National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

Atmospheric transparency in the optical and near IR range above the Shatdzhatmaz summit O.Voziakova (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Russia) Atmospheric extinction in the MASS spectral band Atmospheric transparency in near IR range Example of a good photometric night. ... Distribution of atmospheric extinction in MASS Median = 0.23 mag 1-st quartile = 0.20 3-d quartile = 0.27 mag Vertical green line represents theoretical Rayleigh extinction for Shatdzhatmaz (0.16 mag). ...

The Database of Close Binary Systems . ... Team . ... This web-based interactive database is being developed and maintained by a team at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . The project is an on-line extension of our catalogue on "Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars" (volumes I, II) published by Gordon and Breach in 1996. As of September 2009, the database (both the software and the content) is in its development/testing phase. ...