Today on SPACE.com --- Monday, June 20, 2005 -- http://www.space.com/
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LiveScience.com * Birds of Prey: Spot Today's Dinosaurs * LiveScience Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now! * NEW Photo Gallery: Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above * Bigger Brains Make Smarter People * Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. * Cell Phones Now Playing Role of Wallet * CSI: Egypt * Gov't Finds Highest, Lowest Marijuana Use * Tsunami May Have Spread Alien Species NEW! Cool Stuff: * Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now! * Special Report Feature: Prepare for "Deep Impact" * New Wallpaper: UFO'S Invade Planet Earth * New Gallery: Aurora Season: 2005 * VOTE NOW: Most Amazing Galactic Images Ever * Archive: The 10 Best Mars Images Ever * 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... * Kansas Museum Spotlights Cold War Space Ventures * 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' Recent Headlines: * Terraforming: Human Destiny or Hubris? * Doorstep Astronomy: The Southern Triangle * New Cargo Ship Rockets Toward International Space Station * Setting SETI's Sights: Latest Planet Discovery Suggests New Targets * With Shuttle and Cargo at Pad, NASA Steps Closer Toward Launch * Russian Space Lab Returns to Earth * Fixing NASA: Continuing Coverage of the Space Shuttle Return to Flight * Cassini's Journeys: Headquarters for mission news, Saturn and more Plus... * Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky * Starry Night, TeamSETI ----------------------------------- Science/Astronomy: * Baby Bursts Shed Light on Biggest Blasts in the Sky http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050620_xray_flash.html X-ray flashes and gamma ray bursts my share a special relationship. * Native American Tribe Halts Telescope Project http://www.space.com/news/050617_ap_observatory.html The National Science Foundation agreed to halt construction of a $13 million mountainside telescope complex after an American Indian tribe filed a federal lawsuit claiming the site is sacred. * 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. * Image of the Day: Space Trail http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_050620.html The exhaust from a Russian Soyuz rocket twists into an almost artful trail as the booster launched the Progress 18 cargo ship toward the International Space Station. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * ASTRONOTES: NASA's X-43A Makes Guinness World Book of Records http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html NASA has been officially recognized for setting the speed record for a jet-powered aircraft by Guinness World Records. * Solar Sail Ready For Sub-Launched Liftoff http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050620_solar_sail.html The privately sponsored Cosmos-1 solar sail is to fly into Earth orbit courtesy of a boost from a Russian Volna rocket, deployed from a Russian nuclear submarine positioned in the Barents Sea. * NASA Extends TRMM Mission Once Again http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_050620.html NASA intends to keep flying the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) beyond this summer, a decision that will require the U.S. space agency to waive safety guidelines that call for a controlled deorbit of the aging spacecraft. * ISS Commander Manually Docks Cargo Ship at Space Station http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050618_exp18_prog18_dock.html It took the deft hands of space station commander Sergei Krikalev to dock a new cargo ship at the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday after the unmanned spacecraft's autopilot could not complete the job. * 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 legacy document from the Clinton Administration. * NASA Cuts Down on Space Shuttle Safety Waivers http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_050617_sts114_waivers.html NASA's shuttles are set to return to flight with 90 percent fewer known problems -- many of which could prompt disaster -- than were on the books when Columbia blasted off on its doomed flight in 2003. * NEW! Daily Space Trivia http://www.space.com/php/trivia/ One of Today's 5 New Questions: The wives of what crew were honored by receiving their own mission patch? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * Birds of Prey: Spot Today's Dinosaurs http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/?cat=birdsofprey Dinosaurs didn't just go extinct, they evolved into birds. Some are notably tenacious predators, and with the right gear and some persistence, you can see many of them. * LiveScience Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now! http://www.livescience.com/amazingimages/ Upload your cool pictures of exotic locales, nature, weather, creatures and more! * NEW Photo Gallery: Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/ Unique places, famous landscapes, and the forces of nature the best stuff on Earth. * Bigger Brains Make Smarter People http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050620_big_brains.html For more than a century some of the biggest minds in science have debated whether brain size has anything to do with intelligence. A new study suggests it does. * Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. http://www.livescience.com/technology/ap_050620_techjobs.html As the overseas outsourcing of computer programming jobs increases, more US grads are turning to consulting. * Cell Phones Now Playing Role of Wallet http://www.livescience.com/technology/ap_050620_cell_wallet.html Already a device of multiple disguises, from camera to music player and mini-TV, the cell phone's next trick may be the disappearing wallet. After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry around cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well? * CSI: Egypt http://www.livescience.com/history/050617_tut_redux.html As a touring King Tut exhibit opens this week in LA, some still wonder how the young pharaoh died. * Gov't Finds Highest, Lowest Marijuana Use http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050617_ap_pot_use.html Both college towns, Boston and Boulder, Colo., share another distinction: They lead the nation in marijuana use. Northwestern Iowa and southern Texas have the lowest use. * Tsunami May Have Spread Alien Species http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050617_ap_invasive_species.html The Indian Ocean tsunami's devastating waves brought more than death to this island nation _ they upset some of Sri Lanka's key ecosystems, the U.N. environmental agency warned Friday. ---------------------------------- NEW! Cool Stuff: * Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now! http://www.space.com/amazingimages/ The best user-submitted earth and space imagery. Share your amazing pictures now! * Special Report Feature: Prepare for "Deep Impact" http://www.space.com/deepimpact/ Viewer Guides, Galleries, Mission Updates and More! * New Wallpaper: UFO'S Invade Planet Earth http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/collection.php?collection=Wolfgang Download cool wallpapers of the alien invasion, created by space artist Wolfgang Sigl. * New Gallery: Aurora Season: 2005 http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/archive.php?category=pe New photos of 'Paintings in the sky'. See the best auroras on display this year... * VOTE NOW: Most Amazing Galactic Images Ever http://www.space.com/bestimg/index.php?cat=galactic Vote For Your Favorite Out-of-this-Universe Galactic Image. * Archive: The 10 Best Mars Images Ever http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_best_021203-1.html Each of which has changed the way humans looked at Mars or represented a crucial moment in the history of our quest to understand the Red Planet. * Get the weather from anywhere on Earth...with WeatherBug! http://www.space.com/php/weatherbug/ Type in your ZIP Code and hit "Go" to get your live local weather. * New! Search for Your Next Hi-Tech Job Opportunity Now! http://www.space.com/jobs/ Imaginova and CareerBuilder.com have partnered to bring you the best in job searching, resume posting, and online recruiting. ---------------------------------- Entertainment: Movies, Television, DVD, Games and much more... http://www.space.com/entertainment/ * Kansas Museum Spotlights Cold War Space Ventures http://www.space.com/entertainment/ap_050618_cosmosphere_ent.html A new gallery that opens Saturday at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center tells the story of early ventures into space from both the American and Russian perspective in side-by-side exhibits. * VOTE NOW: Rate Your Favorite Space Movies http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacemovies/ Vote Now For Your Favorite Space Movie of All Time! * New Songs Added...Explore the SpaceBox! http://www.space.com/entertainment/spacebox/ Explore the SpaceBox! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest Music Inspired by the Cosmos! * Climb Aboard 'Howl's Moving Castle' http://www.space.com/entertainment/050610_howls_review.html It is a truth universally acknowledged among moviegoers that the onscreen adaptation of a novel will basically blow. Not so with Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle. * DVD Review: Voyage to the Planets and Beyond http://www.space.com/entertainment/050607_dvd_voyage.html Most television science fiction shows fling humans out to the vast reaches of the galaxy, but a new DVD is content with exploring our own planetary backyard. * TV Review - National Geographic's 'Extraterrestrial' http://www.space.com/entertainment/050527_review_extraterrestrial.html There are no glowing fingers or Reese's Pieces in National Geographic's alien-filled special 'Extraterrestrial,' but the message is clear: Earth is not that special when it comes to developing life. ---------------------------------- Recent Headlines: http://www.space.com/news/ * Terraforming: Human Destiny or Hubris? http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_terraforming_brody-1.html * Doorstep Astronomy: The Southern Triangle http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050617_summer_triangle.html * New Cargo Ship Rockets Toward International Space Station http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn_050616_exp11_prog18_lnch.html * Setting SETI's Sights: Latest Planet Discovery Suggests New Targets http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_newplanet_050616.html * With Shuttle and Cargo at Pad, NASA Steps Closer Toward Launch http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050616_rtf_launchpad.html * Russian Space Lab Returns to Earth http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn_050616_foton_lndg.html * Fixing NASA: Continuing Coverage of the Space Shuttle Return to Flight http://www.space.com/returntoflight/ * Cassini's Journeys: Headquarters for mission news, Saturn and more http://www.space.com/cassini/ ----------------------------- * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * NightSky: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- JOIN NOW! 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