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Thursday’s CSExtra features the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the nation. NASA adds an extra day to shuttle Endeavour’s final mission, extending the soon to be launched voyage to 15 days. The reverberations over NASA’s decision to house retired shuttle orbiters in Florida, metropolitan Washington D.C., California and New York continue. The Pentagon grows comfortable with a European code of conduct in space. Launched more than 30 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is still blazing a new path. NASA climate researchers ponder the loss of a key mission. A vintage Russian spacecraft fetches nearly $3 million at auction. Evidence for the big bang fade.
1. From Florida Today: NASA on Wednesday extends the final mission of shuttle Endeavour from 14 to 15 days. Endeavour’s lift off from the Kennedy Space Center is set for April 29. Top NASA managers will meet next week to establish a formal launch date. The extra day will permit Endeavour’s six astronauts time to upgrade the International Space Station’s Carbon Dioxide Removal system.
http://space.flatoday.net/2011/04/extra-day-added-to-endeavours-final.html
2. From Space.com: Houston area law makers express frustration over NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s choice of homes for the retired space shuttle orbiters, the Kennedy Space Center for Atlantis, the Washington D. C. area for Discovery , Los Angeles for Endeavour, New York City for Enterprise.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/11383-nasa-space-shuttle-retirement-museums-backlash.html
A. From the Dallas Morning News: In an editorial, the Dallas newspaper expresses outrage over NASA’s decision to bypass Houston as home to one of the retired shuttle orbiters. “It boggles the mind…,” according to the Morning News.
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20110413-editorial-shuttle-decision-more-than-a-disappointment.-it_s-an-outrage.ece
B. From the Orlando Sentinel: Was NASA’s shuttle program worth the expense? In an op-ed, Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas says definitely not.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-mike-thomas-shuttle-costs-041411-20110413,0,7662981.column
C. From Discovery.com: A look back at NASA’s efforts so far to find a successor to the space shuttle.
http://news.discovery.com/space/scuttled-spaceships-nasa-110411.html
3. From Space News: The U.S. Department of Defense looks at adopting Europe’s code of conduct in space.
http://www.spacenews.com/military/110413-pentagon-endorses-code-conduct-space.html
4. From the Los Angeles Times: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched more than 30 years ago, is on the verge of leaving the solar system to enter the unexplored realm between the stars. California Institute of Technology physicist Ed Stone, the mission’s long time principal investigator, is watching the data from the robotic spacecraft stream back to Earth.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0414-ed-stone-20110412,0,4527527.story
5. From the Hampton Daily Press of Virginia: Scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center ponder the fate of NASA’s $1.1 billion climate research mission, CLARREO, which was cancelled in February. The multi-mission spacecraft was slated for a 2017 launching.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/dp-nws-nasa-clarreo-20110413,0,3678131.story
6. From Space.com: Russian businessman Evgeny Yurchenko buys the Vostok 3KA-2 capsule at auction on Tuesday for $2.9 million. The test article flew in space 20 days before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s historic spaceflight of April 12, 1961.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/11377-soviet-space-capsule-sothebys-auction.html
7. From Space.com: Evidence of the big bang — traces in the vast electromagnetic spectrum — are gradually fading.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/11380-big-bang-evidence-universe-trillion-years.html
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