There will be House and Senate committee hearings next week on the issue of asteroid and comet impacts: Space threats double feature in Congress next week – Space Politics
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Update on budget making in Congress: Status Check on the FY2013 CR and FY2014 Budget Resolutions – spacepolicyonline.com
Here are interesting historical accounts of a nationwide program in the US started in the 1950s to organize amateur astronomers in the tracking of satellites:
Find more about modern tracking of spacecraft in the HobbySpace Satellite Observing section.
This episode of NASA ScienceCasts is titled Sunset Comet
Comet Pan-STARRS has survived its encounter with the sun and is now emerging from twilight in the sunset skies of the northern hemisphere. A NASA spacecraft monitoring the comet has beamed back pictures of a wild and ragged tail.
More at Sunset Comet – NASA Science
Janet Stevens talked about the Space Foundation‘s upcoming 29th National Space Symposium (April 8-11, 2013 in Colorado) : Janet Stevens, National Space Symposium, Thursday, 3-14-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.
If you are in Southern California on Saturday, check out the Plane Crazy Saturday – March 16 at Mojave Air and Space Port.
Come out to Mojave Airport for breakfast or lunch, listen to a great speaker at 11 a.m. and enjoy some time with other pilots and aviation minded friends!
Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation Presents
Plane Crazy Saturday!
Aircraft Fly-In – Historic Aircraft Display Day
March 16, 2013
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Free admission!
Special Guest Speaker at 11:00 a.m.
Rocket Photography
With Mike Massee
Photographer extraordinaire!
(Rockets, Landscapes, Trains: Full Scale and 7.5 Gauge Live Steam Trains and Aircraft)
Mike is invaluable to XCOR Aerospace as a professional photographer, cinematographer, solids modeler, graphics artist, Photoshop expert, broadcast engineer, and adventurer.
He serves as Vice President with the Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation.
His photos have been featured in major publications around the world including Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Science, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Wired, Nature, Space.com and many more. My railroad photography has appeared in Trains, Railfan and Railroad (cover story, May 2009) and Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading (cover story, September / October 2010) as well as several calendars.
Wen Painter will be on hand in the Voyager Restaurant to sign Tax-exempt forms for pilots!
Aviation and Space Art with Doug Castleman
Children Books with Usborne Books
Aviation collectables for sale
Posters, small gliders, patches and t-shirts
Bring the kids! Bring a camera!
All guests are reminded to observe flightline safety rules, including: no touching propellers, no running, no pets, and keep a watchful eye for taxiing aircraft! Thanks!
