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Wednesday’s CSExtra finds editorial enthusiasm for the Senate’s version of a 2010 NASA authorization bill, a measure that casts off the Constellation back to the moon program, while underwriting a new initiative to accelerate human deep space exploration. Shuttle Atlantis may fly again with a small crew of astronauts named late Tuesday. The famed Halley’s Comet may have been discovered much earlier than previously believed.
1. From Florida Today: In an editorial, the newspaper endorses the Senate’s version of a 2010 NASA Authorization bill. The bi-partisan measure strikes just the right compromises, according to Florida Today. It accelerates work on a heavy lift rocket, preserves Orion as a crew exploration vehicle, sets aside some money for the commercial space initiative favored by the White House and some new technology work.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100915/OPINION/100914019/1006/NEWS01/Our+views++Senate+blueprint+best+%28Sept.+15%29
2. From Spaceflightnow.com: NASA names a four member crew for an encore mission aboard shuttle Atlantis in late June 2011. The crew of the unfunded mission will train as the rescue astronauts for STS 134, the final scheduled shuttle program flight, set for a Feb. 26 lift off. Atlantis would fly with a crew of four to the International Space Station with supplies to extend operations and return with a failed coolant pump module assembly.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/100914crew/
3. From Florida Today: Boeing wins a $1.24 billion contract extension from NASA for sustaining engineering work on the International Space Station. The work will support extensions of activities on the station through 2020, and possibly until 2028. Work will be carried out at the Johnson, Kennedy and Marshall space flight centers in Texas, Florida and Alabama.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/100914crew/
4. From Discovery.com: A research team finds evidence that Halley’s Comet was discovered around 466 BC by the Greeks, two centuries earlier than sightings recorded by the Chinese.
http://news.discovery.com/space/did-the-greeks-spot-halleys-comet-first.html
5. From Wired.com: Jupiter shines bright after sunset in the U.S. The giant planet is making its closest approach to Earth since 1963.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/close-up-on-jupiter/
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