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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space activities from around the world. Early Tuesday, the International Space Station maneuvers to avoid debris from an aging NASA satellite. The station’s multinational partners are nearing the 10th anniversary of the station’s continuous habitation. Robonaut 2, a collaboration between NASA and General Motors, will soon become a crew member aboard the space station. Experts near the end of an extensive video restoration depicting the historic Apollo 11 moon walk by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
1. From Space.com: NASA’s Mission Control calls for the maneuver of the International Space Station early Tuesday to avoid debris from a defunct NASA spacecraft, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, launched in 1991.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/missionlaunches/space-station-debris-avoidance-maneuver-101026.html.
2. From the Huntsville Times: On Nov. 2, NASA will mark the 10th anniversary of continuous habitation of the International Space Station. At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., scientists look back on the achievement. So far, the focus of activities have been on learning to assemble and operate the space station, experts say. As the station’s construction draws to a close, the attention will shift to scientific achievement, they contend.
http://blog.al.com/space-news/2010/10/nasa_scientists_reflect_on_10.html
3. From Government Information Week: A look at Robonaut 2, the humanoid that will launch to the International Space Station aboard the shuttle Discovery on Nov. 1. Robonaut 2, developed by NASA and General Motors, will help engineers determine whether humans and robots can work safely together in space, both inside and outside of a spacecraft.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228000054&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
4. From Cosmos: A look at the restoration of Australian recorded video of Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as they become the first humans to explore the moon in 1969. A project to locate and restore a slow scan television video recording yields a 2.5 hour documentary of the historic event, soon to be made public.
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3827/lost-apollo-tapes-restored-and-broadcast
5. From the Associated Press via the Los Angeles Times: NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft will sail within 435 miles of the comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. It will be Deep Impact’s second comet encounter. Five years ago, Deep Impact released a probe that collided with the comet Temple 1. The impact exposed the interior of a comet to cameras and scientific sensors for the first time.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-us-sci-comet-encounter,0,4222377.story
6. From Universe Today: Graphic design student Zachary Vabolis creates a visual representation of the Earth and the asteroids and comets that orbit nearby.
http://www.universetoday.com/76586/graphic-shows-biggest-and-closest-near-earth-objects/#more-76586
A. From the Coalition for Space Exploration: Experts at the Planetary Science Institute of Tucson examine the consequences of an asteroid impact on the Earth. Even a small object impact could have devastating consequences. http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/asteroid-impact-on-earth-dramatic-environmental-effects
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