Astrosphere for May 7, 2007

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Here's what's making gravity waves around the astrosphere today (in otherwords, the interesting stories I found on other sites).

Clear Skies on Demand

observes a

series of astronomy-related stamps

that the UK Royal Mail is releasing to celebrate 50 years of the BBC's Sky at Night television show.

NASA Watch

is reporting that the B612 Foundation has released the complete NASA Report called "2006 Near Earth Object Survey and Deflection Study". Apparently is wasn't released to the public, for no good reason whatsoever.

Do you support human space exploration? Well, you're not alone. Apparently

most Americans surveyed oppose any cut in the NASA budget

.

Space Politics

analyzes this recent poll.

Armadillo Aerospace

was

awarded an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research

(SBIR) contract. John Carmack has mixed feelings about this.

Snowball Earth or no Snowball Earth?

LiveScience

reports on the conflicting evidence

of our once fully frozen planet (or not).

If you did get a chance to fly in space, would you ever want to go home?

ABC News

is reporting that cosmonauts have a tough time coming back to Earth. (nod to

Really Rocket Science

for the story).

Space Prizes

has

the rundown on the next NASA Centennial Challenge

. Digging in the dirt.

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.