http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_M09_160_Committee_Cancels.html
August 20, 2009
Doc Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4495
doc.mirelson@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-160
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REVIEW COMMITTEE CANCELS MEETING
WASHINGTON -- The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee determined the Aug. 24 contingency meeting announced in the Federal Register is not required. The committee has no plans for any additional public meetings.
For committee information, materials, presentations and biographies, visit:
http://hsf.nasa.gov
For information about NASA and agency activities, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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http://www.nasa.gov/offices/hsf/home/index.html
You still have ways of contacting the committee. - LRK -
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/hsf/contact_us/index.html
At the rate we are going I may not see the USA on the Moon with humans and probably a lot of you are in the same situation.
What about the kids and grand kids?
How many would elect to live at the South Pole here on Earth?
Not many, but they might like to work for companies that do science at the Poles.
How many would like to live under the ocean permanently?
Probably not all that many, but would they like a job that uses the resources of the ocean?
Some have said that NASA is just a job shop and all the employees want is to protect their jobs.
I certainly found it interesting supporting the work that NASA was doing at Ames and it paid my electric bill for ~20 years.
Some say we should go to the asteroids.
Whether that is with rockets and robots or with humans might be debated.
Just the same it would be rewarding to get paid to find ways to keep asteroids from sneaking up on us unannounced and to find ways to use them as a material resource.
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http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/national/dpg_NASA_Struggles_to_Keep_Up_With_Asteroids_mb_08122009_2920295
or TinyURL for above - http://tinyurl.com/mstr63
NASA Struggles to Keep
Up With Asteroids
Updated: Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 3:42 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 3:42 PM EDT
* By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth but doesn't have the money to do the job, a federal report says.
That's because even though Congress assigned the space agency this mission four years ago, it never gave NASA money to build the necessary telescopes, the new National Academy of Sciences report says. Specifically, NASA has been ordered to spot 90 percent of the potentially deadly rocks hurtling through space by 2020.
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Wouldn't the kids like to play with model engines and then find out they could be used to provide electricity for some base on another moon or planet?
http://www.stirlingengine.com/
You don't need to go the the Moon to enjoy the opportunities it might present to you, even if you are not one of the few that might go and set up a base.
- LRK-
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http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23247/
A Lunar Nuclear Reactor
Tests prove the feasibility of using nuclear reactors to provide electricity on the moon and Mars.
By Brittany Sauser
snip
"We are not building a system that needs hundreds of gigawatts of power like those that produce electricity for our cities," says Don Palac, the project manager at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. The system needs to be cheap, safe, and robust and "our recent tests demonstrated that we can successfully build that," says Palac.
To generate electricity, the researchers used a liquid metal to transfer the heat from the reactor to the Stirling engine, which uses gas pressure to convert heat into the energy needed to generate electricity. For the tests, the researchers used a non-nuclear heat source. The liquid metal was a sodium potassium mixture that has been used in the past to transfer heat from a reactor to a generator, says Palac, but this is the first time this mixture has been used with a
Stirling engine.
"They are very efficient and robust, and we believe [it] can last for eight years unattended," says Lee Mason, the principal investigator of the project at Glenn. The system performed better than expected, Palac says, generating 2.3 kilowatts of power at a steady pace.
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Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
==============================================================
August 20, 2009
Doc Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4495
doc.mirelson@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-160
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT REVIEW COMMITTEE CANCELS MEETING
WASHINGTON -- The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee determined the Aug. 24 contingency meeting announced in the Federal Register is not required. The committee has no plans for any additional public meetings.
For committee information, materials, presentations and biographies, visit:
http://hsf.nasa.gov
For information about NASA and agency activities, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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http://www.nasa.gov/offices/
You still have ways of contacting the committee. - LRK -
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/
At the rate we are going I may not see the USA on the Moon with humans and probably a lot of you are in the same situation.
What about the kids and grand kids?
How many would elect to live at the South Pole here on Earth?
Not many, but they might like to work for companies that do science at the Poles.
How many would like to live under the ocean permanently?
Probably not all that many, but would they like a job that uses the resources of the ocean?
Some have said that NASA is just a job shop and all the employees want is to protect their jobs.
I certainly found it interesting supporting the work that NASA was doing at Ames and it paid my electric bill for ~20 years.
Some say we should go to the asteroids.
Whether that is with rockets and robots or with humans might be debated.
Just the same it would be rewarding to get paid to find ways to keep asteroids from sneaking up on us unannounced and to find ways to use them as a material resource.
--------------------------------------------------
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/
or TinyURL for above - http://tinyurl.com/mstr63
NASA Struggles to Keep
Up With Asteroids
Updated: Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 3:42 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 3:42 PM EDT
* By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth but doesn't have the money to do the job, a federal report says.
That's because even though Congress assigned the space agency this mission four years ago, it never gave NASA money to build the necessary telescopes, the new National Academy of Sciences report says. Specifically, NASA has been ordered to spot 90 percent of the potentially deadly rocks hurtling through space by 2020.
snip
--------------------------------------------------
Wouldn't the kids like to play with model engines and then find out they could be used to provide electricity for some base on another moon or planet?
http://www.stirlingengine.com/
You don't need to go the the Moon to enjoy the opportunities it might present to you, even if you are not one of the few that might go and set up a base.
- LRK-
--------------------------------------------------
http://www.technologyreview.
A Lunar Nuclear Reactor
Tests prove the feasibility of using nuclear reactors to provide electricity on the moon and Mars.
By Brittany Sauser
snip
"We are not building a system that needs hundreds of gigawatts of power like those that produce electricity for our cities," says Don Palac, the project manager at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. The system needs to be cheap, safe, and robust and "our recent tests demonstrated that we can successfully build that," says Palac.
To generate electricity, the researchers used a liquid metal to transfer the heat from the reactor to the Stirling engine, which uses gas pressure to convert heat into the energy needed to generate electricity. For the tests, the researchers used a non-nuclear heat source. The liquid metal was a sodium potassium mixture that has been used in the past to transfer heat from a reactor to a generator, says Palac, but this is the first time this mixture has been used with a
Stirling engine.
"They are very efficient and robust, and we believe [it] can last for eight years unattended," says Lee Mason, the principal investigator of the project at Glenn. The system performed better than expected, Palac says, generating 2.3 kilowatts of power at a steady pace.
snip
--------------------------------------------------
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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