... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

... EXPEDITION ISS-13 /14 . PRIME CREW . ... ISS Flight Engineer – 2, . ... WORK EXPERIENCE: After completion of military jet training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Thomas was qualified as a pilot and flow the Alpha-Jet in a fighter-bomber squadron based in Oldenburg, Germany. ... From January to July 1993 he passed general space training at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany. ... From March 30 to August 11, 1995 he passed direct training for a flight within the crew. ...

... 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. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Observing schedules . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1680 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 07/22/96 - 0000Z (UTC) 07/23/96 Daily Status Report as of 205/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 6352 (Dwarf Eliptical Galaxy Snapshots) The WF/PC-2 was used to survey FCC324, from a sample of 30 dwarf = eliptical galaxies. The observations were completed as planned, and no = anomalies were reported. ... The = observations were completed as scheduled, and no anomalies were reported. ...

... 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. ...

... 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; . ...

... 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 ....

... 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 . ...

... MAO main . ... Submit a paper to the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation . ... Тема: Submit a paper to the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (IREHM) . ... A new journal entitled as: . International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation . ... Greeting from the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (IREHM), which is a peer-reviewed journal. ...

... 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* . ...

Astronomy Education News . ... FT Universe Challenge . ... Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge . ... A school competition for an astronomy project using the Faulkes Telescopes тАУ state of the art 2-metre telescopes in Hawaii and Australia, which can be remotely operated by students during school hours in Ireland. ... To register for this challenge please contact the Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge secretariat by emailing Dr Miruna Popescu . Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... 2011 March 9 . The International Space Station Expands Again . Credit: STS-133 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. ... The ISS and many of its modules and expansive solar panels are visible in the above picture taken by the Discovery Crew after leaving the ISS to return to Earth. ... Work for APOD while researching the universe: Graduate student research assistant sought . Tomorrow's picture: open space . ...

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The engineering camera is test-mounted using the plug plate cart and lift. ... The enclosure is opened and the engineering camera is riding on the plug plate cart under the telescope. ... The telescope is rotated for position; waterproof sheathing covers the mirror. The engineering camera is maneuvered under the telescope and the lifting control is activitated. The camera is lifted to the bottom of the mirror cell, latched into place and th elift lowered. ...

... 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. ...

... russian ) . ... Came to work at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) . ... Chairman of the "Solar Physics" section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . Vice-Chair of «Solar System» Section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences and "Geophysical Research" Section of Scientific Technical Council of Federal Space Agency. Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Scientific interests . ...

... 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 . ...

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... The default run_state of all incoming runs is now OPEN . The support astronomer has to inform the operations support scientists if the run_state for a run has to be changed (e.g. after consulting the Database Consistency Check Page which is updated hourly from 9:30 to 17:30, Garching time) . The default run_state of all SM runs for next period is NEXT . By default, all NEXT runs will be set to OPEN at the start of the new period. ... COMPLETED or TERMINATED . ... COMPLETED . ...