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(AP) MOJAVE, Calif. An explosion on Thursday killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket into space, authorities said.

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_207193129.html

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) – Astronauts flew drunk on at least two occasions despite warnings from doctors and colleagues that they posed a flight safety risk, according to a report commissioned by NASA.  

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/07/27/nasa.woes/

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, an act of sabotage that was caught before the equipment was loaded onto the spaceship, NASA said Thursday.

Today marks 38 years since astronauts first walked on the moon. Apollo 11’s Eagle lunar module touched down on the lunar surface on 20 July 1969.

Today is also the 31st anniversary of Viking 1’s successful landing on the surface of Mars in 1976.

Today is also the 8th birthday of NewsFromSpace (woohoo!).

The newest Navy program called Revolutionary Approach to Time-Critical Long-Range Strike, or RATTLRS - combines the latest technological advances in accuracy and targeting with high performance non-afterburning turbine technology found in the legendary SR-71 spy plane YJ102R engine.  http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/29/94401.shtml

To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA’s stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts.

Someone called NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to fix a typo!

The Perseid meteor shower is coming, and experts say it should be a great show.