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Monday’s CSExtra features the latest reporting on NASA activities and space policy issues, as Congress re-convenes following the August recess. Within NASA, a heavy lift rocket strategy quietly takes shape. In Washington, NASA related appropriations and authorization measures await passage as the start of the 2011 fiscal year approaches. A Russian supply ship docks with the International Space Station. The last of hundreds of endangered sea turtle eggs rescued from the Gulf Coast are released into the ocean waters near the Kennedy Space Center.
1. From the Orlando Sentinel: NASA has been working quietly on a heavy lift rocket design based on shuttle components, including the four segment solid rocket boosters, external tank and main engines. Possibly, the spacecraft could be ready for a 2014 test flight, as well as cargo and possibly crew missions to the International Space Station by 2016. The concept is almost identical that that previously proposed by Team Direct, a group of moonlighting NASA engineers.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-redesigns-shuttle-20100912,0,7720708.story
2. From Spacepolicyonline.com: The House and Senate re-convene this week, with most of their authorization and appropriations measures not yet passed, including those for NASA. A continuing resolution seems certain as the Oct. 1 start of the 2011 fiscal year nears. The question for space enthusiasts is whether lawmakers will remain in session long enough to finish their work before recessing again for the November elections.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1100:congress-returns-with-a-full-plate-of-space-issues-waiting&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
A. From Spacepolicyonline.com: Space policy events of potential interest this week.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1101:events-of-interest-week-of-september-13-17-2010&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: A Russian Progress cargo craft docks with the International Space Station early Sunday, delivering 5,000 pounds of supplies.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp24/100912progress39p/
4. From the Ottawa Citizen of Canada: Space holds the resources and provides the vantage point to help solve the Earth’s growing energy needs, Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, tells the World Energy Congress in Montreal.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Solution+energy+woes+this+world+astronaut/3514688/story.html
5. From the Los Angeles Times: A feature on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to examine a comet. Equipped with NASA-furnished instruments, Rosetta has already visited an asteroid as part of a mission to study the materials that formed the building blocks for the solar system.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-0912-story-20100912,0,2038504.story
6. From Florida Today: One of history’s biggest baby sea turtle re-locations — largely in response to the Gulf BP oil spill — comes to a close at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. More than 28,000 eggs were re-located from the Gulf Coast to Kennedy between June and August, with transportation donated by FedEx. The last of 15,000 hatch lings were released by Kennedy biologists last week. How many normally survive to adulthood in the wilds? One in 1,000, Florida Today reports.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100913/NEWS01/9130308/1086/Oil-spill+turtle+refugees+released+at+Kennedy+Space+Center
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