Happy New Year. One page I have been planning to do for years is on
the Milky Way and at long last I have made it.

There is some interesting info on the page and it makes you wonder
will Humans ever be able to travel across the Milky Way. What are
you thoughts on future space travel?

The Milky Way Galaxy is about 2000 light years thick (tall) but
100,000 light years across. It contains an estimated 100,000 million
stars. Thats alot of stars.

http://www.aerospaceguide.net/astronomy/milkyway.html

I have also done a page on Epoxi.Epoxi is a low cost mission derived
by the recycling of the Deep Impact spacecraft which successfully
guided an impactor into comet Tempel 1 in July 2005.

http://www.aerospaceguide.net/solar_system/epoxi.html

I have added one space book to the new releases page and if you are
a space station history fan, I believe you will love it. Its called
Salyut - The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy.

The book gives you an insight into the people involved in the
development of the Salyut space station and the crews assigned to
operate it. It describes the rotation between the crews, analyses
the decision to send the back-up crew on Soyuz 11 and recounts the
intrigues and difficult relationships between all the personalities
involved - politicians, CKBEM managers, designers, generals and
cosmonauts. Biographies of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts are published for
the first time in English and the longest manned space mission of
the time is described before Grujica Ivanovich gives a unique
summary of the most tragic day in the Soviet/Russian manned space
program. An investigation into the cause of the tragic deaths of the
Soyuz 11 cosmonauts precedes a description of the post-Salyut era,
showing how the legacy of the first space station has survived for
decades.

Vic