Ken Murphy / 1:11 am October 10th, 2008

can be found this week over at Kentucky Space, which seeks to highlight citizen space efforts, especially at universities and consortiums in the Bluegrass State. This week’s Carnival of Space: the Orion Arm, Vladimir Bonaparte and Watermelon Planet edition starts out with the OotC review of Lunar Pioneers, and then proceeds to break out into the rest of the universe with carefree abandon thanks to the many great posts submitted. I particularly dug Colony Worlds post on taking dogs with us to the next frontier (you just know they want to go with us; they ain’t dumb) given the many, many useful services they render in their partnership with humanity. Best contract we ever made with the animal world (horses are #2, but a bit awkward for near-term space efforts). And of course there’s the well-regarded kids book Max on the Moon featuring a friendly Rottweiler’s Frisbee-chasing visit to our Moon.

Yes, I did flake out on last week’s 73rd Carnival of Space, which was held over at Alice’s Astro Info and featured a unique birthday wish for NASA.