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Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA, Boeing explore details of agreement to produce Space Launch System core stage. Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin urges human Mars settlement. Marketing strategists discuss NASA’s Apollo successes, Mars challenges. Proposed U.S. legislation would grant property rights for asteroid exploration. Carbon dioxide not water shapes Martian gullies. Aerojet Rocketdyne continues work on deep space project for NASA. International Astronomical Union unveils plans for global vote on names for alien planet discoveries. Struggle to revive aging NASA solar observatory revs up again. Inspector general examines SOFIA cost, management challenges. Hubble Space Telescope spots bright features around colliding galaxies. Collisions early in the solar system shape rocky planets. Supermoon coming this weekend. Astronauts discuss day in the life of the International Space Station. Orbital Sciences space station cargo mission launch offers East Coast viewing opportunity on Saturday. Arianespace facing shakeup over changing global commercial launch market. Russian rocket lofts four communications satellites from French Guiana.
Human Deep Space Exploration
NASA, Boeing provide details about Space Launch System contract
Spaceflight Insider (7/10): Under a $2.8 billion NASA contract, Boeing will begin production of the core stage of the space agency’s new Space Launch System heavy lift rocket. Tapping NASA, Boeing and ATK, the website examines the details surrounding the agreement and the heavy lift rocket that is to start U.S. explorers on missions of deep space exploration.
Buzz Aldrin opens up about ‘UFO’ encounter, Mars colony hopes
Huffington Post (7/10): Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin urges U.S. efforts to establish a human presence on Mars. The nation will mark the 45th anniversary of the historic moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Aldrin on July 20. Aldrin’s brief mention of an unidentified object outside the Apollo 11 spacecraft was likely a discarded rocket panel, he explains in a Reddit AMA.
How NASA sold the Moon, and why it can’t seem to sell Mars
NBC News (7/10): Soon, the U.S. will mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a singular accomplishment that NASA carried out with momentum and public support. Marketing strategists David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek examine the challenges facing the space agency as it reaches for Mars.
Unmanned Deep Space Exploration
Posey, Kilmer introduce ASTEROIDS Act to grant property rights to asteroid resources
Spacepolicyonline.com (7/10): Newly introduced legislation from members of the U.S. House Science Space and Technology Committee would extend property rights to private investors who explore the asteroids. However, there is an issue: Are property rights permitted under international law?
NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars
Space Fellowship (7/10): Gullies spotted on Martian slopes by NASA satellites were formed by carbon dioxide not eruptions of subsurface water, according to new study published in the journal Icarus.
Aerojet Rocketdyne continues work on deep space project for NASA
Sacramento Business Journal (7/10): Aerojet Rocketdyne and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. have completed a study on developing an upper-stage rocket system for NASA deep-space projects.
Name an alien planet: Voters wanted to christen strange new worlds
Space.com (7/9): The International Astronomical Union, which is responsible for naming planetary bodies, develops a strategy that allows a global vote on designations for alien planets discoveries. The IAU has chosen a list of 305 worlds discovered before Dec. 31, 2008 as a starting point for the exoplanet balloting.
Fresh hope for an abandoned NASA spacecraft
IEEE Spectrum (7/10): Veteran space volunteers cling to hope they can revive decades old NASA solar observatory. After every indication of a propulsion issue that would prevent the satellite from maneuvering from solar to Earth orbit, the slim possibility of a recovery returned on Thursday.
NASA IG: Scientists like SOFIA, but changes needed to keep it that way
Spacepolicyonline.com (7/10): NASA’s Inspector general examines cost, management issues facing the airborne telescope observatory jointly developed by NASA and the German Aerospace Center.
Hubble spies colliding galaxies tied in stellar pearls
Discovery.com (7/10): Colliding galaxies spawn “pearl necklace.” Hubble Space Telescope captures the activity 4.5 billion light years away.
Is Mercury a hit-and-run survivor?
Sky and Telescope (7/10): How did Mercury come to have a large iron core? Multiple collisions with large planetary bodies in the earliest days of the solar system, according to new computer modeling.
USA Today (7/10): This weekend brings a “super moon.” The closeness of the Earth and moon coincides with the full moon phase.
Low Earth Orbit
10 questions with 3 Space Station astronauts
Time (7/10): The news magazine checks in with International Space Station astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman and Germany’s Alexander Gerst to discuss a day in the life of the six person orbital outpost.
How to watch spectacular Antares commercial launch to ISS on July 12 – complete viewing guide
Universe Today (7/10): Orbital Sciences prepares Saturday Antares launch from Virginia’s Eastern Shore with cargo for the International Space Station. The 1:14 p.m., EDT, launch should be visible where skies are clear from South Carolina to Massachusetts.
Commercial to Low Earth Orbit
Opinion: Arianespace facing shake-up to compete with SpaceX
Aviation Week & Space Technology (7/10): Arianespace struggles to compete in a global launch services market it once dominated. U.S. competitors bring new challenge.
Four satellites launched to beam Internet down to Earth
Spaceflightnow.com (7/10): Russian rocket launches four British Internet services satellites from French Guiana on Thursday.
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