute started putting up billboards comparing climate scientists to mass murderers and genocidal monsters. But not Nucor Steel CEO Daniel R. DiMicco!
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