... Peggy Annette WHITSON . ... NASA – JSC National Research Council Resident Research Associate (1986-1988); Robert A.Welch Predoctoral Fellowship (1982-1985), Summa Cum Laude from Iowa Wesleyan College (1981); President’s Honor Roll (1978-81); Orange van Calhoun Scholarship (1980); State of Iowa Scholar (1979); Academic Excellence Award (1978). ... In 1988-1989 Whitson served as the Supervisor for the Biochemistry Research Group at KRUG International, a medical sciences contractor at NASA-JSC. ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA . international astrophysical project . ... Control system units of Spacecraft Engineering Model were delivered to Lavochkin Associati on Jan. 23 2002. The assembling of Engineering model of Spacecraft Control System and the preliminary testing of the system will be performed in February. The stand-alone tests of Spacecraft Control System is being planned for April 2002. Febr., ... You are visitor number since October 02, 2000 . ...

... Pre-university education . ... The certificate obtained by the University proves compliance of the nanosatellite SamSat-218 with safety requirements when performing works on preparation, during the launch and flight of the carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a . Samara State Aerospace University received such document for the first time in the history of the University. ... The first students nanosatellite SamSat-218 was made by the students and scientists of Samara State Aerospace University. ...

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... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...

... Resolution to be issued: . For reports, received before June 11: not later than 15 days after receiving . For reports, received on June 12-21: not later June 27 . For reports, received on June 22 - June 27: not later July 27 . For reports, received on June 28 - July 16: during the week July 26-30 . For reports, received on July 17-31: not later 4 weeks after receiving . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

RadioAstron - the International Ground-Space Radio Interferometer The Russian-Indian on-board 92 cm receiver The 92 cm (327 MHz) receiver (marked as --92, or P-SRT-92 device) is one of the four high frequency receivers of the RadioAstron Space Radio Telescope (SRT). ... The P-SRT-92 is a low noise receiver coupled to the feed at the focus of the parabolic dish. ... Then this LNA was integrated by Russian engineers into the P-SRT-92 receiver section. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Facilities . ATNF facilities . ... In early March, the Board of Directors of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope met to discuss the Phase 1 design (SKA1) of the future mega-science project. ... This is a starting point for formal intergovernmental negotiations, and a significant step in to moving the worldвАЩs largest radio telescope forward to its final pre-construction phase. ...

... 17.12.2001 . ... During their eight days aboard the Earth- orbiting International Space Station (ISS), ESA Flight Engineer Claudie Haigner , Russian Commander Victor Afanasyev, and Russian Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev had completed several experiments and successfully delivered a new lifeboat. ... Pictured above on October 31 , their Soyuz spacecraft undocks from the ISS while dark space and a blue Earth hover in the background . ... December 2001 . ... Publications with keywords: ISS - Soyuz ....

... International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos , 1998, vol. ... Impulsive synchronization of chaotic dynamic systems has some important applications to chaotic secure communication and chaotic spread-spectrum communication systems. In this paper we present some experimental results on impulsive synchronization between two Chua's circuits. ... The robustness of impulsive synchronization with respect to variations in the frequency and the width of impulses is studied. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of Astronomical Data Janet C. Rountree, Brian N. Webb Science Applications International Corporation, 101 N. Wilmot Rd., ... JPEG 2000, the new International Standard for still image compression, has many unique features that offer advantages for users of astronomical data. ... WT=Wavelet transform. ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2013 July 8 . Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons Receive Names . ... Explanation: Pluto's newly discovered moons now have names. Known previously as P4 and P5 , the International Astronomical Union has now given the fourth and fifth discovered moons of Pluto the names Kerberos and Styx . The small moons were discovered in 2011 and 2012 by the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for the close passing of the New Horizons spacecraft by Pluto in 2015. ... About APOD | ...

... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), has presented the annual Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards to two high-school seniors at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair held May 9 to 14 in San Jose, California. ... The Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards are given jointly by the ASP and the AAS. ... Upon his death in 1983, the ASP established the Bart Bok Memorial Fund to support educational projects. ...

Vega Stamps . International project VEGA was managed by Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 spacecraft were developed by Babakin Space Center and fabricated by Lavochkin Association in Khimki, Moscow region. ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 have been the part of the international fleet to Halley's comet, that also included Giotto mission of European Space Agency (ESA) and Sakigake and Suisei by Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan. ... Vega 1 . ...

... MAO main . ... The DRAGON globular cluster simulations: a million stars, black holes and gravitational waves . ... simulations of globular clusters with a million stars on the high-performance . ... of stars in globular clusters at unprecedented detail but also shed light into . the dark world of black holes. ... clusters of single and binary black holes. ... of a globular cluster. www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/328833/hl201603 . ... MAO/NASU, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St. 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine . ...

... build and test receivers up to 40 - 350 GHz . ... Banham R., Valsecchi G., Lucci L., Pelosi G., Selleri S., Natale V., Nesti R., Tofani G. 2005, Microwave Journal 48, 112 Electroformed front-end at 100 GHz for Radioastronomical applications . Comoretto, G., D'Ambrosi, A., Nesti, R., Russo, A., Palagi, P. 2006, Arcetri Technical Report n. 4 A modular multichannel spectrometer - design study . ... Cresci, L., Lucci, L., Orfei A., Natale, V., Nesti, R., Panella, D., Pelosi, G., Rossi, L. 2006, Mem. ...

Subject: NEW YORK CITY DEPT. ISSUES VIOLATION TO STAR-NAMING COMPANY . ... Consumer Affairs Commissioner Polonetsky Warns Consumers: "Buying A Star Won't Make You One" . Commissioner Jules Polonetsky Warns Mother's Day Gift-Givers About Turning Their Mothers Into Stars; Star-Naming Company Issued a Violation for Deceptive Advertising . ... The International Astronomical Union is the only recognized star-naming organization, and it does not sell names. ...

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. ...