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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space related events from around the world. Does China have its eyes on the moon, as one U. S. entrepreneur warns? Astronomers spot exo-planet forming processes that resemble those of the early solar system. NASA looks to Thursday for the delayed start of an undersea astronaut analog mission. Lawmakers express concerns over rising U. S. launch service costs. The launch of a flagship NASA Earth sciences satellite slips a day to Oct. 28. The launch pad White Room at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center makes its way to Houston for display. A space butterfly.
1. From Space.com: Speaking before the International Symposium for Commercial and Personal Spaceflight, entrepreneur Robert Bigelow warns that China is poised to develop the moon and its potentially lucrative resources, including water and Helium 3, a fusion fuel. The symposium is under way in Las Cruces, N. M.
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2. From Space.com: Astronomers using Hawaii’s Keck Observatory spot a planet in a distant solar system in the early stages of formation. Nothing as formative has been identified previously. Nascent planet LkCa 15b is 450 million light years from Earth.
http://bit.ly/mZdEnk
A. From Discovery.com: NASA’s Spitzer space telescope spots evidence for cometary bombardment in the Eta Corvi planetary system. The comet impact record of our own inner solar system suggests the same thing happened four billion years ago. The event is called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The moon still bears the scars. Eta Corvi is 50 million light years away.
http://bit.ly/o1kO4z
3. From Florida Today: NASA’s NEEM0 15 undersea asteroid analog mission may get under way on Thursday. The 13-day simulated mission involving the Aquarius lab was to start Monday off Key Largo, Fla. However, a tropical depression spread rain and stirred the surf, prompting a delay.
http://bit.ly/pof5Ol
4. From Space News: The cost of launching satellites for the U. S. intelligence community have grown too high, according to the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee. The impact is sending domestic satellite makers to France, Russia and India for launch services, the top ranking members of the panel tell a San Antonio audience.
http://bit.ly/qFrlVF
A. From Ria Novosti of Russia: A Proton rocket successfully launches the U. S. ViaSat-1 communications satellite from Kazakhstan.
http://bit.ly/pxjfrt
5. From the Lompoc Record of California: The launching of NASA’s NPP Earth observing satellite is delayed from Oct. 27 to Oct. 28 to permit more time for an engineering review. The satellite is part of a new U. S. civilian/military effort to improve weather forecasting and climate research. The mission is awaiting launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
http://bit.ly/pZN8h6
6. From Collectspace: a Kennedy Space Center orbiter access arm and launch pad White Room make their way from the Kennedy Space Center to Houston where the artifacts will be featured at a Johnson Space Center open house. Later the historic hardware will go on display at Space Center Houston.
http://bit.ly/nGFPeX
A. From KHOU-TV of Houston: NASA’s Johnson Space Center will mark the installation’s 50th anniversary as well as 30 years of space shuttle operations with the annual Ballunar Liftoff celebration.
http://bit.ly/q6nDyB
7. From the Houston Chronicle, NASA astronaut Rex Walheim, one of four astronauts assigned to NASA’s busy final shuttle mission, found the opportunity to draw a butterfly in orbit for the Houston Holocaust Museum. The drawing will help to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the holocaust.
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