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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Orlando, experts gather for a DARPA-sponsored symposium on future human interstellar missions. The long term future of NASA’s Johnson Space Center is linked closely to the Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. President Obama and another top elected official forecast new jobs in Florida and Louisiana as result of NASA’s future human space flight endeavors. Russia scores key Soyuz and Proton launch successes. Astronomers anguish over the future of the James Webb Space Telescope. An airborne NASA observatory illuminates star formation. What’s next for China’s Tiangong 1 docking demonstrator? Might a hearty bacterium bolster theories of life spreading among the stars? SpaceX looks to late December launch for a key demonstration mission with cargo for the International Space Station. NASA finds new launch opportunities for the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. Major space events scheduled for the week ahead.
1. From Space.com, Sept. 30: Experts from NASA, academia and industry gather for a long weekend at the 100-year Starship Symposium in Orlando, Fla. Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the three-day gathering is intended to inspire research and development into the technologies needed for a human interstellar mission in 100 years.
A. From Florida Today, Oct. 2: The issues surrounding human star travel are more than technical. The obstacles include cost, politics and human ethics, say experts who gathered in Orlando for the 100-year Starship Symposium.
http://bit.ly/rcSvDC
2. From the Houston Chronicle, Oct. 3: A look at the close ties between the future of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Much of the new spacecraft’s success is also tied to the long term development of a rocket called the Space Launch System to loft the capsule and its crews on missions of deep space exploration.
http://bit.ly/oCTHs6
3. From the National Journal, Sept. 29: NASA’s post space shuttle program will lead to new jobs, President Obama says while in Florida last week. His administration intends to invest in new technologies to enable future human space flight, the President tells an Orlando television station.
http://bit.ly/pw8mnS
A. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Oct. 2: In an editorial, the newspaper speaks favorably of news from U. S. Senator David Vittner that NASA’s Space Launch System will revive the Michoud Assembly Facility, bringing an estimated 2,000 jobs to produce spacecraft for future human space exploration.
http://bit.ly/oFGTDy
B. From the Huntsville Times, Sept. 30: NASA hosts an Industry Day at the Marshall Space Flight Center to outline development plans for the Space Launch System, a new NASA heavy lift rocket to loft astronauts on future missions of exploration. Meeting budgets is key to keeping the initiative on schedule, agency officials tell vendors who’ve expressed an interest in joining the prime contract team.
4. From Ria Novosti of Russia, Oct. 3: Russia’s military successfully launches a Soyuz 2.1 B rocket with a Glonass-M navigation satellite, the nation’s equivalent to a U. S. GPS system spacecraft.
http://bit.ly/qekjs6
A. From Spacepolicyonline.com, Oct. 2: The Soyuz 2 launch success is a step forward in Russia’s recovery from the third stage failure of a Soyuz-U launcher on Aug. 24 that downed a Progress capsule headed for the International Space Station.
http://bit.ly/p2R87k
B. From Russia Today, Sept 30: The news service finds signs of Russia’s recovery from a series of rocket losses with the launch of a Proton rocket carrying a Mexican communications satellite. The successful flight followed the August launch of a similar rocket with a Russian communications satellite.
http://bit.ly/n2ldX8
5. From the Baltimore Sun, Oct. 2: The newspaper reports the anguish surrounding the future of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Behind schedule and over budget, the project faces possible cancellation. Termination could set astrophysics back two decades, according to one expert.
http://bsun.md/ntWnJS
6. From National Public Radio, Oct. 1: The news organization joins astronomers for a flight aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne telescope that flies above the distortions of the Earth’s atmosphere to study how stars form and the composition of planetary atmospheres.
http://n.pr/pb4GCc
7. From Space.com, Oct. 1: What’s next for China’s orbiting Tiangong 1 spacecraft, which was successfully launched on Sept. 29? November will be a busy month, as China begins a series of docking demonstrations involving the lynch pin for a future Chinese space station.
http://bit.ly/n3cM6k
8. From USAToday, Sept. 30: A NASA astrobiologist finds a hearty bacterium that might survive the temperature extremes, radiation and other challenges of travel between the stars. The findings may help explain how life reached Earth and possibly other planets.
http://usat.ly/qQ4Htk
9. From Universe Today, Oct. 1: SpaceX looks to no earlier than Dec. 19 for the launching of a Falcon 9/Dragon cargo demonstration mission to the International Space Station. Plans for a late November lift off have been adjusted because of Russia’s recovery from the Aug. 24 loss of a Progress supply ship headed for the station.
http://bit.ly/pwdLyL
10. From Spaceflightnow.com, Oct. 2: NASA provides new opportunities for the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket to loft science payloads for the space agency.
http://bit.ly/ndoeDZ
11. From Spacepolicyonline.com, Oct. 2: A look at major space policy events planned for the work week ahead.
http://bit.ly/nr22mU
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