I'm too busy with the CEV proposal and other things right now to do much blogging, so instead, I'm going to try something new: a mini-carnival of space-related moonbattery.

• Bruce Gagnon and the uninformed dupes of GNAW-N-PIS are protesting against the "Symposium on Space Nuclear Power & Propulsion" this weekend. Bruce rails against Prometheus (again) in his blog post, managing to both misrepresent it as "resurrecting the nuclear rocket" (implying a connection to the unrelated NERVA/ROVER and/or Orion programs, in addition to the primary error of identifying Prometheus as a nuclear rocket when it is not), and demonstrate a total lack of awareness that Prometheus is actually getting gutted and (like so many other NASA programs of late) will probably end up getting shelved altogether before too long. As I observed in this comment, it's so hard with Bruce to figure out if he is stupid or lying when he says such things. On the other hand, maybe he keeps flogging Prometheus knowing that it may end up being cancelled altogether, so that he can later boast that it was his group's opposition to it that got it canned.

  Moonbat Lagniappe: Bruce actually uses the phrase "speaking truth to power" in a non-ironic way. It's precious moments like that that...well, they don't make his blog worth reading, but at least they dull the pain of the resultant cognitive discord a teeny tiny little bit.
  

• NASA PR flunkie George Deutsch comes out swinging against accusations that he tried to muzzle climate scientist James Hansen and wanted to slip a pro-creationist tilt into NASA press releases. Unfortunately for him, his explanation of that little matter about a blatant falsehood on his resume isn't any more convincing than his blanket denials that he wanted to bend agency PR to suit his bias.
  
• For his part, James Hansen seems to be enjoying his Joe Wilson "whistleblower celebrity" moment, expanding on his claims to charge that NOAA is also "censoring" data on global warming. It's good when censorship of science is met with vigorous and public opposition -- surely a condemnation of censorship of papers and data questioning the anthropogenic global warming gospel will be forthcoming from Hansen in the near future.
  
• In Elaine Supkis' world, Space Shuttles are ferried around on C-5 Galaxies, rather than a former American Airlines 747-123 and a former JAL 747-100SR. And you can't convince her otherwise, because she has photographic evidence no one else can see! (Maybe it really was there when she linked to it, but NOAA censored it just like they censored her very own blog during Hurricane Rita...gotta love that Elaine, always in the thick of things!)

  Moonbat Lagniappe: "Culvert actions are a drain
  on democracy."

Know of any other space moonbats ripe for pillorying? Drop the URL in a comment to this post (you can't make a true link in a comment here, so just paste it in as text).