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Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, July 15, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Just in time for summer, Space Adventures, Ltd. invites you to lose some weight... in fact, lose it all! With programs scheduled for July and August, Space Adventures Zero-Gravity flights can free you of your extra pounds multiple times in one hour, for 30 seconds intervals: http://www.spaceadventures.com/zerog/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * The New Space Age Gear Science/Astronomy: * Rare Earth Debate Part 1: The Hostile Universe * The Night the Lights went Out in New York City * The NEW Universal Viewer SpaceFlight: * Astronotes: Japan's SST Prototype Bites the Dust In Test Flight * Russia Launches Space Vehicle From Under Water * Space Shuttle Fleet Grounded Until September Business/Industry: * JPL Envisions Public Use of Mars Images, Deep Space Network Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * The New Space Age Gear http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Get the coolest out-of-this world gifts for yourself or a friend! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Rare Earth Debate Part 1: The Hostile Universe http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/rare_earth_1_020715.html When the book "Rare Earth" was published two years ago, it raised a great deal of controversy among astrobiologists. Written by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, the book's hypothesis suggests complex life is rare in the universe, and may even be unique to Earth. If life does occur elsewhere, the authors contend, it will only be in the form of single-celled microbial life such as bacteria. * The Night the Lights went Out in New York City http://www.space.com/spacewatch/milky_way_020712.html A great meandering milky swath of stars that can never be seen from under bright city lights is readily visible overhead on summer nights from distant suburbs and rural locations. Once, years ago, residents of New York City had an opportunity to see this remarkable Milky Way, our galaxy's central concentration of stars. * The NEW Universal Viewer http://www.space.com/spaceviews/ Use our cool new navigation controls to select these images from space! ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Astronotes: Japan's SST Prototype Bites the Dust In Test Flight http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html A Japanese rocket-powered test vehicle meant to help build a next-generation supersonic transport (SST) crashed into Australian desert July 14. * Russia Launches Space Vehicle From Under Water http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/demonstrator_launch_020712.html A Russian nuclear submarine on Friday launched a prototype of a European-Russian inflatable space vehicle that could be used to bring payloads or people back to Earth from space, its designers said. * Space Shuttle Fleet Grounded Until September http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/shuttles_update_020712.html NASA's space shuttle fleet is likely to remain grounded until at least early September while technicians investigate tiny cracks discovered on pipes in the main engines of all four orbiters, according to shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * JPL Envisions Public Use of Mars Images, Deep Space Network http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020715.html The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believes that if you can't put people on Mars, the next best thing is bringing Mars to the people. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.spacejobs.com/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (July 15, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at moderate levels. There is a chance that Region 30 could produce another major flare. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be at predominantly quiet to unsettled levels through Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday may experience periods of active conditions due to a favorably positioned coronal hole. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 152, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 308 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 7.8 protons pe rcubic 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! 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