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... 2002 January 2 . International Space Station Over Earth . Credit: STS-108 Crew , NASA . Explanation: High above a cloudy Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) orbits silently. The Space Shuttle Endeavor Crew took the above picture as they departed the space station in mid-December. ... Highlights of this Endeavor mission included fixing a solar panel and maneuvering the station to avoid a large piece of passing space junk . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: NASA ; Acknowledgement: Infinity Imagined Explanation: Have you ever dreamed of flying high above the Earth? Astronauts visiting the International Space Station do this every day, circling our restless planet twice every three hours. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - international space station - ISS . Publications with words: Earth - international space station - ISS . ... Reflections on Planet Earth . The Coldest Place on Earth . ...

... 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. ...

... 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; ....

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

SCHOOL RESEARCH PROJECT - AS AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS SEE IT . Ravenswood and Knox have announced their involvement in the joint Russian-Australian school satellite research project. Groups of schoolchildren from Ravenswood and Knox have been selected to work as the Australian team which will receive data from a micro-satellite to be launched from the Russian Space Station "MIR" or from the International Space Station - ISS. ... A transmitter/receiver station will be equipped at each School. ...

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... Projects . ... High Energy Astrophysics department at IKI, Moscow, is carrying out research in various fields of X-ray astronomy: physical processes in the vicinity of compact sources of x-ray emission, x-ray observations using Russian space observatories MIR/KVANT and GRANAT, development of scientific instrumentation for the SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA mission and International Space Station (ISS), participation in the INTEGRAL project and observations on the RTT-150 optical telescope. 2016 IKI RAN ...

... SSAU History . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellites RusNanoSat-2015 will take place in Samara State Aerospace University from June 2 to June 4. ... The first SSAU nanosatellite SamSat-218 (the first Russian students nanosatellite) will be sent into orbit in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy, together with a small spacecraft Aist-2 . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellite RusNanoSat-2015 will be attended by the leading Russian and foreign . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Since the Irkutsk IS radar is based on station "Dnepr", which was not intended for IS measurements, we made a serios effort to modernize this station in order to carry out ionospheric observations. Four main directions of the development of the radar experimental base: . modernization of the radar receiving system; . development of primary processing and measurement control methods; . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... One spacecraft seen from another (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . ... It shows the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler soaring into orbit in the nose of an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Currently, the ISS is supported by five spacecraft: the Space Shuttle and Soyuz (which carry people too), the Russian Progress , Japanese HTV and ESAтАЩs ATV. Each ATV carries seven tonnes or so to the ISS. ...

... 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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Internet Sites | Children's Books | ... Tilt of the Earth - Beautiful site explaning the tilt of the Earth. ... Nine Planets: Planet Data - It might be fun to discover how tilted the other planets are in the Solar System! ... Bill Nye the Science Guy-Episode: Climates - Learn a bit about the Earth's climates and make a model of a weather system. Weather Links for Teachers and Parents - Nick the Weather Dude's list of useful links about weather. ... Philomel Books, 1995. ... Tilt-A-World | ...

... For the Liverpool prototype of the exhibit From Earth to the Universe , the images are displayed on free-standing pedestals in the open-air venue of Albert Dock, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Image courtesy of Gary Evans (Science Photo Library). by Megan Watzke and Kimberly Kowal Arcand . The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) project From Earth to the Universe (FETTU) will bring spectacular, multi-wavelength astronomical images to audiences in "non-traditional" venues. ...