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> Date: October 28, 2013 7:22:26 AM CDT
> To: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
> Subject: FW: Human Spaceflight News - October 28, 2013
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> Thanks to Ann Patterson for letting us know that Humberto Beto Sanchez withdrew his retirement in Sept. ,,,HR had not caught up and removed his name from the losses page.
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> Join Us for Our Third Mini-Innovation Event
> Date/Time: Nov. 13 from noon to 1 p.m.
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> Theme: Innovation 2013 Part III: "Create"
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> The Innovation 2013 committee rounds up our eventful year with five forums to showcase successful innovative strategies.
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> C3 Forums and Presenters:
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> Human Systems Integration (HSI) Employee Resource Group as a [Fledgling] JSC 2.0 Success Story, Jennifer Rochlis/SF (Building 30/Room 2085)
> Successful Innovations In Lighting, Toni Clark/SF (Building 30/Room 2085)
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> Upcoming NASA@work Challenge Launch: Don't Miss It
> Are you in need of a technology breakthrough that could enable a NASA mission? Are you searching for an idea that might revolutionize an aerospace market? This announcement provides you with the opportunity to submit your problem to the Centennial Challenges program for consideration as a new challenge. NASA's flagship program for technology prize competitions needs new competition ideas and is inviting submission of new challenge concepts through the NASA@Work internal, crowdsourcing platform.
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> Up to five winning challenge concepts will be chosen. Winners (either individuals or teams) will be eligible for up to 0.5 FTE in Fiscal Year 2014 to further develop a detailed Concept of Operations and draft competition rules to support launch of a new Centennial Challenge that addresses the submitted technology need.
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> This challenge will open next Wednesday, Oct. 30. (Full details and requirements will be available for this challenge starting next Wednesday.) Good luck!
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> International Quilt Festival Volunteers Needed
> That's right; we are looking for volunteers to staff the International Quilt Festival NASA exhibit next week at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Shifts begin Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 30, and run through Sunday, Nov. 3. Please consider supporting this unique event! Our exhibit will incorporate the various softgoods items we design and build at NASA, as well as a special announcement from Expedition 37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg. Transportation and parking is on your own; however, your exhibitor badge will allow you to check out the festival during your breaks.
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> Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series Continues
> The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) invites all inquisitive adults to attend The 2013 Chelyabinsk Air Burst and the Hazards of Near-Earth Asteroid Impacts, a presentation by Dr. David Kring of LPI. This free public presentation on Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. is the second presentation in LPI's 2013-2014 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, entitled "The Universe is Out to Get Us and What We Can (or Can't) Do About It."
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> Monday – October 28, 2013
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> James Dean - Florida Today
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> Damage to a mini-shuttle being developed in partnership with NASA to fly astronauts is being assessed after a hard landing during its first, unpiloted free flight test Saturday in California. The left landing gear of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser failed to deploy as the vehicle glided to a touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, after being dropped from a helicopter at 11:10 a.m. local time. Louisville, Colo.-based SNC is investigating the anomaly and did not provide detail about the condition of the Dream Chaser test vehicle. However, early indications are that it can be repaired and fly again.
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> A test article of the lifting body Dream Chaser spaceship built by Sierra Nevada Corp., one of several companies receiving NASA funding to develop a commercial space taxi, made a crash landing on a runway at California's Edwards Air Force Base on Saturday, sources and news reports said. Engineers blamed the mishap on a problem during deployment of the Dream Chaser's left landing gear, which is derived the main gear used by the U.S. Air Force's F-5E Tiger fighter jet. The test flight over the Mojave Desert was conducted autonomously - without a pilot in the cockpit - after the Dream Chaser's release from a Sikorsky S-64 helicopter operated by Erickson Air Crane at 11:10 a.m. Pacific time (2:10 p.m. EDT; 1810 GMT), according to Sierra Nevada.
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> Dream Chaser prototype spaceship damaged after first free-flying test
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> Sierra Nevada Corp.'s prototype for its Dream Chaser space plane flew freely for the first time on Saturday for an atmospheric test, but sustained damage when its landing gear failed to deploy properly. The damage has yet to be fully assessed, but preliminary reports suggest that the prototype can be repaired after its tumble on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The free-flying test and its aftermath are to be discussed at a news conference on Tuesday.
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> Dream Chaser Suffers Landing Gear Failure After First Free Flight Test
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> Mike Killian - AmericaSpace.com
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> On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight test appears to have gone as expected until an anomaly was encountered with the left landing gear deployment, which caused the Dream Chaser test article to sustain damage once it touched down on runway 22L at Edwards Air Force Base.
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> James Dean - Florida Today
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> Pieces of a hatch, windows and other parts The Boeing Co. will use to build a prototype commercial space taxi should begin arriving in town within a few weeks. By year's end, several hundred components needed to assemble a structural test article of the company's CST-100 spacecraft will be housed in a former shuttle hangar at Kennedy Space Center. "We're really on the upswing," said John Mulholland, head of Boeing's development team, in an interview this week.
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> NASA's future up in air during spending debate
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> Partisanship puts agency at crossroads as Congress, delegation fight over funds
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> One of the nation's strongest advocates for manned space exploration - Sen. Bill Nelson, a former astronaut - wistfully recalls making a personal appeal to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, to support more funding for NASA. But for Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, the subsequent party line votes by the two Texans and other GOP lawmakers on key committees reflect deepening partisan disagreements over the destination, timetable and budget for future manned space missions as well as the leadership structure and congressional support for NASA. "What is sad to me is that NASA has always been above politics," says Nelson, who flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia for six days as a payload specialist in 1986. "Now it's gotten to be a partisan issue, and that is a sad day for the country." From Smith's perspective, it is the duty of resolute Republicans in the GOP-controlled House to reduce red-ink spending by cutting money for federal agencies, including NASA. Democrats are ignoring "fiscal realities with unrealistic funding levels" when NASA must "follow a responsible 'go-as-you-can-afford' exploration strategy," Smith says. The nation's manned space program stands at a crossroads, with uncertainty affecting Houston's Johnson Space Center, the heart of the American space enterprise. JSC accounts for 3,200 NASA jobs and 11,000 NASA contractor employees, which pumps nearly $4.5 billion a year into the local economy in payrolls and contracts. The threatened upheaval comes as commercial firms begin ferrying cargo to the orbiting $100 billion International Space Station before eventually delivering U.S. astronauts.
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> NASA was able to largely avoid serious consequences from the first phase of sequestration budget cuts, but the next round poses a serious threat to the nation's space program, according to congressional lawmakers and agency officials. Those cuts could delay missions and imperil programs that already face tighter budgets and fiscal uncertainty. "Sequestration will slit the throat of NASA," said Sen. Bill Nelson, one of Congress' biggest champions for NASA. "It'll cut the heart out of the manned space program."
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> After 134 days attached to the International Space Station, Europe's fourth automated supply ship undocked from the space station at 4:55 a.m. EDT Monday, carting away more than two tons of dry and liquid waste for disposal in a fiery re-entry over the Pacific Ocean. Space station flight engineers Luca Parmitano and Oleg Kotov closed the hatches between the ATV and the space station's Zvezda service module on Friday, following be depressurization of the vestibule and leak checks between the vehicles.
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> Russian media are reporting that the latest screw up by disaster-prone Khrunichev involves the long-delayed Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), which was originally set to be launched to the International Space Station next April. "The Energia Corporation is completing factory tests of this product," a source told Interfax-AVN earlier this week. "But the module cannot be accepted the way it is. When the electrical tests are over it will be returned to the producer, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, which may work on it for another 12-18 months."
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> Seeking to hold NASA to account for what he called deliberate attempts to stall the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion programs, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has blocked the White House's nomination of the agency's chief financial officer, Beth Robinson, to become the U.S. undersecretary of energy. "Are you intentionally trying to kill SLS and Orion?" Vitter asked in an Oct. 21 letter to Robinson.
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> By proving itself to NASA, Orbital Sciences opens door to new opportunities
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> What Orbital Sciences had been hoping for happened last week: Cygnus, its cargo spacecraft, disintegrated into a billion pieces when it reentered Earth's atmosphere. Although that might not sound like good news, it was for the Dulles-based space company. The craft's destruction was a planned event, the final step in a crucial test to show NASA that the company could successfully transport supplies to the crew of six astronauts on the international space station. That achievement marks a significant milestone for Orbital, one of two private companies NASA has turned to since it retired the space shuttle.
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> Experiments coming up on the International Space Station (ISS) early next month may someday lead to multi-spacecraft constellations that maintain formation electromagnetically, and pass electric power among themselves across open space. The Department of Defense Spheres-Rings experiment reached the station in August on Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle, and underwent a successful checkout on Aug. 27. Essentially a pair of conducting coils designed to fit on two of the three Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (Spheres) already on the station, the Rings experiment will be first test in microgravity of electromagnetic positioning with free-flying satellites.
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> The first-ever Japanese commander of the International Space Station said he plans to treat fellow residents at the orbital outpost to traditional Japanese food, including sushi. JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio are scheduled to blast off on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on November 7 for a 190-day mission at the space station as part of Expedition 38/Expedition 39. Wakata will take over command of the space station from Russia's Oleg Kotov in March 2014 to lead Expedition 39 through till May.
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> Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to launch into space on a rocket's flame, took ahold of the Olympic flame Oct. 19, completing a leg of the 2014 Winter Games' torch relay. At the same time, an unlit torch to be used in the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies was being readied for its own trip, first to its launch site and then into space. Tereshkova, who in June 1963 lifted off on the then-Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, becoming the first woman to fly into space, came to her home city of Yaroslavl, Russia on Saturday to receive the torch and light the town's Olympic cauldron. "Today we have a very important day," Tereshkova said, according to a summary published by the Olympic Winter Games organizing committee. "The Olympic flame arrived in Yaroslavl — and it is a symbol of courage, purity and the struggle for the victory."
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> 5 questions on the key space science of protein crystals, starring NASA and UAB
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> Spend any time with people who believe space is a special place to do science that can make life better on earth, and you'll hear about protein crystals sooner or later. Starting from proteins' normal watery state and growing crystallized forms of them produces 3D maps of the proteins' interiors through a process called x-ray crystallography. Crystals were first grown in space aboard Skylab, a Huntsville-led NASA program, in the 1980s, and they've been key part of science in space ever since, starting with the 1992 space shuttle flight of an astronaut turned University of Alabama in Birmingham professor, and continuing on the International Space Station. Here are five questions and answers with Dr. Larry DeLucas of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, the former astronaut who flew a crystal growth experiment on the space station in 1992 and who will send more proteins to the space station in February…
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> A recent article by Joel Achenbach in The Washington Post posed a fundamental question about the International Space Station (ISS): "What is it for?" While conceding that the space station is an engineering marvel and a monument to international cooperation, the article contrasts the costs and dangers of life on the ISS with the lack of a clear scientific rationale for continued operations. As space policy analyst John Logsdon put it in the article, "It's an awfully expensive engineering demonstration. If that's all it is, that's a hell of a price to pay." Demanding that ISS supporters identify concrete, immediate, substantial benefits from station operations is setting the bar unrealistically high. The ISS is designed for basic research, which is a long-term bet with an uncertain payoff. A better way to judge the productivity of the ISS in the short-term is to use criteria that are familiar to any research scientist: the likelihood that ISS research projects yield published papers, the willingness of individuals from outside NASA to become Principal Investigators (PIs) on ISS projects, and the trend in the amount of research taking place on the ISS.
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> Stephen Clark - SpaceflightNow.com (Oct. 18)
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> SpaceX boss Elon Musk sees a day before the end of the decade when his prospering rocket company administers four launch pads, taking up beach real estate in Florida, Texas and California to serve disparate markets for commercial, government and crewed space missions. That number doesn't count SpaceX's rocket test facilities in McGregor, Texas, and Spaceport America in New Mexico. It would put SpaceX in position to snatch up a significant share of the global launch business, with the Falcon 9 rocket and the behemoth Falcon Heavy launching multiple times per month. "If business is good, and we're able to keep improving the rocket, I think we'll be doing a lot of launches," Musk said in an interview. Musk admits his vision is still clouded by the bureaucracy his company, an epitome of vertical integration, aspires to eschew in hopes of reining in costs.
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> Here's the near-term future for Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's commercial space startup: Any day now, the company will begin making suborbital flights. Blue Origin will let researchers and other companies take a payload up into space—topping out at 100 kilometers—for about three to four minutes. The hope is that Blue Origin will be able to do this at a moment's notice and do it often. "You will tell us that you need to get on the pad that morning," Erika Wagner, the business development manager at Blue Origin, said during a commercial space conference held last weekend in Silicon Valley. "We will roll out of the garage. We will do a countdown and go. This is gas and go. This is not sitting on the launchpad for months."
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> Lovell made shooting for the moon and landing among the stars more than metaphor
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> Astronaut is one of those seemingly out-of-reach, dream jobs your average fourth grader might aspire to. Growing up during the beginning of the space race, Jerry Ross was one such fourth grader. He watched man's epic move into the final frontier unfold, from its earliest satellites to his own NASA missions in the '80s. This, of course, included following the legendary career of Captain Jim Lovell, an astronaut immortalized on film as the commander of the Apollo 13 craft, which he and his crew heroically brought back to Earth after a critical failure. Throughout his career, Captain Lovell took on missions that furthered the exploration of space no matter what. For Ross, this example pushed him to excel—and visit space a record-setting seven times.
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> Damage to a mini-shuttle being developed in partnership with NASA to fly astronauts is being assessed after a hard landing during its first, unpiloted free flight test Saturday in California.
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> A test article of the lifting body Dream Chaser spaceship built by Sierra Nevada Corp., one of several companies receiving NASA funding to develop a commercial space taxi, made a crash landing on a runway at California's Edwards Air Force Base on Saturday, sources and news reports said.
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> Sierra Nevada Corp.'s prototype for its Dream Chaser space plane flew freely for the first time on Saturday for an atmospheric test, but sustained damage when its landing gear failed to deploy properly.
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> The damage has yet to be fully assessed, but preliminary reports suggest that the prototype can be repaired after its tumble on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The free-flying test and its aftermath are to be discussed at a news conference on Tuesday.
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> Saturday's unmanned free-flying glide test was a key milestone for Dream Chaser: Over the past few months, the craft has gone through a series of "captive-carry" aerial tests rising to a height of more than 12,000 feet (3.7 kilometers), but this was the first time the mini-shuttle was set loose from the helicopter that carried it over California's Mojave Desert.
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> AmericaSpace has reached out to Sierra Nevada for additional details and comment regarding this first free flight test and will have a more in-depth story on what exactly happened, as well as what the next course of action is, as soon as possible. Sierra Nevada will hold a news conference this Tuesday, October October 29, elaborating on the news.
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> The company two years ago announced plans to hire up to 550 people to support commercial crew operations based in former shuttle facilities at KSC, including Orbiter Processing Facility 3.
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> A joint tenancy agreement signed this summer enables Boeing to start installing systems in parallel with the modernization effort that should wrap up next summer.
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> Boeing would then be ready to assemble the structural test article, which is used to test how the vehicle handles the aerodynamic and other pressures expected during a launch and return from space.
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> Space Florida says it is finalizing the terms of a use agreement including matching investments by Boeing.
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> "What is sad to me is that NASA has always been above politics," says Nelson, who flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia for six days as a payload specialist in 1986. "Now it's gotten to be a partisan issue, and that is a sad day for the country."
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> Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has already steered legislation through his committee on a party-line vote of 22 to 17 to bar NASA from using the $100 million the agency requested for the asteroid mission.
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> Smith also insists that NASA forgo the $17.7 billion annual budget sought by the White House in favor of a $16.9 billion budget for the fiscal year. The GOP-led House Appropriations Committee wants to provide even less, setting aside only $16.1 billion for NASA.
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> "With a wife who is a JSC employee I know better than most how important full NASA funding is and how many hits JSC employees have taken under Obama," Stockman said.
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> The partisan climate worries Nelson who had been able to forge a bipartisan compromise with then-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, in 2010 that benefited manned space operations in both Florida and Texas.
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> "I don't think we could reach that compromise today," Nelson lamented.
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> "We think at the end of the day cooler heads will prevail, and the right destination will be selected," says Bob Mitchell, president of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership. "But that won't happen without compromise - something that's been in short supply in Washington."
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> Rep. John Culberson, the Houston congressman in line to chair the House Appropriations Committee panel with jurisdiction over NASA in 2015, hopes to strengthen NASA's long-term prospects by making the agency less vulnerable to partisan jockeying with these steps:
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> "Even though we're in a rough patch right now, we're going to get through this, and NASA is going to be fine," says the seven-term lawmaker. "You can take it to the bank that NASA will continue to benefit from whole-hearted support by Congress."
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> NASA was able to largely avoid serious consequences from the first phase of sequestration budget cuts, but the next round poses a serious threat to the nation's space program, according to congressional lawmakers and agency officials.
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> "Sequestration will slit the throat of NASA," said Sen. Bill Nelson, one of Congress' biggest champions for NASA. "It'll cut the heart out of the manned space program."
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> NASA received nearly $16.9 billion in fiscal 2013. The House Appropriations Committee has approved $16.6 billion in fiscal 2014 while a bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee calls for $18 billion. President Barack Obama has requested $17.7 billion.
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> William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration, told senators that large-scale missions to retrieve an asteroid and send astronauts to Mars will be delayed if sequestration continues.
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> "We can tolerate the (fiscal) 2013 sequester because we're prepared," he told congressional lawmakers in April. "But if it continues into '14, the programs and timetables I described, I don't believe we can continue to support it. This is really going to be tough for us moving forward."
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> That would mean deep cuts in space technology, "the seed corn that allows the nation to conduct ever more capable and affordable space missions," Beutel said. It also would impede NASA's Commercial Crew Program to use private companies to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017.
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> Since retirement of the space shuttle program, U.S. taxpayers have paid Russia to carry astronauts to the space station, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $70 million a trip.
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> Nelson said further delays in the manned missions also will hurt Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, where rockets are developed, Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they're tested, and Johnson Space Center in Texas, home of Mission Control.
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> Another year of sequestration also will stunt research programs at Dryden Flight Research Center in California, Langley Research Center in Virginia, and Glenn Research Center in Ohio, Nelson said. He confirmed he's talked to NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. about the issue.
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> The ATV provided its last reboost to the space station's orbit Oct. 24, increasing the station's speed by 1.9 mph and raising the lab's orbit by approximately 1 mile.
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> Khrunichev Strikes Again: New Russian ISS Module Full of Flaws
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> What Orbital Sciences had been hoping for happened last week: Cygnus, its cargo spacecraft, disintegrated into a billion pieces when it reentered Earth's atmosphere.
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> A private launch site "would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows," according to a draft environmental impact statement issued in April by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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> SpaceX is still considering sites in Florida, Georgia and other areas for the proposed commercial launch facility, but a plot of land on Boca Chica Beach in South Texas is in the lead.
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> Musk said SpaceX may eventually need another commercial launch site besides the Texas location, depending on the market demand.
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> SpaceX wants to use pad 39A for its launches for NASA, such as space station crew and cargo missions with its Dragon spacecraft, and deep space probes to explore other worlds.
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> The GAO has until Dec. 12 to rule on Blue Origin's protest, and NASA cannot select a winning bid for pad 39A until the oversight agency finishes its inquiry.
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> Blue Origin remains that odd mixture of secretive and boastful. It delivers information about test flights in drips and drabs and does not grant the press anything in the way of access. And yet there's Wagner talking about Blue Origin's coming ability to change the economics of suborbital flights, in large part because the company has designed reusable vehicles that can take off and land vertically. (Think reusing a Boeing (BA) 747 instead of throwing it away after each flight.) If these types of flights are cheap enough, Blue Origin hopes demand for them will explode.
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> The suborbital flights reach a middle ground between where planes can go and where satellites live, which means opportunities for all kinds of new scientific research. Plans have been hatched, for example, to test how stem cells and plants grow in this type of environment, along with bids to capture space microbes and bring them back to earth (because that never goes wrong in the movies). "You will come to us and do a contract and not a partnership," Wagner said. "We would like to sell you a product. You will get your data back in about 9 minutes, from liftoff to landing."
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> Blue Origin's approach has been in stark contrast to that of SpaceX, the other big-time commercial space venture, funded and run by billionaire Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. When Musk started SpaceX in 2002, he was not as wealthy and very much needed to turn the company into a serious, for-profit endeavor. Bezos, fat cat that he is, has had the luxury of advancing Blue Origin at a slower pace and letting his team of 300 work in private. "We are the tortoise and not the hare in this race," Wagner said.
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> Part of the dichotomy here also comes from the founders' personalities. Musk tends to enjoy the limelight, while Bezos tends to abhor it. Or as one NASA official put it to me: "The world may watch Elon fly to Mars one day expecting him to be the first person there only to discover that a colony of Bezosians have secretly already set up shop." (There's lots more juicy details on the culture Bezos has driven at Blue Origin in The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, the just-published book by Brad Stone.)
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> Tensions between the two space moguls have flared of late as their companies fight for space at a NASA-owned launchpad. Musk has used the squabble to highlight that SpaceX has flown successfully to the International Space Station, while Blue Origin has yet to get anywhere close. "If [Blue Origin does] somehow show up in the next five years with a vehicle qualified to NASA's human rating standards that can dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we will gladly accommodate their needs," Musk said during a recent interview with Space News. "Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct."
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> That's a bit more direct than Blue Origin and Wagner are willing to be at the moment. "I don't have a price for you," Wagner said. "I don't have a product to sell yet. When we have a product, we will price it." So there.
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> From the first satellite launches, I followed the United States space program very closely. I have very clear memories of the public excitement surrounding the early satellite launches. This was, of course, shortly followed by the selection of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. I remember sitting in front of the TV watching all of the coverage—I wanted to know everything and anything there was to know. I remember people talking about the early manned space launches on TV, and I was set on learning everything about the astronauts and what they were doing. Back then, Jim Lovell was considered for the first class of astronauts, but he wasn't actually selected until the second class hired by NASA in 1962.
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> Watching him, Lovell was one of my heroes because he had a really determined demeanor about him and a workman-like approach and dedication to the job. When I was home watching these missions on TV, I was so caught up in the fantasy of it, I didn't really realize the uncomfortable realities of what those guys went through. They were explorers in the truest sense. For his first flight, Lovell took on a very demanding mission with Frank Borman, It was demanding, but it wasn't necessarily glamorous. They were in a cramped Gemini capsule for 14 days. Even though it wasn't glamorous, it was a critical mission that would build the foundation for our nation to pursue the Apollo lunar missions.
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> He was always very dedicated and I found this very admirable about him. From 1965 to 1970, he flew four space missions, which demanded a lot of work. I know firsthand what goes into that—and it's a lot—I myself was the first human to be launched into space seven times. He was only one of 24 astronauts to fly to the moon, and he made it possible for someone like me to have clocked in more than 1,393 hours in space.
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> I was the kind of kid making scrapbooks of rockets and satellites even before the first satellites were launched into space in 1957 and 1958. I grew up with space all around me. I can remember being in the fourth grade when the first Russian and American satellites were launched into orbit respectively. I resolved to pursue an education and career path that would lead me into our country's space program. Everything I did after that point, everything in school, all the money I made working on farms and elsewhere, it was always directed toward that goal. After high school, I went to Purdue University in my home state of Indiana; then I became an engineer and eventually got involved in the U.S.' space program. While I was at Purdue, I joined the Air Force ROTC and then I entered into active duty in the Air Force after I finished my masters in mechanical engineering. A series of Air Force assignments eventually lead to my applying to NASA for selection into the astronaut program. I applied to the Space Shuttle program in 1977, but it took two tries, again something I learned about dedication from watching guys like Lovell. I was successful on my second application and I had a wonderful career before retiring.
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> How did Captain Jim Lovell inspire you?
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> I started out in the Air Force, and similarly Lovell started out in the Navy. I brought some of my Air Force training to my space career—in things like dedication and my approach to taking on difficult tasks. Before becoming an astronaut, Lovell had a remarkable naval career. I think he set a great example for anyone who wants to excel in whatever they're doing, whether it's making it to the moon or getting ahead in a business career. He certainly set a standard to emulate, which helped me pursue my goals and my career with NASA.
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> Just because I'm retired, I haven't slowed down! I've written an autobiography, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer. Now I'm enjoying spending my time touring, doing book signing events, and giving lectures. I've been focusing on talking to students about setting goals for themselves that are in line with their natural talents. My wife, Karen, and I are also doing some more earthly explorations; we've been traveling abroad more and in the U.S. and I'm also enjoying the time I have to spend with my family.
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> United Launch Alliance celebrated its 75th successful launch and 40th successful Atlas V rocket mission with an Air Force mission from Cape Canaveral.
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> United Launch Alliance continues to be the workhorse of today's U.S. launch industry.
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> On Sept. 29, SpaceX launched the first of its next-generation Falcon 9 rockets carrying more powerful Merlin engines, offering approximately 50 percent more thrust than previous versions and more redundant safety technology.
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> Cecil ready to go
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> And on Sept. 30, NASA awarded its first CubeSat-class launch to Generation Orbit Launch Services.
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> The payload will be the first commercial space launch to take place from Cecil Spaceport in Jacksonville, and it is slated to take place in August 2016.
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> Congratulations to the Cecil Field Spaceport Team!
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> These most recent milestones are only scratching the surface.
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> The evolution of the U.S. commercial space launch market is incredibly exciting to behold, and from a Florida perspective, we should all be extremely proud of the fact that most of these achievements are either taking place in Florida or through companies that have a significant and growing presence in the Sunshine State.
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> These special powers truly set Florida apart in the race to exploit the transition of space from a federally driven marketplace to a more diverse commercial model.
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> These advantages as well as our state's 50-plus year history in successful space launch and spacecraft processing — which comes with the qualified infrastructure, workforce, supply chain and safety protocols that other states are only beginning to develop — position Florida well to continue to be a real leader the international space market.
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> Be proud of Florida and its incredible commercial space achievements and continue to support the state of Florida as we work hard to maintain competitiveness among other U.S. states in the space industry, an industry that will ensure our state's economic health for many years to come.
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</span></a><br>
- <a href="#r17716"><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"> Join Us for Our Third Mini-Innovation Event</span></a><br>
- <a href="#r17715"><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"> Upcoming NASA@work Challenge Launch: Don't Miss It</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#336699;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="#r2"><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Organizations/Social</span><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">
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- <a href="#r17644"><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"> Schedules Got You Down?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#336699;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="#r3"><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Jobs and Training</span><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">
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- <a href="#r17714"><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"> Job Opportunities</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#336699;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="#r4"><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Community</span><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">
</span></a><br>
- <a href="#r17713"><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"> International Quilt Festival Volunteers Needed</span></a><br>
- <a href="#r17717"><span style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"> Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series Continues</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
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<b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/solar-filament-eruption-canyon-of-fire" target="_blank"><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Solar Filament Eruption Creates 'Canyon of Fire'</span></a>
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<h2 style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="r1"> Headlines</a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#336699"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<a name="r17716"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Join Us for Our Third Mini-Innovation Event
</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Date/Time: Nov. 13 from noon to 1 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Theme: Innovation 2013 Part III: "Create"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">The Innovation 2013 committee rounds up our eventful year with five forums to showcase successful innovative strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">C3 Forums and Presenters:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Human Systems Integration (HSI) Employee Resource Group as a [Fledgling] JSC 2.0 Success Story, Jennifer Rochlis/SF (Building 30/Room 2085)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#343434;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Successful Innovations In Lighting, Toni Clark/SF (Building 30/Room 2085)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#343434;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Microsoft Office Automation as Innovation, Robert Delwood/OP (Building 30/Room 2085)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#343434;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A Successful New Approach to ISS International Partner Access, Jennifer Mason/OX, (Building 30/Room 2085)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#343434;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Disability 2.0: Promoting an Environment Inclusive of All Abilities, Janelle Holt/AJ (Building 1/Room 340)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Please register in SATERN and receive training credit. Registration is encouraged but not required for attendance. The links are
included in our Innovation websites at <a href="https://innovation2013.jsc.nasa.gov/">
<b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">https://innovation2013.jsc.nasa.gov/</span></b></a> (JSC) and
<a href="http://i2013.jsc.nasa.gov/"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">http://i2013.jsc.nasa.gov/</span></b></a> (external to JSC). Our websites have a full description of each forum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">This event is open to the JSC community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Event Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Event Start Time:12:00 PM Event End Time:1:00 PM<br>
Event Location: B.30/Room 2085 and B.1/Room 340<br>
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<a href="http://events.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCToday/eventInfo.cfm?id=17716"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Add to Calendar</span></b></a><br>
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<a href="mailto:Suzan.P.Thomas@nasa.gov"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Suzan P. Thomas</span></b></a>
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<a name="r17715"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Upcoming NASA@work Challenge Launch: Don't Miss It
</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Are you in need of a technology breakthrough that could enable a NASA mission? Are you searching for an idea that might revolutionize
an aerospace market? This announcement provides you with the opportunity to submit your problem to the Centennial Challenges program for consideration as a new challenge. NASA's flagship program for technology prize competitions needs new competition ideas
and is inviting submission of new challenge concepts through the NASA@Work internal, crowdsourcing platform.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Up to five winning challenge concepts will be chosen. Winners (either individuals or teams) will be eligible for up to 0.5 FTE
in Fiscal Year 2014 to further develop a detailed Concept of Operations and draft competition rules to support launch of a new Centennial Challenge that addresses the submitted technology need.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">This challenge will open next Wednesday, Oct. 30. (<a href="http://nasa.innocentive.com/"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Full
details and requirements</span></b></a> will be available for this challenge starting next Wednesday.) Good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434"><a href="mailto:kathryn.keeton@nasa.gov"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Kathryn Keeton</span></b></a>
</span><span class="applelinksblack"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#343434">469-450-1864</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">
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<h2 style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="r2"> Organizations/Social</a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#336699"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<a name="r17644"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Schedules Got You Down?
</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Then tie in to the JSC Planning and Scheduling Community of Practice (CoP)! The CoP is pleased to present an introduction to and
demonstration of a free Microsoft Project add-on tool called the Schedule Test and Assessment Tool (STAT) that can easily help you assess the health of your schedule. Come in person or virtually to find out what STAT is, how it works, who uses it and what
it can do to lift your spirits and improve your program/project schedules. And hey ... it's free!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Event Date: Friday, November 1, 2013 Event Start Time:2:00 PM Event End Time:3:30 PM<br>
Event Location: 1/620 and virtually (see website for details)<br>
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<a href="mailto:nancy.fleming@nasa.gov"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Nancy Fleming</span></b></a>
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<a href="https://pmi.jsc.nasa.gov/schedules/SitePages/Home.aspx"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">https://pmi.jsc.nasa.gov/schedules/SitePages/Home.aspx</span></b></a>
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<h2 style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="r3"> Jobs and Training</a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#336699"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<a name="r17714"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Job Opportunities
</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Where do I find job opportunities?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">Both internal Competitive Placement Plan (CPP) and external JSC job announcements are posted on the Human Resources (HR) Portal
and <a href="http://www.usajobs.gov/"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">USAJOBS website</span></b></a>. Through the HR portal, civil servants can view summaries of all the agency jobs that are currently open at:
<a href="https://hr.nasa.gov/portal/server.pt/community/employees_home/239/job_opportunities/133142">
<b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">https://hr.nasa.gov/portal/server.pt/community/employees_home/239/job_opportu...</span></b></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">To help you navigate to JSC vacancies, use the filter drop-down menu and select "JSC HR." The "Jobs" link will direct you to the
USAJOBS website for the complete announcement and the ability to apply online. If you have questions about any JSC job vacancies, please call your HR representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434"><a href="mailto:lisa.s.pesak@nasa.gov"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Lisa Pesak</span></b></a>
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<h2 style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="r4"> Community</a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#336699"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<a name="r17713"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Quilt Festival Volunteers Needed
</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">That's right; we are looking for volunteers to staff the International Quilt Festival NASA exhibit next week at the George R. Brown
Convention Center. Shifts begin Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 30, and run through Sunday, Nov. 3. Please consider supporting this unique event! Our exhibit will incorporate the various softgoods items we design and build at NASA, as well as a special announcement
from Expedition 37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg. Transportation and parking is on your own; however, your exhibitor badge will allow you to check out the festival during your breaks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">To register, please go to our
<a href="https://nasajsc.secure.force.com/vcorps"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">V-CORPs website</span></b></a> and select the best date for your availability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434"><a href="mailto:susan.h.anderson@nasa.gov"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">Susan H. Anderson</span></b></a>
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<a href="http://nasajsc.force.com/vcorps"><b><span style="color:#336699;text-decoration:none">http://nasajsc.force.com/vcorps</span></b></a>
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<i>The 2013 Chelyabinsk Air Burst and the Hazards of Near-Earth Asteroid Impacts</i>, a presentation by Dr. David Kring of LPI. This free public presentation on Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. is the second presentation in LPI's 2013-2014 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series,
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343434">The presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a light reception. No reservation is necessary.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Monday – October 28, 2013</span></strong><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sierra Nevada mini-shuttle damaged during test flight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">James Dean - Florida Today<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Damage to a mini-shuttle being developed in partnership with NASA to fly astronauts is being assessed after a hard landing during its first, unpiloted free flight test Saturday in California. The left landing gear of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s
Dream Chaser failed to deploy as the vehicle glided to a touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, after being dropped from a helicopter at 11:10 a.m. local time. Louisville, Colo.-based SNC is investigating the anomaly and did not provide detail about the condition
of the Dream Chaser test vehicle. However, early indications are that it can be repaired and fly again.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dream Chaser damaged by crash landing in California<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Stephen Clark - <a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com"><a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com">SpaceflightNow.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">A test article of the lifting body Dream Chaser spaceship built by Sierra Nevada Corp., one of several companies receiving NASA funding to develop a commercial space taxi, made a crash landing on a runway at California's Edwards Air
Force Base on Saturday, sources and news reports said. Engineers blamed the mishap on a problem during deployment of the Dream Chaser's left landing gear, which is derived the main gear used by the U.S. Air Force's F-5E Tiger fighter jet. The test flight over
the Mojave Desert was conducted autonomously - without a pilot in the cockpit - after the Dream Chaser's release from a Sikorsky S-64 helicopter operated by Erickson Air Crane at 11:10 a.m. Pacific time (2:10 p.m. EDT; 1810 GMT), according to Sierra Nevada.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dream Chaser prototype spaceship damaged after first free-flying test<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Alan Boyle - <a href="http://NBCNews.com"><a href="http://NBCNews.com">NBCNews.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada Corp.'s prototype for its Dream Chaser space plane flew freely for the first time on Saturday for an atmospheric test, but sustained damage when its landing gear failed to deploy properly. The damage has yet to be fully
assessed, but preliminary reports suggest that the prototype can be repaired after its tumble on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The free-flying test and its aftermath are to be discussed at a news conference on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dream Chaser Suffers Landing Gear Failure After First Free Flight Test<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Mike Killian - <a href="http://AmericaSpace.com"><a href="http://AmericaSpace.com">AmericaSpace.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight
test appears to have gone as expected until an anomaly was encountered with the left landing gear deployment, which caused the Dream Chaser test article to sustain damage once it touched down on runway 22L at Edwards Air Force Base.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Crew capsule construction about to take off at KSC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">James Dean - Florida Today<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Pieces of a hatch, windows and other parts The Boeing Co. will use to build a prototype commercial space taxi should begin arriving in town within a few weeks. By year's end, several hundred components needed to assemble a structural
test article of the company's CST-100 spacecraft will be housed in a former shuttle hangar at Kennedy Space Center. "We're really on the upswing," said John Mulholland, head of Boeing's development team, in an interview this week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NASA's future up in air during spending debate<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i>Partisanship puts agency at crossroads as Congress, delegation fight over funds<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Stewart Powell - Houston Chronicle<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">One of the nation's strongest advocates for manned space exploration - Sen. Bill Nelson, a former astronaut - wistfully recalls making a personal appeal to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, to support more funding
for NASA. But for Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, the subsequent party line votes by the two Texans and other GOP lawmakers on key committees reflect deepening partisan disagreements over the destination, timetable and budget for future manned space missions
as well as the leadership structure and congressional support for NASA. "What is sad to me is that NASA has always been above politics," says Nelson, who flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia for six days as a payload specialist in 1986. "Now it's gotten to be
a partisan issue, and that is a sad day for the country." From Smith's perspective, it is the duty of resolute Republicans in the GOP-controlled House to reduce red-ink spending by cutting money for federal agencies, including NASA. Democrats are ignoring
"fiscal realities with unrealistic funding levels" when NASA must "follow a responsible 'go-as-you-can-afford' exploration strategy," Smith says. The nation's manned space program stands at a crossroads, with uncertainty affecting Houston's Johnson Space Center,
the heart of the American space enterprise. JSC accounts for 3,200 NASA jobs and 11,000 NASA contractor employees, which pumps nearly $4.5 billion a year into the local economy in payrolls and contracts. The threatened upheaval comes as commercial firms begin
ferrying cargo to the orbiting $100 billion International Space Station before eventually delivering U.S. astronauts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sequester would delay NASA missions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Ledyard King - Florida Today<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA was able to largely avoid serious consequences from the first phase of sequestration budget cuts, but the next round poses a serious threat to the nation's space program, according to congressional lawmakers and agency officials.
Those cuts could delay missions and imperil programs that already face tighter budgets and fiscal uncertainty. "Sequestration will slit the throat of NASA," said Sen. Bill Nelson, one of Congress' biggest champions for NASA. "It'll cut the heart out of the
manned space program."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">European cargo freighter undocks from space station<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com">SpaceflightNow.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">After 134 days attached to the International Space Station, Europe's fourth automated supply ship undocked from the space station at 4:55 a.m. EDT Monday, carting away more than two tons of dry and liquid waste for disposal in a fiery
re-entry over the Pacific Ocean. Space station flight engineers Luca Parmitano and Oleg Kotov closed the hatches between the ATV and the space station's Zvezda service module on Friday, following be depressurization of the vestibule and leak checks between
the vehicles. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Khrunichev Strikes Again: New Russian ISS Module Full of Flaws<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Doug Messier - Parabolic Arc<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Russian media are reporting that the latest screw up by disaster-prone Khrunichev involves the long-delayed Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), which was originally set to be launched to the International Space Station next April.
"The Energia Corporation is completing factory tests of this product," a source told Interfax-AVN earlier this week. "But the module cannot be accepted the way it is. When the electrical tests are over it will be returned to the producer, the Khrunichev State
Research and Production Space Center, which may work on it for another 12-18 months."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Energy Appointment Blocked Over NASA-related Questions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dan Leone - Space News<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Seeking to hold NASA to account for what he called deliberate attempts to stall the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion programs, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has blocked the White House's nomination of the agency's chief financial
officer, Beth Robinson, to become the U.S. undersecretary of energy. "Are you intentionally trying to kill SLS and Orion?" Vitter asked in an Oct. 21 letter to Robinson.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">By proving itself to NASA, Orbital Sciences opens door to new opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Kathy Orton - Washington Post<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">What Orbital Sciences had been hoping for happened last week: Cygnus, its cargo spacecraft, disintegrated into a billion pieces when it reentered Earth's atmosphere. Although that might not sound like good news, it was for the Dulles-based
space company. The craft's destruction was a planned event, the final step in a crucial test to show NASA that the company could successfully transport supplies to the crew of six astronauts on the international space station. That achievement marks a significant
milestone for Orbital, one of two private companies NASA has turned to since it retired the space shuttle.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ISS Crew To Test Electromagnetic Station-Keeping<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Frank Morring, Jr. - Aerospace Daily<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Experiments coming up on the International Space Station (ISS) early next month may someday lead to multi-spacecraft constellations that maintain formation electromagnetically, and pass electric power among themselves across open space.
The Department of Defense Spheres-Rings experiment reached the station in August on Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle, and underwent a successful checkout on Aug. 27. Essentially a pair of conducting coils designed to fit on two of the three Synchronized Position,
Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (Spheres) already on the station, the Rings experiment will be first test in microgravity of electromagnetic positioning with free-flying satellites.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Incoming Space Station Commander to Treat Crew to Sushi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">RIA Novosti<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The first-ever Japanese commander of the International Space Station said he plans to treat fellow residents at the orbital outpost to traditional Japanese food, including sushi. JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail
Tyurin and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio are scheduled to blast off on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on November 7 for a 190-day mission at the space station as part of Expedition 38/Expedition 39. Wakata will take over command of the space station from Russia's
Oleg Kotov in March 2014 to lead Expedition 39 through till May.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Space-bound Olympic torch heads to launch site as Cosmonaut carries flame<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Robert Pearlman - <a href="http://collectSPACE.com"><a href="http://collectSPACE.com">collectSPACE.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to launch into space on a rocket's flame, took ahold of the Olympic flame Oct. 19, completing a leg of the 2014 Winter Games' torch relay. At the same time, an unlit torch to be used in
the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies was being readied for its own trip, first to its launch site and then into space. Tereshkova, who in June 1963 lifted off on the then-Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, becoming the first woman to fly into space, came to
her home city of Yaroslavl, Russia on Saturday to receive the torch and light the town's Olympic cauldron. "Today we have a very important day," Tereshkova said, according to a summary published by the Olympic Winter Games organizing committee. "The Olympic
flame arrived in Yaroslavl — and it is a symbol of courage, purity and the struggle for the victory."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">5 questions on the key space science of protein crystals, starring NASA and UAB<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Lee Roop - Huntsville Times <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Spend any time with people who believe space is a special place to do science that can make life better on earth, and you'll hear about protein crystals sooner or later. Starting from proteins' normal watery state and growing crystallized
forms of them produces 3D maps of the proteins' interiors through a process called x-ray crystallography. Crystals were first grown in space aboard Skylab, a Huntsville-led NASA program, in the 1980s, and they've been key part of science in space ever since,
starting with the 1992 space shuttle flight of an astronaut turned University of Alabama in Birmingham professor, and continuing on the International Space Station. Here are five questions and answers with Dr. Larry DeLucas of the University of Alabama in
Birmingham, the former astronaut who flew a crystal growth experiment on the space station in 1992 and who will send more proteins to the space station in February…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The International Space Station's scientific payoff is real. And increasing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">William Bianco - Washington Post (Guest column)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>(Bianco is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. His current work includes a study of the evolution of cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, in their joint operation of the International
Space Station.)<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">A recent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2013/09/14/the-skies-the-limits/">
article by Joel Achenbach</a> in The Washington Post posed a fundamental question about the International Space Station (ISS): "What is it for?" While conceding that the space station is an engineering marvel and a monument to international cooperation, the
article contrasts the costs and dangers of life on the ISS with the lack of a clear scientific rationale for continued operations. As space policy analyst John Logsdon put it in the article, "It's an awfully expensive engineering demonstration. If that's
all it is, that's a hell of a price to pay." Demanding that ISS supporters identify concrete, immediate, substantial benefits from station operations is setting the bar unrealistically high. The ISS is designed for basic research, which is a long-term bet
with an uncertain payoff. A better way to judge the productivity of the ISS in the short-term is to use criteria that are familiar to any research scientist: the likelihood that ISS research projects yield published papers, the willingness of individuals
from outside NASA to become Principal Investigators (PIs) on ISS projects, and the trend in the amount of research taking place on the ISS.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Shared use debated for former shuttle launch pad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">James Dean - Florida Today (Oct. 20)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">In scale models, the pieces fit together like Lego pieces. Rockets snapped onto custom adapters that could be swapped in and out of a mobile launcher. An umbilical tower's lines and access platforms adjusted to fit each system. Roll
them out to a Kennedy Space Center launch complex, and virtually any commercial rocket could now blast off from a pad that for decades served only the space shuttle. "We had a plan where essentially you could do any number of vehicles," said Dan Brandenstein,
retired chief operating officer of United Space Alliance, which sketched out the concept before the shuttle's retirement. "They could just 'plug and play' the adapters they need and use the launch pad as often as they need it, and not have the overhead of
owning it full time."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SpaceX says robust market can support four launch pads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Stephen Clark - <a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com">SpaceflightNow.com</a> (Oct. 18)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX boss Elon Musk sees a day before the end of the decade when his prospering rocket company administers four launch pads, taking up beach real estate in Florida, Texas and California to serve disparate markets for commercial, government
and crewed space missions. That number doesn't count SpaceX's rocket test facilities in McGregor, Texas, and Spaceport America in New Mexico. It would put SpaceX in position to snatch up a significant share of the global launch business, with the Falcon 9
rocket and the behemoth Falcon Heavy launching multiple times per month. "If business is good, and we're able to keep improving the rocket, I think we'll be doing a lot of launches," Musk said in an interview. Musk admits his vision is still clouded by the
bureaucracy his company, an epitome of vertical integration, aspires to eschew in hopes of reining in costs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Will Revamp Spaceflight…One Day…Soon?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Ashlee Vance - Bloomberg Business Week<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Here's the near-term future for Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's commercial space startup: Any day now, the company will begin making suborbital flights. Blue Origin will let researchers and other companies take a payload up into space—topping
out at 100 kilometers—for about three to four minutes. The hope is that Blue Origin will be able to do this at a moment's notice and do it often. "You will tell us that you need to get on the pad that morning," Erika Wagner, the business development manager
at Blue Origin, said during a commercial space conference held last weekend in Silicon Valley. "We will roll out of the garage. We will do a countdown and go. This is gas and go. This is not sitting on the launchpad for months."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jerry Ross on NASA inspiration, and Apollo 13 Commander, Jim Lovell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i>Lovell made shooting for the moon and landing among the stars more than metaphor<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://Salon.com">Salon.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Astronaut is one of those seemingly out-of-reach, dream jobs your average fourth grader might aspire to. Growing up during the beginning of the space race, Jerry Ross was one such fourth grader. He watched man's epic move into the final
frontier unfold, from its earliest satellites to his own NASA missions in the '80s. This, of course, included following the legendary career of Captain Jim Lovell, an astronaut immortalized on film as the commander of the Apollo 13 craft, which he and his
crew heroically brought back to Earth after a critical failure. Throughout his career, Captain Lovell took on missions that furthered the exploration of space no matter what. For Ross, this example pushed him to excel—and visit space a record-setting seven
times.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Florida celebrates new generation of space flight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Frank DiBello - Florida Times-Union (Opinion)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>(DiBello of Brevard County is the president of Space Florida, the spaceport authority and aerospace development agency.)<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The sun is shining on Florida's most recent commercial space successes. In September, a number of significant milestones were reached in the commercial space industry that Florida is so aggressively pursuing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">__________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="section1"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="section1"><strong><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">COMPLETE STORIES</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sierra Nevada mini-shuttle damaged during test flight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">James Dean - Florida Today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Damage to a mini-shuttle being developed in partnership with NASA to fly astronauts is being assessed after a hard landing during its first, unpiloted free flight test Saturday in California.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The left landing gear of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser failed to deploy as the vehicle glided to a touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, after being dropped from a helicopter at 11:10 a.m. local time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Louisville, Colo.-based SNC is investigating the anomaly and did not provide detail about the condition of the Dream Chaser test vehicle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">However, early indications are that it can be repaired and fly again.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"As with any space flight test program, there will be anomalies that we can learn from, allowing us to improve our vehicle and accelerate our rate of progress," the company said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser is one of three private spacecraft – and the only winged system – under development under NASA's Commercial Crew Program, with public and private funding.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Boeing's CST-100 and SpaceX's Dragon, both capsules, are the others.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser had previously completed two captive carry tests, dangled from a helicopter, and a series of tow tests at increasing speeds on an Edwards runway.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The autonomous approach and landing test was performed under the second round of NASA's development program; at least one more was planned under the third round of the program started in 2010 to develop commercial systems to fly crews
after the shuttle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In total, NASA could contribute up to $362 million toward development of the Dream Chaser, which resembles a miniature space shuttle measuring nearly 30 feet long with a 29-foot wingspan, and is designed to carry up to seven crew members.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada said the test flight went well up until the very end, with the flight control system guiding the Dream Chaser through the proper trajectory and flaring its nose up just before touchdown.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"The high-quality flight and telemetry data throughout all phases of the approach-and-landing test will allow SNC teams to continue to refine their spacecraft design," the company said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">After the spacecraft designs are completed, NASA plans to award contracts to one or two companies next summer to continue building and testing systems, aiming to fly astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If selected, Sierra Nevada intends to base its Dream Chaser program at Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft would launch from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket and return for landings on Kennedy's former shuttle runway.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dream Chaser damaged by crash landing in California<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Stephen Clark - <a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com"><a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com">SpaceflightNow.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A test article of the lifting body Dream Chaser spaceship built by Sierra Nevada Corp., one of several companies receiving NASA funding to develop a commercial space taxi, made a crash landing on a runway at California's Edwards Air
Force Base on Saturday, sources and news reports said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Engineers blamed the mishap on a problem during deployment of the Dream Chaser's left landing gear, which is derived the main gear used by the U.S. Air Force's F-5E Tiger fighter jet.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The test flight over the Mojave Desert was conducted autonomously - without a pilot in the cockpit - after the Dream Chaser's release from a Sikorsky S-64 helicopter operated by Erickson Air Crane at 11:10 a.m. Pacific time (2:10 p.m.
EDT; 1810 GMT), according to Sierra Nevada. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Following release, the Dream Chaser spacecraft automated flight control system gently steered the vehicle to its intended glide slope," Sierra Nevada said in a statement. "The vehicle adhered to the design flight trajectory throughout
the flight profile. Less than a minute later, Dream Chaser smoothly flared and touched down on Edwards Air Force Base's Runway 22L right on centerline."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada officials said earlier this year each landing test would begin with a drop from 12,000 feet and last between 30 and 40 seconds as the Dream Chaser flies at an approximately 23-degree glide angle, ending with a flare maneuver
about 300 feet above the desert and touchdown at a speed of more than 200 mph. <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"While there was an anomaly with the left landing gear deployment, the high-quality flight and telemetry data throughout all phases of the approach-and-landing test will allow SNC teams to continue to refine their spacecraft design,"
the Sierra Nevada statement said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Mark Sirangelo, Sierra Nevada's corporate vice president for space systems, said the flight was "largely a successful test that had a nonflight issue on landing."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser is designed to take off on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, deliver up to seven astronauts to the International Space Station, and return to Earth with a runway landing like the space shuttle at the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">With a wingspan of 22.9 feet and length of 29.5 feet, the Dream Chaser is about one-third the size of a space shuttle orbiter. The Dream Chaser vehicle flown by Sierra Nevada on Saturday is a full-scale engineering test article and the
first flight worthy Dream Chaser to be built. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A statement posted on a NASA website said no personnel were injured in Saturday's flight, and officials are assessing damage to property. Air Force emergency personnel responded to the scene as a precaution, according to NASA.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Support personnel are preparing the vehicle for transport to a hangar. Sierra Nevada Corporation engineers, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and U.S. Air Force representatives are looking into the anomaly that occurred," the NASA
statement said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">At the end of its first free flight, the Dream Chaser flipped over on the runway due to the mechanical failure on the craft's left main landing gear, according to a report posted by <a href="http://NASASpaceflight.com">NASASpaceflight.com</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA and Sierra Nevada have a Space Act Agreement to provide up to $227.5 million of NASA funding to the company. NASA makes payments as Sierra Nevada completes Dream Chaser design and development milestones.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">One of the milestones tied to a financial payment was the completion of approach and landing test. Upon meeting predetermined success criteria, Sierra Nevada was set to receive $15 million at the conclusion of the milestone.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Space Act Agreement describes the test this way: "A minimum of one and up to five additional Engineering Test Article free flight test(s) will be completed to characterize the aerodynamics and controllability of the Dream Chaser
Orbital Vehicle outer mold line configuration during the subsonic approach and landing phase."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The test's success criteria was redacted in a copy of the Space Act Agreement posted online.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada, headquartered in Sparks, Nev., with Dream Chaser development based in Louisville, Colo., planned to construct another test vehicle in 2014 for piloted landing tests and an abort demonstration to prove the Dream Chaser
could safely escape an exploding rocket and land on a runway. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Saturday's landing test was the first of a series of runway approach tests planned by Sierra Nevada to test its aerodynamic stability and gliding properties.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">No information was available Saturday evening on the extent of the damage to the Dream Chaser test article or whether it could be repaired for further flights.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser flown Saturday used a main landing gear modified from the U.S. Air Force's F-5E Tiger fighter jet. Dream Chaser's nose gear is a custom-designed skid.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Future Dream Chaser vehicles will use a different type of landing gear with electric actuators, said Steve Lindsey, a former astronaut and Sierra Nevada's director of flight operations, in an interview last year.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In the last three months, Sierra Nevada put the Dream Chaser test vehicle through a series of tow tests behind a pickup truck on the runway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, which is co-located at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada also lifted the Dream Chaser under the Erickson Air Crane helicopter on two captive-carry tests reaching a maximum altitude of approximately 12,400 feet. The captive-carry tests checked out the craft's computers, instrumentation
and steering and landing systems, according to NASA. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA's Space Act Agreement runs through August 2014 and includes other milestones, including risk reduction testing, wind tunnel testing, rocket thruster testing, and safety and schedule reviews.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA has similar agreements with Boeing Co. and SpaceX worth $460 million and $440 million, respectively.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The space agency expects at least one of the companies will be ready to ferry astronauts to the space station by 2017.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Two previous agreements running from 2010 to 2012 provided $125 million in federal funding to go toward the Dream Chaser program.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The space agency also has a $10 million contract with Sierra Nevada to begin the process of ensuring the Dream Chaser meets stringent safety requirements for astronauts.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dream Chaser prototype spaceship damaged after first free-flying test<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Alan Boyle - <a href="http://NBCNews.com"><a href="http://NBCNews.com">NBCNews.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada Corp.'s prototype for its Dream Chaser space plane flew freely for the first time on Saturday for an atmospheric test, but sustained damage when its landing gear failed to deploy properly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The damage has yet to be fully assessed, but preliminary reports suggest that the prototype can be repaired after its tumble on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The free-flying test and its aftermath are to be discussed
at a news conference on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser program is receiving $227.5 million from NASA as part of a development program aimed at having U.S.-built spaceships ready to carry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station by as early as 2017. The space agency
is supporting parallel development programs at the Boeing Co. and SpaceX, to the tune of more than $1 billion in total.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Dream Chaser's "lifting body" design is based on a 20-year-old design pioneered by NASA, and it would be the only winged spacecraft among the three that have been proposed. Eventually, the mini-shuttle is supposed to carry up to seven
passengers to and from the space station, and cargo as well. It would be launched on an Atlas 5 rocket, and would glide to a runway landing at the end of each mission.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Saturday's unmanned free-flying glide test was a key milestone for Dream Chaser: Over the past few months, the craft has gone through a series of "captive-carry" aerial tests rising to a height of more than 12,000 feet (3.7 kilometers),
but this was the first time the mini-shuttle was set loose from the helicopter that carried it over California's Mojave Desert.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sierra Nevada emphasized the test flight's successes in a statement released Saturday:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">"The vehicle successfully released from its carrier aircraft, an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter, as planned at approximately 11:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. Following release, the Dream Chaser spacecraft automated
flight control system gently steered the vehicle to its intended glide slope. The vehicle adhered to the design flight trajectory throughout the flight profile. Less than a minute later, Dream Chaser smoothly flared and touched down on Edwards Air Force Base's
Runway 22L right on centerline. While there was an anomaly with the left landing gear deployment, the high-quality flight and telemetry data throughout all phases of the approach-and-landing test will allow SNC teams to continue to refine their spacecraft
design. SNC and NASA Dryden are currently reviewing the data. As with any space flight test program, there will be anomalies that we can learn from, allowing us to improve our vehicle and accelerate our rate of progress."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The landing gear used for Saturday's flight test was adapted from the gear used on an F-5E fighter jet. Future versions of the Dream Chaser will use a different design.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Some of the initial reports from the scene suggested that the landing-gear anomaly was dramatic. <a href="http://NASASpaceflight.com">NASASpaceflight.com</a> said the prototype craft flipped over on the runway. Later reports were more positive, bolstering hopes that the damage
can be easily repaired and that tests can resume with the existing prototype. One of the commenters who responded to Spaceflight Now's report on Saturday's flight test said a "pilot would have walked away" from the vehicle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dream Chaser Suffers Landing Gear Failure After First Free Flight Test<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Mike Killian - <a href="http://AmericaSpace.com"><a href="http://AmericaSpace.com">AmericaSpace.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Saturday, Oct. 26, Sierra Nevada Corporation put their Dream Chaser test article through its first free flight Approach and Landing test, or ALT, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. The important flight
test appears to have gone as expected until an anomaly was encountered with the left landing gear deployment, which caused the Dream Chaser test article to sustain damage once it touched down on runway 22L at Edwards Air Force Base.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">There is not much official information available from NASA or Sierra Nevada as of yet regarding the problem, or the extent of the damage, but the company did release a statement late Saturday evening on their website:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">"While there was an anomaly with the left landing gear deployment, the high-quality flight and telemetry data throughout all phases of the approach-and-landing test will allow SNC teams to continue to refine
their spacecraft design. SNC and NASA Dryden are currently reviewing the data. As with any space flight test program, there will be anomalies that we can learn from, allowing us to improve our vehicle and accelerate our rate of progress."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser was carried aloft by an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter—same as it was for the captive-carry flight tests—and was released at approximately 11:10 a.m. PST. The vehicle's automated flight control system did its job, steering
the test article to its intended glide slope automatically based on data collected by the vehicle's sensors and flight computer. Less than a minute after being released, the vehicle touched down on the runway centerline, exactly replicating the orbital re-entry
flight path from 5,000 feet altitude to the Edwards 22L runway landing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Unofficial reports from the ground imply the damage was minor & repairable enough to use this test article again as was originally intended, and that the flight otherwise went as expected. SNC has not yet elaborated on those unofficial
reports.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center also released an official statement Saturday afternoon regarding the incident:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">"No personnel were injured. Damage to property is being assessed. Edwards Air Force Base emergency personnel responded to scene as a precaution. Support personnel are preparing the vehicle for transport to a
hangar. Sierra Nevada Corporation engineers, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and U.S. Air Force representatives are looking into the anomaly that occurred."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Dream Chaser test article used for Saturday's flight test is the same vehicle SNC will use for eventual piloted flight testing—the test article is supposed to be sent back to Colorado for retrofitting after the automated ALT tests
are complete. Without understanding the extent of the damage from Saturday's flight test, there is no way of knowing yet whether or not this same vehicle can be repaired to carry out additional testing as planned. SNC and Lockheed Martin are currently working
together in active build of the orbital spaceflight Dream Chaser vehicle, which will launch in the coming years on crewed and uncrewed missions as dictated by the flight test program in the next phase of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">AmericaSpace has reached out to Sierra Nevada for additional details and comment regarding this first free flight test and will have a more in-depth story on what exactly happened, as well as what the next course of action is, as soon
as possible. Sierra Nevada will hold a news conference this Tuesday, October October 29, elaborating on the news.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Crew capsule construction about to take off at KSC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">James Dean - Florida Today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Pieces of a hatch, windows and other parts The Boeing Co. will use to build a prototype commercial space taxi should begin arriving in town within a few weeks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">By year's end, several hundred components needed to assemble a structural test article of the company's CST-100 spacecraft will be housed in a former shuttle hangar at Kennedy Space Center.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We're really on the upswing," said John Mulholland, head of Boeing's development team, in an interview this week.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Jobs will follow the hardware — if Boeing wins a NASA contract next summer to fly astronauts to the International Space Station.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The company two years ago announced plans to hire up to 550 people to support commercial crew operations based in former shuttle facilities at KSC, including Orbiter Processing Facility 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A $6.6 million state incentive contract signed around the same time anticipated the first 140 jobs by the end of 2012, and the rest by 2015.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But NASA's Commercial Crew Program budget, which is also helping SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corp. to develop spacecraft, has stretched out the schedule.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The space agency now hopes to award one or two contracts by next September, leading to commercial crew flights to the ISS starting in 2017. At least one crewed orbital test flight is planned before the operational missions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Other than the program schedule slipping, Mulholland said Boeing's plans for Florida operations have not changed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We're still fully committed to the intent and scope of that agreement," he said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Space Florida continues a roughly $20 million renovation of the former orbiter hangar, space shuttle main engine shop and office space at KSC that Boeing said earlier this week it plans to move into next spring.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A joint tenancy agreement signed this summer enables Boeing to start installing systems in parallel with the modernization effort that should wrap up next summer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Boeing would then be ready to assemble the structural test article, which is used to test how the vehicle handles the aerodynamic and other pressures expected during a launch and return from space.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Space Florida says it is finalizing the terms of a use agreement including matching investments by Boeing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The state-funded improvements are considered generic enough to be useful to other tenants should Boeing not win the commercial crew competition — a possibility the company says it has not entertained.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We have been completely focused on the planning for a successful award, so we haven't addressed other possibilities," Mulholland said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NASA's future up in air during spending debate<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i>Partisanship puts agency at crossroads as Congress, delegation fight over funds<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Stewart Powell - Houston Chronicle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">One of the nation's strongest advocates for manned space exploration - Sen. Bill Nelson, a former astronaut - wistfully recalls making a personal appeal to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, to support more funding
for NASA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But for Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, the subsequent party line votes by the two Texans and other GOP lawmakers on key committees reflect deepening partisan disagreements over the destination, timetable and budget for future manned
space missions as well as the leadership structure and congressional support for NASA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"What is sad to me is that NASA has always been above politics," says Nelson, who flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia for six days as a payload specialist in 1986. "Now it's gotten to be a partisan issue, and that is a sad day for the
country."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From Smith's perspective, it is the duty of resolute Republicans in the GOP-controlled House to reduce red-ink spending by cutting money for federal agencies, including NASA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Democrats are ignoring "fiscal realities with unrealistic funding levels" when NASA must "follow a responsible 'go-as-you-can-afford' exploration strategy," Smith says.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The nation's manned space program stands at a crossroads, with uncertainty affecting Houston's Johnson Space Center, the heart of the American space enterprise. JSC accounts for 3,200 NASA jobs and 11,000 NASA contractor employees, which
pumps nearly $4.5 billion a year into the local economy in payrolls and contracts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The threatened upheaval comes as commercial firms begin ferrying cargo to the orbiting $100 billion International Space Station before eventually delivering U.S. astronauts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Beyond such routine commercial missions, NASA has a fight on its hands on Capitol Hill over the destination for the first manned mission beyond low-earth orbit since Eugene Cernan left the last footprints on the moon in 1972, 41 years
ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Without a U.S.-Soviet space race to galvanize political and budget support, NASA engineers are exploring an estimated $2.6 billion scheme to snare a speeding asteroid, steer it into orbit around the moon and land astronauts on its surface
by 2021. The mission would test-drive deep space capabilities as a steppingstone for astronauts to orbit Mars by 2035.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Senior NASA engineers have been traveling the country to brainstorm with civilian counterparts, including a conference at Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Planetary defense<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Experts think the asteroid mission also would help develop technology capable of planetary defense against meteorites such as the 20-foot diameter, 10,000-ton Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Siberia last February with 30 times
the explosive force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's human exploration and operations directorate, has even appealed to the nation's collective imagination.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Turn off your logical side and turn on your touchy-feely side, the one you almost never use," Gerstenmaier counseled participants at a recent aeronautics and astronautics conference in San Diego. "Then jump up and down and do some break-dancing.
We're going to grab a space rock, and we're going to move it!"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Yet the federal National Research Council that draws upon outside expertise from the national academies of science and engineering has questioned the asteroid mission, citing the mismatch between NASA's competing programs and the money
available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We've seen limited evidence that this (asteroid mission) has been widely accepted as a compelling destination by NASA's own workforce, by the nation as a whole or by the international community," says panel chairman Albert Carnesale,
chancellor emeritus and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has already steered legislation through his committee on a party-line vote of 22 to 17 to bar NASA from using the $100 million the agency requested for the asteroid
mission.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Smith also insists that NASA forgo the $17.7 billion annual budget sought by the White House in favor of a $16.9 billion budget for the fiscal year. The GOP-led House Appropriations Committee wants to provide even less, setting aside
only $16.1 billion for NASA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But the Democratic-led Senate - and former astronaut Nelson - are going in the other direction. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, where Nelson chairs the space panel, has authorized NASA to spend $18.1 billion
during fiscal 2014 that began Oct. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Eventual action on the measures by the entire House and Senate will set the stage for a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Partisan political warfare was on full display during the recent government shutdown. Rep. Steve Stockman, a Republican from Friendswood, whose district includes Houston's space facility, said that calls from JSC employees were running
9-to-1 in favor of his stance of supporting the shutdown as a way to boost political pressure to defund the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"With a wife who is a JSC employee I know better than most how important full NASA funding is and how many hits JSC employees have taken under Obama," Stockman said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The lawmaker's claim prompted JSC employees and supporters to gather in Stockman's district office to press their point that the furloughed workers preferred that the government reopen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Another partisan thrust came from Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., a former employee of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center outside Washington, D.C., who wants Congress to create a commission to close NASA facilities in congressional districts
where Republican lawmakers had voted steep reductions in the NASA earth sciences budget supervised at Goddard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Then came a volley from Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who blocked Senate confirmation of NASA chief financial officer Elizabeth Robinson to become second-in-command at the Energy Department. Vitter accused NASA of "stalling a job-creating
project" for up to 600 people at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Nelson pushes agency<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The partisan climate worries Nelson who had been able to forge a bipartisan compromise with then-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, in 2010 that benefited manned space operations in both Florida and Texas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Their deal accepted Obama's cancellation of the back-to-the-moon Constellation program, ended the shuttle program and boosted NASA backing for the commercial space industry at the same time that it bolstered deep space missions with
a multipurpose crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"I don't think we could reach that compromise today," Nelson lamented.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Civic leaders in Houston remain optimistic that NASA, Congress and the White House will reach an agreement on the next destination for manned space exploration - an asteroid or the moon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We think at the end of the day cooler heads will prevail, and the right destination will be selected," says Bob Mitchell, president of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership. "But that won't happen without compromise - something
that's been in short supply in Washington."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Culberson's recommendations<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Rep. John Culberson, the Houston congressman in line to chair the House Appropriations Committee panel with jurisdiction over NASA in 2015, hopes to strengthen NASA's long-term prospects by making the agency less vulnerable to partisan
jockeying with these steps:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Authorize NASA to use multi-year acquisition contracts like those used by the Navy to build submarines and aircraft carriers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Allow NASA to submit its annual budget request directly to Congress rather than going through the White House Office of Management and Budget where Culberson claims the annual request gets shredded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Establish a fixed 10-year term for the NASA administrator akin to the multi-presidential term of the FBI director.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Even though we're in a rough patch right now, we're going to get through this, and NASA is going to be fine," says the seven-term lawmaker. "You can take it to the bank that NASA will continue to benefit from whole-hearted support by
Congress."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sequester would delay NASA missions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Ledyard King - Florida Today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA was able to largely avoid serious consequences from the first phase of sequestration budget cuts, but the next round poses a serious threat to the nation's space program, according to congressional lawmakers and agency officials.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Those cuts could delay missions and imperil programs that already face tighter budgets and fiscal uncertainty.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Sequestration will slit the throat of NASA," said Sen. Bill Nelson, one of Congress' biggest champions for NASA. "It'll cut the heart out of the manned space program."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Fiscal 2014 began Oct. 1, but lawmakers remain far apart on how much discretionary spending to approve this year for NASA and other federal agencies. Most mandatory spending for entitlement programs is unaffected by sequestration.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA received nearly $16.9 billion in fiscal 2013. The House Appropriations Committee has approved $16.6 billion in fiscal 2014 while a bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee calls for $18 billion. President Barack Obama
has requested $17.7 billion. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The space agency will continue to be funded at the fiscal 2013 level (roughly $1.4 billion per month) at least through December while House and Senate negotiators work out a longer deal. Central to those discussions is whether to continue
sequestration. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Pointing to the nation's nearly $17 trillion debt, a number of Republicans say they want to continue sequestration while easing its impact on defense spending.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"The fact is, it's the first time since 1955 and 1956 we've had two years in a row of less government spending," Tennessee GOP Sen. Bob Corker said recently.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Democrats, including Nelson, adamantly oppose the sequestration cuts, saying they've helped stymie economic growth.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Earlier this year, top NASA officials warned that another year of sequestration would be bad news for an agency that budgets for the long term and needs consistent funding sources for its multi-year missions.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration, told senators that large-scale missions to retrieve an asteroid and send astronauts to Mars will be delayed if sequestration continues.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We can tolerate the (fiscal) 2013 sequester because we're prepared," he told congressional lawmakers in April. "But if it continues into '14, the programs and timetables I described, I don't believe we can continue to support it. This
is really going to be tough for us moving forward." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, told a House panel in May the cuts have delayed plans for an "all-sky survey" to look for nearby planets outside the solar system, and that other planet discovery
missions also would be hampered. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said Thursday the agency was still assessing the impact of another year of sequestration and its "stifling constraints." Even holding at fiscal 2013 levels would be problematic because it's about $850 million
less than the president's request. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That would mean deep cuts in space technology, "the seed corn that allows the nation to conduct ever more capable and affordable space missions," Beutel said. It also would impede NASA's Commercial Crew Program to use private companies
to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Since retirement of the space shuttle program, U.S. taxpayers have paid Russia to carry astronauts to the space station, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $70 million a trip.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Nelson said sequestration could have local impact. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Boeing announced this week it plans to move into a former shuttle hangar at Kennedy Space Center in the spring of 2014, where it will assemble CST-100 commercial crew capsules. One of three companies competing to transport NASA crews
to the International Space Station, Boeing hopes to launch a first test flight of the CST-100 in 2016.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But Nelson said budget cuts could complicate Boeing's efforts.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"They're not going to do that if they don't have the money from NASA to do all the redundancies and all of the escape systems in order to make it safe for humans," he said.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">And it's not just Kennedy that could suffer. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Nelson said further delays in the manned missions also will hurt Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, where rockets are developed, Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they're tested, and Johnson Space Center in Texas, home
of Mission Control. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Another year of sequestration also will stunt research programs at Dryden Flight Research Center in California, Langley Research Center in Virginia, and Glenn Research Center in Ohio, Nelson said. He confirmed he's talked to NASA Administrator
Charles F. Bolden Jr. about the issue. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"It will affect every center. It will also put the kibosh on (NASA's) aviation research," he said. "Sequestration is across the board. It hits everybody. That's why we need to get rid of it."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">European cargo freighter undocks from space station<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com">SpaceflightNow.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">After 134 days attached to the International Space Station, Europe's fourth automated supply ship undocked from the space station at 4:55 a.m. EDT Monday, carting away more than two tons of dry and liquid waste for disposal in a fiery
re-entry over the Pacific Ocean. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Space station flight engineers Luca Parmitano and Oleg Kotov closed the hatches between the ATV and the space station's Zvezda service module on Friday, following be depressurization of the vestibule and leak checks between the vehicles.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The ATV's pressurized cargo carrier is packed with trash, and the spacecraft's tanks are filled with liquid waste from the Russian segment's waste water tanks.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">About the size of a double-decker bus, the ATV arrived at the space station June 15 after a 10-day transit following liftoff aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The ATV delivered seven tons of payload to the space station, including 5,465 pounds of supplies stowed inside the craft's cargo cabin, comprising 209 bags containing 1,400 items, according to the European Space Agency.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Albert Einstein mission carried 1,896 pounds of propellant to transfer into Zvezda's fuel tanks, plus nearly six tons of propellant to use for maneuvering the space station away from space junk and raise its orbit higher.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">ATV 4 also delivered 1,245 pounds of water and 220 pounds of air and pure oxygen to revitalize the station's atmosphere.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The ATV provided its last reboost to the space station's orbit Oct. 24, increasing the station's speed by 1.9 mph and raising the lab's orbit by approximately 1 mile.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"This mission has gone without a hitch and is an excellent performance by the operations team at the control center and our industrial partners that built the machine," said Alberto Novelli, ESA's ATV 4 mission manager.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Engineers at the ATV control center in Toulouse, France, will adjust the spacecraft's orbit after undocking to position the ship beneath the space station for its re-entry at about 1200 GMT (8 a.m. EDT) Saturday over the South Pacific
Ocean. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The re-entry of Japan's H-2 Transfer Vehicle in September was similarly timed to occur as the HTV passed below the space station, allowing observations of the re-entry by astronauts and a specially-designed camera on the complex.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"To close the mission with such a delicate but spectacular operation is a fitting end to all the hard work of the people involved," said Jean-Michel Bois, head of the ATV 4 operations team in Toulouse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Khrunichev Strikes Again: New Russian ISS Module Full of Flaws<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Doug Messier - Parabolic Arc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Russian media are reporting that the latest screw up by disaster-prone Khrunichev involves the long-delayed Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), which was originally set to be launched to the International Space Station next April.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"The Energia Corporation is completing factory tests of this product," a source told Interfax-AVN earlier this week. "But the module cannot be accepted the way it is. When the electrical tests are over it will be returned to the producer,
the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, which may work on it for another 12-18 months."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Details are a bit sketchy, but reports indicate there are a number of issues with the new scientific module, including material found inside the pipes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The report further indicates that the module began construction in 1995 as Functional Cargo Block 2 (FGB-2). The FGB-1 module, also known as Zarya, was the first element of the International Space Station to be launched.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In 2004, FGB-2 was re-purposed as a multi-use module with the goal of attaching it to the space station in 2007. However, the project has been delayed repeatedly since that decision.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Khrunichev has been the most problem plagued company in the Russian space industry. Over the past three years, it has suffered repeatedly failures of its Proton rocket. The most recent failure occurred in July, when a Proton launched
three GLONASS satellites into the ground at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Energy Appointment Blocked Over NASA-related Questions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Dan Leone - Space News<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Seeking to hold NASA to account for what he called deliberate attempts to stall the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion programs, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has blocked the White House's nomination of the agency's chief financial
officer, Beth Robinson, to become the U.S. undersecretary of energy. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Are you intentionally trying to kill SLS and Orion?" Vitter asked in an Oct. 21 letter to Robinson.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Among other things, Vitter demanded to know why "NASA has failed to approve contracts for the [SLS and Orion], which would be built at the Michoud Assembly Facility" near New Orleans. "Approval of the delayed projects could mean putting
approximately 300 to 600 Louisianans back to work," he said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Louisiana lawmaker also asked why Boeing Space Exploration's "SLS contract still has not been definitized," and why Robinson is apparently withholding $125 million in termination liability funds from Boeing.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"How do you explain that withholding these funds appears to be using of termination liability as a tool to slow progress of SLS?" Vitter wrote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Termination liability funds are typically held in reserve to cover any costs associated with canceling a project. The letter did not specify the program for which Boeing is owed the money.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Vitter also complained about what he said is the uneven application of sequestration cuts across the agency, pointing out that funding for the Commercial Crew Program was not reduced at all while appropriations for SLS and Orion were.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"I would appreciate your prompt answers to these questions as the Senate considers your promotion to the Department of Energy," Vitter wrote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">By proving itself to NASA, Orbital Sciences opens door to new opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Kathy Orton - Washington Post<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">What Orbital Sciences had been hoping for happened last week: Cygnus, its cargo spacecraft, disintegrated into a billion pieces when it reentered Earth's atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Although that might not sound like good news, it was for the Dulles-based space company. The craft's destruction was a planned event, the final step in a crucial test to show NASA that the company could successfully transport supplies
to the crew of six astronauts on the international space station.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That achievement marks a significant milestone for Orbital, one of two private companies NASA has turned to since it retired the space shuttle. NASA handed over the resupply missions to Orbital and SpaceX, a Hawthorne, Calif.-based company,
so that it can focus on deep-space journeys.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Now, having completed two successful launches of its Antares rocket, Orbital can proceed as planned with eight more flights scheduled through 2016 as part of its $1.9 billion cargo resupply services contract with NASA. The latest accomplishment
positions Orbital well to re-compete for the next cargo resupply contract, which is expected in a year or two.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But perhaps just as significant, the strong performance by Antares opens the door to new opportunities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"With two really good launches now under our belt, things are picking up in terms of customer interest," Orbital president and chief executive David W. Thompson said in an Oct. 17 conference call with investment analysts. "We have one
specific pursuit that we're engaged in now with a commercial customer."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thompson did not identify the customer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Any additional interest in Antares beyond NASA could prove to be a windfall for Orbital.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"They put all this money into the Antares rocket to develop it," said William Loomis, managing director at the financial services firm Stifel Nicolaus. "The more they can use it outside of NASA .?.?. you're leveraging your past investments
and getting higher incremental returns."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Five years ago, when NASA picked Orbital over giants in the space industry such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, it was quite a coup for the local maker of small- to medium-size space systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The win brought the commercial space industry to the Washington area. Orbital's highly anticipated launch of the Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va., on Sept. 18 was visible in the region. Its
Cygnus payload docked with the space station about 10 days later, and the craft offloaded about 1,500 pounds of cargo and detached from the station Tuesday, with barely a hiccup.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That mission followed closely on the heels of Orbital's third-quarter earnings report, which received mixed reactions. For years, analysts had been concerned about the company's heavy spending on research and development. So they were
pleased to see that cash flow from operations was $31.5 million in the third quarter, compared with a negative $20.8 million a year ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">However, revenue and net income were down for the three-month period ended Sept. 29, compared with the same period last year. Revenue totaled $322 million, a drop of nearly $51 million, or 14 percent, compared with 2012. Net income was
$15.6 million, or 26 cents a share, down from $19.5 million, or 33 cents a share, in 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Some of the decline in revenue was because of the soft market for satellite and space systems. Loomis says he thinks that sector hit bottom last quarter and that activity should pick up. According to Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski,
after nine months of no orders for commercial satellites, Orbital has booked four in the past six months.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In all, Orbital appears to have weathered the sequester cuts and the government shutdown with relatively little damage.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Space is a bigger part of the economy . . . than it has ever been, and that continues to advance," Beneski said. "Even though there may be sequesters and budget movements and all that, from Orbital's perspective as a space company,
we like where we are."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ISS Crew To Test Electromagnetic Station-Keeping<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Frank Morring, Jr. - Aerospace Daily<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Experiments coming up on the International Space Station (ISS) early next month may someday lead to multi-spacecraft constellations that maintain formation electromagnetically, and pass electric power among themselves across open space.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Department of Defense Spheres-Rings experiment reached the station in August on Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle, and underwent a successful checkout on Aug. 27. Essentially a pair of conducting coils designed to fit on two of the three
Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (Spheres) already on the station, the Rings experiment will be first test in microgravity of electromagnetic positioning with free-flying satellites.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"If you can maintain their position relative to each other, then you only need propulsion on one of them," says Javier de Luis, vice president of research programs at Aurora Flight Sciences, which built the Spheres and Rings flight hardware.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The three 18-sided Spheres are free-flying software testbeds designed to operate inside one of the pressurized modules on the ISS. Each is the size of a volleyball and weighs 3.5 kg (7.7 lb.) on the ground. They use carbon-dioxide cold-gas
thrusters to maneuver, and AA batteries to power their internal avionics, software, communications and measurement systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For the Rings experiment, two of the spheres are fitted with the 0.77-meter-dia. (2.5-ft. dia.) rings, which contain resonant coils, cooling fans, mounting structure and two lithium-ion rechargeable batteries each, plus the electronics
necessary to control power to the coils. In the 3-4-hr.-long experiment, tentatively scheduled for Nov. 4, station astronauts will load test software into the Sphere/Ring rigs, position them so they are floating freely, and then activate the test.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">With researchers at the University of Maryland and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) monitoring from the ground, the software will generate attractive, repulsive and shear forces between the two floating objects,
while the crew and ground researchers record the resulting interactions at ranges from "decimeters to a few meters," according to a NASA description of the test. The experiment protocol also includes attempts to transmit power from one sphere/ring to the other
"via resonant inducting coupling," NASA said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"By advancing the knowledge base with regards to inter-satellite attitude control and wireless power transfer, future systems can expect enhanced attitude control performance between separate satellites and potentially the ability to
efficiently transfer power at a distance, possibly alleviating the need for alternate or expendable (i.e., batteries) power sources," NASA states.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The ambient-temperature station tests grew out of work done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for DARPA, using high-temperature superconducting coils to generate the electromagnetic fields. Using that technology on full-scale
spacecraft in open space, de Luis says, it should be possible to maintain formation across multiple spacecraft at ranges of "tens to hundreds of meters."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For the upcoming test, Ray Sedwick of the University of Maryland, where the hardware was designed, is the principal investigator. Melissa Wright of DARPA is the co-investigator.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Incoming Space Station Commander to Treat Crew to Sushi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">RIA Novosti<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The first-ever Japanese commander of the International Space Station said he plans to treat fellow residents at the orbital outpost to traditional Japanese food, including sushi.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio are scheduled to blast off on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on November 7 for a 190-day mission at the space station as part of Expedition
38/Expedition 39.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Wakata will take over command of the space station from Russia's Oleg Kotov in March 2014 to lead Expedition 39 through till May.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"A space freighter will deliver a wide variety of Japanese food to orbit, and I can't wait to share it with my colleagues at the ISS," Wakata said during a pre-launch news conference at Russia's space training center in Star City, outside
Moscow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This will not be the first time sushi reaches low Earth orbit. JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi in 2010 demonstrated his sushi-making skills in a video beamed back home.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Wakata, 50, is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions and a long-duration stay onboard the space station in 2009.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Wakata said he will not attempt to instill any specific Japanese traditions during his stint as ISS commander.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"A key point for me is having a good rapport between crew members and stable communications with Earth," Wakata said.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The incoming space station crew will oversee the docking of a Russian MLM module, unload several Progress space freighters, attach a European robotic arm to the Russian segment of the station and carry out a variety of scientific experiments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Space-bound Olympic torch heads to launch site as Cosmonaut carries flame<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Robert Pearlman - <a href="http://collectSPACE.com"><a href="http://collectSPACE.com">collectSPACE.com</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to launch into space on a rocket's flame, took ahold of the Olympic flame Oct. 19, completing a leg of the 2014 Winter Games' torch relay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">At the same time, an unlit torch to be used in the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies was being readied for its own trip, first to its launch site and then into space.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Tereshkova, who in June 1963 lifted off on the then-Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, becoming the first woman to fly into space, came to her home city of Yaroslavl, Russia on Saturday to receive the torch and light the town's Olympic
cauldron.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Today we have a very important day," Tereshkova said, according to a summary published by the Olympic Winter Games organizing committee. "The Olympic flame arrived in Yaroslavl — and it is a symbol of courage, purity and the struggle
for the victory."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"In space, we have to hide emotions far, far away because of the responsibility," Tereshkova remarked. "Today there were emotions, but the main thing was not to let down the people who trusted me with this role."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Saturday marked the 13th day of the cross-country torch relay. The procession started on Oct. 7 in Moscow's Red Square and will continue until Feb. 7, when it will reach the Black Sea coastal city of Sochi to take part in the opening
ceremonies for the 22nd Olympic Winter Games.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This was not the first time that Valentina Tereshkova participated in an Olympic torch relay. In 2008, the first woman in space ran with the torch for the Beijing Summer Games, carrying the flame through St. Petersburg, where the 2014
relay will arrive on Oct. 27.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Sochi, by way of the space station<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Tereshkova said on Saturday that she would have liked to have flown with the Olympic flame into outer space, "but unfortunately that's not up to me," RIA Novosti reported.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The flame may not be headed to orbit, but a torch that will be used in the Sochi opening ceremonies is space-bound.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The aluminum red and silver unlit torch, which is similar to the 14,000 others being used in the terrestrial relay but for the addition of an extra tether, is arriving Monday (Oct. 21) at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where
it will launch with the next crew for the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 6 (Nov. 7 local time).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"The torch is ready, it will be delivered to Baikonur on the 21st of October," Yuri Pokidov of RSC Energia told Oleg Ostapenko, the newly-appointed chief of Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos, during a tour of the launch site on
Saturday.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The torch, which is arriving by cargo plane, will be packed on board the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on the day of its launch, Pokidov said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>High-flying hand-off<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Six hours after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the torch will be carried on board the space station by the Soyuz TMA-11M crew, cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata.
It will be only the third Olympic torch in history to fly in space and the second to enter the orbiting complex.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Two days later, it will go where no Olympic torch has gone before.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Once handed off to space station commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineer Sergey Ryazansky, the torch will be taken on a spacewalk Nov. 9, where live video and photographs will document it floating above the Earth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Nobody has done this before," Dmitry Chernyshenko, the president of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, said in a statement. "The spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts with the [Olympic torch] will be a historic moment in the history
of the Olympic Torch Relay."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The torch will return to Earth on Nov. 11, landing on board the Soyuz TMA-09M capsule with Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Luca Parmitano.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Three months later, the space-flown torch will enter Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi to begin the Winter Games.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">5 questions on the key space science of protein crystals, starring NASA and UAB<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Lee Roop - Huntsville Times <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Spend any time with people who believe space is a special place to do science that can make life better on earth, and you'll hear about protein crystals sooner or later.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Starting from proteins' normal watery state and growing crystallized forms of them produces 3D maps of the proteins' interiors through a process called x-ray crystallography. Crystals were first grown in space aboard Skylab, a Huntsville-led
NASA program, in the 1980s, and they've been key part of science in space ever since, starting with the 1992 space shuttle flight of an astronaut turned University of Alabama in Birmingham professor, and continuing on the International Space Station.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But what's the big deal about protein crystals? Why is there conference after conference and paper after paper on them, including a protein crystal conference at Huntsville's HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Thursday featuring
representatives of the new organization formed to boost science on the space station?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Here are five questions and answers with Dr. Larry DeLucas of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, the former astronaut who flew a crystal growth experiment on the space station in 1992 and who will send more proteins to the space
station in February. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Q: Why do we want to crystalize proteins?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A: "From a protein crystal that's high quality, you can determine where all the atoms are. And that allows you to understand how it functions in our body, or in viruses and bacteria, if the protein comes from those organisms. In cases
where that protein plays a role in a disease, that structure provides the framework to help you design a drug."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Q: So protein crystals will lead to new miracle drugs to fight disease?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A: "It'll help. But when you get that structure, it's the first step in what's called structure-based drug design. The rest of it costs a lot of money, usually $1 billion, and generally takes 10 to 20 years. It depends on the disease
and the drug you're developing. It's a long process, and even though you have that structure, there's no guarantee that somewhere in that process it won't fail, because they make a drug that's toxic or hurts some other protein in your body."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Q: Why go to space to grow protein crystals when you can grow them cheaper in a laboratory on the ground?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A: "Do both. We have some wonderful methods, some thanks to NASA, that help us to improve the quality of crystals grown on earth. But there are still many cases where the best we can get on earth still isn't good enough. Microgravity
has already been shown in more than 100 publications to improve that quality. If we can improve it, we'll see more detail in the structure and it will help us better understand how that protein functions or how to make that pharmaceutical compound to interact
with it."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Q: How can scientists who believe in protein crystallization in space persuade their colleagues the space station is worth the time and trouble to get there?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A: "If we could have a box here on Earth that created microgravity (for growing crystals), everyone would be doing it, because we know we can get better crystals with it. But we can't. The unfortunate thing with the space station is
we don't have constant access. I would love to see five commercial companies providing constant access at a reasonably low price so we could always be doing it up there. If they can do that with these commercial groups, then you might have, in this one science
area, a reason for having a space station. But if you only do it once every two years, it's not good. You need to have constant access."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Q: Is it true that Alabama played a key role in early protein crystallization in space?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A: "(Then) Sen. Howell Heflin was critically important in getting UAB and the Marshall Space Flight Center together. He said we should get in a room and talk about what we are doing to see if there is anything we could work on together....
What we know now wouldn't have happened without NASA (in Huntsville). NASA doesn't get enough credit."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The International Space Station's scientific payoff is real. And increasing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">William Bianco - Washington Post (Guest column)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>(Bianco is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. His current work includes a study of the evolution of cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, in their joint operation of the International
Space Station.)<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A recent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2013/09/14/the-skies-the-limits/">
article by Joel Achenbach</a> in The Washington Post posed a fundamental question about the International Space Station (ISS): "What is it for?" While conceding that the space station is an engineering marvel and a monument to international cooperation, the
article contrasts the costs and dangers of life on the ISS with the lack of a clear scientific rationale for continued operations. As space policy analyst John Logsdon put it in the article, "It's an awfully expensive engineering demonstration. If that's
all it is, that's a hell of a price to pay."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Demanding that ISS supporters identify concrete, immediate, substantial benefits from station operations is setting the bar unrealistically high. The ISS is designed for basic research, which is a long-term bet with an uncertain payoff.
A better way to judge the productivity of the ISS in the short-term is to use criteria that are familiar to any research scientist: the likelihood that ISS research projects yield published papers, the willingness of individuals from outside NASA to become
Principal Investigators (PIs) on ISS projects, and the trend in the amount of research taking place on the ISS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Publications are a basic measure of research quality, as they indicate that a project's questions, methods, and findings have passed muster with peer reviewers and journal editors. Moreover, inasmuch as journals are a primary venue
for scientific debate, a high publication rate for ISS projects implies that the PIs are using the facility to address questions that are considered important by scholars in their home disciplines. For example, early results from the ISS's Alpha Mass Spectrometer,
designed to detect dark matter and other exotic particles, were published in a flagship disciplinary journal, Physics Review Letters.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The presence of PIs from outside NASA on ISS projects confirms that the orbiting lab provides a venue for advancing ongoing research programs that have nothing to do with NASA's mission – and that the facilities on ISS are unique enough
to justify the investment of time and resources needed to carry out the work. For example, a team of corporate and academic scientists combined with NASA researchers to study drugs designed to reduce astronaut bone loss during long-duration flights. This
research is important for NASA's goal of sending crews to asteroids and Mars, but it also has applications for people on Earth who are immobilized or suffer from osteoporosis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Analyzing the trend in research activity tests NASA's claim that as researchers become aware of the station's capabilities, they will develop new projects that leverage the station's unique features. For example, one upcoming study
will install equipment on the ISS to measure the number and size of meteors that enter Earth's atmosphere each day. Using the ISS as a vantage point allows a longer-duration study with more accurate counts than ground-based measures.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA maintains a database of ISS research projects that contains information on all three of these criteria – the charts that follow summarize the 278 projects where NASA is the sponsoring agency and the primary goal was scientific research.
To begin with, these data confirm NASA's claim about the increasing pace of ISS research.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><img border="0" width="422" height="325" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CED3AB.3A9E6310" alt="bianco1"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">During the early years (2001-2003), when most of laboratory facilities had not been launched and crews were limited to three, there was less research activity. Activity also decreased during the post-Columbia period of two-person caretaker
crews (2003-2007). However, as station assembly resumed and crews expanded to six, both new and ongoing projects increased significantly, and are expected to increase in the next few years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Moreover, ISS projects are generally managed by academic or corporate researchers, with a low level of all-NASA or joint projects.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><img border="0" width="431" height="327" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image008.jpg@01CED3AB.3A9E6310" alt="bianco2"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">These percentages have been relatively stable since the beginning of crewed operations. Most ISS research should be described as collaboration between the government and private sector, where the government provides a unique, expensive
experimental apparatus to which outside scientists and engineers bring research questions that can only be answered in an orbital environment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Finally, here is the publication output of ISS research:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><img border="0" width="431" height="333" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image009.jpg@01CED3AB.3A9E6310" alt="bianco3"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The first bar shows the current (October 2013) rate of publication success – somewhat less than 50 percent. However, most of the projects in the database are either ongoing or will commence operations at a future date, and thus cannot
be expected to have produced publishable findings as of yet. To correct for this bias, the second bar gives the predicted publication rate for ISS projects based on a statistical analysis that accounts for the identity of project PIs, the start date, and
whether research was conducted during assembly of the ISS. With these factors taken into account, the predicted publication rate is well over 90 percent, which is notable given that many journals have acceptance rates below 10 percent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">There is no guarantee that research on the ISS will cure cancer, end global warming, or earn their PIs a Nobel Prize. However, the data show that ISS research satisfies the basic conditions for good science: attracting outside researchers,
engaging disciplinary debates, and generating publishable results. It is unrealistic to judge the ISS based on its short-term payoff; by that standard, virtually all basic research in the sciences would be judged a failure. Even given the data presented here,
reasonable people can disagree about the benefits and costs of continued ISS operations. But to make a judgment about the long-term value of the ISS barely three years after its completion makes no more sense than tearing up a lottery ticket a week before
the drawing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Shared use debated for former shuttle launch pad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">James Dean - Florida Today (Oct. 20)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In scale models, the pieces fit together like Lego pieces.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Rockets snapped onto custom adapters that could be swapped in and out of a mobile launcher. An umbilical tower's lines and access platforms adjusted to fit each system.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Roll them out to a Kennedy Space Center launch complex, and virtually any commercial rocket could now blast off from a pad that for decades served only the space shuttle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"We had a plan where essentially you could do any number of vehicles," said Dan Brandenstein, retired chief operating officer of United Space Alliance, which sketched out the concept before the shuttle's retirement. "They could just
'plug and play' the adapters they need and use the launch pad as often as they need it, and not have the overhead of owning it full time."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The company's pitch never gained traction, but the idea has won new prominence with a proposal by Blue Origin to manage KSC's launch pad 39A as a shared commercial pad, instead of NASA awarding an exclusive lease to SpaceX.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The competing proposals have billionaire CEOs (Elon Musk founded SpaceX; <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a>'s Jeff Bezos is behind Blue Origin), industry rivals and members of Congress debating the best and most practical use for the mothballed former Apollo
and shuttle pad. That has delayed at least for a few months a critical next step in Kennedy Space Center's transformation into a multi-user spaceport for government and commercial launches.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But beyond the corporate and political jockeying is a basic question: Could competitors share the pad? Would that work?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Supporters believe that would be the most fair and economical use of a special facility in which taxpayers have invested hundreds of millions of dollars. Commercial launchers would benefit by splitting the expense of operating a major
piece of infrastructure, lowering launch costs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Skeptics point out that such an arrangement has never been tried before by the larger, liquid-fueled rockets most likely to launch from pad 39A.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"This is a concept that has been proposed for decades and yet has never been implemented successfully by the government, much less the more cost-conscious and deeply competitive private sector," Frank DiBello, CEO of Space Florida, wrote
this summer to NASA and federal lawmakers. Space Florida is a state agency that promotes the aerospace industry in Florida.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">DiBello says he doesn't prefer one approach over another, but the best outcome and return on taxpayer investment would bring launches here sooner rather than later.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The pad's fate is in limbo as NASA awaits the outcome later this year of a bid protest Blue Origin filed with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA says it would cost more than $1 million annually to maintain the mothballed pad, an expense it can't afford moving forward. If a satisfactory lease — which NASA had hoped to award by Oct. 1 — isn't secured, 39A could sit idle or
rust away.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Backed by <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a>'s Bezos, Blue Origin says it is willing to invest heavily in pad 39A so that anyone interested, including SpaceX, could start launching from there by 2015.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Blue Origin won't have its own orbital rocket until at least 2018 but would manage and maintain the pad as a commercial spaceport, helping to ensure "the fullest use of this unique national asset."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Multiple launch companies believe a commercial multi-user facility is feasible and desirable," said company President Rob Meyerson. "It brings more launches, and with them more jobs."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">United Launch Alliance, which dominates launches of government satellites and is competing with SpaceX to launch NASA astronauts, has backed Blue Origin's idea. The Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture has not committed to using pad
39A but says access to it could be helpful down the road.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A new launch pad in Virginia is also promoting itself as a multi-user facility, though it has only tenant now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To implement the concept here, Blue Origin, which operates a private suborbital launch site in Texas, would need to tackle complex technical hurdles that United Space Alliance's "plug and play" models only began to address.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Each rocket has a different height, diameter and weight and may use different propellants. Access points vary for technicians and fuel, power, electrical and communications lines. Each liftoff exerts different forces on a pad, from the
way engines spew flame to the rumble they produce.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Assuming those engineering challenges can be met, potentially more daunting operational questions quickly arise. To start with, who goes first?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If launches were frequent, conflicts could arise over which are given priority and for how long. Companies might balk at a competitor calling the shots.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Worse, what if a competitor's rocket blew up on the pad, grounding launches indefinitely?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In United Space Alliance's concept, a second mobile launcher could replace a damaged one. Brandenstein said the technical challenges were manageable and companies would evaluate the risk of an accident against potential cost-savings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"The bottom line is in anything there's challenges and nothing in that line of work is totally risk-free," he said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But it's a risk companies have not yet been willing to take.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"People in the launch business, the biggest thing they want to do is control their own destiny," said Adrian Laffitte, a former Atlas launch director for Lockheed Martin.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"As an engineer, everything is doable," Laffitte said of the multi-user concept. "But is it going to be economical, and is it going to be something that people will want to use?"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That appears to be the key question right now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When NASA requested proposals to lease pad 39A earlier this year, only SpaceX and Blue Origin responded. Of the two, only SpaceX has an operational rocket with an immediate manifest of payloads to launch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">As a result, SpaceX CEO Musk recently dismissed Blue Origin's multi-user approach, and United Launch Alliance's backing of it, as a "phony blocking tactic" by companies worried about SpaceX's growth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Musk said he would welcome Blue Origin to pad 39A after a minimum five-year lease is up if the company can develop an orbital rocket that quickly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct," he told Space News.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If more demand to launch from Kennedy Space Center soon does develop, NASA has invited companies to use neighboring pad 39B, which the agency only expects to use for its exploration rocket every other year or so.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But Blue Origin has been cool to the idea of sharing a pad with the government.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Musk says SpaceX would use pad 39A to launch civil government missions like International Space Station cargo and crews or NASA science satellites, while concentrating military launches at its existing Cape Canaveral pad, should the
company win all that business. He continues to pursue a commercial launch complex outside federal jurisdiction, and calls Texas the leading candidate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Space Florida hopes to develop one or two pads at the north end of Kennedy Space Center.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Before DiBello's tenure began in 2009, the state agency was promoting shared use of a pad it owns at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, suitable for smaller rockets than would use 39A, but no launches materialized.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"There was clear interest on the part of a couple of people," DiBello said. "But when it came down to actually discussing the details, they were really interested for their program. They weren't as interested in a multi-user concept."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SpaceX says robust market can support four launch pads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Stephen Clark - <a href="http://SpaceflightNow.com">SpaceflightNow.com</a> (Oct. 18)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX boss Elon Musk sees a day before the end of the decade when his prospering rocket company administers four launch pads, taking up beach real estate in Florida, Texas and California to serve disparate markets for commercial, government
and crewed space missions. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That number doesn't count SpaceX's rocket test facilities in McGregor, Texas, and Spaceport America in New Mexico.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">It would put SpaceX in position to snatch up a significant share of the global launch business, with the Falcon 9 rocket and the behemoth Falcon Heavy launching multiple times per month.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"If business is good, and we're able to keep improving the rocket, I think we'll be doing a lot of launches," Musk said in an interview.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Musk admits his vision is still clouded by the bureaucracy his company, an epitome of vertical integration, aspires to eschew in hopes of reining in costs.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX's battle to obtain control over a historic space shuttle launch pad in Florida is mired in a government review after a protest from a rival, and the firm's effort to develop a commercial launch pad in South Texas is in a holding
pattern while officials obtain the necessary environmental approvals. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">And despite its successes, SpaceX is still trying to convince the U.S. military and NASA to put their most costly and critical spacecraft on Falcon rockets.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX says the Sept. 29 launch of its first upgraded Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket, featuring more powerful Merlin 1D engines and other performance-boosting modifications, was the first of three certification flights required by U.S. Air Force
to compete for launches of the military's most critical spacecraft. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA is also assessing the new version of the Falcon 9 rocket to launch its most expensive and unique missions, such as interplanetary probes.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The initial wariness of NASA and the Air Force, which shows signs of withering, has not stopped SpaceX from logging a steady stream of contract wins, amassing a total backlog worth more than $3 billion.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Most of the business has come from commercial customers and NASA's cargo resupply service, in which SpaceX launches and operates its unmanned Dragon logistics vehicle for round-trip servicing runs to the International Space Station.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The Air Force has signed up for two SpaceX launches: NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory on a Falcon 9 and a rideshare launch under the auspices of the Space Test Program on the unflown Falcon Heavy, a huge launcher still under development.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA last year awarded SpaceX a contract for a Falcon 9 launch of the joint U.S.-French Jason 3 ocean surface research satellite in 2015.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But once SpaceX's government business - the $1.6 billion space station resupply contract notwithstanding - catches up to the company's commercial successes, Musk expects there will be enough business to go around.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX currently operates two launch pads. One is at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where five Falcon 9 rockets have blasted off from Complex 40 on test flights and resupply missions to the space station. SpaceX's other launch
pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Space Launch Complex 4-East, was just inaugurated with the Sept. 29 launch of Canada's Cassiope space weather research satellite.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Both launch pads will be busy over the next few years. If SpaceX and its customers can sustain their readiness, Cape Canaveral will host up to 10 Falcon 9 launches over the next 12 months.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The flights from Florida begin with the scheduled Nov. 12 launch of the SES 8 communications satellite. It will mark SpaceX's first launch to geostationary transfer orbit, an elliptical path around Earth where communications payloads
are normally dropped off by the launch vehicles. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The satellites use on-board propulsion to circularize their orbits 22,300 miles over the equator to match the speed of Earth's rotation and appear to hover over a fixed location, allowing ground users to use static antennas to communicate
with the spacecraft. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Things will be quieter at Vandenberg, with the next planned launch from SpaceX's West Coast pad slated to be the debut flight in late 2014 of the Falcon Heavy, a super-booster comprising three Falcon 9 first stage cores conglomerated
into a single rocket. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Musk said Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral will also receive modifications to handle Falcon Heavy launches. The changes to the launch pad include beefing up the launch mount and making changes to the rocket's transporter-erector, which cradles
the vehicle during rollout to the pad and supplies connections to the facility's electrical and fueling equipment.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">So far, Musk said Complex 40 has only been upgraded to support launches of the new-generation Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket. SpaceX will need to do more work on the pad as the first East Coast Falcon Heavy launch approaches, according to Musk.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Activity on the West Coast will ramp up in 2015 with the start of a seven-launch campaign to loft next-generation satellites for Iridium Communications, plus a mix of other missions for NASA, Argentina, Taiwan and other customers. Some
time later this decade, SpaceX could begin launching rockets from two new facilities.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">According to Musk, a site in South Texas near Brownsville is the leading candidate for a privately-owned launch site SpaceX plans to build to host commercial missions.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">A private launch site "would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows," according to a draft environmental impact statement issued in April by the Federal Aviation Administration.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX is still considering sites in Florida, Georgia and other areas for the proposed commercial launch facility, but a plot of land on Boca Chica Beach in South Texas is in the lead.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"I think Texas is looking increasingly likely," Musk told Spaceflight Now, adding a final decision must wait for environmental and regulatory approvals.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The suggested launch site in South Texas would be optimized for launches of commercial telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit, Musk said.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Launches to the east of the Texas site, the necessary trajectory for geostationary orbit missions, would fly over the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Musk said SpaceX may eventually need another commercial launch site besides the Texas location, depending on the market demand.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In Florida, SpaceX is in a heated competition to take control of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Pad 39A was home to the space shuttle and was the departure point for the Apollo moon missions.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX and Blue Origin, a space company established by <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> founder Jeff Bezos, are vying to lease pad 39A from NASA, which says it has no need for the historic complex.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket will lift off from nearby pad 39B, the space shuttle's other launch facility. The first uncrewed test launch of the SLS is scheduled for late 2017, but the next flight of the massive rocket
will not come until 2021, when it is scheduled to launch astronauts on a voyage to rendezvous with an asteroid.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">NASA wants to award a lease of pad 39A as soon as possible, and the agency hoped to finish the deal by Oct. 1 to get the unused facility off its books and save $100,000 per month in maintenance costs.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">But before NASA announced the winning bid for the launch pad, Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Rob Meyerson, Blue Origin's president, told Space News in September the firm planned to make pad 39A available to multiple users. United Launch Alliance, the joint Boeing-Lockheed Martin company which operates the Atlas and Delta rocket
families, is one of Blue Origin's prospective customers if it gains control of pad 39A.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX, which initially wished to use pad 39A for its own purposes, said it was also open to sharing the launch complex with other users.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"SpaceX has nearly 50 missions on manifest to launch over the proposed 5 year lease period and we can easily make use of the additional launch site," the company said in a written statement. "At the time we submitted the bid, SpaceX
was unaware any other parties had interest in using the pad. However, if awarded this limited duration lease on 39A, SpaceX would be more than happy to support other commercial space pioneers at the pad, and allow NASA to make use of the pad if need be."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX wants to use pad 39A for its launches for NASA, such as space station crew and cargo missions with its Dragon spacecraft, and deep space probes to explore other worlds.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The GAO has until Dec. 12 to rule on Blue Origin's protest, and NASA cannot select a winning bid for pad 39A until the oversight agency finishes its inquiry.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX's plan to divide its launch infrastructure allows the company to keep its launch pads optimized for specific types of missions, Musk said.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">With commercial launches based out of a privately-owned pad - likely in South Texas - and NASA flights staged from the Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A, SpaceX's existing pad at Complex 40 on Air Force property would be dedicated to national
security work, according to Musk. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SpaceX's home at Vandenberg would play host to all missions destined for polar orbits, which are not reachable from Florida or Texas due to safety guidelines restricting rocket flights over populated areas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Will Revamp Spaceflight…One Day…Soon?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Ashlee Vance - Bloomberg Business Week<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Here's the near-term future for Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's commercial space startup: Any day now, the company will begin making suborbital flights. Blue Origin will let researchers and other companies take a payload up into space—topping
out at 100 kilometers—for about three to four minutes. The hope is that Blue Origin will be able to do this at a moment's notice and do it often.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"You will tell us that you need to get on the pad that morning," Erika Wagner, the business development manager at Blue Origin, said during a commercial space conference held last weekend in Silicon Valley. "We will roll out of the garage.
We will do a countdown and go. This is gas and go. This is not sitting on the launchpad for months."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Blue Origin remains that odd mixture of secretive and boastful. It delivers information about test flights in drips and drabs and does not grant the press anything in the way of access. And yet there's Wagner talking about Blue Origin's
coming ability to change the economics of suborbital flights, in large part because the company has designed reusable vehicles that can take off and land vertically. (Think reusing a Boeing (BA) 747 instead of throwing it away after each flight.) If these
types of flights are cheap enough, Blue Origin hopes demand for them will explode.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The suborbital flights reach a middle ground between where planes can go and where satellites live, which means opportunities for all kinds of new scientific research. Plans have been hatched, for example, to test how stem cells and
plants grow in this type of environment, along with bids to capture space microbes and bring them back to earth (because that never goes wrong in the movies). "You will come to us and do a contract and not a partnership," Wagner said. "We would like to sell
you a product. You will get your data back in about 9 minutes, from liftoff to landing."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">As for when any of this will happen, well, Blue Origin is mum. It has talked about doing far more complex orbital flights in 2018, but the suborbital business remains hush-hush. Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace have committed
to launching suborbital flights in 2014 if all goes according to plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Blue Origin's approach has been in stark contrast to that of SpaceX, the other big-time commercial space venture, funded and run by billionaire Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. When Musk started SpaceX in 2002, he was not as wealthy
and very much needed to turn the company into a serious, for-profit endeavor. Bezos, fat cat that he is, has had the luxury of advancing Blue Origin at a slower pace and letting his team of 300 work in private. "We are the tortoise and not the hare in this
race," Wagner said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Part of the dichotomy here also comes from the founders' personalities. Musk tends to enjoy the limelight, while Bezos tends to abhor it. Or as one NASA official put it to me: "The world may watch Elon fly to Mars one day expecting him
to be the first person there only to discover that a colony of Bezosians have secretly already set up shop." (There's lots more juicy details on the culture Bezos has driven at Blue Origin in The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, the just-published
book by Brad Stone.) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Tensions between the two space moguls have flared of late as their companies fight for space at a NASA-owned launchpad. Musk has used the squabble to highlight that SpaceX has flown successfully to the International Space Station, while
Blue Origin has yet to get anywhere close. "If [Blue Origin does] somehow show up in the next five years with a vehicle qualified to NASA's human rating standards that can dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we will gladly accommodate
their needs," Musk said during a recent interview with Space News. "Frankly, I think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct."
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">That's a bit more direct than Blue Origin and Wagner are willing to be at the moment. "I don't have a price for you," Wagner said. "I don't have a product to sell yet. When we have a product, we will price it." So there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jerry Ross on NASA inspiration, and Apollo 13 Commander, Jim Lovell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i>Lovell made shooting for the moon and landing among the stars more than metaphor<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://Salon.com">Salon.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Astronaut is one of those seemingly out-of-reach, dream jobs your average fourth grader might aspire to. Growing up during the beginning of the space race, Jerry Ross was one such fourth grader. He watched man's epic move into the final
frontier unfold, from its earliest satellites to his own NASA missions in the '80s.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This, of course, included following the legendary career of Captain Jim Lovell, an astronaut immortalized on film as the commander of the Apollo 13 craft, which he and his crew heroically brought back to Earth after a critical failure.
Throughout his career, Captain Lovell took on missions that furthered the exploration of space no matter what. For Ross, this example pushed him to excel—and visit space a record-setting seven times.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Have you met Captain Lovell in person?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I have met him several times at events in and around NASA's Johnson Space Center. In real life, I've found him to be exactly the person I thought he would be. He's incredibly down-to-earth, easy-to-talk-to, and always ready to tell a
joke or laugh at someone else's. Even before I met him, he was one of the astronauts who inspired me to get involved with NASA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From the first satellite launches, I followed the United States space program very closely. I have very clear memories of the public excitement surrounding the early satellite launches. This was, of course, shortly followed by the selection
of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. I remember sitting in front of the TV watching all of the coverage—I wanted to know everything and anything there was to know. I remember people talking about the early manned space launches on TV, and I was set on learning
everything about the astronauts and what they were doing. Back then, Jim Lovell was considered for the first class of astronauts, but he wasn't actually selected until the second class hired by NASA in 1962.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Watching him, Lovell was one of my heroes because he had a really determined demeanor about him and a workman-like approach and dedication to the job. When I was home watching these missions on TV, I was so caught up in the fantasy of
it, I didn't really realize the uncomfortable realities of what those guys went through. They were explorers in the truest sense. For his first flight, Lovell took on a very demanding mission with Frank Borman, It was demanding, but it wasn't necessarily glamorous.
They were in a cramped Gemini capsule for 14 days. Even though it wasn't glamorous, it was a critical mission that would build the foundation for our nation to pursue the Apollo lunar missions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">He was always very dedicated and I found this very admirable about him. From 1965 to 1970, he flew four space missions, which demanded a lot of work. I know firsthand what goes into that—and it's a lot—I myself was the first human to
be launched into space seven times. He was only one of 24 astronauts to fly to the moon, and he made it possible for someone like me to have clocked in more than 1,393 hours in space.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>How did you get involved in NASA?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I was the kind of kid making scrapbooks of rockets and satellites even before the first satellites were launched into space in 1957 and 1958. I grew up with space all around me. I can remember being in the fourth grade when the first
Russian and American satellites were launched into orbit respectively. I resolved to pursue an education and career path that would lead me into our country's space program. Everything I did after that point, everything in school, all the money I made working
on farms and elsewhere, it was always directed toward that goal. After high school, I went to Purdue University in my home state of Indiana; then I became an engineer and eventually got involved in the U.S.' space program. While I was at Purdue, I joined the
Air Force ROTC and then I entered into active duty in the Air Force after I finished my masters in mechanical engineering. A series of Air Force assignments eventually lead to my applying to NASA for selection into the astronaut program. I applied to the Space
Shuttle program in 1977, but it took two tries, again something I learned about dedication from watching guys like Lovell. I was successful on my second application and I had a wonderful career before retiring.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>How did Captain Jim Lovell inspire you?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I started out in the Air Force, and similarly Lovell started out in the Navy. I brought some of my Air Force training to my space career—in things like dedication and my approach to taking on difficult tasks. Before becoming an astronaut,
Lovell had a remarkable naval career. I think he set a great example for anyone who wants to excel in whatever they're doing, whether it's making it to the moon or getting ahead in a business career. He certainly set a standard to emulate, which helped me
pursue my goals and my career with NASA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>What have you been doing since retiring from NASA?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Just because I'm retired, I haven't slowed down! I've written an autobiography, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer. Now I'm enjoying spending my time touring, doing book signing events,
and giving lectures. I've been focusing on talking to students about setting goals for themselves that are in line with their natural talents. My wife, Karen, and I are also doing some more earthly explorations; we've been traveling abroad more and in the
U.S. and I'm also enjoying the time I have to spend with my family.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>How do you hope to inspire the next generation?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Well, as I mentioned, when I'm touring and speaking to students, my message to them is to study hard, work hard, and not give up easily. I'm also working with Purdue University on ways to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM
fields. I grew up during a time when science, technology, engineering, and mathematics were the future, and they still are. When you ask a fourth grader today what they want to be, like someone probably once asked me, there's always a good chance, they'll
say, astronaut. But I'm living proof that your fourth grade self can decide your career. I had figures like Lovell, and now, I want to be that person who makes a young person, not just dream about going to space, but actually go to space.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Florida celebrates new generation of space flight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Frank DiBello - Florida Times-Union (Opinion)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><i>(DiBello of Brevard County is the president of Space Florida, the spaceport authority and aerospace development agency.)<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The sun is shining on Florida's most recent commercial space successes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In September, a number of significant milestones were reached in the commercial space industry that Florida is so aggressively pursuing.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">United Launch Alliance celebrated its 75th successful launch and 40th successful Atlas V rocket mission with an Air Force mission from Cape Canaveral.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">United Launch Alliance continues to be the workhorse of today's U.S. launch industry.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Sept. 29, SpaceX launched the first of its next-generation Falcon 9 rockets carrying more powerful Merlin engines, offering approximately 50 percent more thrust than previous versions and more redundant safety technology.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The mission featured the first commercial satellite launch for the Falcon 9.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Cecil ready to go<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">And on Sept. 30, NASA awarded its first CubeSat-class launch to Generation Orbit Launch Services.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The payload will be the first commercial space launch to take place from Cecil Spaceport in Jacksonville, and it is slated to take place in August 2016.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Congratulations to the Cecil Field Spaceport Team!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">These most recent milestones are only scratching the surface.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The evolution of the U.S. commercial space launch market is incredibly exciting to behold, and from a Florida perspective, we should all be extremely proud of the fact that most of these achievements are either taking place in Florida
or through companies that have a significant and growing presence in the Sunshine State.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From a space industry perspective, Florida is unique for many reasons.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">First, our geographic location provides an optimum launch site for companies seeking to place their payloads into geosynchronous and low earth orbits.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Additionally, Space Florida is armed with unique tools that many other state space agencies lack.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Commercial Spaceflight<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">These special powers truly set Florida apart in the race to exploit the transition of space from a federally driven marketplace to a more diverse commercial model.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">This industry is very capital intensive, and Space Florida's tool kit is specifically designed to address that challenge.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">New space companies like XCOR and Sierra Nevada can attest to that.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">These advantages as well as our state's 50-plus year history in successful space launch and spacecraft processing — which comes with the qualified infrastructure, workforce, supply chain and safety protocols that other states are only
beginning to develop — position Florida well to continue to be a real leader the international space market.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Be proud of Florida and its incredible commercial space achievements and continue to support the state of Florida as we work hard to maintain competitiveness among other U.S. states in the space industry, an industry that will ensure
our state's economic health for many years to come.<o:p></o:p></p>
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