An amusing article that examines the growing number of space-messaging efforts. These projects allow the public to send a personal message either on a cd-rom on an interplanetary space probe or beamed out digitally using a radio telescope.

Xerox researchers are working on a DARPA funded research project to create fleets of modular robots that are capable of forming larger, more complicated objects and structures.

Space industry worldwide will grow at a rate of 10 percent in 2000, according to a report by an organization that promotes the space industry to investors. Despite several failures in 1999, the industry remains strong, with revenues expected to reach $96 billion in 2000, says the report, \"State of the Space Industry 2000,\" by the International Space Business Council (ISBC).

An overview of the growing number of sites that allow civillians to zoom in on virtually any corner of the world through browsable satellite imagery.