Apologies for the lack of posts the past few days, but here's a round-up across the Universe (and the world wide web) of some of the latest and best space news. Above, watch a video about the site being chosen for the E-ELT.
Dr. Paul Spudis writes in the Air & Space Blog about the
"Four Flavors of Lunar Water."
Todd Halvorson of Florida interviews Elon Musk of SpaceX about the
upcoming launch of the Dragon spacecraft, schedule for May 11.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Charlie Bolden is taking flack for
proposing a generous retirement plan for astronauts.
The SciGuy, Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle interviews Jeffrey Manber, CEO of MirCorp who
says NASA must go commercial or it will perish.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory wows again with more spectacular video and Science@NASA describes it as
SDO seeing "scorching rain."