October Holiday Greetings

Here's to the best of the day, whether you're celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving or (in the USA) Columbus Day!

If anything else anywhere else on Earth's being celebrated as well today, I'd be glad to learn of it...?

Epsilon Eridani b

Well, I had a look at exoplanet.eu today.

Announced today: Astrometric comfirmation of a planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani.

Cool news.

Thanks to those responsible for confirming the fact for the rest of us here on Earth!

NASA and the Quest for Infrastructure

Spotted this IEEE Spectrum opinion piece on the state and possible future of Kennedy Space Centre today, as a result of looking for more recent news on the Cape Breton Spaceport project.

I think, based on some of the speculations in that opinion piece, that we have a fairer business rationale for anyone looking to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia now. NASA's going to want a fallback position. Probably more than one for the decades to come.

Am I wrong?