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Saturday’s CSExtra features a report on legislative activities this week affecting NASA’s future as well as interesting developments possibly overshadowed by recent Congressional developments affecting space policy.
1. From Spacepolitics.com: An assessment of the NASA Authorization bill passed by the House Science and Technology Committee on Thursday. The measure, if passed, would shape NASA’s future for the next three years.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/07/23/house-committee-approves-authorization-bill-with-some-changes/
2. From Florida Today: Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the first rocket launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100724/NEWS02/7240313/+Bumper++set+Cape+s+stage+60+years+ago
A. From Space.Com: Pennsylvania students win rocket competition at the Farnborough Air Show in England. Students from France and the United Kingdom finish close to the top.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/news/american-students-win-international-rocket-contest-100723.html
B. From Space News: Experts at the Space Frontier Foundation annual conference in California predict the cost for passengers to reach space in suborbital rockets will fall dramatically within a few years.
http://www.spacenews.com/venture_space/100723-suborbital-price-drop-foreseen.html
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover rolls a few feet for the first time in a test on Friday. Launching of Curiosity is scheduled for 2011.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/23curiosity/
4. From Space News: Europe’s Envisat, a large environmental satellite, threatens to become a long standing destructive hunk of space junk within a few years.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/100723-envisat-orbital-debris-threat.html
5. From Space News: NASA is likely to become more active in sweeping up the growing amounts of orbital debris, a space agency scientist tells a German audience.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/100723-nasa-orbital-debris-mitigation.html
6. From Discovery.com: The Canadian Space Agency’s Dextre robot, parked outside the International Space Station, to get a workout next week. Plans for a test last week were delayed so experts in Canada and at NASA’s Mission Control could carry out some troubleshooting.
http://news.discovery.com/space/space-station-robot-gets-to-work.html
7. From the Spacecoalition.com: Scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology are making headway on space sensors that may help in the search for Earth-like planets around distant stars.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/heres-looking-at-you-the-hunt-for-earth-like-planets
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