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Thursday’s CSExtra offers a collection of the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Europe’s Hershel space telescope finds new evidence that comets supplied the water for the Earth’s oceans. Can this week’s Nobel Prize for physics build a case for NASA’s troubled James Webb Space Telescope? A Japanese telescope reveals early stellar explosions. Dreams of space travel emerge in Africa. Florida lawmakers look to NASA’s Space Launch System for future jobs. The European Space Agency chooses future missions to study the sun and dark energy. A cautious assessment of encountering extraterrestrial intelligence. Russia launches a satellite. Former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez reaches for Congress. A Florida court backs NASA’s pursuit of an historic Apollo film camera.
1. From National Geographic: Where did the Earth’s oceans originate – comets impacts, according to a maturing theory. New studies suggest they could have been comets from the Kuiper Belt. The chemistry of the oceans seems to match, thanks to observations made with Europe’s Hershel space telescope.
http://bit.ly/pia4gD
2. From Spacepolicyonline.com: Earlier this week, the Nobel Prize for physics went to three scientists involved in the discovery of an acceleration in the expansion of the universe. Some are suggesting, the quality of the science justifies a rescue of NASA’s over budget James Webb Space Telescope.
http://bit.ly/n2EesY
A. From Space News: The European Space Agency designates a pair of future science missions. One, a joint effort with NASA, will study the sun. A second mission will study the expansion of the universe. Launches are time lined for 2017 and 2019.
http://bit.ly/o2GCgn
3. From Space.com: Scientists from Tel Aviv University use the Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to observe 150 of the oldest stellar explosions, or supernova. A dozen of the supernova date back 10 billion years. The explosions began the process of creating heavier chemical elements.
http://bit.ly/nJXoAm
4. From CNN: In Africa, Ugandan Chris Nsamba has a dream — building an African spacecraft for human spaceflight. “The mission is about advancement in space technology as a continent and what we can contribute towards that growth,” Nsamba explains.
http://bit.ly/n9WSdy
5. From the Orlando Sentinel: Florida lawmakers conclude the best chance to improve employment among displaced shuttle program workers is through support of NASA’s Space Launch System, a new heavy lift rocket to propel future explorers on deep space missions. Employment at the Kennedy Space Center is expected to fall to an historic low next year.
http://thesent.nl/mYSFM6
A. From Florida Today: Work by NASA to ensure the long crawler way that leads to Kennedy Space Center launch pads can support a heavy lift rocket wins an award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
http://bit.ly/r0KpD6
6. From the New York Times: University of Notre Dame philosopher Gary Gutting examines the potential outcomes of a human encounter with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Why take the risk, he writes.
http://nyti.ms/o3dqR5
A. From Astronomy Now via Spaceflightnow.com: More from last weekends’ 100-year Starship Symposium in Orlando: The energy to reach interstellar destinations is most likely locked in the atom. Nuclear power appears to be an essential element of a long Star Trek like journey.
http://bit.ly/n5xQMN
7. From Ria Novosti of Russia: Russia launches an Intelsat telecommunications satellite.
http://bit.ly/okwEoJ
8. From the Stockton Record of California: Jose Hernandez rose from the child of migrant farm workers to engineer and then NASA astronaut. Now, Hernandez sets his sights on a run for Congress from California.
9. From the Palm Beach Post: A Florida court declines to block a lawsuit filed against Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell to recover a 16 mm camera that accompanied his 1971 mission to the moon with Alan Shepard. NASA took action when the 16 mm camera neared sale at a New York auction house.
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