The Augustine Commission on the future of human spaceflight is going on now. NASA TV is broadcasting, but for those of you out and about follow the hearings with the #hsf hashtag on Twitter. Jeff Foust is also tweeting.
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which is intended to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the Moon’s South Pole, is being rolled out for a launch tomorrow. Follow it on Twitter.
Endeavor has been scrubbed for a second time, the culprit being another leak. While in orbit, a couple of Texas cubesats are slated to be released from the Shuttle, the first of four missions planned over eight years that may culminate in the autonomous docking of very small satellites.
Wayne
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