There are several people who have done substantive summaries of what happened in space and space launch in 2008.
NewSpace in 2008: Ups and downs in entrepreneurial spaceflight An amazingly substantial summary from Clark S. Lindsey of the NewSpace blog.
Leonard David has written this post: Review of Commercial Spaceflight Uncertain, but Promising.
An interesting summary also written for Flight International: Flight Global
This is the Space Blog of Anthony Matthews, created 1/1/09. I’m returning to the space business after something of an absence running another enterprise. I really like small launch vehicles and that whole area, so the blog will focus on them.
The picture I took on a trip to Baikonur in 1993. It was just after a Soyuz launch. That was a fun trip. There was no bottled water so for a week we existed on brownish boiled water, vodka (special occasions only, of course), and this tasty brown soda called NENCH that I later found out was the Russian for Pepsi.

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