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Thought this might be of interest to Freeper space buffs. David Livingston hosts a radio show out of Seattle about space. You can listen to several shows over the internet. Thought this show interviewing the CTO of Transorbital was very interesting. He goes in more detail about Transorbital's future plane in regards to Lunar exploration. Here's the Link: Interview with Paul Blase

Transorbital Announces Successful Moon Test Launch Now Ready for Routine Moon Travel in October 2003 SAN DIEGO -TransOrbital, Inc and International Space company (ICS)Kosmotras today announced a "perfect launch" of TransOrbital's "Trailblazer" satellite at 8pm Russian time. The launch represents a major milestone in TransOrbitals much -anticipated routine lunar delivery service. Today's launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan of the "Trailblazer" into low Earth orbit was pronounced a total success by TransOrbital president Dennis Laurie. The mission was designed to test rocket separation, downlink telemetry, spacecraft orientation and mass properties in preparation for the formal lunar launch. Vladimir A Andreev,...

For years there have been rumours that the Apollo lunar landings were faked, staged on a movie set to convince the world that the US had beaten the Soviets to the Moon. And, despite evidence to the contrary, the belief that the "one small step for man" was a sham continues to spread. Now, having tried to stay above the rumours, the US space agency (Nasa) has finally got fed up with the conspiracy theorists and asked James Oberg, a leading aerospace writer, to produce a book that it hopes will settle the issue. But will it work, or will...