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Tuesday’s CSExtra features early reports on the House Science and Technology Committee’s version of a NASA authorization bill. The bipartisan measure, released late Monday, is set for markup on Thursday. The Senate Commerce, Science and Technology Committee adopted its version of the NASA bill last week.
1. From Spacepolicyonline.com: Late Monday the House Science and Technology Committee joined the Senate in the introduction of a NASA authorization bill. The measure has the bi-partisan sponsorship of Bart Gordon and Gabrielle Gifford, Democrats, and Ralph Hall and Pete Olson, Republicans. The House version is a five rather than a three-year bill that accelerates the development of a heavy lift rocket and an Orion-like spacecraft for deep space exploration. It does not include another shuttle mission but extends space station operations to 2020. It includes loan guarantees for commercial spacecraft development and a $19 billion bottom line, same as the Senate version and the White House budget proposal.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1035:update-house-version-of-nasa-authorization-bill-introduced-markup-on-thursday&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
A. From the House Science and Technology Committee: An official summary of the bill as well as a link to the full text of the House measure.
http://science.house.gov/legislation/leg_highlights_detail.aspx?NewsID=2885
B. The Houston Chronicle: The House authorization measure will be marked up Thursday.
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2010/07/the_house_presents_its_own_nasa_bill_also_a_boon_f.html
C. From the Orlando Sentinel: The Orlando Sentinel sees a key difference between the House and Senate versions of the authorization bill. The House measure calls on NASA to re-structure the Constellation program to make use of the $9 billion already invested on the back to the moon program.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/2010/07/house-bucks-senate-compromise-on-nasa.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Fspace%2Fspace_blog+%28Space+Blog+The+Write+Stuff%29
D. From Spacepolitics.com: The House authorization measure includes $4.9 billion for commercial crew transportation services.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/
E. From Spaceflightnow.com: The House version, which does not call for an additional shuttle mission, undoes what the Senate forged.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/20house/
2. From Florida Today: President Obama met Monday with John Glenn, the former Mercury astronaut and U.S. Senator, for a discussion on NASA’s future. Glenn urged the President to extend shuttle operations until NASA has a replacement spacecraft for astronauts.
http://space.flatoday.net/2010/07/obama-glenn-meet-and-talk-about.html
3. From Space.com: Boeing unveils its CST-100 commercial crew transportation capsule for private orbital transportation at the Farnborough International Air Show in England.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/businesstechnology/boeing-cst100-commercial-crew-spacecraft-100719.html
4. From Space News: NASA officials contend they have already embraced most of the cost control recommendations on major projects like the James Webb Space Telescope proposed recently by the National Research Council. One space agency officials says there is something that NASA (and everyone else) is missing when it comes to spotting costly overruns in a timely fashion.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/100716-cost-control-strategies-elusive.html
5. From the Washington Post: Astronomers using the European Southern Laboratory and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Telescope observe a massive black hole blowing a large gas bubble 1,000 light years across.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR2010071904545.html
6. Two from Monday’s the Space Review:
A. The Real Message of a Controversial Statement: Editor Jeff Foust comments on the reporting that surrounded NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s recent remarks about working with Muslin nations. The uproar says more about NASA and the state of the news media than it does about the content of Bolden’s remarks, write Foust. But he adds NASA needs to be more careful with its message and faster to respond in the current 24/7 media climate.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1666/1
B. Critical Partnerships for the future of space exploration: This essay from television writer Andre Bormanis, whose credits include Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, urges NASA to work around three critical partnerships as the agency moves forward. They are the public/private ties to drop the cost of reaching Earth orbit; U.S./International relationships for the exploration of deep space; and human/robot to extend our reach.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1667/1
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