... Flight Engineer of Soyuz TMA . ... He began astronaut training in February 1984 and served as backup payload specialist to Marc Garneau for the October 1984 space shuttle mission STS-41G. Dr. Thirsk has been involved in various Canadian Space Agency projects including parabolic flight campaigns and mission planning. ... He is currently training in Russia to serve as the backup crewmember to European astronaut Roberto Vittori for the April 2005 Soyuz 10S taxi mission to the International Space...

... EXPERIENCE: €а 1987-2001 were spent at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. 1987-1991 €а Electronics Engineer, Material Analysis Group.€а Refined signal and image processing ... Science Group.€а Developed quantitative x-ray film imaging analysis techniques that allowed the characterization of low-density materials for use in the development of an X-Ray laser as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative Program.€а Developed material x-ray transport ... JANUARY 2011 ...

... International relations . ... Events The International science and technical congress on Aerospace materials plastic deformation processes. Science, technology, industry (METALDEFORM-2017) . ... In particular, a large plastic strain together heat treatment forms a crystallography, physical, mechanical and deformation properties of billets, which hereinafter determines their behavior in metal forming processes and performance. ... Nano structuring and severe plastic deformation of materials. ...

... HST . ... APT . ... HST Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... So we have provided a series of short training movies to demonstrate the APT tools - feedback from GOs shows the movies are highly recommended. ... General Overview of APT GUI . Yes . 6 mins. ... Note: The Phase I Proposal Roadmap contains all of these links in a high level step-by-step proposal writing procedure. ... Creating mosaics in Phase I . ... 5.5 min . ... Creating a Big Phase II Proposal . ...

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . Moscow, Russia . Supernovae make us brighter .. Search russian astronomical resources . Mirror of International Supernovae Network ( Original site ) . Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . HTTP access to SAI Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . SAI SN Light Curves Online . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( in Russian ) . ... Astronet - Russian Astronomical Network . ... Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ...

... 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 (-...

... E-mail: aliv@issp.ac.ru . ... After finishing the secondary school No 7 in 2005, he became a student of the D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow. ... 2010-2013: Trainee and then Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Spectroscopy of Defect Structures, Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSP RAS). Since 07.1.2013: PhD student and Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Materials for Electrochemical Technologies of ISSP RAS... top . ...

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 . ...

... 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. ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

The International Year of Astronomy 2009: Key Programs at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific I magine an opportunity to support science education that was 400 years in the making! Consider the power of an entire year devoted to raising the public awareness of astronomy and scientific literacy -- for teachers and students, for community groups, for the media, and for the public at large. This is the essence of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). ...

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... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... School of Chemistry . ... Applied Chemistry Department . ... Inorganic Chemistry Department . Organic Chemistry Department . Physical Chemistry Department . ... School of History . ... University History Museum . ... School of Physics . ... Research carried out at the Department is coordinated by two Scientific Councils of the National Academy of Science, in Inorganic Chemistry and in Analytical Chemistry, and is concentrated in the following directions: . ...

Home | ... Solar space missions . High-energy astrophysics . Visible and UV cameras and detectors . ... Material science & processing for innovative detectors . ... I'm involved in the design and development of satellite On Board Data Processing Electronics and SW for the METIS Processing and Power Unit (MPPU) of the coronagraph of the Solar Orbiter Mission and the Shadow Position Sensors (SPS) of the ASPIICS Coronagraph on-board the ESA Proba3 satellite . ... Copyright © 2008 Mauro Focardi. ...

Important Information: Since the campus network allows student-to-student communication and since this network is part of the on campus learning infrastructure, students should make use of it. Past experience shows that students won't make use of it unless they are assigned to do so. For this homework assignment, you are to collaborate with at least one other student. ... This is best done by using an internet search engine and typing in a key word related to the question. ...

The Second International Meeting on WARNING Mission . Kyiv, Ukraine on April 15-17, 1998. ... PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... Tel/fax . ... 380 44 2262167 +380 44 4443420 Fax : +380 44 4441020 . ... National Space Agency of Ukraine . ... 380 572 451009 and 441127; Fax: +380 572 476506, Telex 311-039 SPACE UA . ... 380 572 448462 Fax: +380 572 476506, Telex 311-039 SPACE UA . ... 380 572 322016 and (home) 306125 fax: +380 572 322293 Telex: 311039 SPACE SU, . ...

On 31 May 2003 the initial Australian SKA-siting proposal and the two updated Australian SKA-concept proposal whitepapers were submitted to the International SKA Steering Committee (ISSC). ... The updated SKA-concept proposal whitepapers respond to both scientific and technical questions posed by the ISSC on the Luneberg Lens and Cylindrical Reflector Australian SKA concepts. ... Exciting results have been obtained with new dielectric material being produced for the prototype Luneberg Lens. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Credit: STS-128 Crew , NASA Explanation: After undocking, the space shuttle Discovery crew got a memorable view of the developing International Space Station (ISS). ... The Discovery crew brought mission specialist Nicole Stott to the ISS , and returned astronaut Timothy Kopra to Earth. ... Publications with keywords: ISS - Earth . Publications with words: ISS - Earth . ... Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station . ... APOD: 2009 April 6 The International Space Station Expands Again . ...