Spaceflight:

* NASA Eyeing Earlier Lunar Landing

http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_060130.html

ATK Thiokol is preparing to begin work on a more powerful variant of the space
shuttle solid-rocket motor it has long produced as part of a streamlined NASA
exploration plan that would land astronauts on the Moon in early 2017, a year
earlier than previously envisioned.

* Methane Rocket Fuel: A Lot of Hot Gas and Nowhere to Blow

http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_tumlinson_060130.html

I don't know if you noticed—between fashion reports from red carpets of
Hollywood awards shows or the return of new Battlestar Galactica episodes—but
NASA is thinking about dropping methane-type propellants from its requirements
for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) program in favor of harder to handle, yet
more dangerous hypergolic propellants like those used in the shuttle and other
old-school systems.