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Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, April 25, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Join the Space Station kids club featuring E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for only $9.95 for one year's exclusive access to E.T. games and cool space activities! Sign up now and get a FREE E.T. Poster, Pin or Constellation chart! TM and (c) Universal Studios. http://www.education.com/promo/ad.jsp?cat=0056&code=7052 -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Autographed Book by Gene Cernan Science/Astronomy: * Science and the Teachable Moment * Hubble Space Telescope Helps Pin Down Beginning of Time * First Birth of Mammals in Space Planned * Darwinian Star Formation Weeds Out Wimps Missions/Launches: * Soyuz Rocket Launches Shuttleworth into Orbit, Space Station Next Stop * Aqua Satellite Planned to Examine Changing Earth Business/Industry: * FCC Approves Northpoint Spectrum Sharing Plan Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Autographed Book by Gene Cernan http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html Written with best-selling author Don Davis, this book chronicles the fear, love, and sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach for the Moon. Each book has been signed by the last man on the moon - Gene Cernan! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Science and the Teachable Moment http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_devore_face_020425.html In late March, the SETI Institute education team was at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) meeting in San Diego, CA along with about 14,000 other science teachers. It's a good thing that these NSTA meetings coincide with spring break, or no science would be taught in U.S. schools during that week every spring. * Hubble Space Telescope Helps Pin Down Beginning of Time http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/age_universe_020424.html A group of researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope today claimed a more accurate measurement of the beginning of time, an extremely important but highly debated cosmic birth date. * First Birth of Mammals in Space Planned http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/space_mice_020424.h tml You knew it would be mice. They get tagged for doing everything first, usually even before the guinea pigs. * Darwinian Star Formation Weeds Out Wimps http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/stellar_chaos_020424.htm l When stars are born on the same cosmic block, the principle of survival of the fittest rules like nowhere else in the universe, a new study suggests. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Soyuz Rocket Launches Shuttleworth into Orbit, Space Station Next Stop http://www.space.com/spacetourism/ The world's second space tourist lifted off Thursday on a Russian rocket from the Baikonur launchpad in Central Asia, heading for the International Space Station. * Aqua Satellite Planned to Examine Changing Earth http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/aqua_satellite_020423.html NASA officials said yesterday that the planned launch later this spring of the Aqua satellite would mark a major milestone in understanding Earth, and its water cycles, and the changing global climate. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * FCC Approves Northpoint Spectrum Sharing Plan http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a controversial plan that would allow terrestrial services to compete directly with established direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) television companies using the same radio frequencies. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * Space Age Gear: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.space.com/php/careers/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (April 25, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be at unsettled to active levels Wednesday decreasing to quiet to unsettled levels Thursday and Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 180, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 489 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 2.6 protons per cubic centimeter. (Speed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day.) http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html ------------------------------------- Sign up to become part of the greatest search in history! Join TeamSETI: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_science_page.html Be a desktop astronomer! Starry Night is the world's leading astronomy software -- choose between Beginner, Backyard, or Pro! http://www.starrynight.com/index.html NEW! Join the SPACE.com affiliate program. 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