... September 29, 1995 . The International Ultraviolet Explorer . Credit: NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) . Explanation: The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was launched by a NASA Delta rocket in 1978 to provide a space telescope for ultraviolet astronomy. A collaborative project among NASA, ESA and the British SRC (now PPARC) agencies, IUE's estimated lifetime was 3 to 5 years. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC . ...

September 17, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-65, launched from the Baikonur launch site, after seven days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft docking, originally scheduled for September 13, was postponed at the US request because operations in the primary ISS Mission Control Center in Houston were suspended due to hurricane Ike. ... The spacecraft delivered to the station about 2.5 tons of cargo. ...

... The Fascinating Universe: Monday 29 September 2008 . ... BAA Out of London Meeting: Saturday 6 September . The next Kerry Astronomy Club meeting takes place on Tuesday 9 th September in the ITT Tralee. Room T118 at 7.30pm where you can catch up on a ll the latest on the Mars Probes and what to see in the sky. ... Monday, 8 September 2008 23:00 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

The IV-th International Astronomy Olympiad took place on September 25 - October 2, 1999 in the scientific town of Nauchnyj, Republic of Crimea, on a base of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Crimean Laboratory , Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and Crimean "Youth Academy os Sciences" Astronomical Department . ... India . ... The 5th International Astronomy Olympiad took place on October 20-27, 2000 at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in the North Caucasus. ...