Saturday, February 15, 2003

Space Review Hi Larry, Thanks for spreading the word about The Space Review; I have heard from a couple of people who said they found out about the site through your mailing list! I will have a couple new articles on the site by Monday. Cheers, Jeff Foust jeff@thespacereview.com ====================================================================== Said I would post here and doesn't look like I did so do it now. - LRK - This is from a post by Jeff Foust. The list Jeff refers to is our lunar-update list now on a Majordomo list server at Altair.com - You can sign up by posting an e-mail to lunar-update@altair.com with subscribe lunar-update in the body of the e-mail.  No subject required. Thanks Jeff for the new web site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings: I wanted to inform you of a couple developments involving our site as well as a new one. First, we have revamped the section of the spacetoday.net web site that deals with the shuttle Columbia tragedy. Because of the large volume of news related to the accident -- we have links to approximately 2,000 articles published worldwide about the accident since February 1 -- we have created a number of subcategories to help you sort through the news. These subsections include articles about the ongoing investigation, reaction to the tragedy in the United States and the rest of the world, commentary about the accident and its aftermath, and articles about implications for the future of NASA and space exploration. We're in the process of recategorizing some of our earlier news links and summaries about the mission and the accident, and will create new subcategories as events warrant. You can visit our Columbia special report at the URL http://www.spacetoday.net/STS-107/ . The other major development is the inauguration of a new web site, The Space Review (http://www.thespacereview.com/ ). This is an online publication whose focus is on publishing in-depth articles, essays, editorials, and reviews on a wide range of space-related topics. The Space Review is not a space news site that will publish short news articles on a daily basis; there are plenty of other sites that do that. Instead, we plan to focus on articles that will provide a deeper examination of key space issues, events, history, and related topics. Recent events have made it clear that now, more than ever, we need to take a hard look at what we're doing in space and make sure we're going in the right direction: The Space Review will endeavor to ask -- and answer -- those questions. I encourage you to stop by The Space Review web site and contact me at jeff@thespacereview.com with any comments, suggestions, questions, or even articles you would like to submit for publication. The Space Review has its own mailing list that will be used to notify subscribers when new articles are published; the spacetoday.net mailing list won't be used for this purpose. I hope that, combined, spacetoday.net and The Space Review can help both inform people about the latest space news and enlighten people about the critical issues regarding our future in space. Sincerely, Jeff Foust Publisher, spacetoday.net jeff@spacetoday.net http://www.spacetoday.net/ ----------------------------------------------- In addition to what Jeff is doing, we will also be working on information about the Moon at http://www.KelloggSerialReports.net/KelloggSerialReports.htm Larry at http://www.LarryRussellKellogg.net/ 3:29:54 PM    comment []

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer Happy Birthday Jules Verne Explanation: One hundred seventy-five years ago (on February 8th), Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with machines, Verne wrote visionary works about "Extraordinary Voyages" including such terrestrial travels as Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In 1865 he published the story of three adventurers who undertook a journey From the Earth to the Moon. Verne's characters rode a "projectile-vehicle" fired from a huge cannon constructed in Florida, USA. Does that sound vaguely familiar? A century later, the Saturn V rocket and NASA's Apollo program finally turned this work of fiction into fact, propelling adventuresome trios on what was perhaps Verne's most extraordinary voyage. This dramatic view shows the moonbound Apollo 11 space-vehicle riding top a Saturn V rocket as it blasts skyward. Launched from a spaceport in Florida, the Apollo 11 crew traveled to the moon and back again in 1969, making humanity's first landing on the lunar surface. 8:00:13 AM    comment []