Are you ready for the Red Planet? Book Review: Mary Roach's "Packing for Mars"

For most of us spacers human spaceflight is nothing to, well, joke about. After all, riding rockets into the cosmos is serious business, and there's nothing that NASA or we do better than take ourselves seriously - perhaps too seriously.

La. abortion rules blocked

Two new abortion restrictions cannot be enforced immediately in Louisiana, a federal judge has decided in a Baton Rouge civil suit. Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday that blocks enforcement before a court hearing on Aug. 24.