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A group of Japanese astronauts and astronaut applicants, all members of a mailing list called

Emily Lakdawalla

Scott Maxwell is one of those many guys (and gals) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who rarely gets his name in the news but who is absolutely indispensable to the success of a space mission. I don't know what his official title is, but whatever it is, it's not as good as the colloquial name given to his position: Rover Driver.

Doug Ellison

ESA's planet-hunting satellite COROT bagged its first exoplanet in observations of the star COROT-Exo-1.

Emily Lakdawalla

I've just come home from Caltech, where I saw author Dava Sobel give a presentation on her latest book, The Planets.