Hobbyspace has some news about Japanese involvement in the upcoming Personal Spaceflight symposium
It also has more stuff on space based solar power - where's the Bond-esque industrialist villain I ask?
Selenian Boondocks has a welcome few thoughts about engineering and reliability re: project constellation
More Kaguya lunar probe updates from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
NASASpaceflight.com is reporting that Space Shuttle Discovery might have to be rolled back from launch pad 39A to the vehicle assembly building because of issues with reinforced carbon-carbon tiles, potentially delaying the launch for mission STS-120 for weeks. It was scheduled for a 23 October launch
Meanwhile according to Space.com United launch Alliance is working towards its latest Atlas V launch four months after a failure by an upper stage engine valve placing payloads in the wrong orbit
Spaceref.com has a copy of an email from NASA's Constellation manager Jeff Hanley about how he feels about being part of the return to the Moon programme. All gooey apparently
The Space Review (no you're not a journal) has a series of entries by various guest writers dealing with subjects like the alleged weaponisation of space and the European satellite navigation project Galileo
Check out this photo report at S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia's website about Soyuz TMA-11, the next manned launch to the International Space Station
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