Spectre’s Sayings

Man first landed on the moon. That was a great accomplishment.

But the fact we haven’t been back in 36 years is simply a travesty.

Florida Today is reporting that the Orion spacecraft is too heavy, and that NASA will be missing their target launch date.

Discover Magazine has an article with cool photographs of Jupiter’s Red Spot chewing up and spitting out a storm.

Check out this QuickTime™ animation of the Moon making a transit of the Earth. The animation is a composite of photographs of the Earth taken by the Deep Impact spacecraft conducting its EPOXI mission. The animation is courtesy of NASA

A new look at rocks brought back during Apollo show that the moon has water.

Here’s a cool animation of what a collision between the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies would probably look like. Looks like the smaller galaxy (i.e. us) would come off worse.

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Astronomers discover clutch of super-Earths, ranging from 4 to 30 times the mass of the Earth.

Yahoo News: RIP: Ulysses solar probe coming to end soon.

Astronauts prepare to install Japanese space lab module in the International Space Station.

New Scientist wonders: Did Earth once have multiple moons?

Yahoo News is report itn that Spanish researchers have discovered the smallest extrasolar planet discovered to date.

This is so cool:Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public.

Very interesting: Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri.

An article about the commercial space race.