Looking forward to the future of space travel?

John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace has won the $US350,000 Level One X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge.

Their spaceship blasted off the designated area, got up to 150 feet, and then hovered for 90 seconds at that altitude to land with absolute precision on a pad 150 feet away.

Family's baby monitor picks up live space shuttle feed

What do you get when you cross a baby monitor and a science teacher? Apparently, live feeds off a NASA space mission.

When Palatine mom Natalie Meilinger switched on the family's baby monitor, instead of her 3-month-old son Jack, what came up were images of astronauts walking around inside the space shuttle.
She and her husband, Tom, were immediately hooked. They started telling friends. She told other teachers at work, but no one believed her until she brought in proof. » Article here