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San Marino Huntington Judy Chu StatementNASA Glenn Tests Thruster 
Drive Safe Streets Surveyon Republican Tax PlanBound for Metal World 

 
As NASA looks to explore science team better understand 

reinforce community identity. This week, Congressional 

deeper into our solar system, the asteroid’s origin, 

 The City of San Marino is As part of this effort, the City is Republicans released their 

one of the key areas of interest composition and history. 

preparing a planning document also working with San Marino 
tax reform plan. The plan 

is studying worlds that Additional benefits of SEP 

for the Huntington Drive schools along Huntington 
calls for a reduction in the 

can help researchers better are flexibility and robustness 

Corridor. The plan is intended Drive to improve safety and 
corporate tax rate from 

understand our solar system in the flight plan, which allow 

to help improve overall safety access through education 
35% to 20%, shrinks the 

and the universe around us. the spacecraft to arrive at 

and mobility, and increase and programs. Officials are 

number of tax brackets 

One of the next destinations Psyche much faster and more 

awareness of all modes of asking residents to take a brief 

from 7 to 3, cuts taxes on 

in this knowledge-gathering efficiently than it could using 

transportation, including survey, your responses will 

campaign is a rare world called conventional propulsion.

the highest earners to 35% 

children walking and biking to help guide our planners to 

Psyche, located in the asteroid For this mission, the 

from 39.6%, creates a new 

schools and business owners 
areas of concerns within our 

belt. 
spacecraft, which will be 

and patrons traveling to San community. 
25% business pass-through, 

 Psyche is different from built jointly by JPL and Space 

Marino business centers. The For more information and 
and eliminates the estate tax 

millions of other asteroids Systems Loral (SSL), will use 

plan will also consider ways to the survey visit: ci.san-marino. 
and alternative minimum 

because it appears to have an the SPT-140 Hall effect thruster. 

enhance corridor aesthetics to ca.us. 
tax, both of which mainly 

exposed nickel-iron surface. Because Psyche is three times 

effect the highest earners. 

Researchers at Arizona farther away from the Sun than 

Additionally, multinational 

State University, Tempe, in Earth, flying there required a 
corporations would no 

partnership with NASA’s Jet unique test of the low-power 

– this deal is a massive 
longer have to pay taxes on Propulsion Laboratory in operation of the thruster in the 
profits earned outside the handout. Meanwhile, some Pasadena, California, believe very low pressures that will be 
country. Rep. Judy Chu, a middle class and working the asteroid could actually be encountered in space. 
member of the House Ways families could end up paying the leftover core of an early The mission team called 

more. 
planet. And, since we can’t upon NASA Glenn, and its 

and Means Committee 

which oversees tax policy, “Families need help finding directly explore any planet’s space power and propulsion 
good jobs or buying and core, including our own, expertise, to put the mission’s 

released the following 

Psyche offers a rare look into thruster through its paces at 

statement: 
staying in their homes, not 

the violent history of our solar the center’s Electric Propulsion 

 “Democrats made clear that a tax cut for Donald Trump system. 
Laboratory.

and his family. They also 

we did not want tax reform 
“Psyche is a unique body “This mission will be the first 

to be just another tax cut need an honest proposal, 
because it is, by far, the largest to use a Hall effect thruster 

on the rich. And President not one that relies on the 
metal asteroid out there; it’s system beyond lunar orbit, so 

Trump agreed. But clearly false claim that giving more 
about the size of Massachusetts,” the tests here at Glenn, which 

not enough to act on it. This money to the richest raises 
said David Oh, the mission’s had never been conducted 

plan will make the richest 
wages for everybody else. lead project systems engineer before, were needed to ensure 
That has been tried and at JPL. “By exploring Psyche, the thruster could perform 

richer while doing little 

for the rest of the country failed multiple times. If you 
we’ll learn about the formation and operate as expected in the 
of the planets, how planetary deep space environment,” said 

except growing the amount want to help the middle 
cores are formed and, just as Tolbert.

class, then you do so by 

of national debt they have 
important, we’ll be exploring The facility at NASA Glenn has 

to pay off. Middle class helping the middle class, not 

a new type of world. We’ve been a premier destination for 

by giving more money to 

families are not looking for 
looked at worlds made of rock, electric propulsion and power 

a handout to the children other people and claiming it 
ice and of gas, but we’ve never system testing for over 40 years 

of billionaires, which is will eventually get to them. 
had an opportunity to look at and features a number of space 

what ending the estate tax “Our priorities moving 
a metal world, so this is brand environment chambers, which 
new exploration in the classic vacuum and 

means. Nor are they asking forward now are the same 
simulate the 

as when we started this tax style of NASA.” 
temperatures of space.

for corporations to get out 

reform debate: tax reform But getting to Psyche won’t “This was very important to 

of paying taxes on what they 

be easy. It requires a cutting-the mission because we want 

must be bipartisan, benefit 

earn. But that’s what this 

edge propulsion system with to test-like-we-fly and fly-likebill 
does. For the superrich the middle class and not exceptional performance, we-test,” said Oh. “Glenn has a 

increase the national deficit. 

– those who managed to 
which is also safe, reliable world-class facility that allowed 
This plan fails on all three 

grow their wealth during a and cost-effective. That’s why us to go to very low pressures 
recession that saw everybody counts. I hope, however, that the mission team has turned to simulate the environment 
else’s contract or disappear this is just the beginning to NASA Glenn Research the spacecraft will operate in 

of the process and that Center in Cleveland, which has and better understand how our 
Democrats will have the been advancing solar electric thrusters will perform around 
chance to improve this bill. propulsion (SEP) for decades.Psyche.
Instead of following the SEP thrusters use inert gases, “At first glance, the results 

like xenon, which are then confirm our predictions 

intensely partisan approach 

energized by the electric power regarding how the thruster 

that failed to produce a 

generated from onboard solar will perform, and it looks 

healthcare bill, I hope 

arrays to provide gentle, non-like everything is working as 

Republicans instead look to 

stop thrust.expected. But, we will continue the last tax reform debate “For deep space missions, to refine our models by doing 
when both parties worked the type and amount of fuel more analysis.”
together to produce real required to propel a spacecraft As the team works toward 
results that actually grow the is an important factor for an anticipated August 2022 
economy, not just line the mission planners,” said Carol launch, they will use the data 
pockets of the richest few.”Tolbert, project manager collected at NASA Glenn to 

for Psyche thruster testing update their thruster modeling 
at NASA Glenn. “A SEP and incorporate it into mission 

South Pasadena 

system, like the one used for trajectories.

'Pathways to Art' 
this mission, operates more The scientific goals of 
efficiently than a conventional the Psyche mission are to 

– Street Sign Sale chemical propulsion system, understand the building 
which would be impractical for blocks of planet formation 
SPEF and the South Pasadena this type of mission.”and explore firsthand a wholly 
Arts Council (SPARC) are 
The reduced fuel mass allows new and unexplored type of 
the mission to enter orbit world. The mission team seeks 

teaming up to sell 300 local 

around Psyche and provides to determine whether Psyche 

retired city street signs. This 

additional space for all of the is the core of an early planet, 

joint project, “Pathways 

mission’s scientific payload. how old it is, whether it formed 

to Art,” will raise money 

Psyche’s payload includes in similar ways to Earth’s core, 
to advance the arts within a multispectral imager, and what its surface is like. 
our community, such as magnetometer, and gamma-For more information about 
SPARC’s utility box initiative ray spectrometer. These NASA’s Psyche mission, visit: 
and funds for an SPUSD instruments will help the nasa.gov/psyche. 

Visual and Performing Arts 

Coordinator. These signs 
San Marino Crowell Public 

were generously donated 

to SPARC by the South Free Library Programs 

Pasadena City Council.

Navigating the Maze of Medicare: Part E 

 Signs are $100 per sign and 

Wednesday, October 4: 7 pm

the cost of shipping is not 

 Health Insurance Specialist John Dickey returns to discuss 

included. If you need to have 

Part E of Medicare, which includes the Supplemental Plans 

a sign shipped please let us 

that function like PPOs. These Supplemental Plans are also 

know.

referred to as MediGap policies. John will go through a 

 Please note: The signs are 

carrier’s 2017 Supplemental Plan Enrollment Guide Book, 

not in pristine condition, 

step by step. There will be a question and answer period 

reflecting the character of 

to address any other Medicare issues patrons might have. 

their years of service, and 

John’s guidance and advocacy on behalf of seniors is always 

sold as is. All sales are final. 

totally independent of any insurance company/carrier, and 

The city’s sign replacement 

is governed by CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid 

will be an ongoing, three-

Services). An excellent, generic 2017-2018 guidance 

year process, so as new signs 

booklet on all aspects of Medicare will also be given to 

become available this list will 

every attendee to take home.

be updated.

Fashion Lecture with Alex Kosztowny

 If the street you are 

Tuesday, October 10: 7 pm

interested in is not on this list 

 Alex Kosztowny, freelance fashion designer and librarian at 

please contact Stacey Petersen 

the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) 

at spetersen@spef4kids.org 

returns with another lecture on the world of fashion and 

or call the SPEF office at 626


costume history. No stranger to art libraries and collections, 

441-5810 ext. 1163. We will 

Kosztowny has worked with Fashion and Art Collections at 

give you a call as soon as your 

LACMA and the Gagosian Gallery.

sign becomes available.

 All events take place at Crowell Public Library, 1890 

To learn more visit: 

Huntington Drive. For more information please call the 

sopasartscouncil.org 

Library at (626) 300-0777. 


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