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Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, August 26, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Capture the Solar System with the Coolpix System! http://www.nikoncoolpix.com/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Blast Off to the Moon Adventure Set Science/Astronomy: * Fixing Crawler Transporters is a Massive Job, Literally * New Wallpaper * Three Small Constellations: The Dolphin, the Fox and the Arrow * Moon Seen As Nuclear Waste Repository SpaceFlight: * Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk at International Space * $1 Billion Question: Where Has All the Air Force EELV Money Gone? * Construction Complex for New Cape Launch Pads Business/Industry: * Security Issues Bring New Focus on Imagery Licensing Debate Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Blast Off to the Moon Adventure Set http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Blast Off To The Moon includes: Side One: Whack the manual lever to blast the Saturn V rocket into space! With a little practice, you can get the rocket to stay in space on a magnetic hold. Side Two: On a vast moonscape, an astronaut collects moon rocks with a magnetic tool. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Fixing Crawler Transporters is a Massive Job, Literally http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_crawler_020826.html Repairing the crawlers that take shuttles to the launch pad is a massive undertaking because the crawlers are so large. * New Wallpaper http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/ New Images from Space Artist Tim D. Russell * Three Small Constellations: The Dolphin, the Fox and the Arrow http://www.space.com/spacewatch/little_constellations_020823.html Between and around the three great constellations of the Summer Triangle (Lyra, the Harp; Cygnus, the Swan, and Aquila, the Eagle), there are three little ones. * Moon Seen As Nuclear Waste Repository http://www.space.com/news/nuclear_moon_020822.html As the debate rages over using the Yucca Mountain as a burial ground for thousands of tons of radioactive material, a better site for unwanted nuclear waste holds its mute vigil in the skies above the Nevada desert: the Moon. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk at International Space http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/exp5_eva2_020826.html A pair of Russian spacewalkers completed a laundry list of jobs outside the International Space Station (ISS) early Monday morning. * $1 Billion Question: Where Has All the Air Force EELV Money Gone? http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_eelv_020825a.html Taxpayers may never know how Lockheed Martin Corp. and The Boeing Co. spend at least $1 billion in taxpayer money set aside to design, build and launch new rockets the military needs to lift heavier satellites into space. * Construction Complex for New Cape Launch Pads http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_eelv_020825b.html Building a new launch pad isn't as easy as pouring a slab of concrete. A pad is a complex system of building materials, wiring, pipes carrying volatile fuels and computers, often incorporating untried technology. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Security Issues Bring New Focus on Imagery Licensing Debate http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020826.html Satellite imagery can be a valuable tool for those responsible for protecting U.S. transportation facilities from attack, according to a recent government-sponsored study. However, that will not happen on a wider scale until industry and the U.S. government resolve their differences about industry's use of strict licensing requirements that limit widespread sharing of commercial data products among U.S. government agencies, officials said. ------------------------------------ * 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 26, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate to high. Region 69 remains capable of producing a major event. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be predominately quiet to unsettled. Unsettled to active conditions are possible Saturday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 205, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 396 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 6.5 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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