Today on SPACE.com --- Wednesday, July 6, 2005 -- http://www.space.com/
/------------------------------------- Advertisement: Can't wait to explore the night sky? Try Digital Download 5 for free! Download the universe to your desktop. http://www.starrynight.com/digital_download.html -------------------------------------/ In today's issue: Science/Astronomy: * Space Jets Recreated in Lab * Russian Court Postpones Hearing in Astrologer's Deep Impact Lawsuit * Image of the Day: Africa's Orange River Spaceflight: * Voyage to the Stars: NASA Study Mulls Options * Russian Space Agency Signs Tourist Deal * ASTRONOTES: Japan Postpones M-5 Rocket Launch * As Discovery's Flight Nears, Four NASA Men Deal with Columbia's Loss * Mars Robots Continue Science Gathering Duties * Afterglow: NASA Lauds Deep Impact's Comet Crash * NASA Revisits Space Shuttle Close Calls * NEW! Daily Space Trivia NEW! LiveScience.com * LiveScience Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now! * What Does Busy Start Mean to Hurricane Season Predictions? * NEW Image Gallery: Great White Sharks * The Science of Shark Attacks and How to Avoid Them * Take Your Time: Extra Second Will be Added to 2005 * Tornado Record Set: No Deaths Since March * Footprints in Mexico Create Scientific Stir * Mount St. Helens' Lava Dome Partly Collapses * Birds of Prey: Spot Today's Dinosaurs NEW! Cool Stuff: * Amazing Images: Cool Space and Science Photos from around the World and Beyond * Science Smashing: Deep Impact's Top 10 Images * Special Report: "Deep Impact" * Visit Our Collection of Space Wallpapers * New Gallery: Colorful Auroras: 2005 Season, Pt. 2 * Visit the Space Library * 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! * Film Review: 'War of the Worlds' Update Hits Home * TV Review: 'Seconds from Disaster: Columbia's Last Flight' * Kansas Museum Spotlights Cold War Space Ventures * New 'Doctor Who' a Hit for BBC Recent Headlines: * SPACE NEWS: NASA's Moon Plans Shift into High Gear * Predicting the Next Bright Comet * Solar Sail Launch Failure Remains Mysterious * Details Emerge on Jeff Bezos' Space Plans * 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: * Space Jets Recreated in Lab http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050704_lab_jets.html Hyperfast, exotic streams of gas that have been observed shooting from black holes behave like lines of speeding cars that suddenly encounter heavy traffic, new lab work shows. * Russian Court Postpones Hearing in Astrologer's Deep Impact Lawsuit http://www.space.com/news/ap_050705_deepimpact_astrologer.html NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer. * Image of the Day: Africa's Orange River http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_050706.html The Orange River separates Namibia and South Africa, cutting through stark but colorful landscape before emptying into the South Atlantic Ocean. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * Voyage to the Stars: NASA Study Mulls Options http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/050706_star_voyage.html The idea of dispatching a dedicated robotic probe on an interstellar trek has been seriously advocated for nearly 30 years. A recently finished appraisal of how to build such a craft shows that it is within reach -- but nonetheless remains a challenging task. * Russian Space Agency Signs Tourist Deal http://www.space.com/news/ap_olson_tourist_050706.html Russia's space agency has signed a contract with Gregory Olsen, a spokesman said Wednesday, in a deal that would make the U.S. millionaire scientist only the third tourist to visit the international space station. * ASTRONOTES: Japan Postpones M-5 Rocket Launch http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html Japan's space agency said Wednesday that bad weather had forced it to delay the launch of an M-5 rocket carrying a satellite to study black holes and galaxies. * As Discovery's Flight Nears, Four NASA Men Deal with Columbia's Loss http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ap_050705_columbia_profiles.html Each man had an intimate tie to the Columbia disaster. Two were in Mission Control trying to save the shuttle and its crew, and two were 900 miles (1,448 kilometers) away at the Florida landing strip waiting for a spacecraft that would never come. * Mars Robots Continue Science Gathering Duties http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050705_rovers_update.html NASA's dual Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are wheeling about in their respective zones of exploration: Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum. * Afterglow: NASA Lauds Deep Impact's Comet Crash http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050704_deepimpact_update.html Deep Impact scientists and engineers are lauding their mission's successful collision with Comet Tempel 1 and are already drawing some conclusions about the icy wanderer. * NASA Revisits Space Shuttle Close Calls http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_050702_shuttle_closecalls.html A rocket fuel fire during atmospheric re-entry that ended in explosions on the Edwards Air Force Base runway in 1983. * NEW! Daily Space Trivia http://www.space.com/php/trivia/ One of Today's 5 New Questions: Who logged the most space walk time for women astronauts in the 20th century? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * 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! * What Does Busy Start Mean to Hurricane Season Predictions? http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050706_hurricane_start.html The record fast start to this year's hurricane season won't alter meteorologists' earlier prediction of a fairly active season with 12 to 15 named storms, forecasters say. * NEW Image Gallery: Great White Sharks http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/ Cool pictures of Nature's perfect killing machine. * The Science of Shark Attacks and How to Avoid Them http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050705_shark_attack.html Despite two highly publicized shark attacks last month along the U.S. coast, at least one scientist says it's safe to go back in the water. * Take Your Time: Extra Second Will be Added to 2005 http://www.livescience.com/technology/050705_leap_second.html Officials announced Monday that an extra second would be added at the end of this year. * Tornado Record Set: No Deaths Since March http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050705_tornado_deaths.html A new record has been set for tornado deaths, and the news is all good. * Footprints in Mexico Create Scientific Stir http://www.livescience.com/history/ap_050705_human_footprints.html British scientists claimed on Tuesday to have unearthed 40,000 year-old human footprints in central Mexico, challenging previous studies that put the arrival of the first humans in the Americas at about 13,500 years ago. * Mount St. Helens' Lava Dome Partly Collapses http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/ap_050703_helens_dome.html A large part of the growing lava dome on Mount St. Helens fell Saturday, sending an ash plume above the crater rim, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. * 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. ---------------------------------- NEW! Cool Stuff: * Amazing Images: Cool Space and Science Photos from around the World and Beyond http://www.space.com/amazingimages/ The best user-submitted earth and space imagery. Upload your amazing pictures now! * Science Smashing: Deep Impact's Top 10 Images http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050705_scitues_deepimpact.html Comets will never look the same now that NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has successfully slammed into one of the icy wanderers in full view of orbital observatories, ground-based telescopes and skywatchers around the world. * Special Report: "Deep Impact" http://www.space.com/deepimpact/ Viewer Guides, Galleries, Mission Updates and More! * Visit Our Collection of Space Wallpapers http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/ >From the highest quality space art to intergalactic photography, find an image >for your desktop every month of the year. * New Gallery: Colorful Auroras: 2005 Season, Pt. 2 http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/archive.php?category=pe More great shots of auroras on display during the 2005 Season. * Visit the Space Library http://www.space.com/spacelibrary/ Book previews and interviews with the authors of the latest books about astronomy, space science and human spaceflight. * 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/ * 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! * Film Review: 'War of the Worlds' Update Hits Home http://www.space.com/entertainment/050629_waroftheworlds_review.html Filmmaker Steven Spielberg's update of the science fiction classic War of the Worlds, may be a popcorn adventure at heart, but its fight against invaders hits close to home. * TV Review: 'Seconds from Disaster: Columbia's Last Flight' http://www.space.com/entertainment/050628_columbia_disaster.html The National Geographic Channel will pick apart the steps and missteps that led up to the NASA's Columbia tragedy during a one-hour program highlighting the disaster. * 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. * New 'Doctor Who' a Hit for BBC http://www.space.com/entertainment/ap_050618_drwho_ent.html A time-traveling blast from the past - and the future - has become one of the biggest hits of Britain's television present. ---------------------------------- Recent Headlines: http://www.space.com/news/ * SPACE NEWS: NASA's Moon Plans Shift into High Gear http://www.space.com/spacenews/050704_business_monday.html * Predicting the Next Bright Comet http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050701_bright_comets.html * Solar Sail Launch Failure Remains Mysterious http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050701_cosmos_mystery.html * Details Emerge on Jeff Bezos' Space Plans http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050701_bezos_plans.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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