EARTH WATCH
NASA – The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Expedition 28 Crew Departs Star City
NASA – Expedition 28 crew members–Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa, left, Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov, center, and Flight Engineer Mike Fossum–answer reporters’ questions during a press conference held on the grounds of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in Star City, Russia. The crew later departed for Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in preparation for their June launch to the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
By Rick Merritt – Costs and benefits of building a smart electric grid have more than doubled as the vision of a digital, networked power utility has expanded, according to 
By Matthew Lasar – The Federal Communications Commission is sticking to its guns when it comes to the state of high speed Internet deployment in the United States. Despite last year’s 
By Claire Davenport/EurActiv – The EU is on a downward path to endorsing Internet censorship. As drafts of the long awaited Intellectual Property Rights Strategy are being scrutinised by lobbyists before its release tomorrow (24 May), fears have been stoked that the EU will endorse a growing trend to hold Internet service providers (ISPs) liable for piracy, forcing them to punish their users without the involvement of a judge or jury.
