... America Returns to Space Flight . ... Credit Copyright: NASA Explanation: NASA 's launch of the massive Space Shuttle Discovery yesterday brought a nation known for its tremendous space program back to human space flight. Shuttle flights had been suspended for over two years previously following the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia crew on 2003 February 1. ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle . Publications with words: space shuttle . ... A Space Shuttle Over Los Angeles . ...

... TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... Following a 188-day flight program the Expedition 9 crew of the International Space Station (ISS-9) consisting of the commander Gennady Padalka, Russian cosmonaut, and the flight engineer Michael Fincke, U.S. astronaut, returned to Earth in Soyuz TMA-4 descent vehicle. ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... The Soyuz-FG - Soyuz TMA-4 system was erected on the launcher. ...

Next: Output files Up: Pipeline Previous: Pipeline Contents . ... The full command is as follows: . npoipipe, confiles, calibrators=calstars,addcal=calstar,model=modelfile . confiles is a string file specifier given to IDL's file_search function to return a list of files for processing. ... Calibrators can be added to the standard list using the addcal keyword. ... Finally, the model keyword can be used to pass the name of a model file which will be used to flag data on non-tracking baselines. ...

... Easy to use C, FORTRAN, and UNIX interfaces provide direct access to SAOtng information, data, and control functions. ... XPA allows an Xt program such as SAOtng to define named ``public access points'' through which data and commands can be exchanged with other programs. ... New image files can be loaded using the file public access point: csh) imset file ../data/coma.fits Sending an image file name to the file access point causes SAOtng to load and display that image. ...

... Both users and system administrators often need to run commands periodically. For example, the system administrator might want to run a command to clean the directories with temporary files ( /tmp љ and /var/tmp љ ) from old files, to keep the disks from filling up, since not all programs clean up after themselves correctly. The cron љ service is set up to do this. Each user has a crontab љ , where he lists the commands he wants to execute and the times they should be executed. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... April . ... By admin March 16, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Stargazing the Night Sky is a short and very informal course is for complete beginners who want to know more about the wonders of the cosmos. ... If you want to experience the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

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... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

The program "Apollo" . From middle of 1960.the USA have concentrated efforts on the program the "Apollo", putting purpose a parcel of the person to moon. it was successfully executed in July 1969Ц, when юrmstrong and нldrin have left "Eagle", a lunar module of "Apollo - 11", and have made historical " the first small step " on a lunar surface. ... Researching of moon under the program "Apollo" the rocket "Saturn" carrying lunar, command and service modules was used. ...

I. Installation . ... AMPLE package distributive (created with program InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++) has been downloaded on FTP server of IAA RAS as archive Ample.zip. ... Note: If the window "file download" appears, select Open... switch button, then press OK button. ... The shortcut for AMPLE will be linked with this folder, and auxiliary files will be created here during AMPLE work. ... When running AMPLE all auxiliary and new configuration files are created in the WORK folder. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The length of the shadow depends on the height of an object (like a mountain or a human) and how high up the Sun is. ... We can calculate the length of the shadow if we know the Sun's angle above the horizon and the object's height. ... The Earth spins 360 degrees in 24 hours, which means it spins 1 degree in 4 minutes; that in turn means the Sun moves 1 degree every 4 minutes in the sky. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Sky Events . ... Dragon spacecraft returns critical science to Earth . ... Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft able to return a significant amount of cargo to Earth. ... Investigations included among the returned cargo could aid in food production during future long-duration space missions and enhance crop production on Earth. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

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So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... Russian Moon exploration program currently consists of three successive missions, using the legacy of earlier Soviet lunar missions, which included orbiters and landers, sample returns and rovers. ... Currently Russian Moon missions are as follows: . Luna-25 (also known as Luna-Glob-Lander) mission to land the spacecraft on the Moon and the first in a row of a new lunar program, which should eventually lead to exploitation of the Moon. ...

... IRAF Multiple Extensions FITS (MEF) Files Interface Nelson Zarate National Optical Astronomy Observatories Tucson, AZ 85719 (zarate@noao.edu) Abstract. ... If there are no values to match then `extver' should be INDEFL. 3.2. mef rdhdr gn (mef,group) Read extension number `group'. ... The header should have been read by now. mefo The output file MEF pointer returned by mef open. 4.2. mef copy extn (mefi, mefo, group) Copy a FITS extension given by its number `group' into an output file. ...

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