OrbitalHub

Credits: NASA/Jack Pfaller

Carnival of Space, edition 91, is hosted by Brian Wang at Next Big Future.

This week you can read about recent statistical treatments of the Drake Equation, the Texas Fireball, liquid water on Mars, the business, law, and economics of the new Space Age, the early Shuttle manipulator, sand dunes on Mars, and much more.

OrbitalHub has submitted a post about the Dawn mission. The Dawn spacecraft is currently performing the Mars flyby phase of its mission. The purpose of the Mars flyby is to alter the trajectory of the spacecraft in order to rendezvous with its first scientific target in the main asteroid belt.