Benson Space Company just gave SpaceDev $330,000 to SpaceDev to do a Phase 1 study on it’s Dream Chaser spaceship concept. Since Benson Space Company is former SpaceDev owner Jim Benson’s own company that he left SpaceDev to found, it isn’t as impressive as it sounds, but it’s nice to see forward movement on the Dream Chaser concept.

NASA and Google plan to work together. I for one welcome our new GOOSA overlords. At least for now they’re only working together with pictures and real-time weather overlaps for maps.

Space Politics.com notes that a new website that focuses on supporting political activities of space supporters called SpaceAdvocate.com, for those interested in such a thing.

The New Scientist reports that Mars has flowing water right now.

Here’s one small upside to global warming, it will mean satellites experience less drag and thus stay in orbit longer. And here you might have thought global warming was a negative thing! Silly hippie…