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Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, May 13, 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 * Space Sale Science/Astronomy: * Hubble Telescope: Surprise Tool in Search for Life * Moon Snuggles With Planets This Week * NASA to Proceed on Two Approaches for Planet Finder * IMAGE Spacecraft Shows Earth's Atmosphere Helps Produce Magnetic Storms * JPL's Aerogel Makes Record Books As Lightest Solid Missions/Launches: * Hangar Roof Collapses at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Eight Feared Dead * Poll: Public Support for NASA Slipping * Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Cheap Space Access Business/Industry: * Atlas 5, Delta 4 Set To Debut In Depressed Market Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Space Sale http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html Here's a chance to pick up some cool space stuff at out-of-this-world prices! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Hubble Telescope: Surprise Tool in Search for Life http://www.space.com/searchforlife/hubble_exoplanets_020513.html The Hubble Space Telescope, a photographer dear to more hearts than the late, but very human, Ansel Adams, is nowhere more celebrated than here inside the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which operates the telescope for NASA. * Moon Snuggles With Planets This Week http://www.space.com/spacewatch/planet_alignment_020513.html The Great Planet Alignment of 2002 is winding down but not done yet. Tonight, the Moon will join the planets in the western evening sky just after sunset. * NASA to Proceed on Two Approaches for Planet Finder http://www.space.com/searchforlife/new_approach_020510.html NASA announced today that research would proceed on two methods of studying Earth-like planets around other stars. The chosen mission architectures would be part of a future mission called Terrestrial Planet Finder, or TPF. * IMAGE Spacecraft Shows Earth's Atmosphere Helps Produce Magnetic Storms http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/fl_mag_storms_020510.h tml When a boater gets lost because his Global Positioning System navigator isn't working during a magnetic storm, he can't blame only the sun. * JPL's Aerogel Makes Record Books As Lightest Solid http://www.space.com/news/aerogel_record_020510.html The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has beaten itself into the Guinness World Records, again for creating the world's lightest solid. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Hangar Roof Collapses at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Eight Feared Dead http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/baikonur_roof_020512.html The roof of a 260-foot-tall hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia's main rocket launching site, collapsed Sunday, trapping eight workers in the debris, officials said. * Poll: Public Support for NASA Slipping http://www.space.com/news/nasa_poll_020510.html NASA's got some explaining to do if it wants to keep the taxpaying public interested in bankrolling its space exploits. * Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Cheap Space Access http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/marericks_020510.html There's no need to wait for big-ticket, big-money space programs to secure the public right of entry into Earth orbit, says a group of maverick rocketeers. A community of upstart startups is convinced that there is more than one way to create cheap access to space. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Atlas 5, Delta 4 Set To Debut In Depressed Market http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020513.html Amid an uncertain market, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are reporting smooth sailing as they prepare their respective Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets for debut launches this summer. ------------------------------------ * 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 (May 13, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled. Isolated active to minor storm conditions are possible Tuesday and Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 210, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 447 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 3.3 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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