1. Space News Update - June 6, 2014 - In the News Departments
Story 1: NASA would get funding hike under congressional budgets
Story 2: Collision That Formed Our Moon Shows Up In Lunar Rocks, Study Says
Story 3: Orion Spacecraft is Ready to Feel the Heat
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. NASA would get funding hike under congressional budgets
In this computer graphic, NASA's Voyager 1 probe, moving toward upper left, nears the edge of the sun's influence, flying through a region of space dominated by a "magnetic highway" that helps mediate the flow of particles into and out of the solar system. The region includes particles from the sun's southern hemisphere that have been forced northward by the pressure of the interstellar wind. Voyager 1 is expected to cross the boundary into interstellar space sometime within the next few years if not sooner. (Credit: NASA)

3. Collision That Formed Our Moon Shows Up In Lunar Rocks, Study Says

4. Orion Spacecraft is Ready to Feel the Heat

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, June 6
Look left of the Moon this evening for Mars, then Spica, as shown at right.
With June under way, the Big Dipper is swinging around after dark to hang down by its handle high in the northwest. The middle star of its handle is Mizar, with tiny little Alcor right next to it. On which side of Mizar should you look for Alcor? As always, on the side toward Vega! Which is now shining in the east-northeast.
Saturday, June 7
The waxing gibbous Moon shines near Mars this evening. Look just above Mars for fainter Gamma (γ) Virginis (Porrima). Spica shines farther to their their left, as shown here.
Sunday, June 8
Now the gibbous Moon pairs up with Spica.
Monday, June 9
The Moon is part of a four-object lineup tonight: with Saturn to its left and Spica and Mars to its right.
With summer not far off, can you still catch Procyon very low in the twilight? You may need binoculars. It's 17° lower left of Jupiter. For how many more days can you follow it? The first day that a star becomes completely invisible in the afterglow of sunset is called its heliacal setting.
Tuesday, June 10
Now the waxing gibbous Moon is lower left of Saturn at nightfall. Look farther to the Moon's lower left for Antares and the other stars of upper Scorpius, as shown here.
For southernmost Africa, the Moon occults (covers) Saturn around 19 hours Universal Time.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Jun 6, 10:15 PM
2 min
17°
17 above N
10 above NNE
Sat Jun 7, 1:28 AM
4 min
10 above NNW
11 above ENE
Sat Jun 7, 3:04 AM
1 min
23°
10 above NW
23 above NW
Sat Jun 7, 9:26 PM
23 above NNW
Sat Jun 7, 11:04 PM
< 1 min
10°
10 above N
Sun Jun 8, 00:41 AM
14°
14 above NNE
11 above NE
Sun Jun 8, 2:15 AM
15°
15 above NW
Sun Jun 8, 10:14 PM
12°
12 above N
Sun Jun 8, 11:52 PM
12 above NNE
Mon Jun 9, 1:26 AM
20°
20 above NNW
Mon Jun 9, 9:25 PM
14 above N
Mon Jun 9, 11:03 PM
Tue Jun 10, 00:39 AM
21°
19 above N
21 above NNE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
9:00 a.m., Monday, June 9 - Coverage of the Undocking of the ISS Progress 53 Cargo Ship from the ISS
11:00 a.m., Monday, June 9 - Space Station Live
1:25 p.m., Monday, June 9 - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Event with the CBS Evening News / CBS Morning News
2:20 p.m., Monday, June 9 - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Event with WYPR Radio, Baltimore and WSTU Radio, Stuart, Fla.  
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
May 06 - Comet 209P/LINEAR Perihelion (0.969 AU)
May 06 - Comet 191P/McNaught Perihelion (2.044 AU)
May 06 - Comet C/2013 G9 (Tenagra) Closest Approach To Earth (4.661 AU)
May 06 - Asteroid 2014 HX164 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
May 06 - Asteroid 2014 HB177 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
May 06 - Asteroid 1031 Arctica Closest Approach To Earth (1.948 AU)
May 06 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.776 AU)
May 07 - Cosmos 2492 Soyuz 2-1a Launch, Successful
May 07 - Comet 51P/Harrington At Opposition (2.871 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 2014 JR24 Near-Earth Flyby ( AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 2014 HK4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 2062 Aten Closest Approach To Earth (0.335 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 232 Russia Closest Approach To Earth (1.137 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid Jenniskens Closest Approach To Earth (1.170 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid Laver Closest Approach To Earth (2.215 AU)
May 08 - Asteroid 2014 HT178 Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)
May 08 - Asteroid 2014 HE177 Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)
May 08 - Asteroid Didymos Closest Approach To Earth (1.983 AU)
May 08 - Asteroid Fermilab Closest Approach To Earth (2.329 AU)
May  Spacefest VI Conference, Pasadena, California
May 09 - Comet C/2013 P2 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (2.286 AU)
May 09 - Comet P/2013 EW90 (Tenagra) Closest Approach To Earth (3.136 AU)
May 09 - Comet C/2014 F2 (Tenagra) At Opposition (4.057 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 2014 JD Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 2014 JS25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 2014 JN2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 2014 JN25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 1197 Rhodesia Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.685 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid Quebec Closest Approach To Earth (2.211 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 8721 AMOS Closest Approach To Earth (2.941 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid Grand Challenge Virtual Seminar
May 10 - Astronomy Day
May 10 - Saturn At Opposition
May 10 - Comet C/2013 H2 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (6.701 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 2014 JG55 Near-Earth Flyby ( AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 2014 HA124 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid Vonnegut Closest Approach To Earth (1.555 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 5891 Gehrig Closest Approach To Earth (1.748 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 4804 Pasteur Closest Approach To Earth (1.955 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid Bettiepage Closest Approach To Earth (2.294 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 8889 Mockturtle Closest Approach To Earth (2.436 AU)
May th Anniversary (1879), Estherville Meteorite Shower in Iowa
JPL Space Calendar

9. Food for Thought
Report Says Mars Landing is Only Justification for Human Spaceflight Beyond Low Earth Orbit

10. Space Image of the Week
Comet PanSTARRS with Galaxy  Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Falesiedi