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Thursday’s CSExtra follows the latest developments in Washington as the House and Senate shape policy and spending road maps for NASA. The House Science and Technology Committee consider a NASA authorization bill on Thursday. The Senate Appropriations Committee takes up the $19 billion spending bill approved by the Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee on appropriations on Wednesday. Everyone agrees on a $19 billion bottom line, but not on how to spend it.
1. From Space News: The Senate Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee on appropriations approves a $19 billion NASA spending bill on Wednesday. The measure backs a new NASA developed heavy lift rocket and crew capsule for deep space exploration, which the White House 2011 budget did not seek. The measure cuts in half the money sought by the administration for a commercial crew transportation initiative. http://www.spacenews.com/civil/072110senate-panel-cuts-commercial-crew-adds-funds-for-orion-and-heavy-lift.html
A. From the Orlando Sentinel: The Senate appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over NASA follows the policy blueprint forged by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on July 15.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/2010/07/nasa-compromise-takes-small-step-forward.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Fspace%2Fspace_blog+%28Space+Blog+The+Write+Stuff%29
B. From Florida Today: Senate measures affecting NASA’s 2011 budget could clash with those under way in the House, Florida Today reports. The House authorization measure lacks the additional shuttle mission sought by the Senate measure. The House wishes to restructure the Constellation Program. The Senate wants to drop Constellation but proceed with an accelerated NASA heavy lift rocket and a crew capsule for deep space missions.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100722/NEWS02/7220320/Differing+views+for+NASA+advance
C. From Aviation Week & Space Technology: The Senate Commerce Justice and Science subcommittee on appropriations measure furthers an unfolding compromise between Congress and the White House over NASA’s future, the trade magazine reports.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/awx/2010/07/21/awx_07_21_2010_p0-242771.xml&headline=Key%20Senate%20Panel%20Approves%20NASA%202011%20Funding
D. From Space News: In an op-ed, space historian Roger Launius examines the on going debate over the future of human space exploration. After concluding the pursuit may be in peril, he looks back to the 1960s to a similar crisis confronting scientists over the future of robotic planetary missions. Not until forced to reach a backroom consensus, were they able to move ahead with a successful program, the Air and Space Museum scholar writes.
http://www.spacenews.com/commentaries/100721-blog-human-spaceflight-brink-extinction.html
2. From Poynter Online: A lengthy examination of how the news media treated NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s June interview with Al Jazeera in which he said NASA would reach out to Muslim nations for cooperation in space.
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=187259
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: Boeing unveils its CST 100 commercial crew capsule at the Farnborough Air Show. The company says the spacecraft could begin launching passengers to Earth orbit in 2015 if the project is funded next year.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/21boeing/
4. From Space.com: Japan’s Ikaros spacecraft and its solar sail wins acclaim at a New York science conference. Ikaros was launched in May.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/news/solar-sail-exploration-hailed-100721.html
5. From the AP via the Houston Chronicle: Scientists find a gigantic star in a neighboring galaxy. The star is 100s of times larger than the sun, they report.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/7117560.html
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