The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

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... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... ASAP contains flexible data selection. Data can be selected based on IF, beam, polarisation, scan number as well as values such as Tsys. ... Selection is based on a selector object. This object is created and various selection functions applied to it ( set_ifs , set_beams etc). The selection object then must be applied to a scantable using the set_selection function. ... The selection can then be reset and all spectra are visible. ... Select by source name. ... Select data based on Tsys. ...

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Motif and X-Windows . The applications described in this section are some of the many applications available. ... A DECterm session can be created by choosing the DECterm submenu item the Session Manager's Application menu or by using the CREATE/TERMINAL command at the system prompt. ... The CDA Viewer application displays the contents of compound documents consisting of graphics, images, and text. ... Ghostview is an application that displays PostScript documents using ghostscript. ... DECterm . ...

... A data set contains a science frame, all its associated raw calibration frames and the master calibration frames created by combining and processing the raw calibration frames. ... Either one creates a MIDAS catalogue which contains the names of all single calibration frames to be combined in to the master frame, or, in the case of pipe line reduction, one use the Association Table. ... The names of single calibration frames are however also available in the Association Table. ...

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Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... According to the big bang theory, huge amounts of energy were released, giving rise to matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... The Big Bang Theory has enabled scientists to make certain predictions. ... These particles are the building blocks of matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... This could theoretically happen if the hydrogen was shockheated to over 100000 C. The Big Bang Theory is only a theory and so there is no concrete evidence to suggest that it is entirely correct. ...

Catastrophism : . ... During the late 18th and early 19th century, a German mineralogist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, proposed that all of the Earth's rocks were formed by rapid chemical precipitation from a "world ocean," which he then summarily disposed of in catastrophic fashion. Though not directed toward the genesis of landforms in any coherent fashion, his catastrophic philosophy of changes of the Earth had two major consequences of geomorphic significance. ... Thermal Plate Tectonics : . ...

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Modern requirements stipulated for the Networking Technologies . Brief Review of the problems under solution. ... Distributed Collapsed Back Bone Technology Advantages and shortcomings of different approaches. Switches against routers. ... Position at the IS market. Position of the modern high-speed technologies. ... Review of switching technology. Review of the switch market.Classification of switches. ... Big corporate networks implementing switching and routing technologies. ...

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seeing -- Create a simulated ground-based star image based on a model of atmospheric turbulence seeing output xdim ydim gamma fwhmx fwhmy . output = "" [image] . The name for the output image to be created. xdim = 512 [integer] . The X dimension for the output image. ydim = 512 [integer] . The Y dimension dor the output image. gamma = 1.6666 [real] . ... For a discussion of the significance of this please see the discussion below and the references given. fwhmx = 5.0 [real] . ...

spectrum1d - compute auto- [and cross- ] spectra from one [or two] timeseries. spectrum1d [ x [ y ] file ] -S segment _ size ] [ -C ] [ -D dt ] [ -N name _ stem ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] spectrum1d reads X [and Y] values from the first [and second] columns on standard input [or x [ y ] file ]. ... Units same as ypower. name _ stem .npower Power spectral density of the noise output. Units same as ypower. name _ stem .gain Gain spectrum, or modulus of the transfer function. ...

... The column VER FLAG contains the source ag setting. ... EMSRLI ) then else call error( badInput , input PPS file is not the EPIC M-L detect list ) return endif *** make a copy of the input file with prefix flag write (outname,'(a,a)') flag _ ,trim(stringParameter( set )) call copyDataset(stringParameter( set ),outname) *** pointer to file and table outfile = dataSet(outname,MODIFY) outtab = table(outfile, SRCLIST ) *** create new columns ind_sol = addColumn( ...

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