Orion is the new manned l’espace vehicle which will replace the l’espace shuttle. This article, from 31 August 2006, talks about it and also that Lockheed has been contracted to build it.
Richard Ellis' Caltech faculty page as Professor of Astronomy. liens to his latest research and papers, as well as his Cambridge page as Professor of Obervational Astrophysics. Ellis is doing exciting research into the beginnings of the universe.
It's finally official, there are only eight planets in our solar system as Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet because because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.