THE METRORAIL SONG Let me tell you a story of a man named Charley, It's a tragic and fateful tale: He bought a dollar farecard at Takoma station Went to ride on the Metrorail. But did he ever return? No, he never returned. ... He may ride forever from White Flint to Ballston, He's the man who never returned. ... CHORUS Charlie rides up and down the escalators at Rosslyn, Crying: "What will become of me?" ... Or else he'll never return, no, he'll never return What a sorry ending to my tale. ...

Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth ї The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...

These routines are meant to provide a generic and simple to use child process management facility. ... Terminate the management of a child process for state changes. cm_poll . ... This routine is called when a child process is stopped. cm_PROTO_term_func . ... This routine is called when a child process exits. flag cm_manage ( int pid, void (*stop_func) (), void (*term_func) (), void (*exit_func) () ) . This routine will manage a child process for state changes by registering callback routines. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 5.03.2008 . ... Credit: STS-122 Shuttle Crew , NASA Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. ... Construction began on the ISS in 1998. ... Publications with keywords: ISS - international space station . Publications with words: ISS - international space station . ... APOD: 2008 April 1- New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called Dextre the Magnificent . ... Columbus Laboratory Installed on Space Station . ...

... total pwr in range vs ipp images . ... pol1 is the pol we started with. ... I was trying to write these times down as they happened. looking at some of the total power plots, it looks like some of the times were recorded were not correct (signal appears when hf off). ... To see when things happened, i made images of total pwr (in rang) vs time for each data file . ... The title of each image contains the start time (ast) as well as the state of hf xmiter when the file started. 5 sigma images . ...

Bug fix: the SDSS primary might be tilted if two identical (or nearly identical) moves were commanded. ... The "galil" breakthrough command now echoes all replies. ... Improved SDSS 2.5m support, including: . ... Bug fix: predicted durations from the Galil set the time limit of the user command instead of the device command; this fix should make long moves more robust. ... Mirror name now reported to the user when the user connects to the mirror controller. ... The first version with version history. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... space flight . ... SpaceX Dragon returns from space station with NASA cargo . ... Dragon landed in the Pacific Ocean, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of Baja, California, after the conclusion of the first commercial cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. ... The mission was the first of at least 12 cargo resupply missions to the space station planned by SpaceX through 2016 under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract. ...

... Russian Aviation and Space Agency liaison Sergei Ripkin, during the crew's welcome home ceremony May 27 f rom a change in crew to a new ride home, Expedition 6 members ­ International Space Station Commander Kenneth Bowersox, ISS Science Officer Donald Pettit and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin ­ were "all about teamwork and flexibility," said ISS Program Manager Bill Gerstenmaier. ... Bowersox later said that Pettit was "born to be a Space Station Science Officer." ...

... StarCity, Moscow Region. The Star City situated near Moscow hosted the solemn event devoted to meeting with the crew of the 11th Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS-11): Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and NASA astronaut John Phillips, as well as Gregory Olsen, US citizen, another participant of this space flight, who had returned with them to Earth and worked on the ISS under the 9th Visiting Crew (VC-9) Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... I finished making the changes to the online iraf help pages, committed the changes to subversion, and checked them out on the website. ... After that I returned to converting code to run under Python3. I finished and committed the changes to stwcs and I am working on pydrizzle. ... I finished converting calcos, but I am having a problem importing stsci.convolve when running under python 3. ... I finished converting the code to run under python 2 and 3. ... Archive for 2015 . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . FileљList . ... core . StelFader.hpp . ... 32 љ StelFader ( bool initialState, float minimumValue=0.f, float maximumValue=1.f) : state(initialState), minValue(minimumValue), maxValue(maximumValue) {;} . ... 34 љ // Increments the internal counter of deltaTime ticks . ... 41 љ bool operator==( bool s) const { return state==s;} . ... 81 љ LinearFader ( int _duration=1000, float minimumValue=0.f, float maximumValue=1.f, bool initialState= false ) . ...

... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . The kernel's handling of device interrupts has been massively reworked in the 2.6 series. ... If no interrupt handler for a given IRQ has been registered, the kernel knows that any interrupt on that number is spurious. ... If your interrupt handler recognizes and handles a given interrupt, it should return IRQ_HANDLED . ... can also be used; handled should be nonzero if the handler could deal with the interrupt. ...

... 2008 June 23 . The International Space Station Expands Again . Credit: STS-124 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. Earlier this month, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery visited the ISS and added components that included Japan 's Kibo Science Laboratory . ... Construction began on the ISS in 1998. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The length of the shadow depends on the height of an object (like a mountain or a human) and how high up the Sun is. ... We can calculate the length of the shadow if we know the Sun's angle above the horizon and the object's height. ... The Earth spins 360 degrees in 24 hours, which means it spins 1 degree in 4 minutes; that in turn means the Sun moves 1 degree every 4 minutes in the sky. ...

... Doug's Home Page . ... S-Lang structures are converted to hash references in Perl , as shown below. ... n\n ; print Structure contents:\n ; # you can treat $s as a reference to a hash array in most respects, except: # - the order of the keys in the array matches that of the # original S-Lang structure # while ( my ( $ key , $ value ) = each %{$s} ) { print key $ key \t has a value of $ value \n ; } print \n ; $$s{afield} = 'a changed field value '; print ...

At the end of December 2004, the CCD was removed from the telescope and returned to Spectral Instruments in Tucson. The existing thick chip will be replaced with a thinned chip and the readout changed from 2-channel to 4-channel. ... Additional changes being made during this period include the installation of a compress air drier, collimating camera and cloud monitoring camera. Back to Recent News List . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . ...

... Returns UT1 in seconds, with UTC input in seconds. ut12gst ( utc _real [, ut1 _real ]) Function. Returns GST in hours, inputs are in seconds. hourangle ( gst _real , ra _real ) Function. Return hourangle in hours, with inputs also in hours. zenithangle ( ha _real , dec _real ) Function. Return zenithangle in degrees with inputs ha in hours and dec in degrees. mirrorangle ( ha _real , dec _real ) Function. ... Return horizon coordinates for input azimuth and elevation angle in degrees. ...

. Entering the command cd . without a pathname returns you to your home directory .

... For example, IKI is located near Kaluzhskaya station of the orange colored line (line number 6). [pic] To help you find your way, there are several multicolored metro maps in every car, and a loud speaker that announces the name of the station at every stop. ... After you got out the train doors, turn right and proceed to the escalator (moving staircases) in the direction of your train movement. ... Enter the Kaluzhskaya metro station, go downstairs and take the train on the RIGHT side. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.