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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space exploration and the people who make it possible.
1. From Florida Today: Hundreds of Florida shuttle program workers are facing their last day of work this week. The economic impact of the layoffs, announced earlier by NASA prime contractor United Space Alliance, will ripple across the Florida Space Coast. Florida Today looks at the local demographics.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20109260338
2. From Spacepolicyonline.com: A listing of space policy events this week, including the prospects for Congressional action on NASA issues. One likely event is congressional passage of a continuing resolution to keep the federal government, including NASA, in operation without a budget after the start of the 2011 fiscal year. The fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1134:events-of-interest-week-of-september-27-october-1-2010&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
3. From The Coalition for Space Exploration: NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover examines a newly discovered iron meteorite on the terrain of Meridiani Planum. It’s the fifth meteorite to receive close up scrutiny from Opportunity, which landed on Mars in January 2004.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/wow-up-close-images-mars-rover-studies-new-find
4. From the Wall Street Journal: Using NASA satellite data, Canadian researchers construct a map of global air quality. China, and in particular its industrial region, exhibits the most airborne particulates, a health concern for hundreds of millions of people. The study is based on data gather by satellites between 2001 and 2006. The situation has only worsened since, this short news article concludes.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/09/27/an-overhead-view-of-chinas-pollution/?KEYWORDS=NASA
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