CSExtra–Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Wednesday’s space news scan finds more reporting and commentary on U.S. space policy and NASA’s future. Some of the discussion is centered around a hearing of the U. S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on the future of U. S. human...CSExtra–Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Tuesday’s space news scan finds new concerns that the latest White House space policy is under funding NASA’s human space flight program. The concern, expressed in several reports, was voiced by Lester Lyles, a member of the Augustine Committee and the...CSExtra–Monday, May 10, 2010
Monday’ space news scan offers a short list of developments. 1. From the Arizona Republic, an op-ed in from June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee and founding chairman of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. The current...NASA Keeping Eyes in the Sky on the Gulf Oil Spill
Source: NASA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 23 flight engineer, photographed the tail end of the Mississippi Delta showing the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico on May 4, 2010. Part of the river delta and nearby Louisiana...Thumbs Up! Orion Pad Abort-1 Test Success
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico – It was all thumbs up and back slaps here today as the Orion Pad Abort -1 flew flawlessly – a test to help develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight applications. Within 97 seconds of an initial 500,000-pound blast of solid...STS-132
NASA Satellite Imagery Keeping Eye on the Gulf Oil Spill
Source: NASA NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites are helping the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) keep tabs on the extent of the recent Gulf oil spill with satellite images from time to time. NOAA is the lead agency on oil spills and uses...Asteroid Ice May Be ‘Living Fossil’ With Clues to Oceans’ Origins
Source: University of Central Florida An artist conception of asteroid 24 Themis and a smaller fragment of this dynamical family, which resulted from a large impact more than 1 billion years ago. Photo: G. Pérez (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain) The...View of the Sun: Editorial from The New York Times
Source: The New York Times There has always been something miraculous about transmissions from space — those thin datastreams trickling toward Earth from research spacecraft. Over the years, the transmissions have grown more and more robust, richer in information,...Space Talk
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