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First 500 Human Emissaries Into The New Ocean Of Space

Endeavour STS-127, set for launch on July 11, will be carrying the 500th human into space. The 7 astronauts met and voted on which of the 4 rookies would get the honor, deciding on mission specialist Chris Cassidy (TR). Upon reaching this feat, the global community can look back at the international heroes that have pioneered humanity's first steps into space, and look forward to superior achievements. In the 48 years since Yuri Gagarin (TL) became the first human to pass the 100 km boundary of space, 451 men and 51 women from 36 different nations will have made the journey. All but 8 launched on American or Russian government-owned spacecraft, and only 12 of them had the privilege of walking on the Moon. With all of these achievements, many wonder when the international space programs will live up to the promise shown in the Apollo program of the 1960-1970s. 36 years after Apollo 17, the number of humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit has not changed, while access to space still relies on rocket technology developed in the 1950s. Today's political decisions and technological advances may determine whether the next 50 years of the Space Age brings humanity to realize its potential for space exploration. Then perhaps humanity will be celebrating the first permanent 500-person settlements on the Moon and Mars. (Credit: NASA, Don Dixon)

ISU Summer Studies Program to Pave the Way for Future Space Explorers

The International Space University (ISU) will maintain its forward thinking philosophy to create an interdisciplinary, intercultural and international environment for study and training as a space professional at this year’s 21st Annual Summer Session Program (SSP) Jun 29-Aug 28. This year’s program will mark the first time ISU is hosted by the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) in dynamic Silicon Valley- the leading high tech hub of the USA. According to ISU President Michael Simpson (R), choosing ARC was the ideal choice amongst the largest selection of site proposals they've had in their 20 year history. The two month intensive program will teach approximately 120 space professionals, graduate students and space enthusiasts a wide range of space-related topics such as Space Telecommunication Fundamentals, Spacecraft Configuration, Space Robotics and Launch Operations. Students will have world class resources at hand and the opportunity to explore research facilities at ARC and nearby areas which include Stanford University (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Stanford Linear Accelerator, The Computer History Museum, Space Systems Loral, Lockheed Martin and Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. Since its founding in 1987, ISU has graduated over 2700 students from 100 countries from its Space Studies Program and Masters Program and has been successful in developing a network of space professionals and leaders that actively facilitates individual career growth, professional activities and international space cooperation. (Credit: NASA, ISU)

 
THIS WEEK
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
LEGEND
All times for terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for international terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for space events, and...
All times for international space / astro events in Hawaii Standard Time unless noted. Add 10 hours to obtain UT ('Universal Time;' Greenwich, England).
Weekly Planet Watch – Morning Planets: Mercury (E), Venus (E), Mars (E), Jupiter (S) / Evening Planets: Jupiter (E), Saturn (W).
 

MONDAY
Jun 22 — International Space Station, LEO: Expedition 20 crew still awaiting arrival of Endeavour STS-127 after launch date was postponed to July 11 due to reoccurring hydrogen gas leaks; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html.
Jun 22 — NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO / LCROSS, Lunar Orbit: LRO successfully separated from LCROSS / Centaur rocket, now conducting 4 day minimum energy lunar transfer, LCROSS entering Lunar Gravity-Assist, Lunar Return Orit (LGALRO) around the Earth-Moon system; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html.
Jun 22 — Mars Exploration Rover EXOMars, Red Planet: ESA EXOMars mission scaled back due to budget constraints, talks continue with NASA to share costs of future Mars exploration; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8102086.stm.
Jun 22 — Zenit-3SLB / MEASAT-3a, Earth Orbit: If June 21 launch of MEASAT-3a successful, MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd will provide C-band fixed satellite services across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Australia; http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28369.
NET Jun 22 — NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island VA: NASA's Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) to be tested at Wallops Flight Facility at 05:45 EDT; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_M09-101_MLAS_Test.html.
Jun 22 — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD: 'Media Day for Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO);' http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28395.
Jun 22-24 — NASA, Washington DC: 'NASA Earth Science at 20: Accomplishments, Plans and Challenges Symposium;' http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_M09-081_Earth_Science_Symposium.html.
Jun 22-24 — National Institute of Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil: '2nd Advanced Course on Remote Sensing for the Study of the Environment;' http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/icecube/HdWorkshopNo2/index2.htm.
Jun 22-24 — Main Astronomical Observatory NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine: '6th Orlov Conference: The Study of the Earth as a Planet by Methods of Geophysics, Geodesy and Astronomy;' http://www.mao.kiev.ua/orlov-2009/.
Jun 22-25 — Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), Hawai`i Island; Honolulu HI: Public meetings regarding environmental impact statements of proposed TMT on Mauna Kea; June 22 at Ka'u High School and Pahala Elementary School, June 23 at Kohala High School, June 24 at Kealakehe High School, June 25 at Farrington High School; http://www.tmt.org/.
Jun 22-25 — Applied Technology Institute, Beltsville MD: 'IP Networking Over Satellite Course;' 'Space Systems Fundamentals Course;' http://www.aticourses.com/.
Jun 22-25 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Antonio TX: ‘19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics / 1st AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments / 27th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics / 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference / 40th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference / 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference;' http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=1.
Jun 22-26 — Office of Science and Technology Policy, NASA, Huntsville AL; New Orleans LA: Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee site visits to Marshall Space Flight Center and Michoud Assembly Facility; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_M09-081_Earth_Science_Symposium.html.
Jun 22-26 — Observatory of Paris, Onera French Aerospace Lab, et al, Paris, France: '1st International Conference: Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes;' http://ao4elt.lesia.obspm.fr/.
Jun 22-26 — The European Association of Geochemistry, The Geochemical Society, et al, Davos, Switzerland: 'Goldschmidt 2009: Challenges to Our Volatile Planet;' http://www.goldschmidt2009.org/.
Jun 22-26 — Anglo Australian Observatory, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Sydney, Australia: 'Galaxy Metabolism Conference: Galaxy Evolution Near and Far;' http://www.oan.es/expres09/.
Jun 22-26 — National Center of Geographical Information, National Geographic Institute, et al, Madrid, Spain: '8th International e-VLBI Workshop;' http://www.oan.es/expres09/.
Jun 22-26 — University of Tokyo Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Kashiwa, Japan: 'IPMU International Conference: Dark Energy - Lighting Up the Darkness;' http://member.ipmu.jp/darkenergy09/welcome.html.
Jun 22-26 — European Network of Helio and Asteroseismology, Rome, Italy: 'HELAS-NA5 Workshop: Synergies Between Solar and Stellar Modeling;' http://www.helas-eu.org/workshops/roma/.
Jun 22-26 — Asia Pacific Telecommunity, Hangzhou, PR China: '2nd Asia Pacific Telecommunity Conference Preparatory Group Meeting for WRC-11;' http://www.aptsec.org/meetings/2009/APG2011-2/index.htm.
Jun 22 — Cassini Titan Flyby, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts close flyby of Saturn moon Titan (altitude = 955.5 km); http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturntourdates/.
Jun 22 — Moon: New Moon; 09:35.
Jun 22 — Asteroid (Near Earth Flyby): 2009 LQ (0.072 AU); 2008 WM64 (0.045 AU); 2008 EL68 (0.050 AU); 2000 AH205 (0.069 AU).
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Jun 14 — NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: NASA robots 'K10 Red' and 'K10 Black' to perform site surveys of the Black Point Lava Flow in Arizona; through June 26; http://www.aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer09.html.

Jun 14 — Aspen Center for Physics, Boulder CO: 'Summer Cosmology Workshop: Testing General Relativity in the Cosmos;' through July 5; http://www.aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer09.html.
Jun 15 — Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Marciana Marina, Elba Island, Italy: 'Pulsars in their Diversity;' through June 28; http://www.arcetri.astro.it/elba09/.
Jun 21 — Monash University, University of California Santa Cruz, Prato, Italy: 'Evolution of Planetary and Stellar Systems: Dynamical Interactions with DNC Lin;' through June 26; http://users.monash.edu.au/~ro/LinFest/.
Jun 21 — Colorado, Virginia Space Grant Consortiums, Wallops VA: 'RockOn! Workshop' at Wallops Flight Facilities; through June 26; http://thinker.colorado.edu/rockon/2009/index_2009.html.
Jun 21 — Phillips Exeter Academy, Grainger Observatory, Exeter NH: '2nd Exeter Astronomy Conference;' through July 26; http://www.exeter.edu/Astronomy/4380_4634.aspx.
TUESDAY
Jun 23 — NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, Lunar Orbit: LRO set to reach the moon 05:43 EDT, enter elliptical commissioning orbit (30 x 216 km) for science instrument activation testing; http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
Jun 23 — Moon: At Perigee (Distance: 56.13 Earth-radii), 01:00; 6.0° SSW of Pollux, 19:00.
WEDNESDAY
Jun 24 — NASA Headquarters, Washington DC: The true nature of mysterious objects in early Universe will be revealed during media teleconference at 13:30 EDT; http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.
Jun 24-26 — ESA, Potsdam, Germany: 'ESA's 2nd Swarm International Science Meeting;' http://www.congrex.nl/09c24/.
Jun 24-Jul 1 — Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics, et al, Waterloo, Canada: 'Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology and Strings;' http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/.
Jun 24 — Moon: 1.9° SSW of Center of Beehive Cluster, 18:00.
Jun 24 — Asteroid 10050 Rayman: Closest Approach to Earth; (1.007 AU).
THURSDAY
Jun 25 — California Space Authority, Irvine CA: 'Government, Aerospace and Space Industry Knowledge;' 'Supply Chain in the 21st Century Principles and Resources;' http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/images/events/090625_Events_for-web.pdf.
Jun 25 — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics San Francisco, Folsom CA: 'History of Nuclear Propulsion Development: 1950s to Present' with Mel Bulman; http://groups.google.com/group/aiaa-sf/browse_thread/thread/ddad7ee39b6e7158?pli=1.
Jun 25 — NASA Kennedy Space Center, Orlando FL: GOES-O prelaunch news conference at 13:00 EDT; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_M09-109_GOES_O.html.
FRIDAY
Jun 26 — Launch Delta 4 / GOES-0, Cape Canaveral FL: United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite O (GOES O), to aid USA's meteorologists and climate scientists; http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html.
Jun 26-29 — South Carolina Ports, NASA, et al, Charleston SC: 'Charleston Harborfest 2009: NASA Exploration Experience;' http://www.charlestonharborfest.org/NASA.html.
Jun 26 — Cassini OTM-203, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts Orbital Trim Maneuver #203 today; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/.
Jun 26 — Moon: 3.1° SSW of Regulus; 08:00.
SATURDAY
Jun 27 — Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Southwest Research Institute, Denver CO: 'The Search for Lunar Water;' http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/TPD-LAMP-Flyer.pdf.
Jun 27 — Echoes of Apollo, Worldwide: ‘World Moon Bounce Day;' http://echoesofapollo.com/moon-bounce/.
Jun 27 — June Bootid Meteor Shower Peak, Meteor shower active through June 26 - July 2, radiates from constellation Bootes; http://spaceweather.com/meteors/junebootids.html.
Jun 27 — Moon: 5.8° SSW of Saturn; 11:00.
SUNDAY
Jun 28 — ESA, Czech Space Office, Prague, Czech Republic: 'Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing;' http://earth.esa.int/landtraining09/home.html.
Jun 28-Jul 1 — Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers, Green Bank WV: '2009 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Annual Meeting and Technical Conference;' http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7fr1a/SARA/meetings/grbank09.htm.
Jun 28-Jul 3 — Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, International Center for Radio Astronomy Research, Sydney, Australia: 'The Many Faces of Centaurus A;' http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/cena/.
Jun 28 — Beta Taurid Meteor Shower Peak, Meteor shower active through June and July, radiates from constellation Taurus; http://meteorshowersonline.com/showers/beta_taurids.html.
Jun 28 — Asteroid 2001 FE90: Near-Earth Flyby; (0.018 AU).
 
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