Ones that got away

NASA’s next rocket: “on the chopping block”

Former Republican congressman Robert Walker tells the Orlando Sentinel that Ares I is under threat. [Hat tip: NASA Watch.]

“After 15 years of work, we are handing over to industry to produce an artificial heart usable by man.”

Researcher Alain Carpentier tells AFP an artificial heart for transplant will be ready for clinical trials by 2011.

Pssst. Wanna buy some ivory?

The BBC reports that the first sanctioned sale of ivory in southern Africa in nearly a decade started today.

“We’re exercising our Constitutional right and privilege in casting our ballot this Election Day.”

So says E. Michael Fincke, who will be voting from space in the US elections (Scientific American).

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