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Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, May 30, 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;B80587;1 -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Real Shuttle Tile Science/Astronomy: * Intelligent Aliens? * Breaking the Surface: How Scientists Could Use Mars' Water-Ice * Minor Planet Named After Russian Comedian * Satellites Show Alarming Retreat of Glaciers * Pluto New Horizons Team Holding A Steady Course Missions/Launches: * Launch Day Arrives for Endeavour but Weather Threatens * SPACE.com TV: Meet the Crew * Russia: No Plans For *NSYNC's Lance Bass Business/Industry: * Collapsed Roof Causes Minor Damage to Clean Room at Baikonur Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Real Shuttle Tile http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html This actual piece of Space Shuttle Tile Material was made for Columbia, the first Space Shuttle to fly in outer space. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Intelligent Aliens? http://www.space.com/searchforlife/shostak_intelligent_020530.html There may be a lot of life in the universe. If so, it's a safe bet that most of it will score lower on the SATs than you. * Breaking the Surface: How Scientists Could Use Mars' Water-Ice http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_nextphase_020530.html On Mars, water ice may be both biological buried treasure and a rich resource for future Mars explorers. * Minor Planet Named After Russian Comedian http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/russian_comedian_020529.html During his summer tour of the Crimea, Russian comedian Mikhail Zadornov will receive a diploma from the International Astronomical Union saying that a minor planet discovered by scientists from the Crimean astrophysical observatory has been named after him. * Satellites Show Alarming Retreat of Glaciers http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/glacier_retreat_020529.html Satellite imagery being presented today shows that the great majority of the world's glaciers are melting at rates equal to or greater than long-established trends, including some that are receding at alarming and accelerating paces. * Pluto New Horizons Team Holding A Steady Course http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/pluto_horizons_020529.html Putting politics aside, scientists and engineers are on an unwavering trajectory to send a spacecraft to distant Pluto. But the effort is in legislative limbo within the U.S. Congress. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Launch Day Arrives for Endeavour but Weather Threatens http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ Stormy skies remain the top concern today as NASA attempts to launch shuttle Endeavour on a mission to deliver new hardware and a fresh, long-term crew to the International Space Station. * SPACE.com TV: Meet the Crew http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ The first of our SPACE.com TV crew interviews are now available, starting with STS-111 Commander Ken Cockrell. * Russia: No Plans For *NSYNC's Lance Bass http://www.space.com/news/bass_russia_020529.html The Russian space agency said Wednesday that it had no plans to give 'N Sync's Lance Bass a ride to space, and that no other space tourist has secured a seat on a Russian rocket set to blast off to the international space station in October. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Collapsed Roof Causes Minor Damage to Clean Room at Baikonur http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html Ten days after a roof collapse at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan killed seven workers and destroyed the decommissioned Soviet-era Buran space shuttle, portions of the hangar came crumbling down on a clean room at the facility. It was the first damage to operational space equipment as a result of the May 12 accident. ------------------------------------ * 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 30, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate through Saturday. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels. Isolated active conditions are possible Thursday, however. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 218, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 560 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 1.3 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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