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I would have liked to have gone over a couple of hills from our home in California to attend the NASA Lunar Science Institute's annual Lunar Forum at Ames Research Center.
http://lunarscience2010.arc.
Jeff sent me the link below which I will pass to you if you did not follow the event.
- LRK -
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http://www.universetoday.com/
Is the Moon Really a 'Been There Done That' World?
via Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson on 7/26/10
If there's only one thing we've learned from all the highly successful recent Moon missions – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya — it's that the Moon is perplexingly different from our perceptions of the past 40 years. The discovery of water and volatiles across the surface and in the permanently shadowed regions at the poles changes so many of the notions we've had about Earth's constant companion. Basically, just within the past year we've realized the Moon is not a dry, barren, boring place, but a wetter, richer and more interesting destination than we ever imagined. And so, the proposal for NASA to effectively turn away from any human missions to the Moon, as well as Administrator Charlie Bolden's 'been there, done that' comments is quite perplexing – especially for the lunar scientists who have been making these discoveries.
"It's been quite a year for the Moon," said Clive Neal, a lunar geologist from Notre Dame, speaking last week at the NASA Lunar Science Institute's annual Lunar Forum at Ames Research Center. "And things got quite depressing around February 2010."
That's when President Obama proposed a new budget that effectively would end the Constellation program and a return to the Moon.
At the Forum, lunar scientists shared their most recent findings – as well as their attempts to model and comprehend all the data that is not yet understood. But they saved any discussion of NASA's future until the final presentation of the meeting.
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More info on the Lunar Science Institute.
- LRK -
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http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/
NASA Lunar Science Institute
The NLSI brings together leading lunar scientists from around the world to further NASA lunar science and exploration Events
* 2010 Jul 19: 22nd Annual Planetary Science Summer School
* 2010 Aug 10: NLSI Executive Council Meeting
* 2010 Sep 14: LEAG meeting (abstracts due June 30th!)
* 2010 Sep 19: European Planetary Science Conference
* 2010 Oct 5: Robotic Science From the Moon
News
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There seems to be some interest in our Moon judging from the long list of presentations.
Maybe you were there and would like me to pass on some impressions.
- LRK -
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http://lunarscience2010.arc.
Agenda 2010 and Presentations
Printer Friendly version
http://lunarscience2010.arc.
Agenda 2010 and Presentations
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Earlier Bob sent me this link but I was limited to cellphone access much of the time.
Where we go (or not) in space is still being negotiated by legislative actions. What gets funded will be the real proof of what happens in the near term. Where we go in the future will be up to you and your representatives if in the USA. Now if you are in some other country, well you may have your own plans for exploring the Moon and making it a profitable concern. We could probably use some competition. :-)
- LRK -
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http://www.chron.com/disp/
Compromise preserves JSC role in spaceflight
By JEFF MOSELEY
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP
July 20, 2010, 9:49PM
Louis L’Amour, the great writer known for his novels about America’s frontier, once wrote, “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
That bit of wisdom is apropos in assessing the news about the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, a legislative compromise passed out of the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation last week. This bipartisan compromise strikes the right balance between the Obama administration’s commercial initiatives while maintaining U.S. space leadership.
The legislation, co-sponsored by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, was a hard-won compromise that maintains the Johnson Space Center’s important role in human space exploration and serves as a blueprint for NASA’s future. Equally important, the legislation, if passed into law, would also prevent the loss of as many as 7,000 jobs in the Houston region.
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Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -
Is the Moon Really a 'Been There Done That' World?
via Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson on 7/26/10
If there's only one thing we've learned from all the highly successful recent Moon missions – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya — it's that the Moon is perplexingly different from our perceptions of the past 40 years. The discovery of water and volatiles across the surface and in the permanently shadowed regions at the poles changes so many of the notions we've had about Earth's constant companion. Basically, just within the past year we've realized the Moon is not a dry, barren, boring place, but a wetter, richer and more interesting destination than we ever imagined. And so, the proposal for NASA to effectively turn away from any human missions to the Moon, as well as Administrator Charlie Bolden's 'been there, done that' comments is quite perplexing – especially for the lunar scientists who have been making these discoveries.
"It's been quite a year for the Moon," said Clive Neal, a lunar geologist from Notre Dame, speaking last week at the NASA Lunar Science Institute's annual Lunar Forum at Ames Research Center. "And things got quite depressing around February 2010."
That's when President Obama proposed a new budget that effectively would end the Constellation program and a return to the Moon.
At the Forum, lunar scientists shared their most recent findings – as well as their attempts to model and comprehend all the data that is not yet understood. But they saved any discussion of NASA's future until the final presentation of the meeting.
snip
------------------------------
More info on the Lunar Science Institute.
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/
NASA Lunar Science Institute
The NLSI brings together leading lunar scientists from around the world to further NASA lunar science and exploration Events
* 2010 Jul 19: 22nd Annual Planetary Science Summer School
* 2010 Aug 10: NLSI Executive Council Meeting
* 2010 Sep 14: LEAG meeting (abstracts due June 30th!)
* 2010 Sep 19: European Planetary Science Conference
* 2010 Oct 5: Robotic Science From the Moon
News
snip
------------------------------
There seems to be some interest in our Moon judging from the long list of presentations.
Maybe you were there and would like me to pass on some impressions.
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://lunarscience2010.arc.
Agenda 2010 and Presentations
Printer Friendly version
http://lunarscience2010.arc.
Agenda 2010 and Presentations
snip
------------------------------
Earlier Bob sent me this link but I was limited to cellphone access much of the time.
Where we go (or not) in space is still being negotiated by legislative actions. What gets funded will be the real proof of what happens in the near term. Where we go in the future will be up to you and your representatives if in the USA. Now if you are in some other country, well you may have your own plans for exploring the Moon and making it a profitable concern. We could probably use some competition. :-)
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://www.chron.com/disp/
Compromise preserves JSC role in spaceflight
By JEFF MOSELEY
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP
July 20, 2010, 9:49PM
Louis L’Amour, the great writer known for his novels about America’s frontier, once wrote, “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
That bit of wisdom is apropos in assessing the news about the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, a legislative compromise passed out of the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation last week. This bipartisan compromise strikes the right balance between the Obama administration’s commercial initiatives while maintaining U.S. space leadership.
The legislation, co-sponsored by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, was a hard-won compromise that maintains the Johnson Space Center’s important role in human space exploration and serves as a blueprint for NASA’s future. Equally important, the legislation, if passed into law, would also prevent the loss of as many as 7,000 jobs in the Houston region.
snip
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Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -
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