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Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, August 14, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Free Shipping in August! Purchase Starry Night Pro, Backyard, Backyard SE, or Beginner between August 1 through August 31 and receive free ground shipping in Canada and the Continental United States! Click now for details! http://www.starrynight.com/freeshipping/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * NASA Video Collection Science/Astronomy: * New Telescope Camera Targets Fast-Spinning Hearts of Distant Galaxies * New Wallpapers * New Pictures Reveal 100,000 Galaxies * Walt Disney Helped Wernher von Braun Sell Americans on Space SpaceFlight: * Lance Bass Faces Space Trip Deadline * NASA's Twin Voyagers Mark 25 Years And Counting In Space * More Crawler Cracks Found but Schedule Remains Unaffected * Report: China To Launch Fourth Unmanned Space Capsule This Year * Injury Prompts Replacement of Shuttle Endeavour's Next Pilot Business/Industry: * Sirius Attracts 6,510 Subscribers in First Six Months of Operations Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * NASA Video Collection http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Build a collection of up to 30 videos for your classroom, your family, or someone who loves space! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * New Telescope Camera Targets Fast-Spinning Hearts of Distant Galaxies http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/ultracam_020814.html Astronomy is not usually described as "fast paced." Photographing the depths of the universe is usually a business of very long exposures lasting hours or even days. * New Wallpapers http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/ New Images from Space Artist Bret Little * New Pictures Reveal 100,000 Galaxies http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/eso_images_020813.html Billed by astronomers as a "joyride to infinity," a photograph of a relatively small patch of sky in the Southern Hemisphere peers through a galaxy to reveal more than 100,000 distant galaxies. * Walt Disney Helped Wernher von Braun Sell Americans on Space http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/vonbraun_disney_020813.html Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the U.S. space program until his death in 1977, might not have been as successful if it weren't for Walt Disney. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Lance Bass Faces Space Trip Deadline http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bass_update_020814.html Lance Bass' space voyage was at risk Tuesday while Hollywood dealmakers and Russian bureaucrats squabbled over payment for the pop idol's $20 million trip. * NASA's Twin Voyagers Mark 25 Years And Counting In Space http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/voyager_25_020814.html A quarter-century after setting out on missions that were to have lasted just four years, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft have yet to end their travels. * More Crawler Cracks Found but Schedule Remains Unaffected http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_crawler_020814.html Inspectors have found more cracked bearings in the massive crawlers that carry shuttles to the launch pads, and there could be further discoveries before NASA and contractor United Space Alliance figure out what repairs are needed. * Report: China To Launch Fourth Unmanned Space Capsule This Year http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/china_update_020813.html China will launch its fourth unmanned space capsule this year, taking the country closer to sending a human into orbit, state television said Tuesday. * Injury Prompts Replacement of Shuttle Endeavour's Next Pilot http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts113_pilot_020813.html Due to an undisclosed injury, shuttle pilot Gus Loria has been replaced by Paul Lockhart for the early-November launch of shuttle Endeavour on the STS-113 mission, NASA officials said Tuesday. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Sirius Attracts 6,510 Subscribers in First Six Months of Operations http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. claimed 6,510 subscribers as of Aug. 11, nearly six weeks after the company's July 1 introduction across the United States, according to Sirius' financial report for the second quarter of 2002. ------------------------------------ * 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 (August 14, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels. Region 69 is likely to produce isolated M-class flares during the period. There is also a slight chance for a major flare from this region. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels through Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 214, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 430 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 1.9 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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