... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....

... In the course of the BURAN orbiter development, suborbital and orbital launches of BOR-4 and BOR-5 flight vehicles have been produced for aerodynamic analysis and working capacity of thermal protection structures verification. ... The flights of the SPIRAL prototype and BOR-4 and BOR-5 flying vehicles have allowed not only to speed up the BURAN orbiter development, but also to justify the choice of the aerodynamic scheme of the orbital stage of the advanced MAKS aerospace system. ... Buran Orbiter ....

Астрономическая картинка дня . Официальное зеркало Astronomy picture of the day на сервере NASA ?? ... 13 января 2002 . ... Гипатия Александрийская . Пояснение: Шестнадцать столетий назад Гипатия была одним из самых передовых ученых в области математики и астрономии. ... Гиппатии приписывается высказывание: "Сохраняй за собой право думать, даже неправильно ? это лучше, чем не думать совсем". ... Robert Nemiroff ( MTU ) и Jerry Bonnell ( USRA ) . ... А. Сергеев , оформление, 1999, 2000. ...

... The Triplet Lenses are manufactured by LOMO PLC of St. Petersburg Russia, one of the world's largest and most advanced optical manufacturers. ... This day the official web site of St.Petersburg company, lomo.ru, became accessible. ... LOMO VOTING PAPERS PROCESSING COMPLEXES TESTED SUCCESSFULLY . On December 16, 2001 during elections to Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region, Russia, pilot pieces of the new Voting Papers Processing Complex created at LOMO PLC were used for the first time. ...

... Multiexposition 34 images Sun 1/1000 sec f/22 and 1 image background. ... It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year. Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. ... Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. ...

... Меркурий - четвертая по блеску планета: в максимуме она почти так же ярка, как Сириус, ярче же бывают только Венера, Марс, Юпитер. Тем не менее Меркурий очень трудная для наблюдения планета из-за малости его орбиты и, следовательно, близости к Солнцу; его наибольшая элонгация (видимое угловое расстояние от Солнца) составляет 28 градусов. ... Вследствие всех этих разного рода трудностей только самым упорным наблюдателям удавалось обнаружить детали на поверхности Меркурия. ...