Transcript Delta IV Booster Integration Another Step Toward First Orion Flight

Space News Update
- September 26, 2014 In the News
Story 1:
Delta IV Booster Integration Another Step Toward First Orion Flight
Story 2:
Multicolor Mars! Speedy NASA Spacecraft Takes Pictures Just Hours After Arrival
Story 3:
Despite solar array glitch, Soyuz crew arrives at station
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
Delta IV Booster Integration Another Step
Toward First Orion Flight
Multicolor Mars! Speedy NASA Spacecraft Takes
Pictures Just Hours After Arrival
Despite solar array glitch, Soyuz crew arrives
at station
The Night Sky
Friday, September 26
As early as 8 or 9 p.m. now look for
Fomalhaut, the lonely 1st-magnitude Autumn
Star, twinkling on its way up from the
southeast horizon. It will be highest due south
around 11 or midnight (depending on your
location).
Saturday, September 27
Low in the southwest in twilight, Mars and
Antares are passing 3° apart this evening and
Sunday evening, as shown above.
Meanwhile, off to their right, the waxing
crescent Moon floats a couple degrees to the
lower right of Saturn (for North America).
Sky & Telescope
Sunday, September 28
Spot the Moon in the southwest as twilight fades. Use it as your guide to Saturn far to its lower right, and the
Mars-Antares pair to its left (as shown above).
Monday, September 29
The thick waxing crescent Moon now stands above Mars and Antares at dusk (as shown above).
Tuesday, September 30
Arcturus is the bright star due west at nightfall. It's an orange giant 37 light-years away. Off to its right in the
northwest is the Big Dipper, most of whose stars are about 80 light-years away. They're both sinking lower every
week now.
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Sat Sep 27, 5:11 AM
3 min
19°
14 above NNW
17 above NE
Sun Sep 28, 4:24 AM
< 1 min
14°
14 above NE
13 above NE
Sun Sep 28, 5:57 AM
5 min
62°
10 above NW
29 above ESE
Mon Sep 29, 5:10 AM
2 min
36°
28 above N
25 above ENE
Tue Sep 30, 4:24 AM
< 1 min
15°
15 above ENE
15 above ENE
Tue Sep 30, 5:57 AM
5 min
43°
17 above WNW
12 above SSE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
No Special Event programming.
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Sep 26 - Moon Occults Asteroid 21 Lutetia
Sep 26 - Comet 278P/McNaught At Opposition (2.495 AU)
Sep 26 - Comet 246P/NEAT At Opposition (3.077 AU)
Sep 26 - [Sep 26] Asteroid 2014 SU223 Near-Earth Flyby (0.005 AU)
Sep 26 - [Sep 25] Asteroid 2014 SH144 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 2009 FG19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 5649 Donnashirley Closest Approach To Earth (0.898 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 10101 Fourier Closest Approach To Earth (1.126 AU)
Sep 26 - Plutino 2001 QF298 At Opposition (42.304 AU)
Sep 26 - Teleconference: Review of NASA's Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks
Sep 26 - 15th Anniversary (1999), Kobe Meteorite Fall (Hit House in Japan)
Sep 27 - [Sep 25] Comet C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (4.088 AU)
Sep 27 - Comet C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski) At Opposition (9.380 AU)
Sep 27 - Asteroid 2007 DL41 Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
Sep 27 - Asteroid 4690 Strasbourg Closest Approach To Earth (0.842 AU)
Sep 27 - Asteroid 4372 Quincy Closest Approach To Earth (1.599 AU)
Sep 27 - Daniel Kirkwood's 200th Birthday (1814)
Sep 28 - Olymp 1 (Luch) Proton-M Briz-M Launch
Sep 28 - Moon Occults Saturn
Sep 28 - Moon Occults Dwarf Planet Ceres
Sep 28 - Moon Occults Asteroid 4 Vesta
Sep 28 - Comet C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) Perihelion (0.626 AU)
Sep 28 - Comet 233P/La Sagra At Opposition (1.693 AU)
Sep 28 - Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup At Opposition (2.919 AU)
Sep 28 - Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth (2.244 AU)
Sep 28 - 45th Anniversay (1969), Murchison Meteorite Shower (Hit Barn in Australia)
Sep 29 - [Sep 25] Comet Lemmon-PANSTARRS (P/2014 R5) Closest Approach To Earth (1.511 AU)
Sep 29 - Comet C/2014 N3 (NEOWISE) At Oppostion (3.318 AU)
Sep 29 - [Sep 26] Asteroid 2014 SH224 Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
Sep 29 - [Sep 24] Asteroid 2014 SS143 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
Sep 29 - [Sep 25] Asteroid 2014 SZ144 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
Sep 29 - Asteroid 1193 Africa Closest Approach To Earth (1.872 AU)
Sep 29 - 5th Anniversary (2009), MESSENGER, 3rd Mercury Flyby
Sep 29 - 10th Anniversary (2004), SpaceShipOne Launch F-2 (2nd Private Manned Space Flight)
Sep 29-Oct 05 - Astronomy Week
Sep 30 - Kondor-E 1 Strela Launch
Sep 30 - Comet 113P/Spitaler Closest Approach To Earth (1.625 AU)
Sep 30 - Comet 264P/Larsen At Opposition (4.139 AU)
Sep 30 - 20th Anniversary (1994), STS-68 Launch (Space Shuttle Endeavour, Radar Imaging)
Sep 30 - Phil Plait's 50th Birthday (1964)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Heritage of Earth's water gives rise to hopes of life on other
planets
Space Image of the Week
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda