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Friday’s CSExtra finds NASA-led researchers taking advantage of belated hurricane season activity in the Atlantic. Satellites, astronauts aboard the International Space Station join with unpiloted aircraft to snap photos and take measurements as Hurricane Earl intensifies. Canada earns its first command of the International Space Station. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver addresses the AIAA 2010 Convention in Anaheim pleased at the support for the agency’s $19 billion bottom line.
1. From the Los Angeles Times: NASA’s Global Hawk drone, based at the Dryden Flight Research Center, joins a hurricane research project, gathering pictures and taking measurements inside Atlantic hurricanes. NASA’s Genesis and Rapid Intensification Project experiment will run through Sept. 30. Two other aircraft are involved as well.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/09/nasa-global-hawk-northrop-grumman.html
A. From Discovery.com: Satellites from NASA and NOAA dissect Hurricane Earl as the cyclone parallels the U.S. East Coast. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station provide spectacular imagery as well.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/hurricane-earl-satellite.html
2. From the Associated Press via the Washington Post: Veteran astronaut Chris Hadfield to become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, the station’s NASA-led partnership announced on Thursday. He’ll lead for three months in 2013.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/02/AR2010090202291.html
A. From the National Post of Canada: Hadfield’s selection to command is a symbol of what Canada has achieved in space with a small budget.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto/Major+Canada+space+program/3476029/story.html
3. From Spacepolitics.com: NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver notes a recent “lessening” of the tensions over NASA’s future in remarks before the 2010 AIAA Conference in Anaheim earlier this week. Garver finds wide support for NASA’s $19 billion bottom line budget in 2011. She urges support for the Administration’s priorities in the authorization and appropriation measures still making their through the House and Senate, a commercial space transportation initiative, more spending on Earth sciences, an extension of International Space Station activities and work on a new heavy lift rocket. However, she’s concerned lawmakers are overlooking the cost of canceling NASA’s Constellation back-to-the-moon program.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/02/garver-a-lessening-of-tensions-in-the-nasa-budget-debate/
4. From Space.com: A new survey of Near-Earth asteroids using NASA’s Spitzer space telescope finds surprising diversity. One hundred objects were surveyed with the infrared telescope to gain new information about the origins of the rocky objects.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/scienceastronomy/asteroids-near-earth-variety-100902.html
5. From Spaceflightnow.com: India’s Chandrayaan 2 moon mission will fly with a Russian lander when it heads for the lunar surface in 2013. Neither U.S. nor European instrumentation is currently planned for an orbiter and lander that will study the moon’s tenuous atmosphere and search for underground water ice.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/02chandrayaan/
6. From the Los Angeles Times: State and federal officials weigh the future of chimpanzees once used as subjects in the early days of NASA’s space program. Animal rights groups oppose a move that should shift the animals from New Mexico to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, where they may once again become test subjects.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alamogordo-chimps-20100903,0,5905193.story
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