... AND FIFTH VISITING CREW . TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... This morning the Expedition 8 crew (ISS-8) consisting of Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale, as well as flight engineer of the sixth visiting crew (VC-6) Andre Kuipers, who early morning upon completion of the flight program returned to Earth in Soyuz TMA-3 descent vehicle, arrived to Chkalovsky aerodrome near Moscow. next.. ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-3 manned transport spacecraft was launched. ... Photo-report . ... SEA LAUNCH | ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

New data - Magnetograms of Geophysical Observatory "Paratunka" 1967-2006 ! ... Solar Activity and Interplanetary Medium . Cosmic Rays . Ionospheric Phenomena . Geomagnetic Variations . Other STP Data . List of CD-ROMs in WDC for STP, Moscow . ... STP Data Online . ... Daily Forecasts of Geomagnetic Activity Geofor , (IZMIRAN) . Weekly Bulletin of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Forecast , (IZMIRAN) . ... STP Data from other WDC's and Institutes and Observatories: . ...

... Credit: ISS Expedition 22 Crew , Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 Crew , NASA Explanation: This space job was almost complete. Floating just below the International Space Station , astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. ... Publications with keywords: international space station - ISS . Publications with words: international space station - ISS . ... The International Space Station from Above . ... ISS and Astronaut . ...

... 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. ...

... 2007 December 3 . A Complete Solar Cycle from SOHO . ... A solar cycle is caused by the changing magnetic field of the Sun, and varies from solar maximum , when sunspot , coronal mass ejection , and flare phenomena are most frequent, to solar minimum, when such activity is relatively infrequent. ... This picture is composed of a SOHO image of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light for each year of the last solar cycle , with images picked to illustrate the relative activity of the Sun. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1012 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 314/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed GHRS/2 4510 (The Evolution of Boron: Implementation for Galactic Evolution) The High Resolution Spectrograph was used to make a spectrographic observation of the late type star HD184499 to help study the chemical and dynamical evolution of theat object. ... 1.3 Completed WFC 5013 (WF/PC Cycle 3 Calibration: WFC Flats Narrow. ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... Divide into 4 Groups and 8 Teams per Group. Each Team selects a Team Leader Complete Initial Questionnaire Mark Bailey ( Armagh Observatory ) Welcome and Opening Remarks Robert Walsh (University of Central Lancashire) Living with a Star Questions All Groups ( Planets , Galaxies , Astronomers , Spacecraft) leave Reid Hall, collect refreshments, and cross road to Observatory / Planetarium site Planets and Galaxies Groups go to ... Each Team must nominate a `Team Leader'. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

... Greenland meteorite expeditions, Greenland 1998 Unix system administration (part-time), Teoretisk Astrophysics Centre, Copenhagen Teaching assistant (part-time), University of Copenhagen Guide, Round Tower Observatory (part-time) hereof 1991-1993 as Head observer, Copenhagen Planetarium guide Technical Museum (part-time), Elsinore 1999- 1989-1999 1996 1995-1996 1991-1996 1984-1997 1984-1985 EDUCATION o o o Master of Science , Astrophysics, University of ...

... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

ASKAP Project Update Data Transmission Link to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international mega-science project now under consideration: a telescope that will answer fundamental questions in physics and cosmology. ... This is an outline of the requirements for a CSIRO-owned data transmission link that is required to support ASKAP and SKA. ... As part of an ongoing R&D project, any aspect of the fibre link specification may be refined. ...

... Schools . ... International programs . Summer Schools . ... On-line International courses with transferable academicљcredits . ... To complete the program there will be also excursions around Kharkiv region, which are connected with topics of the modules. ... V.љN.љKarazin Kharkiv National University isљaљfully accredited university inљKharkiv, Ukraine. ... V.љN.љKarazin Kharkiv National University mails official transcripts toљyour school ofљrecord upon the completion ofљthe program. ... APPLY . ...

... Support the international SKA at the 20% level of an instrument for up to 3 GHz, limited in cost to $1B, and located at the selected site. Complete EVLA and ATA by 2013 Between now and 2013 develop array technology to provide firm cost estimates of an interim SKA Hi array operating to 50 GHz with 4X the area of the VLA. ... International SKA Participation - Support the international SKA at the 20% level of an instrument for up to 2 GHz, limited in cost to $1B, and located at the selected site.. ...

... 10:00 - 11:00 Juergen Reingruber (ENS de Paris, France) . The search process for small targets in cellular microdomains . ... Statistical models on random lattices . ... 15:00 - 16:00 Vyacheslav Priezzhev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) . ... Extreme statistics of vicious walkers: from random matrices to Yang-Mills theory . ... Conformal blocks and quantum Hall effect . ... Topological field theories and statistical models . ... Benjamin-Ono integrable systems in 2D CFT . ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...