Feb 9 1999
From The Space Library
An Israeli court indicted Israeli teenager Ehud Tenenbaum and four accomplices-Guy Fleisher, Ariel Rosenfeld, Barak Abutbul, and Rafael Ohana--for illegal entry of computers in the United States and Israel. The group allegedly hacked into the computer systems of the Pentagon and NASA, as well as those of academic institutions in Israel and Israel's Knesset.
NASA released images taken with cameras aboard the HST, revealing the infancy of planets. NASA described the images as a "glimpse of what our solar system looked like 4.5 billion years ago when the Earth and other planets began to condense." The images did not show actual planets, but rather the discs of dust that surround young stars. The HST images of six young stars, located 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, showed important details never before revealed in infrared or radio observations, such as the size, shape, thickness, and orientation of the discs
NASA announced the selection of Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni to fly aboard Shuttle Mission STS-102. Guidoni was the first astronaut named to Mission STS-102 and the first European astronaut selected for an ISS mission. The primary purpose of STS-102 would be to deliver a 21-by-15-foot (6.4-by-4.6-meter), multipurpose logistics module, named Leonardo, to the ISS. The Italian Space Agency and NASA had constructed Leonardo under a bilateral agreement that included a flight opportunity for an Italian astronaut. Before his assignment on STS-102, Guidoni had flown in 1996 as a payload specialist aboard Mission STS-75. That 16-day mission had included working with the U. S. Microgravity Payload and testing the NASA-Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System.
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