Editor’s note: I am not going to even touch NASA Watch until next week – maybe Tuesday – unless an asteroid hits – so please don’t visit after today. By all means, eat too much food, play in the snow, and sleep late. Far too many of you visited over Thanksgiving. Take a break – I am.

Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member...