... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... August . ... Posted on August 19, 2011 | 85 Comments On a dark September night in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill had a frightening experience in the mountains of New Hampshire. ... 3 Comments Our Place in the Universe is an astronomy course for those who want to know more about this fascinating subject. ... Posted on July 28, 2011 | ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

... 2012 August 30 . Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama . Credit: Neil Armstrong , Apollo 11 , NASA - Panorama by Syd Buxton . ... Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility . Taken by Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module, the frame at the far left ( AS11-37-5449 ) is the first picture taken by a person on another world. ...

... Apollo 14: Rickshaw Tracks Across the Moon . ... 27.04.1996 . ... Credit: Apollo 14 , NASA Explanation: Brilliant sunlight glints off tracks gently winding across the the Moon's Frau Maro highlands . The tracks were made by the Apollo 14 crew's two-wheeled Modularized Equipment Transporter (MET) , fondly known as the "rickshaw". ... April . ... April 1996 . ... 1995 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - apollo . Publications with words: Moon - apollo . ... Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Launch of Dnepr LV carrying Sich-2 and BPA-2 (State Space Agency of Ukraine), Nigeriasat-2 and Nigeriasat-X (SSTL, Great Britain), RASAT (Space Research Technology Institute of Turkey (TUBITAK UZAY)), EDUSAT (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Aprizesat-5 and Aprizesat-6 (SpaceQuest, USA) payloads is scheduled for 17 August 2011, at 10:12:20 decreed Moscow time (7:12:20 UTC). ...

... Total solar eclipse 2008 live from Novosibirsk On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia. ... The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished at 11h45m UT. ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with . ... Total phase . ... It's preferably to install on computer VLC media player free program for Web-cast live receiving. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia. ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region. ... S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia hosted scheduled training sessions under the Program for the International Space Station (ISS) forth coming expeditions crew training. ... The 64th anniversary of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" ...

STScI . ... What is STScI . ... Missions . ... Office of Public Outreach . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ATLAST . Research . ... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . Left: 8-meter monolithic mirror telescope (credit: MSFC Advanced Concepts Office) . ... ATLAST Concept Study - Final Report (Public Version) . ... ATLAST 8-meter Monolithic Telescope Design Details (Appendix C) . ATLAST 9.2m Segmented Telescope Design Details (Appendix G) . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Military Space . Space Science . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . ISS Main Expedition Five Mission Chronicle: August 2002 . In August, Valeriy Korzun, Peggy Whitson and Sergey Treshchov prepared and conducted two EVAs and continued science experiments. ... EVA Nears . ... First EVA Of The Fifth Expedition . ... New CRV In Development At NASA . ...

. Curiosity, the big rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, will land in August 2012 near the foot of a mountain inside Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS

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... Dr Jayanne English, Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada will present the talk Cosmos versus Canvas: Tensions Between Art and Science in Astronomy Images in the Science Gallery, TCD, on August 7 th . ... Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... On one clear, starry night a Portuguese explorer called Ferdinand Magellan sailed over the equator to the Southern Hemisphere. ... Since the southern half of the planet is facing a different direction in space than the north, southerners see different stars and galaxies than the northerners do. Looking at this new set of stars, Magellan noticed what looked like a blurry cloud. ... We now know that the LMC is a dwarf galaxy, about 10 times smaller than the Milky Way (our home galaxy). ...

UFO Forum Message . ... Moon Landing Not Fake.. ... Personaly, I have no idea whether the moon landing was fake or not, but i can say that these are very bad and faulty points about the subject. Here is what was posted and my replies to these points. ... The Moon landings took place during the Cold War. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the lunar surface before the Apollo landings. ... The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. ... The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. ... Launched: 04 May 1967 . ... Objective: Lunar mapping mission ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... Outreach . ... I'm a PhD student at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo observatory and am part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) graduate program. I study the properties on nearby galaxies and investigate the evolution of the local universe. ... I run the RSAA Student Outreach Group which invites school children to participate in free astronomy outreach evenings. ... Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ... All Photos were taken by Emma Kirby unless otherwise stated. ...

... What is Planetary Protection? ... Although the probability is low because of the harshness of space environments, it's possible that "hitchhiker" bacteria and other organisms transported on spacecraft and equipment might cause irreversible changes in the environments of other planets or interfere with scientific exploration for life (forward contamination). ... Planetary protection policies for space exploration are like environmental, health or safety policies on Earth. ...

. Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time regions passing . The orbit in the GSM coordinate system . The polar diagram . The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the UT (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the UT (Plot) . The orbital data ASCII files . Updated 11 September, 2000 . IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | INTERBALL mission