... The flying laboratories, which are designed on the basis of the "IL-76 MDK" wide-body airplane, can create short-term weightless conditions. ... Weightlessness lasts for 25 seconds and can be recreated up to 15 times within one flight. ... The airplane volume (3,4m У 3,2m У 14.1 Л), as well as the payload of experimental equipment, allocated in the laboratory compartment, advantageously single out our airplane from the similar ones in the world. ... Flight . ... 25 sec . ... Upon request . ...

After some period of quiet Sun the exciting Sun-Earth connections event as the big magnetic storm was observed at January 10-11, 1997 by various satellites and ground-based instruments. Scientist meet this challenge with unprecedented activity and a few data bases was created in relation with solar event/magnetic storm on a few WEB-sites. ... According the Moscow observatory data the sudden storm commencement (SSC) take place at 01:08 Universal Time of January 10, 1997. ...

LIFR MI 2 P, Laboratoire International Franco-Russe de Math matiques et Interaction avec l'Informatique et la Physique Th orique is, as its name indicates, a French-Russian mathematics research lab that focuses on fundamental mathematics and its interaction with computer science and theoretical physics. It was created by a Founding Agreement between the CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) and the IUM (the Independent University of Moscow). ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... By the early beginnings of NASA's and America's human space program some 40 years ago, the Langley Research Center in Virginia had a long and rich history. ... It was the first home of the Space Task Group (STG), which was formed with NACA/NASA engineers to conduct the Mercury Project. ... Though physically located at Langley until the completion of Project Mercury, the STG was initially part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Beltsville, Md. ...