National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Three space launches under Dnepr Program were performed during less than 3 months, two of which were carried out within mere six days. European Space Agency s (ESA) CryoSat-2, launched on 8 April, was the first satellite delivered to orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2010. ...

home education > resources . ... Activities . ... Has an NSF-funded project called TYC21, which brings together regional groups of community college physics and astronomy instructors [see appendix , or consult the web site: http://www.aapt.org/programs/tyc21/tyc.html . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory: . ... Project ASTRO's The Universe at Your Fingertips: An Astronomy Activity and Resource Notebook, 800+ pages of activities and resources for teachers at all levels, especially grades 4-12. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Images . ... Crew 43/44 . ... Photo and video imagery of the Earth underlying surface and in the Station interior onboard the ISS RS for educational purpose. ... Performance of Pille-Simonyi-2 radiation safety experiment Measurement of space radiation individual adsorbed dose during the VC-16 flight time. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... SSAU students from construction brigades participated on the meeting of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, with the students, engaged in construction of the space-launch complex Vostochniy . ... It is to be recalled that construction project of the space-launch complex Vostochniy began in 2008. ... In total, over 7.000 workers and about 500 students from 15 regions of Russia take part in construction of the unique, the most modern and high-tech space-launch complex of the country. ...

Astrophysics Space Missions . ... Space Physics Missions . Data Centers . ... Lectures in Space Science . ... Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) . ... University of Arizona , Theoretical Astrophysics Program Return to the top of this document . ... JHU/APL AMPTE/CCE Space Science Data Center . ... National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) . ... Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF) at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center . ... Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences/Utah State University (CASS/USU) . ...

... Russian Moon exploration program currently consists of three successive missions, using the legacy of earlier Soviet lunar missions, which included orbiters and landers, sample returns and rovers. ... Currently Russian Moon missions are as follows: . Luna-25 (also known as Luna-Glob-Lander) mission to land the spacecraft on the Moon and the first in a row of a new lunar program, which should eventually lead to exploitation of the Moon. ...

... But today the space program in the United States is in trouble. ... Popular support has largely evaporated. ... If you want to see America's space program restored to its former glory, you can help. ... If your country has its own space program (see below ) please support it and programs of international cooperation like Cassini/Huygens . ... The National Space Society promotes change in social, technical, economic, and political conditions to advance the day when people will live and work in space....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment ?Is there life on Mars?? ... Continue Reading.. Posted on July 28, 2011 | ... Posted on June 24, 2011 | ... The trio, the first space station crew, are [ ] . ... 5 Comments The first American in space, Alan Shepard, made his historic flight fifty years ago. ... 12 Comments Yuri Gagarin made history fifty years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, the USSR succeeded in putting him in space. ...

... Classical School N1522 ensures general secondary education and in addition gives good knowledge of English, history and literature of English-speaking countries. ... All graduates come to meet their teachers and friends, to remember nice years of school life: The Club of International Friendship which united children who made, contacts with teenagers of English-speaking countries by exchanging letters, receiving foreign delegations and that was the way they improved their speaking skills of English....

... Early Release Science Program . ... The man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is most commonly linked to the Apollo moon program, not to science. ... Although President John Kennedy had committed the nation to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade, Webb believed that the space program was more than a political race. ... Webb's vision of a balanced program resulted in a decade of space science research that remains unparalleled...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... The contemporary world opinion, while welcoming the efforts of different states aimed at realization of manned space flights, still considers these efforts insufficient, over-bureaucratized and too slow. ... The more up-to-date is the basic training program for a cosmonaut/astronaut or a manned space flight participant (hereinafter referred to as the student) that is being offered to your interested attention. ... Pre-flight space training (PFST). ...

Magellan to Venus . ... The spacecraft carried a sophisticated imaging radar, which was used to make the most highly detailed map of Venus ever captured during its four years in orbit around Venus from 1990 to 1994. After concluding its radar mapping, Magellan also made global maps of Venus's gravity field. ... The Magellan mission was divided up into "cycles" with each cycle lasting 243 days (the time necessary for Venus to rotate once under the Magellan orbit). ... Magellan Orbiting Venus . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... American planetary exploration is in grave danger, say scientists . According to the American Astronomy Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, the proposed cuts in NASA's 2013 budget will force the United States to give up its leadership in solar system exploration. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... PULSE@Parkes . ... This set of pages is from NRAO, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the American equivalent of Australia Telescope National Facility. ... Project CLEA have a (Windows only) free program Radio Astronomy of Pulsars that allows you to simulate radio observations of pulsars and the use of a radio telescope. ...

... John Glenn: Discovery Launch . ... At left, the Space Shuttle Discovery waits in darkness on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B. At right, on Thursday October 29, Discovery blasts through a bright afternoon sky returning Senator John Glenn to space over 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. ... Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space. ...