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Sunday’s CSExtra offers a close up look at one Central Florida couple, admitted “space geeks” who are leaving the region for New Hampshire, as part of an economic reality hundreds of colleagues are facing as NASA’s shuttle program winds to a close. Are Boeing and Northrop Grumman thinking acquisition? SpaceX’s commercial prowess from the European perspective. An op-ed urging Congress to embrace President Obama’s space strategy as lawmakers reconvene.
1. From Florida Today: Brad and Lisa DeVries, United Space Alliance safety engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, are heading for New Hampshire, where Lisa will export her skills to a nuclear plant. Now 34 years old, the couple met at Space Camp when they were 22 years. Self-admitted space geeks, they choose to look for new work last spring when it became apparent they had a high probability of losing their jobs as the shuttle program wound down. Some 8,000 workers and their families are facing the same prospect.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100912/NEWS01/9120317/KSC-families-leaving-one-at-a-time
A. From Florida Today: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which last week was hobbled by a water main break, in many ways resembles a small town, columnist John Kelly writes in a behind the scenes account. http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100912/COLUMNISTS0405/9120324/1086/Space+center+a+city+of+its+own
2. From the Los Angeles Times: The Boeing Co. looks to a possible merger with the Northrop Grumman Corp. Neither company will comment, according to the Times. Government approval is far from certain, say experts.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-northrop-20100911,0,5594554.story
A. From the BBC: A European perspective on SpaceX and company’s bid to capture more of the global commercial satellite launching market with prices well below those of its competitors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/2010/09/the-big-rockets-jostle-for-mar.shtml
3. From the Huffington Post: An op-ed from Rick Tumlinson, a co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation, favoring President Obama’s commercial space transportation initiative. Tumlinson offers strongly worded criticism of opponents.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-tumlinson/the-constellation-halluci_b_708459.html
4. From spaceflightnow.com: Japan launches a navigation satellite on Saturday.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/h2a/michibiki/100911launch/
5. From the Associated Press via the Houston Chronicle: The failed BP blowout preventer arrives at a NASA installation near New Orleans for examination. The 300 ton blowout rig is a suspect in the Gulf Oil spill. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7196616.html
6. From the Coalition for Space Exploration: Researchers prepare the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, an astronomical observatory, for launching to the ISS aboard the final shuttle flight in early 2011. The instrument was developed to explore characterize antimatter.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/space-station-to-probe-for-antimatter
7. From CNN.com: A large ice berg that separated from Petermann Glacier in Greenland last month has broken in two, images from the European Space Agency’s Envisat spacecraft reveal. The iceberg, four times larger than Manhattan Island, is loosing structure as it batters a small island west of Greenland.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/10/petermann.ice.island/index.html?iref=allsearch
8. From Spaceweather.com: An Coronal Mass Ejection, unleashed by the sun late last week, should graze the Earth’s magnetic field, intensifying the Northern Lights on Monday. Best viewing from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia.
http://spaceweather.com/
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