From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 15 May 2002 04:58:49 -0700 Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, May 15, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- ** Float like an astronaut... with one! ** How can Space Adventures improve upon our already exciting zero-gravity flight adventure? How about bringing a former Space Shuttle pilot along for the ride: join two-time flyer Guy Gardner on our June 12 - 14, 2002 trip! http://www.spaceadventures.com/zerog/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * Space Weapons For Earth Wars * Nightwatch On Mars * Download Deep Space Explorer Wallpapers * Mars Odyssey's Picture of the Day: Water Ice Clouds over the Northern Plains Missions/Launches: * Six Dead So Far in Baikonur Cosmodrome Hangar Roof Collapse * Poll: Public Support for NASA Slipping * Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Cheap Space Access Business/Industry: * Teets Proposes Cash Reserve for Program Managers Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ Buy one or build a collection of the best NASA videos in the galaxy ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Space Weapons For Earth Wars http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_war_020515-1.ht ml While the latest Star Wars sci-fi saga makes its way to a cinema near you, a true-to-life space drama is unfolding as a new breed of weaponry may soon populate the heavens. * Nightwatch On Mars http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_nightwatch_020515 html There is a dark side to Mars. Experts studying the reddish globe in the infrared see a wonderland of nighttime surprise. Through the art of sunless science, researchers are trying to discern whether Mars is a percolating planet of still huffing volcanoes and hot shot geysers. * Download Deep Space Explorer Wallpapers http://www.space.com/php/dse/wallpaper/ Now available for downloading -- desktop wallpaper images from Deep Space Explorer, the 3-D interactive software that takes you on a journey through time and space. * Mars Odyssey's Picture of the Day: Water Ice Clouds over the Northern Plains http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_daily_020514.html This image, centered near 48.5 N and 240.5 W, displays splotchy water ice clouds that obscure the northern lowland plains in the region where the Viking 2 spacecraft landed. This image is far enough north to catch the edge of the north polar hood that develops during the northern winter. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Six Dead So Far in Baikonur Cosmodrome Hangar Roof Collapse http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/baikonur_roof_020513.html Emergency workers carefully plucked six bodies from a heap of tangled metal Monday, following the collapse of a hangar roof at Russia's main space launch site. Officials said there was little hope of finding the last two missing workers alive. * 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: * Teets Proposes Cash Reserve for Program Managers http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html The Pentagon should consider giving program managers funding reserves as large as 20 percent of a program's cost so they can deal quickly with problems that crop up on space programs, according to Peter B. Teets, undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force and director of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. ------------------------------------ * 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 15, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Isolated active periods are possible Wednesday. Otherwise, Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled through Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 134, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 430 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 3.0 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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