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Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, June 4, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Deep Space Explorer Wins Prestigious Parents' Choice Gold Award! Deep Space Explorer has been awarded a Parent's Choice Gold Award in the software category for ages twelve and older from the Parents' Choice Foundation, the nation's oldest and most respected authority on children's media. http://www.starrynight.com/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * The Science Behind the June 10 Solar Eclipse * Musician Takes Zero Gravity Magic Carpet Ride * Black Hole Dynamo: New Source of Free Energy Fills Universe * Earthlike Weather ... On the Sun? Missions/Launches: * NASA Bumps Next Endeavour Launch Attempt to Wednesday * Reclaiming the Moon: Plans for a 21st Century Return * Space Station Crew To Be Informed of World Cup Business/Industry: * Station Partners Set Timetable for Resolving Budget Issues 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: * The Science Behind the June 10 Solar Eclipse http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/eclipse_scitues_020604 -1.html Millions and millions of people have observed solar eclipses during centuries and millennia past. Many of those people believed that the Sun disappeared because it was being eaten by a dragon, by a wolf or serpent. Or even a black pig. * Musician Takes Zero Gravity Magic Carpet Ride http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/tourism_020603.html Popular Brazilian recording artist, Lulu Santos, hopes his new song, "Todo Universo", climbs high on the music charts. He's got a good start recording part of his music video for the new release in zero-gravity. * Black Hole Dynamo: New Source of Free Energy Fills Universe http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/black_hole_020603.html Nuclear power, move over. There's a new and far more dramatic source of energy out there, and wow is it attractive, at least theoretically. * Earthlike Weather ... On the Sun? http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/sun_weather_020603.htm l The first measurements of weather just beneath the surface of the Sun reveal remarkable similarities to weather patterns on Earth and other planets. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * NASA Bumps Next Endeavour Launch Attempt to Wednesday http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ NASA has again delayed shuttle Endeavour's next opportunity to launch, this time to Wednesday, June 5. * Reclaiming the Moon: Plans for a 21st Century Return http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/moon_nss_020604.html Giving the Moon a makeover in the 21st century may mean speckling its inhospitable surface with welcome mats brought by colonists setting up townships. * Space Station Crew To Be Informed of World Cup http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts111_exp5_worldcup_020531.html The International Space Station's long-term expedition crew will be regularly informed on the results of the 2002 World Cup matches, deputy chief of the Russian Mission Control Center Viktor Blagov told Interfax. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Station Partners Set Timetable for Resolving Budget Issues http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html The United States' partners in the international space station project have agreed to give NASA until late this year to find a roadmap out of the agency's budget crisis that threatens to cripple the station's ability to perform scientific research. ------------------------------------ * 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 (June 4, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to persist at low to moderate levels for the next three days. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be at predominantly unsettled to active levels for the next two days. Some combined effects from the numerous solar events of the past 48 hours are anticipated during this period. Conditions are expected to be mainly unsettled by the end of the forecast period. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 189, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 463 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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