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In today's issue:
Science/Astronomy:
* Doorstep Astronomy: The Southern Triangle
* Terraforming: Human Destiny or Hubris?
* Future Giant Laser Threatened by Cuts
* Reaching Out to Texas Teens
* Setting SETI's Sights: Latest Planet Discovery Suggests New Targets
* Image of the Day: A Moving Target
Spaceflight:
* Weapons In Space: Dawn of a New Era
* New Cargo Ship Rockets Toward International Space Station
* Russian Space Lab Returns to Earth
* ASTRONOTES: BLAST Down -- Balloon Carried Telescope on Earth
* With Shuttle and Cargo at Pad, NASA Steps Closer Toward Launch
* NEW! Daily Space Trivia
NEW! LiveScience.com
* LiveScience Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now!
* NEW Photo Gallery: Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above
* CSI: Egypt
* Fourth Major Quake Hits Calif. This Week
* Bugs Are Considered a Delicacy in Mexico
* Global Warming May Play Role in Hurricane Intensity
* Avian Ancestors: Dinosaurs that Learned to Fly
* Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
NEW! Cool Stuff:
* Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now!
* New Wallpaper: UFO'S Invade Planet Earth
* Special Report Feature: Prepare for Deep Impact
* New Gallery: Aurora Season: 2005
* VOTE NOW: Most Amazing Galactic Images Ever
* Uplink: Out of This Word Message Boards
* Get the weather from anywhere on Earth...with WeatherBug!
* New! Search for Your Next Hi-Tech Job Opportunity Now!
Entertainment: Movies, Television, DVD, Games and much more...
* VOTE NOW: Rate Your Favorite Space Movies
* New Songs Added...Explore the SpaceBox!
* Climb Aboard 'Howl's Moving Castle'
* DVD Review: Voyage to the Planets and Beyond
* TV Review - National Geographic's 'Extraterrestrial'
* Review - The Force is Strong in Last 'Star Wars' Tale
Recent Headlines:
* Public Meeting Details Blue Origin Rocket Plans
* Russia's Kliper Spacecraft Showcased in Paris
* Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Launch Pad
* t/Space Tests Air-Launch Passenger-Carrying Rocket Concept
* Japan, France to Jointly Develop New Supersonic Jet
* Deep Impact Overview: By The Numbers
* Fixing NASA: Continuing Coverage of the Space Shuttle Return to Flight
* Latest News and Updates on the Mars Rovers
Plus...
* Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky
* Starry Night, TeamSETI
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Science/Astronomy:
* Doorstep Astronomy: The Southern Triangle
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050617_summer_triangle.html
Summer officially arrives at 2:46 a.m. EDT on June 21 (11:46 p.m. on June 20
for those living in the Pacific Time Zone). And as darkness falls this week,
the famous ?Summer Triangle? can be found low in the eastern sky.
* Terraforming: Human Destiny or Hubris?
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_terraforming_brody-1.html
Say the word ?terraforming? amidst a gathering of space enthusiasts and it's
like asking for trouble. And the fight usually breaks out along these lines:
One team sees the quest to replicate the biosphere of Earth on other planets as
a moral imperative, an inevitable destiny, or both. Others recoil at such
pretension, proclaiming that humans have no right to interfere with Nature as
writ large upon the face of other worlds.
* Future Giant Laser Threatened by Cuts
http://www.space.com/news/ap_050617_giant_laser.html
A giant laser being built to simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb is
facing funding cuts in the Senate that supporters say could kill the project
after $2.8 billion has been spent on it.
* Reaching Out to Texas Teens
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_nss-texas_050617.html
On Saturday June 4th, NSS-NT chapter president Ken Murphy participated in a
Hugh O'Brian Youth (HOBY) Leadership program at the University of North Texas
(UNT). I was on a space frontiers panel with Don Garland, an astronomy
professor at UNT. It was certainly a very interesting and exciting experience.
* Setting SETI's Sights: Latest Planet Discovery Suggests New Targets
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_newplanet_050616.html
SETI scientists are taking notice of the latest discovery of a Super-Earth
beyond the solar system as they fine-tune their list of stars to target in
their search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
* Image of the Day: A Moving Target
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_050617.html
Comet Tempel 1 makes its way across the night sky, oblivious to an impending
collision with a NASA spacecraft.
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Spaceflight:
* Weapons In Space: Dawn of a New Era
http://www.space.com/news/050617_space_warfare.html
The White House is now delving into U.S. military space policy and what it sees
as the need to reshape current national space policy, a leftover
