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Saturday’s CSExtra features comments from NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver on the NASA authorization bill that emerged from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee this week. Plus, a look back at other recent developments overshadowed by the authorization activities.
1. From the Houston Chronicle: A question and answer session with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver on the passage this week of a NASA authorization bill in the Senate. Says Garver of the significance: “A lessening of the tension and a recognition that what we’ve all been working for, and I’ve tried to say this lately quite a bit, we aren’t fighting over whether we should have a robust human spaceflight program, we’re fighting over what the best way is to do it. In the old days we used to fight about whether we should have one. So this is progress. But yes I am sensing a definite way to work together.”
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2010/07/post_163.html
A. Spacepolicyonline.com assesses Garver’s remarks to the Chronicle.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1031:nasa-seems-onboard-with-senate-commerce-bill&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
B. Also, Spacepolicyonline.com reports the full Senate Appropriations Committee will take up the Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee’s spending bill, which includes NASA, on July 22.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/
2. From Spacepolitics.com: The House Science and Technology Committee is working on a NASA authorization bill as well, but the Democratic leadership is not sharing many details, according to U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, of Texas, the panel’s ranking Republican. In a speech this week to the Space Transportation Association, Hall says the committee needs to act before September.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/16/meanwhile-in-the-house/
A. Spacepolitics.com offers a roundup of reaction to the Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee’s NASA authorization bill. The tone is supportive.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/16/other-reaction-to-the-senate-bill/
3. From USA Today: Global temperatures set new record highs in 2010 so far, according to NOAA’s National Climate Data Center. It’s part of a 100 year trend that can be attributed to increased greenhouse gases, according to this report headlined, “The World Sizzles to Record for the Year.”
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2010-07-15-heat-record_N.htm
4. From Space.com: Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise makes its first test flight with crew aboard this week. The SpaceShipTwo craft remained attached to the White Knight Two mother ship for the flight over the Mojave in California.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/news/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-first-crewed-flight-100716.html
5. From Collectspace.com: Four of the surviving U.S. and Soviet cosmonauts who participated in the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project mission re-united at an Omega watch boutique this week in New York.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/news/historic-apollo-soyuz-crew-anniversary-100716.html
6. From the Huntsville Times: Most of NASA’s recent shuttle Atlantis mission crew travels to Alabama this week. During the visit, the astronauts met with Sydney Newton, 6, who is battling cancer. The astronauts present Sydney with Beads of Courage that flew aboard their shuttle mission.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/07/atlantis_crew_shares_memories.html
7. From the AP via the Washington Post: NASA’s WISE mission space telescope finds 25,000 new asteroids, 95 of them considered near-Earth objects. None, though, poses a collision threat. The discovery marks the end of the mission’s first all sky survey in the infrared. Another survey will follow.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071601213.html
8. From Space.com: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center participates in the rescue of sea turtle nests along the northern Gulf coast. The nests and their eggs were jeopardized by the oil spill and efforts to clean the beaches of Alabama and Florida.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/news/oil-spill-endangered-turtles-nasa-100716.html
9. From Science News: The Sun reveals some surprising secrets, including its atomic composition.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/61127/description/Beneath_that_blazing_facade
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