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. ...

... After passing degree work in MAO of NAS of of USSR Sosonkin has received the recommendation for receipt in post-graduate course of M??. ... Subjects of his scientific work were use of new receivers of radiation, in particular of electron-optical converters at observant astronomy. ... On industrial base FTI Sosonkin has created installation on base EOC UM - 92 for Cassegrain focus of a telescope ?ZT-2 and similar to it and installation with the same type EOC for focus of Newton. ...

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. ...

... Six working groups were created at the previous RadioAstron meeting (September 2002): On-board Science Payload, Tracking Stations, Mission Operations, Ballistic and Navigations, Correlators and Data Processing, and Science Program. ... During a special visit of Mr Phillip Cleary from the NASA Russia Office, the meeting was able to reiterate the request made for NASA support with equipment transfer to the three ground stations and for support with correlation efforts. ... Sergey Likhachev ASC, Russia...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... I read in your archives that: "The black hole will slowly radiate away?. ... Since this represents energy leaving the black hole, it will slowly release all of its mass in this fashion." ... If a pair of particles is produced which gets its rest mass energy from the gravitational field of the hole, and one particle is lost, then there will be a decrease in the energy of the hole. ...

Welcome to Siberia! This is a small part of our "Astronomy from Siberia" web-site. ... This pages were created especially for our foreinger partners and mostly as a part of our participation in the " International School Observatory " project. ... I'm Sergey Guryanov (Mr.) - an astronomy and physics teacher from the small Siberian town Zelenogorsk (it means something as a Green mountains town). ... Welcome to our "Yuri's Night" world space party: ( 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 ) . ...