Seems that space is becoming a premium off-planet as well as on. Bill Ailor, director of the US Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies, wants space-faring nations to instigate some sort of air-traffic control system before a major collision incident occurs.

Good news for the nearsighted! Ophthalmologists in Dallas are to start fitting patients with a new type of implanted contact lens. These collamer lenses work in conjuction with the patient’s natural lens, bending light to compensate for the blurriness of myopia.

India is planning to build a Reusable Launch Vehicle, though the project is still only on paper. It’ll be a bold move if they are able to succeed.

Apparently there’s a security hole in Movable Type that I’m not aware of, because trackback spam has been appearing in some of our entries while remaining invisible in the admin view. I’ve turned trackbacks off for new entries and am trying to figure out how to clear the crap from existing entries. If there are any MT gurus in the audience with suggestions for fixing this problem, I’d love to hear them.

Update (3:46PM): Turns out it wasn’t a security hole, but a combination of an ID10T error on my part and a plugin that doesn’t quite work right with Junk spam. Issue has been corrected and Trackbacks turned back on.

NASA’s ‘Messenger’ probe has made its major trajectory correction, one that will see it fly-by Venus on its way to Mercury.