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Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden selected to receive the 2014 National Space Trophy. Service module complete for unpiloted flight test of NASA’s Orion crew capsule for future deep space exploration. Golden Spike teams with Draper Laboratory to evaluate landing sites for commercial lunar explorers. Supernova erupts in neighboring galaxy. Minor planet Ceres surprises by sporting water vapor; NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closing in to check it out. NASA unveils Earth science lineup for 2014. Favorable Florida weather forecast for launch of NASA communications satellite late Thursday. Commercial orbital space stations, blossoming orbital space tourism possible within the decade, according to Commercial Spaceflight Federation predictions. Key figure in New Space endeavors predicts active 2014 at California’s Mojave spaceport.
Human Deep Space Exploration
NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. to receive the National Space Trophy
Bay Area Citizen, of Texas (1/22): NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is selected by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation to receive the National Space Trophy for 2014. Bolden, a former astronaut and retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, will be honored in Houston on April 11 for efforts to foster human space exploration and commercial space transportation.
NASA pressing toward Fall 2014 Orion test flight service module complete
Universe Today (1/22): NASA completes assembly of the service module portion of the Orion crew capsule scheduled for an unpiloted inaugural flight test in September. Orion is in development to carry human explorers on future missions of deep space exploration.
Golden Spike recruit Draper to evaluate lunar landing sites
NASA Spaceflight.com (1/23): Draper Laboratory joins with the commercial lunar exploration company Golden Spike to evaluate potential landing sites on the moon. Golden Spike was formed to carry out commercial human lunar missions.
Unmanned Deep Space Exploration
Supernova erupts in nearby Galaxy M82
Discovery.com (1/22): A star explodes in a galaxy but 11.4 million light years away, a rare event that should provide a scientific bonanza for amateur as well as professional astronomers.
Brand new supernova spotted in the cigar galaxy: How to see it
Los Angeles Times (1/22): New supernova visible from Earth with telescope where skies are clear.
Water spotted on Solar System’s largest Asteroid, raising questions about life there
National Geographic Daily News (1/22): Dwarf planet Ceres, which lurks in in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, reveals surprising signs of water vapor. Could there be life? The observations originated with the European Space Agency’s Hershel space observatory.
Is there life on Ceres? Dwarf planet spews water vapor into space
NBC News (1/22): NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on a long running asteroid mission. The spacecraft will reach Ceres next year for a closer look.
Photos: Dwarf planet Ceres, the Solar System’s largest Asteroid
Space.com (1/22): Ceres becomes a misty looking realm.
Low Earth Orbit
NASA putting new eyes on Earth in 2014
CNN (1/22): NASA counts five prospective missions in 2014 to increase experts’ understanding of the Earth. They include three satellite launches and two payloads for the International Space Station.
Atlas V, NASA satellite on pad for Thursday night launch
Florida Today (1/22): Favorable weather predicted for the scheduled launching of NASA’s unmanned Tracking and Data Relay L satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Thursday at 9:05 p.m., EST.
Spaceflightnow.com (1/23) Updates on the planned launching of NASA’s TDRS L communications satellite atop an Atlas 5.
Commercial to Low Earth Orbit
Private spaceflight industry set to take flight, federation president says
Galveston Daily News (1/23): Privately operated orbiting space stations and regular space tourism could be a reality within a decade, according to Mike Lopez-Alegria, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Lopez-Alegria, a former NASA astronaut, spoke before a mechanical engineering forum at Rice University. The Federation represents about 50 commercial space companies.
Suborbital
Witt: 2014 going to be a great year in the Mojave
Parabolic Arc (1/22) Mojave Air and Space Port CEO Stu Witt predicts new strides for 2014 in the field.
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