Looks like Audi are getting into the Rover market 
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Mars Insight Mission - Launch 5th May 2018 - Landing Nov 2018
Second Microchip Gets Ready for Launch
Second dime-size microchip carrying 1.6 million names gets processed for installation onto the InSight lander.
Technicians at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado installed a microchip with 1.6 million names submitted by the public to ride along with NASAâs InSight mission to Mars. The chip was installed on Jan. 23, 2018. This joins another microchip that was previously installed that included 800,000 names for a grand total of 2.4 million names going to Mars as early as May 5, 2018.
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Elon Musk: Mars ship test flights ânext yearâ
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from his SXSW interview
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I thought that Q&A was underwhelming by Elon Musk standards, but at least we learned that theyâre already building the second stage of the BFR and will be doing short hops.
What a machine that thing is going to be â and a monumental achievement.
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How Many Fingers am I holding Up?
Doctor finds physical changes to astronautâs eyes after ISS stint
Spending half a year in microgravity is hardly a âstintâ.
A âstintâ is just a tour of duty.
https://www.google.com/search?q=stint
A âshort stintâ is a pretty common phrase, and that might be the source of your belief that a stint is a short time.
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By itself, Falcon-9 induced error for GPS navigation devices was not too significant, Lin told Ars. âWithout considering the rocket launch effects, there are errors from ionosphere, troposphere and other factors that will produce up to 20-meter errors or more,â he said.
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Itâs life Jim, but not as we know it!
NASA fungus problem puts theory of âMartian mushroomsâ on toast
Fungus found in the lab makes amino acids we think are alien.
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âPayload not smashed to smithereens, massive plus.â XD
Space junk demo mission launches - bbc
The RemoveDebris mission will trial the net method of capture
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Clouds! 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seandoran/albums/72157693426205611
This looks like a really interesting mission
I never knew this existed until now.
\m/ metal core! \m/
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Doomed Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 crashes into watery Pacific grave
Chinaâs first space station flamed out in the atmosphere and any remaining fragments have now been consigned to a watery grave in the South Pacific.
Chinese state media is reporting that the majority of the spacecraft burnt up and it slammed into the atmosphere at high speed, but that chunks of the 10.4m (34.1ft) by 3.4m (11ft) space station made it down to the surface of the planet.
The impact zone was relatively close to Point Nemo, a spot in the Pacific used to dump deorbited spacecraft.
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Tested - Adam Savage welcomes author Andy Weir back on Tested, as we catch up with him in this pop-up podcast recording at Silicon Valley Comic Con. Andy talks about the research behind his most recent book Artemis, the best way to build cities on the moon, and why he prefers post-apocalpyse to dystopia.
My name, and many others have blasted off on the Nasa Insight mission to Mars. JonnyRedHed IN Space!
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