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Friday’s CSExtra features the latest reports on space related activities from around the world: In a break with tradition, NASA is likely to assign oversight of the agency’s commercial crew development activities to the Kennedy Space Center. Traditionally, the agency’s human spacecraft development activities have been supervised from Houston. Choosing a final home for the display of NASA’s space shuttle orbiters. The proposed 2012 federal budget includes lots of satellite and rocket work for Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
1. From Florida Today: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is likely to host the agency’s commercial crew development office, NASA administrator Charles Bolden tells the newspaper’s editorial board.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110218/NEWS02/102180322/1007/NASA-chief-Bolden-makes-call-where-shuttles-will-stay
2. From the Orlando Sentinel: Where are NASA’s shuttle orbiters headed once they are retired by NASA? It appears they are destined for Central Florida, New York City, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. However, the President’s 2012 budget proposal includes a $14 million line item that would help Dayton, Ohio, home to a U.S. Air Force museum, land one of the winged spacecraft for display.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/2011/02/who-gets-a-retired-shuttle-ohio-is-now-a-contender-but-it-wont-beat-out-florida.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Fspace%2Fspace_blog+%28Space+Blog+The+Write+Stuff%29
A. From Florida Today: A $5 million contribution from Boeing helps Dayton, Ohio, in its bid to land a retired shuttle orbiter for display at a U.S. Air Force museum.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110218/NEWS02/102180321/Boeing-Co-gives-Ohio-museum-5M-help-snag-shuttle
3. From Bloomberg.com: The U.S. Air Force plans to spend nearly $32 billion on satellite and rocket launch programs through 2016. Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman will carry out most of the work, according to a Bloomberg assessment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-17/lockheed-boeing-programs-boosted-in-31-7-billion-space-plan.html
4. From Spaceflightnow.com: Facing financial challenges, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could be grounded in 2016, according to a top space official. The James Webb, intended to replace the Hubble Space Telescope, has experienced cost and schedule obstacles.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/17jwst/
5. From Space.com: NASA’s WISE space telescope takes a hiatus. Final commands to turn off the telescope’s sky survey activities were sent from the ground on Thursday. WISE was launched in 2009 to begin a survey of the sky in the infrared and spotted comets and asteroids.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/10895-nasa-wise-space-telescope-mission-ends.html
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