Until now, US space policy has been a yawner on the presidential
campaign trail. The prevailing wisdom is that the issue is not
important to voters nationally, and that the downside risk of
saying something unpopular outweighs any benefit in discussing
specific policy.
Finally... A Paper Airplane That Won't Land You In
Detention!
If you love flight, perhaps you have experienced the urge to
throw a paper airplane from a really high place... but what if you
had the chance to throw a paper airplane from the International
Space Station? It turns out a Japanese professor and a group of
origami masters have collaborated on a paper airplane which will
fly that very mission.
It's been well over twenty years since we first started playing in the skies, courtesy of the first generation of Kitfoxes... and since then, the little airplane that launched thousands of pilots toward aircraft ownership has been through great times... and not so great times... but above all, it has survived.
NASA found itself in the uncomfortable position this week of
disputing a report the agency itself had commissioned. On
Wednesday, the space agency said a report released last year -- at
NASA's request -- that accused astronauts of flying into orbit
while intoxicated, had no merit whatsoever.
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