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Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, May 16, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- The NEW Pentium(r) 4 Processor-M designed for notebooks. Experience accelerated video, multimedia and gaming. http://mds.centrport.net/mdsefc?a27250041;MIHC107C1782P80586B80587S0;B80 587;1 -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Space Food Sticks Science/Astronomy: * Mystery Bursts Tied Firmly to Exploding Stars * To Err is Human... and of Interest to ET? * How Venus Lost Its Oceans * Mars Odyssey's Picture of the Day: Utopia Planitia Missions/Launches: * International Space Station Oxygen Producer Breaks * Baikonur Disaster Victims Buried In Kazakhstan * Space Weapons For Earth Wars Business/Industry: * NASA Awards $42.5 Million Contract to Spacehab 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 Food Sticks http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html Do you remember Space Food Sticks? They're back! Long unavailable in the United States, Space Food Sticks are back in limited quantities. The Space Food Sticks Preservation Society (there really is such an organization) discovered they never ceased production in Australia and found a way to distribute the sticks stateside. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Mystery Bursts Tied Firmly to Exploding Stars http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/mystery_bursts_020516.ht ml New research to be announced today shows strong evidence linking exploding stars called supernova to high-energy bursts of gamma rays. * To Err is Human... and of Interest to ET? http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_vakoch_err_020516.html Humans live and die by approximations. We are seldom as perfect or as accurate as we would like to be. And as we contemplate what we might say to an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, maybe that's a point we should emphasize. * How Venus Lost Its Oceans http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/venus_oceans_020516.ht ml "Soon after the planets were formed 4.5 billion years ago, Earth, Venus and Mars probably all had water," says Maura Rabbette of NASA's Ames Research Center. "How did Earth manage to hold onto all of its water, while Venus apparently lost all of its water?" * Mars Odyssey's Picture of the Day: Utopia Planitia http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_daily_020515.html This image is located in Utopia Planitia, a large plain in the northern hemisphere. It is believed that this basin is the result of a large impact. On the right side of the image is a partially imaged crater with a well-preserved ejecta blanket. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * International Space Station Oxygen Producer Breaks http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/iss_repairs_020515.html The international space station's three residents are using a backup method of producing oxygen while trying to fix a broken generator. * Baikonur Disaster Victims Buried In Kazakhstan http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/baikonur_funerals_020515.html More than 2,000 mourners paid last respects Wednesday to seven Kazakh workers killed when a hangar roof collapsed at Russia's main space launch site, lamenting poor worker protection at the secretive complex. * 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. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * NASA Awards $42.5 Million Contract to Spacehab http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html NASA's Johnson Space Center awarded a $42.5 million contract modification to Houston-based Spacehab Inc. to support a pair of space shuttle missions to the international space station in 2003, NASA reported May 14. ------------------------------------ * 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 16, 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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