Nasa and the X Prize foundation have a big announcement they’re going to make tomorrow. Interesting…

China has announced that September 2008, right after the Beijing Olympic Games, will see the next manned spaceflight by the Chinese space program. This will also feature their first attempt at a space walk.

Forbes has an article up about a professor in Oregon who has created a microreactor that turns vegetable oil into biodiesel.

The Space Review has an ultra cool article about taking the ‘Ultralight’ Approach to Human Spaceflight. This article advocates flying up without a large capsule but just in a spacesuit, and coming back down strapped to a personal re-entry system!

Europe’s Space Agency plans to plant flowers on the moon. It’s actually a lot less hippy than it sounds.