NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Thomas Patten Stafford O RAL H ISTORY: 15 October 1997 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: BS with honors, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1952 Graduated from Squadron Officer School Graduated from Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School, 1959 M ILITARY EXPERIENCE: Lieutenant General, United States Air Force , Retired November 1979 PRE- ... Transmitted first live color TV from space. ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:1406.3622 Холодное пятно в реликтовом излучении: тень сверхвойда . ... arxiv:1406.3622 Холодное пятно в реликтовом излучении: тень сверхвойда (The Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background: the Shadow of a Supervoid) . ... Одной из самых известных является Холодное пятно. ... Цитата: Сергей Попов от 17.06.2014 [21:08:28] arxiv:1406.3622 Холодное пятно в реликтовом излучении: тень сверхвойда (The Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background: the Shadow of a Supervoid) . ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... After arrival at the Rose Center, the township trip organizer, Michael Hritz, was able to secure tickets for the next space show in the New Hayden Planetarium in the top of the 87-foot sphere that is the centerpiece of the Rose Center. ... Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? ... Some examples shown were if the Hayden Sphere represented the size of the observable universe then a spheroid roughly the size of a beach ball represented the all of the galactic superstructure that has been...

T HE V I www.vista.ac.uk V ISTA'S ISIBLE & NFRARED S UR VEY T ELESCOPE FOR A STRONOMY .R 1.65DEGREE DIAMETER INFRARED FIELD OF VIEW FEEDS A APID DEEP IR 4- METRE PRIMARY MIRROR AND MEGAPIXEL OBJECTS FOR FOLLOW-UP WITH VLT, AND DIRECTLY STUDY A WIDE VARIETY OF ASTRONOMICAL TOPICS (0.34 PIXEL ) CAMERA (0.85­2.3µm) 64 IMAGING SURVEYS WILL BOTH SELECT . ... As an ESO telescope, VISTA and its large surveys will now be fully exploited by the whole ESO community. ... VISTA Figure 9: Telescope support base. ...

GENERAL INFORMA T ION ABOUT How does my LOMO® Night Vision Device Work? ... LOMO® NIGHT VISION DEVICES & FAQs When using a Night Vision Device, you are actually looking at an image that is projected by the intensifier tube located inside the unit (Fig. ... Light enters the Night Vision Device through the objective lens and hits the photocathode in front of the intensifier tube. ... Infrared (IR) Illuminator Microchannel Plate (Gen.2 Only) When do I use my LOMO® Night Vision Device? ... Fig. ...

В магнитосфере Земли обнаружены микровихри . 17 августа 2005 г . В 2000 г. Европейское космическое агентство отправило на околоземную орбиту квартет одинаковых спутников Cluster (все они имеют танцевальные названия - Salsa, Samba, Tango и Rumba). ... Тогда четверка спутников располагалась на орбите по углам воображаемого правильного тетраэдра, все стороны которого имели длину 100 км. ... Предыдущий документ - Следующий документ . ... Планета Земля . ...

Central Bodies Masses of Selected Globular Clusters N.A.Shakht, A.A.Kiselev, Yu.N.Gnedin and E.A.Grosheva. The Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory RAS 47 Tuc ­NGC 104 RA 00 24 .1 Dec -72° 04 .9 Size = 30.9 mvis + 4. 0 m D from = 12,1 kpc, h m Cen - NGC 5139 NGC 6397 (Ara) RA 17 h40.m7 Dec -53o 40'.4 Size = 31',0 mvis + 5,3m D from =2.3 kpc RA 13h 26m .8 Dec -47° 28 6 Size = 36.3 m vis +3. 7 m D from =15.8 ±1.1 kpc, 12109 years, Age: 10109 years, (13.4 ± 0.8)109 years. ...

Molniya Triplane Aircraft . At present NPO MOLNIYA is working not only in the space field but also on aircraft engineering. ... Considering this NPO MOLNIYA has chosen a "triplane" aerodynamic scheme stipulating in comparison with traditional schemes the essential increase of flying safety and fuel economy of its aircraft. The triplanes have advantages of canard and classical schemes, but are free from their faults. ... Molniya-1 . ... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . ...

Experimental rocket R-1A . To mature mass and operating characteristics of rocket R-1, its designers proposed to use an integral fuel tank and a warhead separated from the rocket at the ascent phase completion. In this case, only the ascent phase appeared to be rated for the launch vehicle and considerably more favorable regarding mechanical and thermal loads as compared to the atmospheric portion of the descent phase of the flight trajectory. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Microwave Plasmachemistry for Photonics . ... The group focuses on research and development of technology aimed at fabrication of lightguide structures to serve a wide scope of photonics needs. The technology we apply comes from silica based optical materials synthesis from a gas phase by a plasmachemical deposition in a microwave-induced discharge. ... Golant “ Radiation Resistant Optical Fiber with a High Birefringence ”, Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics, Vol. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Здесь я собрал личные названия объектов глубокого космоса (Deep-Sky). В графе русские названия я указал названия принятые у нас в России, а в графе английских названий те, что приняты на западе. ... Отр. тум. - отражательная туманность . Пл. тум - Планетарная туманность . ... Галактика. ... Группа галактик . ... Звездное скопление . ... Шаровое скопление . Русское название . Английское название (перевод) . ... Гантель . ... Cooling Tower (холодильник) . ... Кольцо . ... Малая Гантель . ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescop e (KELT) pro ject is a wide field, small-ap erture survey for such transits, based on a theoretical optimization of all-sky transit searches (Pepp er, Gould, & DePoy 2003). It is similar to the other small-telescop e transit surveys with wide fields (Alonso et al. ... Figure 1 shows a sample image of a survey field. ... Among transit surveys, KELT has the largest field of view for which image subtraction has b een successfully employed. ... fields of view. ...

... SHORT TERM PREDICTION OF POWER SOLAR FLARES FROM SSRT DATA . The algorithm for short term prediction of powerful solar flares, based on SSRT data, includes microwave emission characteristics in total and polarized flux, the structure of active region (AR) magnetic field at the photospheric level, and H a patrol data. ... During this period, 7 AR's crossed the solar disk, in which 20 flares of importance ? ... Data on AR's and magnetic fields were received from the Sayan observatory by teletype. ...

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... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY AFTER GAMOW: RECENT PROGRESS AND NEW HORIZONS 4-th GAMOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ODESSA and 9-th GAMOW SUMMER SCHOOL Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Radioastronomy, High Energy Physics and Astrobiology 17-23 August , 2009, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 17.08.2009 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants Tuesday, 18.08.2009 05.59 09.00 10.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 16.00 ...