Science!
We're feeling very European today. First, a pair of brand-new telescopes to help us look to infinity… and beyond! Herschel and Plancklink. And then a survey of the European Space Agency's ambitions for '09: satellitelink. Our European friends still spend on the E.S.A. and their individual national space agencies a fraction of what we spend on N.A.S.A., but every little bit is appreciated, and we're going to have to lean on them more and more until the Project Constellation hardware—the Orion crew vehicle and the Ares family of rockets—become operational in roughly 2014-15 (assuming President Obama breaks his campaign promise to cancel all funding for American manned space flight. Oh, I really hope he was lying). Congratulations on the successful launches of Herschel and Planck, fellows.

Science!