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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on efforts to solve a cooling system problem aboard the International Space Station and the policy debate over NASA’s future. Plus, a look at extreme environments on that Earth that may hold clues about life elsewhere in the solar system and a spectacular image of colliding galaxies from NASA’s Great Observatories.
1. From This Week in Space and Spaceflightnow.com: Producer David Waters substitutes for Miles O’Brien with a roundup of recent news from the space front. Waters covers Saturday’s spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The walk to repair a cooling system problem on the space station did not go very well. NASA plans at least two more walks to solve the problem. Also stories on the Senate’s passage of a NASA authorization bill. Plus an update on NASA’s strategy to distribute the retired shuttle orbiters to national museums and satellite views of wild fires triggered by a Russian heat wave.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/twis/
2. From Spacepolitics.com: The web site examines recent editorials and news reports on U.S. space policy. The first look is at Sunday’s Washington Post editorial, which questioned whether proposed exploration goals from the Congress and White House can be adequately funded.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/08/08/post-editorial-and-other-items/
A. From Spaceflightnow.com: Troubles with the International Space Station’s cooling system hold up further work with the commissioning of Dextre, the giant robot hand developed by the Canadian Space Agency for tasks that would otherwise have to be conducted by spacewalking astronauts. The cooling system issue has all station research on hold.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp24/100808dextre/
B. From Spacepolicyonline.com: A list of major space policy events on the horizon this week. There aren’t many with Congress in recess.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1064:events-of-interest-week-of-august-9-13-2010&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
3. From the Coalition for Space Exploration: There may be conditions favorable for life at the Martian poles and Europa, the ice covered moon of Jupiter. If so, there may be clues on Earth as to what kind of life would thrive in those extreme alien environments.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/extraterrestrial-csi-detective-story
4. From Universe Today.com: An Aug. 5 posting explains how NASA’s great observatories team up for a spectacular image of the colliding Antennae galaxies. The collision, captured by imagery from the Hubble, Chandra X-ray and Spitzer space telescopes, began 100 million years ago. The galaxies reside 62 million light years from the Earth. http://www.universetoday.com/70531/space-telescopes-team-up-to-capture-spectacular-galactic-collision/
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