... Starting in the 21st Century, a space policy regarding off-world development should be valued for their contribution toward improving the quality of life on this planet, as well as in the entire Solar System. To this end, humankind needs to articulate a new global vision and ethos relative to our joint efforts in outer space. ... For the first time in human history, we have the opportunity to plan the establishment of space culture. ... Human Factors in Future Space Productions. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

. - back to the Virtual Space Museum index. - how to view VRML's, etc... A cool clickable scheme of Mir base module . Mir base module . From Shuttle to Mir . Mir fly-around (VRML) . Mir fly-around (VRML), with Soyuz, Progress and Shuttle . Communication satellite Luch (Altair) . Core module in assembly building . Mir, front view . Right side of Mir . Bottom view . Kristall module . docking mechanism . Luch (Altair) communication satellite . "Space motorcycle" .

In 1995 Ukraine started operation of Vernadsky antarctic research station . The station was transfered by Great Britain, former Faraday station. ... Vernadsky is the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) former Faraday station that has been transferred free to Ukraine for Ukrainian Antarctic Center (UAC) at 7 February 1996. ... Vernadsky (Faraday) is the oldest operational station in the Antarctic Peninsula area. ... Vernadsky is the first Ukrainian Antarctic station. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... The metallicity distribution of disk F stars in different age ranges: the left column for the sample of stars within 80 pc around the Sun; the right column for the restored complete sample at the solar galactocentric distance with allowance made for the radial metallicity gradient. The numbers indicate the age ranges expressed in billions of years. ... next figure . ...

... Как работает планетарий . ... Трибуна ученого . ... кандидат физико-математических наук, с.н.с. ГАИШ МГУ Попов Сергей Борисович . ... доктор физико-математических наук Прохоров Михаил Евгеньевич . ... доктор физико-математических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник Института астрономии РАН Вибе Дмитрий Зигфридович . ... Архив Трибуны ученого . ... Доктор физико-математических наук, сотрудник Звенигородской обсерватории Института астрономии Российской академии наук (ИНАСАН), руководитель группы . ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). Designation of objects on image. Circles of different colour mark objects on an image. ... The star or something another is marked for the following measurement. If set mode "i", at click on the star, a coordinates in pixels, equatorial coordinates, proper motions and star magnitudes in two photometric systems are printed in a window "Information". Equatorial coordinates; proper motions and magnitudes are printed, if this star is identified in a catalogue). ...