V1 Rocket Car; Goodbye, Eric [Space Car]

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Rocket Car Mod is Like Steampunked Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Automobiles]

Forget boring hydrogen-hybrid supercars and the like: a one-off vehicle mod like this recently-spotted Rocket Car is how to really impress passers-by. Built by Baron Margo, its shiny bullet-shape is all pipes, rocket exhaust (with what look like real jet engine parts), dials and a whirling propeller that apparently spins as you drive, keeping time with a ring of flashing lights. Basically it's like the car that Chitty Chitty would dream of being when it grows up, and I can almost forgive its steampunk-esque nature as it's just so astonishing. [LAMetblogs] galleryPost('rocketcar', 3, ''); [lien] [EN]

V1 Rocket Car—Goodbye, Eric [Space Car]

Here's what we know: 1) There is a car. 2) It has a freaking rocket attached to it. 3) If this is not the product of PS mastery, we would like to volunteer weekend intern Eric to test it out. Benny,... [lien] [EN]

Goodbye Eric O’Flaherty

Today the Mariners added Greg Halman, Stephen Kahn, Gaby Hernandez and Marwin Vega to their 40-man roster, which now has 37 players. Luis Munoz and Tracy Thorpe were outrighted to the minors and Eric O’Flaherty was claimed on waivers by the Braves. Here’s a link to the official release. I’ve got a Rule 5 post on [...] [lien] [EN]

Dying Is Fun!: Rocket Car To Go 1,000 MPH

Oct 27 2008Dying Is Fun!: Rocket Car To Go 1,000 MPH MORE: dangerous, death trap, fast, psssshow, records, rocket, rocket fuel, safety, sound, sure why not, what could go wrong?, whee! [lien] [EN]

Obama clarifies his space policy

The Barack Obama campaign has been quiet about its space policy plans since the release of its education policy in November, which called for delaying the Constellation program for five years to help pay for its education initiatives. I contacted the campaign last month to seek clarification and heard nothing back. However, a [...] [lien] [EN]

A structural shift in space policy?

Are the key participants in the national space policy debate, and the tools they use, undergoing change? That’s at the core of an article by Kathleen Connell in this week’s issue of The Space Review. Connell sees three “structural shifts” taking place that could reshape—for better or worse—the relative importance of space policy [...] [lien] [EN]

Giuliani planning “space policy roundtable” Friday

At the end of a blog post about a new campaign ad, the New York Times reports that Rudy Giuliani will be holding a “space policy roundtable” Friday in Cape Canaveral. No other details about the event are provided, and the campaign web site doesn’t have any information yet about the event. (Presumably [...] [lien] [EN]

Former astronaut, Senate candidate on The Space Show

The radio show The Space Show features an interview today (5 pm EST) with former astronaut Jay Buckey, who was a payload specialist on the STS-90 shuttle flight in 1998 and is now a professor of medicine at Dartmouth. Besides that, though, Buckey is running for the US Senate from New Hampshire, seeking the [...] [lien] [EN]

If space is a campaign issue, it’s a vague one

“For the first time in decades, space policy is emerging as a presidential campaign issue and, political strategists say, could become a decisive factor in the race to the White House,” starts an article yesterday in the Orlando Sentinel. The report is less of a recap of the candidates’ positions on space than the [...] [lien] [EN]

Reviewing the great space debate uprising of 2008

This week’s issue of Space News has an article (an updated version of which is online) reviewing the efforts of space advocates to get questions about space into the Republican and Democratic debates held tonight and tomorrow night, respectively, by CNN, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times. These some background about the person who [...] [lien] [EN]

Did space policy affect the Florida primary results?

So did those visits with Space Coast officials, statements about space policy, and endorsements from former NASA administrators have a significant effect on the results of the Republican primary in Florida yesterday? John McCain, the winner of the state, also won in Brevard County, the heart of the Space Coast. However, the results [...] [lien] [EN]

Strategic space goals for the next administration

Later this week the Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies will be holding its annual National Space Forum in Washington, with this year’s topic being: “Space Challenges Facing the New American Administration of 2009″. In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Mike Snead offers some suggestions for discussions during [...] [lien] [EN]

India-US space cooperation, and an anniversary

A commenter in a post yesterday requested that I “don’t allow your astute observations about the progress of India’s space program get lost in the mix!” This was a reference to another piece in Monday’s issue of The Space Review about changes in India’s space program and how it could affect relations with the [...] [lien] [EN]

UK tweaks its space strategy

The British National Space Centre released today a new vision to “stay at the forefront of space sector”. The policy largely calls for measures to improve existing strengths in areas like satellite communications, remote sensing, and space science. Included in the policy is the creation of an “international space facility” in the UK [...] [lien] [EN]

Griffin: “I do not want another space race”

Much of the talk of a new “space race” emerging between the United States and China has been fed by comments by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin where he said that he believed China could land humans on the Moon before the US could return. Griffin reiterated that belief in an interview with the Houston Chronicle [...] [lien] [EN]

Planetary Society holding space policy town hall meetings

The Planetary Society announced this week that it is holding the first in a series of “town hall” meetings on space policy this Saturday in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The society is billing this event as the “public follow-up” to the Stanford University exploration workshop last month, which endorsed human exploration with [...] [lien] [EN]

CNN on space policy: the Chinese are coming!

In case you missed it, on Saturday CNN aired a brief report on space and the lack of attention it was getting on the campaign trail in this presidential election. While you’re unlikely to learn much new about the topic from the report if you’ve been reading this and other resources on the topic [...] [lien] [EN]

Marketplace: space advocates need to “wait and hope”

It seems like there are more articles these days about the lack of space policy specifics from the presidential candidates than there are articles about what policy statements they have made. The latest in that former category is a report by the public radio program Marketplace, which reviews the lack of discussion about space [...] [lien] [EN]

Nelson on presidential candidates and space policy

During his speech Thursday at the Washington Space Business Roundtable, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) also spent some time talking about the presidential election and the relevance of space policy to the campaign. He is convinced that space will be critical to winning Florida, and thus the White House. “I am banking on the fact [...] [lien] [EN]