“Originally scheduled for May 16, the launch of a Delta II rocket carrying NASA’s GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) is now listed as indefinite. However, officials expect only a minor delay.

An adapter beam was fractured during preparations last week to hoist the second stage atop the first stage on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

After inspections, a new date for stacking the second stage will be set. Nine solid rocket boosters have been attached to the first stage. ”
- Flame Trench blog on floridatoday.com

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16036

They played a recording of an audio interview conducted with Kirby less than a year before he died, and this interesting little tidbit came up.

“Speaking on cassette, Kirby himself related a story about turning down an illustration job for NASA’s space program because they wouldn’t allow him to go into space as payment.”

I like the way the New Space Race is shaping up. Don’t just promote space science, *do* it. Don’t just talk about space technology, build some!

Here here. its all about getting the public involved. In the 60s, the government promoted space to the public, and it wasn’t sustained. Now, we need to get the people promoting it to the government for a sustained effort in space exploration. Check out http://www.actionforspace.com to find (almost) daily opportunities to tell the government about different ways and reasons to explore space!

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

The largest collection of works by Charles Darwin EVAH. Some of these have never been seen before.

It is so frustrating to me that our world has largely devolved into a superficial pop-culture crazed idiocrasy, and we are particularly guilty of that in this country.

How do we make science interesting to people? Involve them! Efforts like this are a great first step.

As long as science is perceived as an abstract exercise practiced exclusively by white-coated nerds sealed behind locked doors who only infrequently emerge to issue a press release about some possible finding that, if fortunate enough to be adequately bizarre sounding, gets tacked on to the end of a slow-day newscast (after of course, the entertainment news) as a misleading 30-second soundbite to which the rest of the newsstaff get to reply with their superficial glib comments, science will be continue to be looked down upon by the huge majority of it’s benefactors. Fools, they, but it is our society that made them so.

Science to the people!