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Monday’s CSExtra offers reports and commentary on the latest developments in space exploration and the Earth’s environment. Retired NASA astronaut William Lenoir has died. A look behind two major announcements last week from those in search of planets around other stars. The Green movement faces new political frustrations. Are record temperatures in Houston during August a symptom of global warming? See what the experts from NASA and other organizations have to say. An expert of space isolation suggests what it will take to assist miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine.
1. From COLLECTspace.com: Former Astronaut William “Bill” Lenoir, who also served as NASA’s Associate Administrator for space flight under Administrator Richard Truly, has died. Lenoir died Saturday at 71. He suffered head injuries in a bicycle accident on Thursday. The MIT educated engineer joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 1967 and waited 15 yeas for his first mission. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082910a.html
2. From Discovery.com: A look at the meaning of two major announcements last week for those in search of alien worlds. First the European Southern Observatory announced confirmation of five planets circling star HD 10180, just 27 light years away. Then NASA’s Kepler space telescope team announced confirmation of two with a possible third planet around Kepler 9, a star 2,000 light years away. What are these multi-planet stars telling us about the way planets form and the prospect that at least some occupy habitable zones?
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-planetary-systems-are-both-familiar-and-surprising.html
3. From the Washington Post: The Green movement faces new political setbacks in its bid to reign in greenhouse gases. The movement may have over-estimated its influence, some experts suggest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082903699.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010082903726
A. From the Houston Chronicle: Texas largest city has experienced its warmest August on record. Climate experts, including one from NASA, say it may be a harbinger of a future influenced by global warming. Whether the warming is due to natural variability or human activity remains a topic for debate among the experts.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7177184.html
4. From the New York Times: In an op-ed, Dr. Nick Kanas, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied astronauts and scientists in extreme isolated environments like the International Space Station and Antarctica, offers some advice on how Chilean rescuers should handle 33 trapper miners. He notes that astronauts tend to fare better than those isolated during missions to Antarctica because they can more readily communicate with family, friends and the occasional celebrity. He suggests rescuers be on the look out for “displacement,” or anger among the trapped aimed at their underground colleagues rather than those supervising the rescue. The trapped miners need a trusted colleague on the surface to handle communications. They need to know their families are being cared for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30kanas.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=NASA&st=cse
5. From Florida Today: The Space Foundation is in search of space heroes, Florida Today reports. Participate in a survey at www.thespacefoundation.org.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20108300311
6. From the New York Times: A review of Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery,” a book that pays tribute to NASA’s Voyager fly by missions of Jupiter, Saturn and the other outer planets. Voyagers 1 and 2, both about 10 billion miles from Earth, continue their journeys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Overbye-t.html?_r=1&ref=books
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