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Wednesday’s CSExtra includes the latest reporting on Congressional budget deliberations, including those influencing NASA’s budget. Though conferring, the House and Senate apparently have not come to agreement over how much to fund the White House commercial space initiative, nor the pace of heavy lift rocket development. But the House, at least, is expected to remain in session into next week before adjourning for the November elections. Major economic powers appear no closer to a climate accord. NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity stumbles upon a meteorite.
1. From ABC News: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says House will likely remain in session into next week, then break for the elections. Hoyer also says a NASA Reauthorization Bill is on the “to do” list.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/09/hoyer-wont-adjourn-house-this-week.html
A. From the Washington Post: NASA’s Authorization bill will be competing for Congressional attention with a child nutrition bill favored by Michele Obama and the controversial tax cut extension issue.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/09/house-to-work-at-least-another.html
B. From Congressional Quarterly: U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who chairs the Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science and Space, says a decision on increased NASA spending, part of the agency’s 2011 budget legislation, must wait until after the November elections. The Florida Democrat says not to expect the Continuing Resolution that holds spending at 2010 levels after the 2011 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1 to be amended to allow higher spending.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20100921/pl_cq_politics/politics000003736425;_ylt=AlBIA.08eNaqpS.fGAPjUCmHgsgF;_ylu=X3oDMTJxajI4aWdyBGFzc2V0A2NxLzIwMTAwOTIxL3BvbGl0aWNzMDAwMDAzNzM2NDI1BHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9wYWdpbmF0ZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2V4dHJhbmFzYWZ1bg
C. From Florida Today: Congress is unlikely to make spending decisions affecting NASA until after the November elections, according to key lawmakers. Though U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, chair of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science and Space, and U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, are conferring, differences remain over spending on the White House commercial space transportation initiative and the pace of heavy lift rocket development.
http://space.flatoday.net/2010/09/congress-unlikely-to-tackle-nasa.html
2. From the Houston Chronicle: At least five Houston area school districts are bracing for layoffs among hundreds of NASA’s contract workers, as the shuttle program comes to an end. Concessions include agreements to permit children to remain in school even if their families have to move out of district, as well as an easing of fees for extra curricular activities like band and organized sports.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7211905.html
3. From the Associated Press via the Los Angeles Times & Washington Post: Two days of climate talks among representatives from 17 major economic powers in New York this week fail to produce prospects for a global climate accord. A U.S. envoy says not to expect as much when a U.N. climate conference convenes in Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 29 thru Dec. 10. Meanwhile, NASA reports global temperatures for the period from January through August were at their highest in 131 years of record keeping. The New York talks were part of the Major Economies Forum, established by President Obama to parallel U.N. efforts to reach a climate accord.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-climate-talks,0,2301186.story
4. From Spacepolicyonline.com: The National Security Council gets a news space policy staffer, Chiraq Parikh. Parikh replaces Peter Marquez, who was instrumental in the consensus building that produced the Obama Administration’s space policy.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1119:national-security-council-gets-new-space-policy-guru&catid=75:news&Itemid=68
5. From The Coalition for Space Exploration: NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity appears to have found its fifth meteorite on its Meridiani Planum landing site. Studies of the rock may reveal more about the Martian atmosphere and its history.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/blog/mars-rover-eyes-new-find
6. From Space News: The European Space Agency’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle, an International Space Station supply ship, will not launch in December because of a conflict with other spacecraft launches. The next ATV opportunity, in February, poses yet another conflict with NASA’s final scheduled shuttle mission.
http://www.spacenews.com/launch/100921-conflicts-push-atv2-launch.html
7. From Space News and the Arizona Daily Wildcat: A rocket guidance system engineer wins the Republican primary for the 7th District congressional seat in Arizona. Ruth McClung faces an incumbent in the general election.
http://www.spacenews.com/commentaries/100908-fromwire-rocket-scientist-running-for-house-seat.html
8. From Discovery.com: The Canadian Space Agency announces this week it will stream live imagery of the shimmering Northern Lights over the Internet. The CSA hopes the gesture will spark wider interest in the relationship between the Earth and the sun.
http://news.discovery.com/space/canadian-space-agency-streams-aurora-borealis-web.html
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