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Wednesday’s CSExtra features the latest reporting on U.S. space policy issues and activities. On Saturday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and a small U.S. delegation will travel to China to discuss future cooperation. Some in Congress are not pleased at the prospect China could benefit though it poses a threat to national security. In Chile, 33 miners trapped underground began to surface one by one thanks to a strategy developed in part with contributions from NASA.
1. From The Coalition For Space Exploration: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will travel to China on Saturday at the invitation of the China Manned Space Engineering Office. Bolden and his delegation will visit space installations previously off limits in a show of transparency. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican and a key member of NASA’s House appropriations subcommittee, is not pleased.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/nasa%e2%80%99s-bolden-to-visit-china-space-leadership
A. From Spaceflightnow.com: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is among seven from the space agency who will travel to China on Saturday to visit with the country’s key space officials and to tour installations that had previously been off limits. The trip is in response to a meeting last November between President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. While future cooperation in human space exploration will be discussed, there are no specific proposals, say those on Bolden’s staff. The visit comes at a time when Russia and Europe are warming to China as a collaborator.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1010/12boldenchina/
B. From Space News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will not be briefing members of Congress on his trip to China, Oct. 16-21. However, in correspondence Bolden has assured lawmakers the trip is considered introductory and that there are not concrete plans for cooperation in the human exploration of space. Any improvement in tensions will rely on transparency and reciprocity, Bolden writes lawmakers. U.S. Reps. Frank Wolf and John Culberson, a pair of Republicans from Virginia and Texas, are not happy about the journey. Both men sit on NASA’s House appropriations subcommittee.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/101012-congressional-concerns-remain-nasa-china-trip.html
2. From the Associated Press via the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and others: The rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped a half mile under ground gets under way overnight. NASA was among those organizations invited by Chile to lend its expertise. The men have been trapped since Aug. 5. In the early going, the miners are surfacing in a special capsule, “The Phoenix” that was designed with the space agency’s help. NASA offered help with the nutrition the men received as well as the techniques for monitoring their health.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/sns-ap-lt-chile-mine-collapse,0,3776120.story
3. From the New York Times: Space is an untapped source of future energy, Steve MacLean, the President of the Canadian Space Agency, tells the 21st World Energy Congress in Montreal. The Times blog reports on a gathering of 5,000 delegates last month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/business/energy-environment/13iht-renspace.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=NASA&st=cse
4. From the Orlando Sentinel: At a political rally in Central Florida focused on space issues Tuesday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mario Rubio hears lots of complaints about President Obama, whom they blame for NASA’s ills. The complaints surface a day after Obama signs the 2010 NASA Authorization measure that charts a new course for the agency.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/2010/10/republicans-tell-rubio-that-obama-is-responsible-for-all-that-ails-nasa.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Fspace%2Fspace_blog+%28Space+Blog+The+Write+Stuff%29
5. From Florida Today: Six astronauts assigned to the shuttle Discovery for a mission to the International Space Station fly to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday for launch pad safety drills and a dress rehearsal for a Nov. 1 lift off.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20101013/NEWS02/10130348/Discovery-crew-lands-for-craft-s-final-flight
6. From Discovery.com: An article surrounding claims and counter claims that a signal from the alien planet Gliese 581G were detected. The planet is the first exo-planet discovered within the habitable zone of another star.
http://news.discovery.com/space/gliese-581g-and-the-question-of-intelligent-life.html
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