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According to this report about a new documentary the scientific community has woken up to the need to develop a defence against civilisation destroying asteroids. But it's not as if nothing is already being done, the European Space Agency has had such a project for some time

Spacefellowship.com has an interview with the UK spaceplane project Spacefleet, which I wrote about a while back. Sadly Spacefleet is about as likely to get funding as a killer asteroid is to crash into the Earth tomorrow

Talking of coming down to reality with a crash, this link claims to show Democratic party candidate Barak Obama's "space plan" but I can't find it on his campaign website. It doesn't have any surprises anyway, it's the Bush policy without the Moon exploration and some waffle about education

And finally, MSNBC has a video report about aviation and space in 2008

Selenian Boondocks went for some real blue sky thinking, or is that black sky, with its thoughts on a lunar ejection seat

The Space Fellowship reports on Interobital's new manned capsule work

Hobbyspace.com reviews Orbital Recovery's situation and its name change and highlights another Google Lunar X Prize competition entrant

Rand Simberg sort of comments on Bob Zubrin’s new book and MSNBC reports on NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft's flyby

Watch this reassuring movie about a European Space Agency mission to save the Earth from deadly asteroids

Over at The Woracle blog my colleague Graham Warwick (pr. Wor-rick not War-wick as so many Americans do) has plenty of info on US military hypersonic vehicles

Here Northrop Grumman gives details about the thermal protection system technology its developing with the US Air Force Research Lab that could be used on the likes of DARPA's FALCON for prompt global strike and/or future reusable rockets

For those of you who prefer a cislunar strike capability Northrop is now building the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite that will smack into the Moon sending a greater than 250,000kg (550,000lb) plume higher than 32,700ft from the lunar surface

While a launch of an alleged Israeli spy satellite by an Indian rocket was held up this week

But if that's all a bit dry for you then here is a surprisingly informative film for US school kids from the 1960s that includes film of Robert Goddard's work