It's a major win for NASA... but still far short of a decisive
victory. On Wednesday the US House of Representatives approved a
$20.2 billion NASA spending bill for fiscal year 2009 that includes
funds for one more shuttle flight before the fleet's retirement, as
well as more money for development of the Constellation
program.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume
of spacecraft housekeeping data earlier this week, causing the loss
of some non-critical science data. Phoenix engineers are now
analyzing why this anomaly occurred; in the meantime, the science
team at JPL plans spacecraft activities for Thursday that will not
rely on Phoenix storing science data overnight but will make use of
multiple communication relays to gain extra data quantity.
Scott Parazynski Sends Memorial Flags To Mt. Everest
It was an appropriately high-reaching manner, we think, to honor
fallen astronauts and cosmonauts. Dr. Scott Parazynski, a 16 year
veteran of the NASA astronaut corps and avid mountain climber
traveled to Mount Everest earlier this spring in hopes of ascending
a mountain he had aspired to his whole life. While on the summit he
had planned to tie off two special memorial flags in honor of
fallen astronauts and cosmonauts.
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