Corageous Canine Seeks Space Station

In a heart-warming, ironic twist, a child's book about a dog's trip to the International Space Station is currently en route to that very place.Today, at 1:10 p.m. EST time a rocket, the first of eight commercial logistics deliveries launched by Orbital Sciences Corp., fired up its rocket boosters and embarked on the roughly 260-mile trip to the ISS. Orb-1, as Orbital Sciences calls it, will resupply the ISS and its residents with experiments, spare parts, fresh fruit and more. Perhaps the most ...