The Question mark

With its budget cut and the space shuttle fleet being retired next month NASA"s next destination is something of a mystery.For the first time in decades NASA has no plans set for where to go next, the ultimate goal to put a man on Mars is still there however without the budget to support new missions to the moonits not clear when and how this will be accomplished.

It"s a simple question that NASA can"t answer so easily anymore. The veteran space shuttle fleet is months from being mothballed and the White House has nixed a previous plan to fly to the moon.

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A key figure in the climategate affair has cast new doubts on the idea that global warming is man-made.Professor Phil Jones has come forward to state that not only was it likely that the world was warmer during Medieval times than it is now but that there has been no substantial warming over the last 15 years. The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

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Scientists are considering the idea that our universe was created when two other universes collided, producing the Big Bang.If true it would open the door to the idea that there is more than one universe and that there could in fact be a whole multiverse or even a multiverse of multiverses. String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor inScience and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we live in was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision of two universes (which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time) that were attracted toward each other by the leaking of gravity out of one of the universes.

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With NASA recently pulling out of the race to return to the Moon it looks like China could be set to take first place.It is believed China could succeed in placing a man on the moon by as early as 2020, with NASA"s funding insufficient to support their $81 billion Constellation programme the door has been left wide openfor other countries to undertake a manned return to the lunar surface.

The Chinese space agency could land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade in a move that would mark the beginning of a new age of lunar exploration, experts said today.

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