... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. ... One of the main tasks of the Space Camp program is to facilitate cooperation with educational institutions in Russia and abroad in proliferation and mastering of acquired knowledge in a form of space-related quizzes, contests, scientific experiments, on line- and videoconferences. ...
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 . ...
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. ...
... February 22 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The station "Mir" and cargo vehicle Progress 1-5 operations scheduled for 21-22 February completed. The onboard "Mir" and the cargo ship systems checked out, orbit radiomonitoring performed. ... The Station remains pressurized, the onboard systems perform nominal. ... The Station and the cargo ship onboard systems further checkout and the orbit radiomonotoring are scheduled for 22-23 Feb. ...
... 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. ...
... 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. ...
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... 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 (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....
. The Planet's Parade . The Hale-Bopp Comet . The Ikeya-Zhang Comet. Sergey Nazarov's Foto . Ursa Major . The Young Moon . The Moon. Andrew Zolotukhin' s Foto . 2003 May 07: Transit of Mercury . Home | My Telescope | Introduction | Links .
... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...
... ????????????? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...
The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...
... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...