Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:00:32 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, June 21, 2002 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, June 21, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Odyssey 5: Showtime's New Original Series, Sci-Fridays, 10pm ET/PT. Follow members of a space shuttle crew through their journey back in time as they try to alter the course of their lives and save the human race. http://www.sho.com/o5 -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library Science/Astronomy: * The Big Dipper: Ancient and Modern Intrigue * Solving the Case of the Missing Comets * Too Close for Comfort: Asteroid Passed Within 75,000 Miles of Earth * International Team Explores Lunar Base Proposals Missions/Launches: * U.S.-Russian Science Collaboration Growing But Obstacles Remain * Cindy Crawford: Space Trip OK If Schedule Permits * Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth with Safe California Landing Business/Industry: * Top 20 Fixed Satellite Operators: 2001 Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ The complete 30-volume set of NASA Videos featuring original NASA film. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * The Big Dipper: Ancient and Modern Intrigue http://www.space.com/spacewatch/big_dipper_020621.html For those of us who live in large towns and cities, it is easy to forget the beauty of the night sky. Seldom do we travel far from the bright lights and out into the country to see the stars in all their grandeur. Haze and bright lights didn't handicap our distant ancestors, however. * Solving the Case of the Missing Comets http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/comet_missing_020620.html Astronomers know where most newly discovered comets come from, a reservoir on the outskirts of our solar system called the Oort Cloud, which extends nearly halfway to the next star. * Too Close for Comfort: Asteroid Passed Within 75,000 Miles of Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/asteroid_miss_020620.html An asteroid about the size of a football field made one of the closest known approaches to Earth last Friday, June 14, zooming by just 75,000 miles (119,229 kilometers) away, less than a third of the distance to the Moon. * International Team Explores Lunar Base Proposals http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/lunarbase_euro_020620.html A first-of-its-kind workshop is underway in Europe to blueprint extraterrestrial bases for human settlement of the Moon. The international lunar base design study involves the talents of engineers, architects, industrial designers and specialists in medicine and psychology. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * U.S.-Russian Science Collaboration Growing But Obstacles Remain http://www.space.com/news/usrussia_rand_020621.html A new study that inventories U.S.-Russian joint work in science and technology has given a thumbs-up regarding the benefits of such collaboration, although obstacles to and opportunities for strengthening research alliances in the future do exist. * Cindy Crawford: Space Trip OK If Schedule Permits http://www.space.com/news/cindy_crawford_020620.html Supermodel Cindy Crawford, always ready for her close-up, said Thursday that a lift-off to the International Space Station wouldn't be out of the question if the conditions were right. * Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth with Safe California Landing http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ Records were broken, a reputation was cemented and nothing short of a miracle happened during shuttle Endeavour's two week mission that ended Wednesday, finally, with a trouble free landing in California. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Top 20 Fixed Satellite Operators: 2001 http://www.space.com/spacenews/top20_satellite_2001.html Intelsat Ltd. retains its position as the world's largest commercial provider of fixed satellite services in Space News' 2001 rankings of the Top 20 companies in that business based on gross annual revenue. ------------------------------------ * 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 21, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be very low to low. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to persist at quiet to unsettled levels. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 174, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 531 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 7.3 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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