Spectre’s Sayings

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.

European space freighter in dress rehearsal for ISS hookup

I want to see an orbiting tugboat fleet.

The bean-counters have decreed that the little rovers that could, can’t. Needless to say, I think the U.S. government has its priorities screwed up.

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Mars is ‘covered in table salt’?

In the “Space” category of links, I added a couple of sites about the New Horizons Mission. New Horizons is the name of NASA’s mission to visit Pluto and the Kuiper Belt objects.

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are reporting that they have found evidence that an ocean of liquid water may exist far below the surface of Saturn’s giant moon, Titan.

That’s pretty cool.

Violent Collision of Stellar Winds Detected at Eta Carinae.

Is China’s Great Wall Visible from Space? from Scientific American.

Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy from the Bad Astronomy Blog.

Cassini takes a shower thanks to Enceladus’ icy geysers.

This is an exciting time to be alive for the insatiably curious (like me). Of course, I’m anxiously awaiting more information from Cassini about Titan.