From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, July 22, 2002
Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, July 22, 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 * Lunar Landing Sale Science/Astronomy: * Rare Earth Debate Part 3: Complex Life * Scientists Debate Mystery Crater * Astrobiology Report: NASA Needs Course Shift SpaceFlight: * Space Station Partners to Meet in Washington * Shuttle Managers Narrow Repair Options, Consider Schedule * Future Vision: Lunar Base * 2002 Anniversary Special: SPACE.com's Complete Archive of Apollo 11 Stories and Multimedia Files Business/Industry: * Globalstar Signs New Satellite Design Contract Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Lunar Landing Sale http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ July marks the anniversary of the historic events of Apollo 11 - in honor of that event, here is our July Lunar Landing Sale! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Rare Earth Debate Part 3: Complex Life http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/rare_earth_3_020722.html This five-part debate will cover a variety of topics prompted by the hypothesis of "Rare Earth," a book by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee that suggests complex life may be unique to Earth. * Scientists Debate Mystery Crater http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/crater_debate_020721.html A mysterious mile-wide dent in the earth has generated a debate among scientists about whether the depression was the catastrophic creation of a meteorite, or the patient work of Mother Nature. * Astrobiology Report: NASA Needs Course Shift http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astrobiology_report_020719.html A committee of top scientists reviewing NASA's five-year-old astrobiology program gives it an overall thumbs up while recommending the space agency revise its approach and improve coordination with other, similar federal research programs. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Space Station Partners to Meet in Washington http://www.space.com/news/iss_partners_020719.html The U.S. State Department is hosting a high-level meeting here July 23 to give the international space station (ISS) partner nations a chance to voice concerns about NASA's commitment to completing the orbital outpost. * Shuttle Managers Narrow Repair Options, Consider Schedule http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_update_020719.html NASA officials will decide on July 31 if or how they will repair cracks found inside the propulsion system of the nation's space shuttle fleet and when the next shuttle will fly, the program's director said Friday. * Future Vision: Lunar Base http://www.space.com/spaceviews/ These images from John Frassanito and Associates offer a glimpse into how a future Moon base might look. * 2002 Anniversary Special: SPACE.com's Complete Archive of Apollo 11 Stories and Multimedia Files http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/apollo11_special_2002.html On July 20, 1969 humans first walked on the Moon and changed history forever. To help honor the occasion, SPACE.com invites you to enjoy that sense of wonder all over again with this collection of text and multimedia files describing the epic adventure of Apollo 11. We've also got links to our collection of SPACE.com stories celebrating the 2002 anniversary of the lunar landing, and a handful of links pointing to some of NASA's finest online resources covering the Apollo program. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Questions Remain About Structure of GMES Program http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020722.html European governments planning a global Earth observation network for a broad range of applications appear to be far from a decision on who will own, operate, finance and use the system, which is called Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). ------------------------------------ * 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 22, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate through Wednesday. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be unsettled to mildly active through Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 131, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 502 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 2.6 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! 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