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Private Company Plans Tour Around the Moon

Space Adventures, a company based in Arlington, Va., has already sent two tourists into orbit. Today, it is to unveil an agreement with Russian space officials to send two passengers on a voyage lasting 10 to 21 days, depending partly on its itinerary and whether it includes the International Space Station. A roundtrip ticket will cost $100 million. The space-faring tourists will travel with a Russian pilot. They will steer clear of the greater technical challenge of landing on the Moon, instead circling it and returning to Earth.

The Chief has to like this one, big time. Anything that extends our presence in space is a positive - and this will reinforce the moves for NASA to re-extend itself in the direction of lunar basing.

Granted there's not any new technology in this, but what of it? Columbus, and those who came after him didn't use "new technology" either to explore and settle a "new world".

While searching through Yahoo! News for some sports photos totally unrelated to women's basketball, I came across the following picture of Rapid City, SD's own Becky Hammon. This has to be seen to be believed. The New York Liberty's Becky...

From Reuters:Democrats on Wednesday celebrated a closer-than-expected loss in a special House of Representatives race in Ohio and called it a warning sign for Republicans entering the 2006 congressional elections.That was the introduction to a report they titled, Democrats celebrate...

I respect Chad Schuldt's passion in advocating federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, but I am afraid he slips slightly into the error I discussed below. According to Chad, anyone who objects to this scientific research that potentially benefits...

...when the Democrats once supported privitization of Social Security? Jonathan Swanson at SSC is asking the same question and supplanting the answer:Remember when Democrats used to favor Personal Retirement Accounts? Here are some of the Democrats? greatest hits. You?ve got...

Westerners considering separation

More than one-third of western Canadians surveyed this summer thought it was time to consider separation from Canada, a poll suggests. In the survey, 35.6 per cent of respondents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia agreed with the statement: Western Canadians should begin to explore the idea of forming their own country.

Interesting. According to historians, about 1/3 of the colonists in what became the United States were in favor of that independence movement, so maybe there's enough sentiment up there for something to happen, eh?

Forget about Allen, Giuliani or McCain, I want Tony Blair in 2008: U.K. Institutes New Deportation Measures. Foreigners who preach hatred, sponsor violence or belong to extremist groups could be deported from Britain under strict new measures that Prime Minister...

This Todd Epp post has sixty-some comments from "Erin" and the former/current Daschle staffer bloggers in which they go back and forth over how she was treated by them. It's getting rather heated and she asks to know who is...

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