... 2005 August 16 . The International Space Station from Orbit . Credit: STS-114 Crew , NASA . Explanation: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth . Late last month and earlier this month, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery . ... After departing the ISS, the crew of Discovery captured this spectacular vista of the orbiting space city . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Credit Copyright: Space Shuttle STS-133 Crew, Space Station Expedition 26 Crew, NASA Explanation: What's happening outside the space station? ... Five days ago, the space shuttle Discovery was launched to the International Space Station , carrying six crew members and the large Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module . ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle Discovery - ISS - international space station . Publications with words: space shuttle Discovery - ISS - international space station . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... Events . ... COSMOS 2009 - Ireland's Spring Star Party . The Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy is announcing that this year St PatrickтАЩs Festival celebrations in all major cities in Ireland are endorsing an astronomy theme. In Dublin , this yearтАЩs theme for the festival Parade is тАШ The SkyтАЩs the Limit! тАЩ . ... Monday, 16 March 2009 00:49 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

NASA - NASA's Top Space Exploration Stories Of The Year http://www.nasa.gov/lb/home/hqnews/2005/dec/HQ_05449_year_in_re.. ... For images and information visit: http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight) NASA'S NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT NASA announced plans for its next generation spacecraft and launch system, which will be capable of delivering crew and supplies to the International Space Station, carrying four astronauts to the moon and supporting up to six crewmembers on future missions to Mars. ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is pictured here docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. It's going to be hard to top this mission," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. ... The crew got phone calls from two world leaders. ... Commander Eileen Collins and the crew of the STS-114 mission, Jim Kelly, Charlie Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas and Soichi Noguchi of Japan, landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 7:11 a.m. CDT on Aug. ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... N eptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... Neptune's winds blew the Great Dark Spot westward at 300 meters/second (700 mph). ... L ike Uranus and Jupiter, Neptune's rings are very dark but their composition is unknown. ... Neptune's Ring System . ... Uranus .. ...

EIGHTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES FIFTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW SERVANTES SSM PROJECT IMAGE VIDEO . ... From May to October 1994 he trained for a 30-day flight to Mir under EC-17 program and Euromir 94 mission within a backup crew together with Russian cosmonauts Yu.P. Gidzenko and S.V. Avdeev. ... From October 2002 to February 2003 he was in training at Yu.A. Gagarin CTC as a flight engineer-1 of the Soyuz TMA TSC of expedition crew-5, visiting crew (VC-5) of the International Space Station. ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Japan (Kyoto, Nara) :: 18/08 Higashi-Honganji temple . Up . << Prev . We are walking to large Buddhist temple near Kyoto station (Higashi-Honganji Temple). Next >> . Created with the tool photo album generator a script written by David Ljung on Wed Jun 5 20:38:36 2013 .

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Piloted complex Mir has been functioning in orbit more than 12 years. ... We propose to consider piloted complex Mir as an international one and to call the states of the space association for share financing and its joint exploitation according to the international treaty. ... The Russian side is ready for the constructive negotiations on setting up the International space station on the basis of share participating of the countries (owners) in the exploitation of the complex Mir. ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... An international dispute arose between the English and French (though not, apparently between Adams and Le Verrier personally) over priority and the right to name the new planet; they are now jointly credited with Neptune's discovery. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... more Neptune images . ... What happened to the Great Dark Spot...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS015, 2001 TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE "SOUTH POLE - AITKEN " BASIN. ... Head [2] and Spudis [1] suggested in their reviews that the existense of the structure identified later as the South Pole - Aitken baasin was first predicted on the basis of a relief analysis of the mountain ridges observed in the libration zone be Hartman and Kuiper [7], i.e. after the first images of the lunar far-side had been obtained. ... SOUTH POLE-AIKEN BASIN: V.I.Chikmachev et al. ...

... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...