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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest in reporting and commentary on activities from around the world, plus a look back at weekend events. President Obama, in India, is expected to make announcements Monday that affect cooperation between the two countries. Meanwhile, new concerns arise over NASA’s future, based on the outcome of the Nov. 2, U.S. elections and new momentum in Congress to cut spending. Plus NASA looks to a late November/early December launching of the shuttle Discovery, following a substantial launch pad hydrogen leak that forced a Nov. 5 scrub.
1. From Spacepolitics.com, Nov. 7: President Obama, on a visit to India, is expected to join in announcements Monday affecting space cooperation between the two countries. It appears India will come off the U.S. Entity List, which restricts the export of some U.S. technologies. Others are suggesting future cooperation on a space-based solar power network might be under consideration.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/11/07/us-and-india-in-space-and-space-solar-power/
2. From Florida Today, Nov. 7: Columnist John Kelly suggests the Nov. 2 election could bring more hard times to NASA and Central Florida. If NASA’s budget is cut to 2008 levels, he suggests efforts by NASA to add a mid-2011 shuttle mission aboard Atlantis could fall away quickly. Also, efforts to accelerate the development of a new heavy lift rocket could be slowed.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20101107/COLUMNISTS0405/11070318/1086/John+Kelly++Election+could+spell+trouble+for+NASA+spending+plan
A. From Space.com, Nov. 6: The new Congress must address the question of how “discretionary” NASA funding is in a competitive global research and development environment. That could be an issue as some in the new Congress suggest rolling spending back to 2008 levels.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/news/nasa-budget-midterm-elections-gop-101106.html
B. From Space News, Nov. 5: The trade publication continues to follow the impacts of the Nov. 2 election and a shift to Republican leadership in the House. Washington analysts warn of tough financial sledding for NASA under the new regime.
http://www.spacenews.com/policy/101103-election-brings-new-leadership-nasa-oversight-committees.html
C. From Spacepolitics.com, Nov. 6: It took awhile but the final votes from the Nov. 2 election reveal that Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat who chairs the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, won re-election. However with a new Republican majority in the House, the strong advocate for NASA’s Constellation program will likely become the ranking member of the subcommittee.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/11/06/giffords-wins-reelection/
3. From spacepolicyonline.com, Nov. 6: The Washington website offers a listing of space policy events for the week ahead.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1210:events-of-interest-week-of-november-7-12-2010&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
4. From the Coalition for Space Exploration, Nov. 6: Eight nations participate in Project Dorothy, a globally coordinated effort to listen and look for radio and laser signals from distant civilizations. The largest multi-national SETI search coincides with the 50th anniversary of the original attempt to listen for signals from intelligent life in other star systems.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/shhhh-earth-in-look-and-listen-mode-for-et
5. From the San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 6: the Space Studies Institute sponsors a two-day conference at the Ames Research Center. A revival of the initiatives suggested by Gerald K. O’Neill, the agenda included solar power, commercial space flight, defending the Earth from collisions with asteroids and commercial spaceflight.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/05/BUOI1G59PI.DTL
6. From Spaceflightnow.com, Nov. 5: Discovery’s final mission is delayed to no earlier than Nov. 30, following a significant leak of hydrogen at the shuttle’s Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Over the weekend, technicians work their way to the suspected trouble spot, a vent line fixture between the shuttle’s external fuel tank and the launch pad. The leak and a crack in the fuel tank insulation pushed Discovery out of its current launch period, though mission managers made an initial effort to aim for a Nov. 8 launch attempt. The long delay is due mostly to solar heating on the space station’s orbital plane which exceeds the shuttle’s thermal limits until Nov. 30.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101105scrub/index2.html
7. From Spaceflightnow.com, Nov. 5: A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., late Friday with Italian radar satellites. The lift off marked the 350th mission for the Delta family of rockets. The workhorse Delta 2, itself, faces an uncertain future. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d350/
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