... Andre KUIPERS . Flight Engineer-1 of the Soyuz TMA TSC and ISS VC, . ... During his medical studies, Andre Kuipers worked in the Vestibular Department of the Academic Medical Centre 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 Centre (EAC) in Cologue, Germany. ... UNIVERSAL SPACE PLATFORM | ...

... 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. ...

... 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 (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... 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 (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... The European Union (EU) has granted 1.9 million euros to support a 6-country educational programme, based on Universe Awareness (UNAWE) . UNAWE is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) endorsed programme that uses the beauty and grandeur of the Universe to encourage young children, particularly those from an underprivileged background, to have an interest in science and technology and foster their sense of global citizenship from the earliest age. ... Universe Awareness website . ...

... 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. ...

... A Supply Ship Docks with the International Space Station . ... Credit Copyright: ISS Expedition 16 Crew, NASA Explanation: Looking out a window of the International Space Station brings breathtaking views. ... The Expedition 17 crew, including NASA flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff , will carry out repairs on the ISS , explore new methods of living in space, and conduct research in space including the effects of space radiation on vitamin molecules. ... A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . ...

... 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 .. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Systems Engineering Docs . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... Doc Man . ... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102 FTT/NAS Conceptual Design Report . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Interuniversity Department of Space Research of Samara State Aerospace University named after S. P. Korolev (National Research University) will hold holds the Tenth International Summer Space School Future Space Technologies and Experiments in Space from August 24 to September 6. ... Tags: ssau roadmap international summer space school future space technologies experiments in space nanosatellite . ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ALMA . ... Star Clusters . ... 2016 . 2015 . 2014 . ... Stars@ESO . ... Although HD 97300 is in the spotlight for now, the very dust that makes it so hard to miss heralds the birth of additional, potentially scene-stealing, future stars. eso1604 тАФ Science Release . ... 31 March 2016 тАФ ann16021 . ... 29 March 2016 тАФ ann16020 . ... 29 March 2016 тАФ ann16019 . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

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. ...

... BITS sets the number of bits per sample for each baseband channel. ... Since an experiment will typically use the same number of bits per sample for all channels, it is usually only necessary to specify one value. If BITS is 2 , the first magnitude bit is placed on assigned track plus 8 for FORMAT = VLBA1:4 , on assigned track plus 4 for FORMAT = VLBA1:2 , and on assigned track plus 2 for FORMAT = VLBA1:1 . ... Same as baseband channel 1 if one or more are set. ... Example: BITS=1 . ...

... Any events that have obtained a negative charge sum PI (see above) and a get a positive total charge PI assigned; if these have then they get a positive total charge PI assigned and the INVALID_PATTERN bit set in the FLAG column. In the implementation of version 6.30.3 (and earlier) single events close to edges or bad pixels do not get PATTERN=0 but get the bit set, too, and thus PATTERN=128 (Sect. ... All (apparent) singles at the CCD edges, readout window, or close to bad pixels get PATTERN=128. ...

... Perform rst run and assign all tracks with parent in wrong Jet to the other Jet Perform second run and see what changes: 6 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 cosJet1 : cosJet2 {bInSameJet == 1} ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 cosJet1 : cosJet2 {vertexNumber == 77} ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 cosJet1 : cosJet2 {( cosJet1 cosJet2 ) (jetNumber==1)} ­1 ­ ... Unfortunately, the number of events with a p t - corrected mass > 2.0 GeV seems to go down ! ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... Cosmic Origins SpectrographInstrument Handbookfor Cycle 20 > Chapter 12: The COS Calibration Program > 12.8 Cycle 20 Calibration Plans . 12.8 . Cycle 20 Calibration Plans . ... The priorities assigned to the calibration of various COS modes will be determined by the approved GO programs in each cycle. If your program requires calibrations beyond those beyond those described here, then you should explicitly include this calibration in your Phase I proposal. ...