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Sunday’s CSExtra offers a look at the latest reporting and commentary from the space frontier. In Central Florida, it’s a bitter sweet Labor Day weekend. Hundreds of contract workers are facing layoffs from the Kennedy Space Center in a few weeks. Unemployment in the region is already near 12 percent. NASA proves is value beyond spaceflight this summer, as the agency’s experts track the Gulf oil spill, assist trapped miners. New space rises in a Dallas suburb. China launches a communications satellite.
1. From Florida Today: The countdown is on for a major Kennedy Space Center lay off in a region of Florida already experiencing a near 12 percent unemployment rate. On Oct. 1, some 900 will lose their jobs. “I get down for a moment or two,” says one worker who is nearing the loss of her job, “then I say, ‘that’s enough.'”
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100905/NEWS01/9050324/KSC-workers-refocus-as-cuts-creep-closer
A. From Florida Today: NASA is about more than space travel, as this past summer demonstrates, writes columnist John Kelly. NASA’s experts helped to monitor the BP oil spill as well as rescue endangered sea turtles. They’ve conducted airborne research on hurricanes. NASA dispatched medical experts to Chile to assist with the rescue of 33 trapped miners.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100905/COLUMNISTS0405/9050320/1086/John+Kelly++NASA+knows+more+than+space
B. From the Los Angeles Times: The scene at the San Jose Mine near Copiago in Chile, where 33 men have been trapped 2,300 feet underground since Aug. 5. Among those on hand last week to assist were experts from NASA. The lead for the NASA delegation, physician Michael Duncan, says one challenge faced by the men is the loss of sunlight, which in turn is leading to a vitamin D deficiency and a disruption of their sleep-wake cycles. “The Chileans are basically writing the book on how to rescue this many people….” notes Duncan.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chile-miners-20100905,0,3073477,full.story
2. From the Dallas Observer: A look at the budding relationship between NASA and new space pioneer Armadillo Aerospace of Caddo Lakes. Suborbital space comes to North Texas.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/09/nasa_enlists_caddo_mills-based.php
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: China launches a communications satellite for domestic television and radio.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/04longmarch/
4. From the Coalition for Space Exploration: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provides new imagery of Saturn’s moon Dione. http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/just-in-raw-images-of-saturn-moon-dione
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