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Monday’s CSExtra offers a collection of the latest reporting and commentary on space exploration. Interest builds in the human exploration of asteroids, as experts begin the difficult search for prospective destinations. A commercial space expert offers supportive context for the White House commercial space transportation initiative. A look back at last week’s top space developments. NASA plans a new mission to the sun.
1. From Spaceflightnow.com: Experts are responding to President Obama’s goal of reaching a near Earth asteroid with humans by 2025. Lockheed Martin, has proposed Plymouth Rocket, missions using a pair of Orion crewed spacecraft to reach asteroid destinations well before the president’s goal. The Applied Science Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University is suggesting robotic precursor missions as well, Next Gen Near could launch as soon as 2014. The subject of asteroid exploration was a topic at the AIAA Space 2010 Conference in Anaheim, Calif.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1009/06asteroid/
A. The Houston Chronicle: At NASA, the exploration directorate’s executives and scientists begin to wrestle with the human exploration of an asteroid, as proposed by President Obama earlier this year. However, more candidates for exploration are needed. The first destinations could be quite small, no larger than a sky scraper.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/7188211.html
2. From Spacepolitics.com: The website illustrates a case for the Obama Administration’s strategy to develop a commercial space transportation system, with an investment of up to $6 billion for development over the next six years. The Pentagon failed to make such a substantial investment in the development of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles in the 1990s, wrongly assuming a growing commercial market for the Atlas 5 and the Delta 4, warned one expert at the AIAA Space 2010 Conference.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/05/commercial-crew-eelv-and-avoiding-repeating-history/
3. From Spaceflightnow.com and This Week in Space: David Waters hosts the Sept. 5 edition of TWIS, which includes reports on the Ares 1 first stage ground test by ATK last week, the demise of NASA’s ICEsat Earth science satellite and the latest advances in the discovery of asteroids that may be suitable for human exploration in the decades ahead.
www.spaceflightnow.com/twis.
4. From Discovery.com: NASA plans a news mission, Solar Probe Plus. The spacecraft would fly into the sun’s atmosphere to find out why it’s so much hotter than the solar surface. A 2018 launching is anticipated.
http://news.discovery.com/space/solar-probe-plus-sun-corona.html
5. From the Washington Post: An editorial notes the evolving investigation into Toyota’s automobile accelerator problems appears close to identifying drivers as the cause, not automobile electronics. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Academy of Sciences and NASA are among those investigating as the direction of Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/05/AR2010090502878.html
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