The state of people willing to be space adventurers is looked at in Universal Space Systems latest report. Cost? A mere $2,000. I think I’ll stick with blogs and rumors for my space tourism insight.

The Greeks had relatively complex clockwork technology thousands of years before it was matched again by Europeans, and one of these complex mechanisms was the Antikythera mechanism that scientists now believe was for calculating eclipses.

Scientist and supergenius Stephen Hawking recently told BBC radio that we needed to reach for the stars if the human race was to survive in the long term, or at least get seriously off-planet.

Jeff Bezos’ private space program, Blue Origins, had a test flight earlier this month. Now it looks like a second test flight will happen sometime this week.

What the heck is happening at SpaceDev? First founder Jim Benson left, now head of the Starsys division Robert Vacek is taking off. Is there something we should know about from this plucky underdog space company?