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Thursday’s CSExtra includes new reports on Washington’s response to Florida job losses as NASA’s shuttle program ends. There’s new commentary on NASA’s future course, plus reports on developments in space science and engineering.
1. From Florida Today: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visits NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday to tour and meet with workers. Locke co-chairs with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a task force producing an Aug. 15 report for the White House. The report will present options for diversifying the Florida economy in response to the shuttle program retirement. More than anything, workers want some certainty so they can begin to plan their lives, says Locke.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100805/NEWS02/8050316/Commerce+Secretary+Gary+Locke+tours+KSC+labs++pledges+support
A. From Spacepolicyonline.com: The House, in recess until mid-Sept, may re-convene to address legislation on teacher pay, however; not to deal with space policy.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1058:will-the-house-reconvene-briefly-next-week&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
2. From Space News: In a guest op-ed, Science Guy Bill Nye, the new director of The Planetary Society, explains his support for President Obama’s space policy.
http://www.spacenews.com/commentaries/100802-never-imagined.html
3. From Businessnewsdaily.com: A news profile of Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, on his struggles to start commercial space, automobile production and solar power companies at the same time.
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/elon-musk-tesla-motors-ceo-interview-0418/
4. From CNN: Cable news meets Robonaut 2, a NASA and General Motors collaboration on a robot for the workplace. Robonaut 2 is under going preparations to fly to the International Space Station aboard the next shuttle mission in November.
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/04/meet-nasas-newest-astronaut-robonaut-2/?iref=allsearch
5. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of Pennsylvania: A look at the mission of NASA’s next Mars rover, Curiosity. Curiosity will study whether the Martian landscape was/is suitable for microbial life.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10217/1077566-51.stm
A. From Space.com: NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots an unusual impact crater on Mars.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/scienceastronomy/mars-bulls-eye-impact-crater-100804.html
6. From the Coalition For Space Exploration: Astronomers spot a new impact crater on the moon. They calculate its age at less than 40 years. Learn how they made the estimate. http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/new-crater-found-on-the-moon
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