It may not have the colorful aliens and rampant corruption of Mos Eisley, but it will be a SPACEPORT nonetheless. Scheduled for completion in 2010, Spaceport America, the world’s first commercial spaceport will open in New Mexico with Virgin Galactic as its primary tenant. Virgin Galactic has already collected $35 million from customers, and is […]

io9, my favorite science-faction themed blog that I can not keep up with, had a fun post today about how the US needs someone like China to compete with them in order to kick the space programs in the ass. There are a lot of links in the article worth checking out if you have […]

As if Cockroaches aren’t resilient enough already, Russian scientists have gone and bred super space cockroaches. Fanfuckingtastic. Cosmic cockroaches faster developers, Russian scientists say “Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than ‘terrestrial’ ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday. The research team has been monitoring […]

Seriously… Mexico is considering a space agency. The matter has to go to the Mexican Senate first but what the hell, that’s fantastic! Viva Mexico!The Mexican Space Agency would also work with Mexican firms to bolster the country’s competence in a host of areas, from meteorology, telecommunications, disaster prevention, and remote sensing to space robotics […]