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Monday’s CSExtra features the latest news and commentary on space activities and policy, including the latest edition of This Week in Space with Miles O’ Brien. Plus a closer look at the Senate’s 2010 NASA authorization bill and what the measure could mean for a new heavy lift rocket. More on global warming. NASA embraces the Global Hawk for hurricane research. Also, NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson are scheduled to embark on a spacewalk just before 7 a.m. EDT, their third in recent days to address problems with the cooling system on the International Space Station.
1. From This Week in Space and spaceflightnow.com: With Miles O’Brien as the host, This Week in Space interviews those involved in the efforts under way at NASA to recover the cooling system aboard the International Space Station.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/twis/
2. From spaceflightnow.com: On Sunday, International Space Station mission managers gave the okay for a third spacewalk to repair the cooling system aboard the outpost. Their excursion to install a new pump module assembly begins just before 7 a.m., EDT, and should last about 6.5 hours. The station’s cooling system could be fully recovered by Thursday, say managers.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp24/100815eva3pre/index.html
3. From Space News: The trade publication examines the Senate’s version of the 2010 NASA authorization bill. Specifically, the report looks at whether the Senate measure favors the Constellation Program’s Ares V as the design for a new heavy lift rocket. The White House seeks to cancel Constellation.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/081310senate-prescribed-heavy-lifter-looks-like-ares.html
A. From Spacepolitics.com: In a blog commentary on the Space News article, Spacepolitics.com notes that other proposed designs including the Direct version of a heavy lift could satisfy the authorization language. However, there could be other issues with the Senate’s requirements for a heavy lift rocket, Spacepolitics.com notes.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/08/15/congress-as-rocket-designer
4. From Florida Today: The issue dominating the primary for the 24th Congressional district surrounding NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is the space agency’s future. Five Republicans and two Democrats are seeking the seat. The incumbent is Suzanne Kosmas. http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100816/NEWS05/8160315/1086/House+hopefuls+bank+on+shuttle
5. From Chron.com: Over the last several days, several news organizations have reported or offered commentary on potential links between recent extreme weather events around the Earth and global warming. NASA scientists have been quoted or referred to. In an op-ed on Sunday, the former Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham, also a geo-physicist, offers a rebuttal.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7153663.html
6. From Florida Today: NASA pioneers a new use for the Global Hawk drone aircraft, hurricane research.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100816/NEWS01/8160317/Global-Hawk-set-to-spy-on-hurricanes
7. From Spacepolicyonline.com: A look ahead at space policy events this week. They include a NASA forum on Commercial space flight on Thursday, Aug. 19:
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/
8. From the Los Angeles Times: Twenty-one museums around the country are locked in a competition to acquire one of NASA’s three shuttle orbiters as soon as they retire.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-space-shuttle-20100815,0,1447656,full.story
9. Three from The Space Review:
A. In “Can the UK Aerospace base drive human space efforts forward?,” Andy Weston, a British biologist, examines Britain’s rich history of aerospace development and ponders whether his country will contribute again.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1680/1
B. In “A Tale of Two Museums,” Space Review Editor Jeff Foust looks at the competition under way to acquire a shuttle orbiter for public display after the spacecraft are retired. He notes an extension of the deadline has opened the door for Congress to play favorites.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1681/1
C. In “Is the Merlin engine the workhorse of future spaceflight?,” Contributor Steward Money looks at the rocket engine that powers the Falcon 9 rocket, developed by SpaceX. Will commercial space transportation companies include the Merlin in their planning?
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1682/1
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