... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

CREW 19/20 . ... SIXTEENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW . ... BACKUP CREW . ... Andre KUIPERS . ISS Flight Engineer, . ... During his medical studies, Andre' Kuipers worked in the Vestibular Department of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he was involved in research of human equilibrium system. ... In July 1999, Andre Kuipers joined the European Astronaut Corps of the European Space Agency, whose homebase is at the European Astronaut Center (ЕАС) in Cologne, Germany. ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... European Chamber of Science and Industry has published a rating of higher education institutions Academic Ranking of World Universities-European Standard ARES-2014. ... SSAU took the 29th place among the top 100 Russian universities. ... It is to be recalled that SSAU included among the 15 leading Russian universities that received government support to improve competitiveness and promote the top 100 international rankings. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... International programs . ... Information Consolidation in International Anti-Crisis Management . ... European Diploma Supplement . ... AљDIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT isљaљdocument given toљgraduates ofљhigher educational institutions ofљall forms ofљproperty and subordination toљprovide information required for objective evaluation ofљhigher education qualification (degree) received byљthe person awarded with aљhigher education diploma. ... Copyright 2010 V.љN. Karazin Kharkiv National University. ...

... I am developing an Informed Prefetching and Caching system as part of the kernel in which it is very important that the memory assigned to hold the data does not get swapped to disk. Without any thought to swapping I used vmalloc() to assign memory to the data structures of the Informed prefetching system. ... I later realized that most probably the pages assigned using vmalloc() were getting swapped to the disk and when I referenced them, they were brought from the disk rather than memory. ...

Albert A.Galeev is the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute (IKI RAN in Russian), Moscow, Russia. ... Prior to his promotion to the present position, for fifteen years (1973-1988), A.Galeev headed the Space Plasma Physics Department and together with his scientific team contributed to a number of successful international space projects. ... Postal Address Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... e-mail agaleev@iki.rssi.ru ...

The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Large Southern Array (LSA) is a European project involving the construction of a new-generation, Southern Hemisphere, millimetre-wave synthesis telescope. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... This has been designed for 8-12 year olds, however the challenge is for anyone and everyone who is curious about space exploration and what it takes to be an astronaut. How can I take part? ... All you need to do is complete a partnership agreement available here or alternatively contact Martina Redpath €а (email Martina(at)armaghplanet.com ) for more information and a guide to the activities. ... Take part in Mission X 2014 | ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Call for Proposals for Cycle 24 > Chapter 10: Proposal Implementation and Execution > 10.3 Program Coordinator and Contact Scientist Support . 10.3 . Program Coordinator and Contact Scientist . ... Accepted observing programs are assigned a Program Coordinator (PC), whose role is to help the observer deliver a Phase II program that is syntactically correct and will schedule successfully on the telescope. ...

. The mail program can be customised by setting variables in the .mailrc file in your home directory . Variables are set using the set command. Some variables have values assigned to them with the = (equals-sign). Displaying preset variables . List of useful mail variables . Sample .mailrc file .

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... Subject: G.08 How are stars named? Can I name/buy one? ... The Supernova of 1987 (Supernova 1987A), one of the major astronomical events of this century, was identified with the star named SK -69 202 in the very specialized catalog, the _Deep Objective Prism Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud_, published by the Warner and Swasey Observatory. These procedures and catalogs accepted by the International Astronomical Union are the only means by which stars receive long-lasting names. ...

... Resources . ... The ASP's Role . ... The ASP is devoted to the improvement of science education and literacy through engagement in astronomy, and has made this a primary mission of the organization. ... The ASP invites you to join with us to offer formal and informal educators, amateur astronomers and all those with a passion for astronomy the resources and materials necessary to take full advantage of the International Year of Astronomy and the opportunities for the future that the year represents....

... Enterprise Ireland , together with the European Space Agency, is pleased to announce details of a number of scholarships for postgraduate students to attend courses at the International Space University in Strasbourg and also the Summer School Alpbach in Austria . ... Full details of scholarships and other space-related opportunities can be found on Enterprise Ireland тАЩs Space Education page, www.enterprise-ireland.com/spaceeducation . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... The principle of the existing reliability level of space engineering, and first of all, of rocket-launchers is laid into the milestone of the cosmonauts training (the successful launch of "Soyuz" space vehicle is close to 1, but it is less than 1), that causes a possible landing of space crews outside the regular landing site. ... However, search operations can be hampered by difficult meteorological and geographical conditions in the region of emergency landing. ...

... 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 . ...

... history, facts, technology, space ships . Posted by Askar under Space stations . Звезда? - российский Служебный модуль Международной космической станции (МКС). ... первый полностью российский элемент МКС, внешне похож на базовый блок орбитального комплекса ?Мир? и состоит из четырех герметичных отсеков ? ... Модуль оснащен четырьмя стыковочными узлами: два по продольной оси (один на переходном отсеке, второй ? ... Russian Astronauts . ... Russian Space Stations . ... Space stations . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics -- Call for applications . ... Тема: International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics -- Call for applications . Call for applications - please forward to potential students *** Dear Colleague, The International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics (IMPRS) in Garching/Munich (Bavaria, Germany) is soliciting applications for its PhD program. ... International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics . ... MAO NASU . ...