Welcome to the 40th Carnival of Space!

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Mercury, Twice

Astroprof has two stories on Mercury: one on the Caloris Basin and one on weird terrain.

There's no Place Like Home

Cumbrian sky has a post about coming home.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

APOD is featuring a great montage of Comet Holmes.

Knowing Where You Are

Chris Lintott talks about getting your bearings in a post from Hawaii.

Willie Nelson's Accidental Astronaut Cameo

Collectspace is featuring a lovely tale of what I'd call a spatial confluence of events.

How to Make a Black Hole

Wanna know how to make a black hole? Starts with a bang is going to try and tell you. Or you can read about Batman.

SpaceX Progress to Falcon 9

Next Big Future has a post on SpaceX and the progess they are making toward Falcon 9.Link

Challenges Always Re-Enter

Astropixie writes about some major NASA events that happened during this week over the years.

Lessons Learned from Asteroid 2007 TU24

Visual Astronomy is thinking about Asteroid 2007 TU24. Have we learned anything?

Explorer 1 at 50

Sorting Out Science is sorting out the history of Explorer 1.

Explorer

Another Explorer posting from A Babe in the Universe.

A Two-Armed Hero Called DEXTRE

A Mars Odyessy discusses a pretty advanced version of a gripper.

Asteroid Uncertainty

From Music of the Spheres, a post about a 4 percent chance...

The Bigelow-ULA Collaboration

Hobby Space has two posts both about Bieglow's recent activities

Project Longshot: Fast Probe to Centauri

Got 100 years to spare? Centauri Dreams has something you can do with your time.

Action on Space Legislation

Political Action for Space wants your help (if you're American).

10 Awesome Space Wallpapers

Orbiting Frog (me) has some lovely wallpapers to share with you all.

Successful SpaceX Test

New Frontiers has some more on SpaceX and space fashion.