“With this project, Portugal and Spain will chart a new atlas of innovation and will make new discoveries.”

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates announces the opening of a joint Spanish-Portuguese nanotechnology research centre, the first such centre with the status of an international organization, according to Reuters.

“It’s really no different than the pioneering spirit of many in past history, who took the one-way trip across the ocean, or the trip out west across the United States with no intention of ever returning.”

John Olson, NASA’s director of exploration systems integration, tells the Guardian that one-way tickets to space might appear in future.

“When you get a second, if you could put an out-of-service note on the WHC [NASA-speak for ‘toilet’] and advise the crew members that station crew members will have to use the Russian toilet and shuttle crew members on the shuttle until further notice.”

Hal Getzelman tells the international space station that some of their facilities are not working (ABC).

“If there’s one out there, it’s too many for the environment.”

Shawn Heflick, Florida reptile hunter, comments on the state’s great python hunt (Miami Herald).