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Thursday’s CSExtra features the latest reporting on space-related activities from around the world. A House oversight committee schedules a hearing on NASA’s exploration strategy. The latest in a series of federal budget Continuing Resolutions continues to require NASA to spend on the all but canceled Constellation Program. The French look to investments in rocket and satellite development to spur innovation. Scientists develop a device that could sequence Martian DNA. Deciding where to place NASA’s retired shuttle orbiters is a tough choice, agency Administrator. Charles Bolden says while in Houston. Measuring stress in the operating room. From Norway, spectacular images of the Northern Lights.
1. From Spacepolicyonline.com: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee schedules a March 30 hearing on NASA’s exploration strategy. Those who will testify include Doug Cooke, who will soon retire as NASA’s associate administrator for exploration; and Scott Pace, from the George Washington University Space Policy Institute, and James Maser, of Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1496:hssat-set-to-discuss-nasas-exploration-program-next-week&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
A. From the Orlando Sentinel: The latest budget Continuing Resolution, in force through April 8, requires NASA to spend $1.4 million daily on the all but cancelled Constellation program. Like most federal agencies, NASA lacks at 2011 budget. Since the Oct. 1 start of the 2011 fiscal year, NASA has spent nearly $250 million on the program that once committed NASA to reach the moon with explorers by 2020. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-still-spending-constellation-20110323,0,1523510.story
B. From the Huntsville Times: NASA intentionally crushes the aluminum lithium shell of a rocket stage to advance the development of a future heavy lift rocket for human deep space exploration.
http://blog.al.com/space-news/2011/03/nasa_engineers_say_shell-buckl.html
2. From Space News: The French announce a $700 million investment plan to spur innovation with new rocket and satellite initiatives. The rocket project would look to a successor for the Ariane 5.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/110318-france-invest-space-competitiveness.html
3. From MSNBC’s Cosmic Log: Scientists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop a device that could sequence genetic material found of Mars. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genome could reveal whether Martian and Earth life are related.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/23/6329479-device-may-find-martians-in-us-all
4. From KTRK-TV, Houston: Choosing four U. S. cities with suitable museums to house NASA’s retired space shuttle orbiters will be difficult, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says on Wednesday. A decision is expected April 12. Bolden speaks with KTRK-TV after meeting with members of the Columbia and Challenger families, who urge him to place one of the orbiters in Houston, according to the TV station.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8029714
A. From Florida Today: A collection of space shuttle photography from a long time photo journalist.
http://space.flatoday.net/2011/03/historic-shuttle-photos-gathered-in.html
5. From the Los Angeles Times: NASA develops a stress screen for surgeons. Surgeons are most stressed by unusually long surgeries and procedures that lead to excessive blood loss, according to the screen.
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-surgeon-stress-20110323,0,3457476.story
6. From MSNBC: Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgjerd braves frigid temperatures to gather spectacular images of the aurora borealis. The Northern Lights have become active as the sun emerges from a period of low activity.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/23/6329101-the-northern-lights-like-never-seen-before?chromedomain=cosmiclog
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