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... 2001 April 23 . Space Shuttle Lifts Off for Space Station . Credit: STS-100 , NASA . Explanation: Last Thursday, Space Shuttle Endeavor lifted off on course for the latest round of building the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit around Earth. One of the highlights of the 11-day mission promises to be the installation of Canadarm2 , a robotic arm that will assist in the future construction and utilization of the ISS . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... November 26, 2001 at 21:24:12 Moscow time the Progress M1-7 transport cargo vehicle with Colibri microsatellite (MS) accommodated in the payload compartment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the near-earth orbit in compliance with the International Space Station (ISS) flight program. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . ... Credit Copyright: ISS, Expedition 31 Crew , NASA Explanation: There is something very unusual in this picture of the Earth -- can you find it? ... The featured image was taken from the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) in late April and shows familiar ISS solar panels on the far left and part of a robotic arm to the far right. ... Publications with keywords: international space station . Publications with words: international space station . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... 29a. Satellite looking up . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . Space Index . This groups includes about 200 communication satellites ("comsats") scattered in synchronous orbits above the Earth's equator. ... 6 Earth radii (42,000 km or 26,000 miles), these satellite make one orbit per day, ( sidereal day of 23 h 56 min--see here ) and therefore as the Earth turns, they always stay above the same ground station. ... Next Satellite Class: #29e Missions to Planets and to Distant Space . ...

... 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. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

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... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

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... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

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... Munching on Lunar Cheese . ... Rarely have most of us really watched a lunar eclipse. Let's observe the lunar eclipse this month and see what the shadow-play can teach us about Earth and its little mate. ... My grandparents came out, we sat on bales of hay in a field, ate our hot dogs and roasted marshmallows, and watched a huge full Moon fall into Earth's ruddy red shadow. ... The ancient Greeks knew this, too, and they saw Earth's circular shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . des reportages . des interviews, des portraits . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Atlantis a d†йcoll†й vers la station internationale . ... Elle doit rejoindre la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) pour une mission de 12 jours . ...