- Reuters: Keeping the ISS going through 2020 will enable the medical research that will help humans go to Mars.
- Would you take a one way trip to Mars? Many would, according to an Op-Ed in the New York Times. Richard Gott also mentioned the idea at the 2008 IdeaFestival while discussing the "space colonization imperative."
- Now that contact has been lost with the craft, the BBC asks whether India's Chandrayaan-1 Moon mission was a success or a failure.
- Before settling into orbit in 2011, MESSENGER will make a close fly-by of Mercury later this month.
- "The Navigators": Universe Today describes how to fly a spacecraft around the solar system.
- Paul Gilster examines the link between interstellar thinking and science fiction.
- For those of you keeping count, the exoplanet number is now 373.
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