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Tuesday’s space news scan finds new reporting and commentary on U. S. space policy. Will the U. S. forge partnerships with China and Muslim nations in space? Scientists detect small particles within Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft. Are they from an asteroid, interstellar space, or the Earth? The European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft looks back in time. One Florida aerospace worker finds a plan B to deal with his job loss as the shuttle program ends. What is “tidal lock,” and why is it important?
1. From Florida Today and columnist John Kelly: In an op-ed, Kelly raises the question of whether the new U. S. space policy has opened the door to China’s participation in the U. S. led International Space Station.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100704/COLUMNISTS0405/7040335/1229/COLUMNISTS0405/Should+we+work+with+China?
2. From the Washington Examiner: A look at recent remarks by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to Al Jazeera suggesting the space agency is part of a larger strategy to reach out to the Muslim world through science and technology.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/obamas-new-mission-for-nasa-reach-out-to-muslim-world-97785979.html
A. Fox News reports on Bolden’s recent Al Jazeera interview.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: Scientists announce they’ve found particles inside Japan’s Hayabusa probe. The source could be the Earth, interstellar space, or Itokawa — the asteroid Hayabusa visited. Hayabusa’s obstacle-filled journey ended when the spacecraft descended into remote Australia on June 13. An X-ray examine reveals particles no larger than 1/25th of an inch. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/06hayabusa/
4. From the London Daily Mail: The European Space Agency’s Planck space Telescope looks back at the Big Bang. New imagery from Planck records the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists hope to piece together the story of what transpired between the Big Bang and the formation of the Milky Way. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1292104/Our-Universe-revealed-Dramatic-sky-photo-gives-new-clues-happened-Big-Bang.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
5. From Florida Today: United Space Alliance engineer Tim Crannel is preparing for the shuttle’s retirement and the loss of his job. Crannel has started a company, Orion Aerospace LLC, that is already testing flight hardware for commercial space transportation companies in his native Titusville.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100706/BUSINESS/7060311/1007/NEWS02/Moonlighting+good+for+NASA+engineer
6. From the Bangor Daily News of Maine: Jupiter’s ice covered moon, Europa, may host an inner ocean and possibly some form of life. http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/147865.html
7. From the Washington Post: Why does one side of the moon face the Earth? The phenomenon is called “tidal lock” and is common in the solar system. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070204623.html
8. From spacepolicyonline.com: Events this week on the space policy front from spacepolicyonline.com. Congress is in recess. http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1013:events-of-interest-week-of-july-5-9-2010&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
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