Today I’m revealing an awful lot of secrets, but I figure you readers and I are BFF enough at this point that I can confide in you, right? Of course I can. International readers: I’m Canadian. Before you go ragging on my obvious love of curling and maple-flavored things, let me tell you as an authority on snow and snow-like phenomena, it gets pretty stormy up here sometimes. My American friends are sissies for complaining about Stateside weather. But Saturn is currently making even us Canucks look weak. Much larger than any Earth storm, Saturn’s currently experiencing a blizzard so epic, it’s visible…

Bet you thought the stiff-assed pencil pushers at NASA were all business, didn’t you? Yeah, don’t sweat, so did I. But very few things make me literally LOL in my chair, and today, NASA has done it. Turns out for every mission since STS-96, NASA’s been creating mock movie posters for their Space Flight Awareness program. I won’t bother pointing out the mission particulars or which poster is a parody of which blockbuster – just keep a smile on your face knowing that the folks pictured are all megageek astronauts, much less movie stars. [Via CNet]…

Virgin Galactic, the space tourism branch of Richard Branson’s Virgin conglomerate, took us one step closer to getting regular people into space yesterday with the maiden flight of it’s sub-orbital spaceship, SpaceShipTwo. …