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Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA considers the addition of a habitation module to the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. Exploration Flight Test-1, the Dec. 4 unpiloted test flight of NASA’s Orion capsule, briefed in video. NASA taking names for Orion, future Mars flights. NASA’s study of a robotic mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa supports solar rather than nuclear as a power source. Construction of new observatory in Hawaii draws peaceful protester. Boeing will care for the U.S. Air Force X-37B reusable space planes in NASA Kennedy Space Center hangars. NASA spacewalk captures spectacular view of the Earth from the International Space Station. Space Center Houston affiliates with the Smithsonian Institution. NASA drones will monitor East Coast wildfire threat. SpaceShipTwo glides over the Mojave Desert in California in latest flight test.
Human Deep Space Exploration
NASA studying habitation module for asteroid mission
Space News (10/8): NASA is assessing a habitation module for astronauts as part of future human deep space exploration planning. It could join the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket and Orion crew exploration vehicle as a major element of the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. Details of the mission extending project were briefed at the 2014 International Astronautical Conference in Toronto last week.
Orion flight test – liftoff to splashdown elaborately explained/video
Space.com (10/8): NASA production explains the challenges of Exploration Flight Test-1.
NASA’s new spacecraft to endure extreme orbital test
Space.com (10/8): The trial will come during Exploration Flight Test-1, a planned two orbit unpiloted test flight of NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle scheduled for a Dec. 4 lift off from Cape Canaveral Air force Station, Fla. Orion is under development by NASA to start humans on future missions of deep space exploration.
NASA invites public to send their names into space aboard Orion
Defense Media Network (10/8): NASA invites public to submit their names for the Exploration Flight Test-1 mission. Names will be inscribed on a computer chip to fly aboard the Orion capsule during the planned Dec. 4 two orbit test flight. The chip will fly again on a future mission to Mars, according to the space agency. Halloween is the deadline for submissions.
Unmanned Deep Space Exploration
Europa clipper opts for solar power over nuclear
Space News (10/8): Solar power is adequate to support a future NASA mission to study the Jovian moon Europa, according to NASA mission planners. The presentation in support of the concept was offered by the Applied Physics Lab at the 2014 International Astronomical Conference in Toronto last week. Europa may harbor conditions suitable for life, according to scientists.
Construction of giant telescope in Hawaii begins amid protests
Space.com (10/8): Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii drew protesters this week. Protesters expressed concerns for the project’s environmental and cultural impacts. Once complete, the $1.4 billion observatory will be used for studies of planets orbiting nearby stars.
Low Earth Orbit
Boeing spacecraft to move into KSC’s shuttle hangars
Spaceflightnow.com (10/8): Boeing will inherit a pair of former NASA space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The enclosures will support two U.S. Air Force, Boeing developed X-37B reusable space planes.
Stunning view from the space station, front row seat
Discovery.com (10/8): European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst captured a spectacular view of the Earth and his NASA partner, Reid Wiseman, during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday.
Space Center Houston is 1st Smithsonian affiliate in Houston
Collectspace.com (10/8): Space Center Houston, official visitors’ center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, had formalized ties to the Smithsonian Institution.
NASA drones in national airspace to spot wildfires
Associated Press via Houston Chronicle (10/8): Drones will be integrated into the U.S. air space, a first, to look for wildfires along the Virginia and North Carolina border.
Suborbital
SpaceShipTwo completes another test flight
Albuquerque Journal, of New Mexico (10/7): SpaceShipTwo carried out a piloted glide test flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port north of Los Angeles on Tuesday. Soon, Virgin Galactic intends to launch suborbital passenger flights aboard SpaceShipTwo from New Mexico.
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