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If you have ever read the Drudge report and marveled at their sensitive (not) handling of political news, you'll love this little gem - an independent source of news and gossip on the space exploration world ... mainly NASA and the North American side of things.

It's SpaceRef, run by Marc Boucher, an online vet for the Mars Society, and Keith Cowing, the ex-NASA staffer who also owns the infamously independent NASAWatch web site.

NASAwatch has such proclamations on its pages as: 'This is not a NASA Web site. You might learn something' as well as a clarion call to steal NASA back from the hands of the pen-pushing bureaucrats stifling the noble dreams of the 1960s.

SpaceRef is only slightly less offensive to those NASA suits who take themselves far too seriously, aiming to portal up news and other NASA (mis)doings, as well as offering all the usual Crowsnest-like features ... space-focused site directories etc.

As you'd imagine, they've had a field day recently with all the martian ships crash and burning around the red planet. Keith's sources at NASA are excellent, given that much of the agency feels as disillusioned with the red tape and budget cuts as he does.

There's literally 1000s of staffers at NASA who are only too glad for the opportunity to grass up the bungling bean counters running the circus now.

We can have no higher praise than to say if we were going to produce a space-exploration-crowsnest.com, it would look a lot like Marc and Keith's honest efforts.

Check them out at http://www.spaceref.com/

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