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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... In front of a famous background of stars and galaxies lies some of Earth's more unusual trees. ... About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. ... The Astronaut Who Captured a Satellite . ... In 1984, high above the Earth's surface, an astronaut captured a satellite. ... Earth at Night . ... No one is sure, but it is likely related to an active supermassive black hole at its center. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . ... des interviews, des portraits . les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des conseils pour d†йbuter et pratiquer l'astronomie . 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 LтАЩalunissage dтАЩApollo 11 reconstitu†й . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments The space programmes of the USA and USSR began in a spirit of bitter Cold War rivalry but by the early 1970s internation tensions had eased a little into a [ ] . ... Posted on June 20, 2014 | ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ...

... APOD: 1998 May 3 - Standing on the Moon . ... During this Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong (the first person to walk on the moon) and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon while Michael Collins circled in the Command Module above. ... Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above , was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "un tether ed space walk " during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984 . ...

The XV_VTDF is a viewer for TDF format files (extension to TIFF 6.0 format for storage of high-resolution satellite data). More information about TDF format and relevant topics, as well as satellite data in this format you may receive from Space Monitoring Information Support lab (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia) . ... XV_VTDF <filename> - load TDF file at startup (default size) . ... The XV_VTDF operates with fixed-size satellite images in TDF format. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

BUS MODULE . The bus module together with the unified propulsion module meets all the payload requirements, is of multi-purpose design and provides ample functional redundancy . On-board systems include all the systems needed to support the operation and monitoring of the payload equipment and the spacecraft as a whole: . ... Basic design option . ... Increased power design option . ... YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... MATERIAL: astronomical data visualization software like ds9 , IRAF, and the two galaxy images in the V-band and I-band . ... You received images in the V and I-band of an unknown, partially resolved Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy. Your task is to generate a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of this stellar system, find out what kind of stellar population it is made of (old, young?) and estimate its distance from the sun using well-known features identified in the CMD. ...

. Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot, stands by the deployed U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the early moments of the mission's first spacewalk. He was photographed by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., mission commander. While astronauts Shepard and Mitchell descended in the Lunar Module "Antares" to explore the Fra Mauro region of the Moon, astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Module "Kitty Hawk" in lunar orbit. NASA

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a special environmental sample container which holds soil collected during the second moonwalk EVA. ... Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -3.01, 23.42 . ... Instrument: Hasselblad Camera . ... Instrument Field of View (deg): 60 mm Focal Length . ... Illumination Incidence Angle (deg): N/A . ... NASA Image ID number: AS12-H-49-7278 . ... Code 633, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA . ... Code 630, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center . ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Primer for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: System Overview > 2.5 Data Storage and Transmission . ... Data Storage and Transmission . 2.5.1 Onboard Data Storage . The Operations and Engineering Division at STScI constructs the HST observing schedule, and creates the command loads sent to the telescope. ... HST currently uses large capacity Solid State Recorders (SSRs) to store science data awaiting transmission to the ground. ...

... Context files provide a way to group commands which relate to a specific reduction sequence or application package. For example, the command SET/CONTEXT applic1 will execute the MIDAS procedure applic1.ctx , which would contain all the new command definitions for the application package applic1 as well as any new keyword definitions and default settings. Each enabled context has a corresponding context no. which links new commands to the context in which they were created. ...

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. ...

... Previous: Filtering KPNO LaTeX Observing Proposals with Perl . ... The Planning and Scheduling Tool was designed allow the user easily to take advantage of all available resources of the four telescopes (LASCO's three coronagraphs and the EIT Telescope) to maximize the use of the telemetry downlink. The Planning Tool allows users to develop customized observing sequences while monitoring compression factors and on-board processing times to realistically work within the limits of the instruments. ...

... history, facts, technology, space ships . Posted by Askar under Russian satellites . ... Comments are closed. ... Russian Astronauts . Russian Launch Centers . Russian Moon Rovers . Russian Research Ships . Russian Rocket Engines . Russian Rockets . Russian Satellites . Russian Space Probes . Russian Space Ships . Russian Space Stations . History of Wars . ... Russian satellites . ... Both comments and pings are currently closed. Space - ru . ...

... Le t?lescope" Hubble ", en orbite. ... la lumi?re visible, mais absorbe la plupart "des radiations ?lectromagn?tiques", pourtant de m?me famille que la lumi?re: une partie des infrarouges (IR), tous les ultra-violet (UV), les rayons X et gamma. ... Le t?lescope " Hubble ", ( Hubble telescope ) en orbite basse autour de la terre, surmonte ces limites dans la gamme du visible et en partie dans l'UV. ... distance par les astronomes depuis la terre, comme un observatoire bas? au sol. ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...