Could Britain Ever Have Its Own Spaceport?
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NASA’s Hitch Hiker Fans ‘Tweet’ Their Praise
Penguin Books and NASA have very different ideas about celebrating the 30th anniversary of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. NASA did it by having their LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) vehicle tweeting lines from Hitchhiker’s, just before it slammed into the moon’s surface earlier this week.Quoting the lines from Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide as a whale, brought accidentally and improbably into existence by

Garth Debuts in New Spaceship Away
The latest issue of the Dan Dare-inspired comics magazine Spaceship Away is on sale now via the official web site, and as I previously mentioned over on downthetubes, features the first installment of the Frank Bellamy Garth story The Bubble Man, beautifully re-coloured by John Ridgway

Water on the Moon
The findings of an Indian space mission supports other evidence that there is water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades. Although the mission was not a complete success and was cut short, data from India’s Chandrayaan-1, launched last year, allegedly found clear evidence of water there, apparent

Ex Astris Hits 5000
Got one of those ‘good feeling’ e-mails earlier this week when MyEBook informed us that some 5000 people have now read  an episode of Ex: Astris, called Homecoming on their platform. Homecoming is, as many fans of t