We have a chance to head off HR.5781 at the pass over the next 24 hours.  The House will be back in session starting next Tuesday 9/14, and is scheduled to remain in session through the first week of October.  Only legislation formally placed on the House Calendar will be considered, and the contents of the Calendar will be decided before the end of this week, by Steny Hoyer, the House Majority Leader.

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Augustine Panelist Rallying Support for Senate’s NASA Bill
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A former member of a White House-appointed committee that reviewed NASA’s human spaceflight program last year urged fellow panelists to back a Senate bill that supports commercial space and technology development efforts detailed in the group’s final report.

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Reform Space Now: Vote NO on HR5781 from Reform Space Now on Vimeo.

The above video is from the reformspacenow.com website. There’s no information on who or what is behind it.

There is also another group, Yes We Can (Even in Space), which is urging action against the House bill. The folks behind this website include:

Steven Andrew, chief science blogger over at Dailykos, where he post under the name Darksyde, as well as the Orlando Science Policy Editor;

Bruce Bullin, formerly with Scientists and Engineers for Change (now Scientists and Engineers for America) as well as the Office of Science & Technology Policy.

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Falling from the edge of Space: Lights, Camera, Freefall! The Stratos mission team gives an exclusive look at the custom camera systems that will record and broadcast Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric mission later this year. Bringing together high definition and real time images to a supersonic freefall in the hostile environment of 23 miles / 36 km above earth won’t be easy.

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A Tucson-based company is working on a new system that will maintain air quality for astronauts on short-term space missions to and from destinations such as the International Space Station.

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SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket

SPACEX PRESS RELEASE

Today Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium announced a commercial agreement to provide dedicated launch services to the European institutional small satellite market.

Under the agreement, Astrium intends to work with SpaceX to market Falcon 1 launch capabilities to various space agencies and other institutional customers in Europe for launches to take place through 2015.

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ARIANESPACE PAO

Arianespace is poised to build on its successful 30-year track record as the world’s leading launch services provider – benefitting from a robust payload order book that ensures more than three years of mission activity, and supported by the extension of its launcher family with the introduction of Soyuz and Vega during 2011 at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

This was the outlook provided by Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall at Arianespace’s traditional 2010 World Space Business Week conference press breakfast in Paris, where he provided an overview of the company’s activity and offered his perspective on the satellite market’s future.

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Anousheh Ansari

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The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) will sponsor the first TEDxMidTownNY event to discuss the continued importance of exploration with X-Prize Cofounder Anousheh Ansari and Deputy Administrator of NASA Lori Garver. TEDxMidTownNY is a local, independently organized event to be held on September 14th, 2010 at 7 PM at the Explorers Club in New York, NY.

A diverse group of scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, adventurers, investors, teachers, and students will share their perspective and leave the event inspired to improve the collective future of humanity through space exploration. Tickets are available now through the Explorers’ Club website.

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This isn’t really directly space related, but fellow ISU alum and Parabolic Arc reader Bojan Pecnik passed this video along of a stratospheric airship prototype that his company is developing. Pecnik is CTO of Hipersfera, a startup firm based in Zagreb, Croatia.

The company is hoping to develop this system as a remote sensing vehicle that can provide continuous coverage of areas. He says that Hypersphere will have the ground footprint of a remote sensing satellite and the image quality of an aircraft while beating both on price.

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Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) announced its participation in the Rocket City Space Pioneers Google Lunar X-Prize Team. Responsible for mission integration and providing space transportation services to Low Lunar Orbit, Spaceflight is also offering flight opportunities for small payloads to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and Low Lunar Orbit (LLO).

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