Obama Says, No Moon For You!

NASA’s moon plan too ambitious, Obama panel says NASA doesn’t have nearly enough money to meet its goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — and it might be the wrong place to go, anyway. That’s one of the harsh messages emerging from a sweeping review of NASA’s human space flight program. [...]

Peace Through Light, Oh Wait, Obama Wants To Cancel It

Nuke-nobbler raygun 747 scores ‘surrogate’ test success The USA’s amazing jumbo-jet-mounted blaster cannon, the Airborne Laser (ABL), continues progress through flight testing. Lead contractor Boeing announced last night that the ABL has successfully detected and locked onto a test rocket and held a “surrogate” low-power beam on it. Had a full-bore blast been fired, the [...]