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Monday’s CSExtra offers new editorial comment on the NASA Authorization Bill passed by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week. Most of the comment supports the way Congress is pointing NASA and sees the measure as breaking a stalemate with the White House. Senate appropriators may act this week as well. Also, the New York Times looks at how the surviving commercial space transportation initiative might change traditional aerospace corporations.
1. From the Houston Chronicle: A Sunday editorial supporting the NASA authorization bill passed by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The new measure accelerates work on a heavy lift rocket, revives Orion’s deep space mission for astronauts and supports commercial space transportation.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/7113041.html
A. From the Huntsville Times: An op-ed supporting the Senate authorization measure. This bill would prevent changes at the whim of each new administration, according to the editorial.
http://blog.al.com/times-views/2010/07/editorial_nasa_compromise_a_go.html
B. From NASAwatch.com: NASA’s Senate authorization represents a wider revival of meaningful Congressional oversight, according to author Frank Sietzen Jr.
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/07/the-senate-nasa.html#more
C. A Houston Chronicle op-ed: NASA and its administrator Charles Bolden receive insufficient backing from the Obama administration. Op-ed written by former Houston television journalist, John Getter.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7113038.html
D. From Spacepolicyonline.com: Events of interest this week on the space policy, space science fronts. On July 22, the Senate Appropriations Committee plans to markup the NASA and NOAA 2011 spending bills.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1033:events-of-interest-week-of-july-19-23-2010&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
2. From The New York Times: A look at how President Obama’s commercial space initiative will affect the traditional aerospace industry. Big changes for Boeing and Lockheed Martin. However, their joint venture, United Launch Alliance, may do quite well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/business/global/19iht-ravspace.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=NASA&st=cse
3. From Florida Today: New Falcon 9 hardware from SpaceX arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The company is looking to September for its first launch under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. SpaceX scored a success with its inaugural demonstration launch on June 4.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100719/NEWS02/7190312/SpaceX+plans+demonstration+flight
4. From the AP via the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Orlando Sentinel: Along the U.S. Gulf Coast, local television weather forecasters track and predict the movements of the BP oil leak and land fall of tar balls. They rely on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as well as NASA for tracking information and satellite views.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-gulf-oil-spill-forecasters,0,6378059.story
5. From Spaceflightnow.com: NASA’s immobile Martian rover, Spirit, could awaken from a wintry electronic slumber in September or October. The rover’s nap began in late March as sun angles grew too low to charge the solar arrays. Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, reached Mars in January 2004.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/19spirit/
6. From the Dallas Morning News: Attendance, about 500, is down at this year’s Moon Day event at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. Hosted in part by the National Space Society, the weekend event commemorates the first Apollo moon landing with displays and lectures. There is a public perception that the nation has lost interest in exploration, according to the report.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-moonday_19met.ART.State.Edition1.2955956.html
7. From the Wall Street Journal: A review of “Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery” by Stephen J. Pyne. The book and the review are a tribute to the long running voyages of Voyager I and II.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365190009436112.html
8. From Space.com: A look at the promise of private space suits.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/businesstechnology/private-spacesuit–new-york-unveiling-100716.html
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