From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:49:06 -0000 Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, August 28, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- ECLIPSE ALERT: Place yourself between the Earth and the Sun as daylight is replaced by the darkness of night in the Australian Outback! http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/eclipse/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Space Travel Backpack Science/Astronomy: * British Balloonists to Attempt Record Flight to Edge of Space * New Astronomy: Romance Fades as Technology Takes Over * Astronotes: NASA Balloon Sets Record SpaceFlight: * Lance Bass Flight Moves Closer To Go-Ahead * Technical Problem Scrubs Ariane 5 Shot Tuesday * NASA Welcomes Its First Celebrity Space Tourist: *N SYNC Singer Lance Bass Business/Industry: * Aerojet to Purchase General Dynamics' Propulsion Division Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Space Travel Backpack http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ The Space Travel Backpack is perfect for moon rocks, space food, school books and more! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * British Balloonists to Attempt Record Flight to Edge of Space http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/QinetiQ1_balloon_020828.h tml Some day soon two British balloonists will take an open-air trip to the very edge of space -- if the weather cooperates. If the mission succeeds, they will secure the world record for the highest crewed balloon flight. * New Astronomy: Romance Fades as Technology Takes Over http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/new_astronomy_020827-1.html When Galileo Galilei first pointed his telescope at Jupiter nearly four centuries ago, his tools were rather simple -- a tube, some lenses and a lot of patients to observe the sky night after night. But astronomers these days see space differently. In fact, they don't really "see" it at all, since most of them use computers to do the observing. * Astronotes: NASA Balloon Sets Record http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html A massive NASA balloon set adrift August 25 established a world record by reaching the upper fringes of space. The huge scientific balloon had a volume of 60 million cubic feet (1.7 million cubic meters) and has claimed the record of being the largest balloon ever launched successfully. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Lance Bass Flight Moves Closer To Go-Ahead http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bass_MCOP_020827.html Pop singer, Lance Bass of the boy band *NSYNC, is in synch with the International Space Station's Multilateral Crew Operations Panel (MCOP), receiving a formal go-ahead today for a late October flight. * Technical Problem Scrubs Ariane 5 Shot Tuesday http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ariane5_scrub_020827.html A technical problem combined with a too-short launch window prevented Arianespace from sending a pair of European satellites into orbit from South America on Tuesday. * NASA Welcomes Its First Celebrity Space Tourist: *N SYNC Singer Lance Bass http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bass_update_020827.html NASA welcomed its first celebrity space tourist on Monday: 'N Sync singer Lance Bass, who hopes to clinch a deal with the Russians soon and fly to the international space station in two months. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Aerojet to Purchase General Dynamics' Propulsion Division http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Aerojet signed an agreement with General Dynamics to acquire the company's space propulsion division for approximately $90 million, according to an announcement from GenCorp Inc., Aerojet's parent company. ------------------------------------ * 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 28, 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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