National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Andrew S. W. Thomas (Ph.D.) . nasa Astronaut (FORMER) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE:б  Dr. Thomas was selected by NASA in March 1992 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992.б  In August 1993, following one year of training, he was appointed a member of the astronaut corps and was qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on space shuttle flight crews.б  . ... MARCH 2014 . ...

... 2015 December 28 . Falcon 9 First Stage Landing . ... Explanation: The booster has landed . Spaceflight took a step toward the less expensive last week when the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket set down on a landing pad not far from its Florida launch . Previously, most rocket stages remained unrecovered -- with the significant exception of the Space Shuttles landing on a runway and their solid rocket boosters being fished back from the sea. ... About APOD | ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... RSC Energia is the leading enterprise of Russian rocket-space industry in the field of manned space flights programs which is responsible for building the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the station and operational use, including manufacture and operation of the RS core modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka, etc.); production, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA, Progress M space vehicles. ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. ... NTT: HDF-S + surrounding region to be imaged under the auspices of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS). 15 x 15 arcminute field of view imaged in U, g, r, I, J and K. 13 nights allocated for Sept/Oct 1998? ...

Launch of Explorer 1 . Click here for a full size version of this image. ... The USSR was first, sending off its first "Sputnik" ("satellite") on October 4, followed by Sputnik II on November 3. ... News conference following the launch of Explorer 1 . ... Unlike the orbits of the Sputniks, that of Explorer 1 was quite elliptical and it rose to an altitude of about 2500 kilometers. ... Explorer 2 failed to orbit, but Explorer 3, launched March 26, was successful, and it did carry a tape recorder. ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... December : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 December 2015 to 28 December 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . December 06, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . ... December 08, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... December 21, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G2 (moderate) . ... December 16, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) 2 December 2015 - 28 December 2015 . ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 21.10.1999 . ... October 1999 . ... 1999 2000 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . Publications with words: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . ... Hole in the Sun . ... Large Eruptive Prominence Imaged by SDO . ... Large Eruptive Prominence Imaged by STEREO . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

... 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. ...

... The Venera 12 descent craft carried instruments designed to study the detailed chemical composition of the atmosphere, the nature of the clouds, and the thermal balance of the atmosphere. Separating from its flight platform on December 21, 1978, it made a soft landing on the surface after a descent time of approximately 1 hour. During this time, it employed aerodynamic braking followed by parachute braking and ending with atmospheric braking. ... Space History . ...

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DECEMBER 21, 2014 Online Course Statement of Accomplishment WITH DISTINCTION ALEXANDER W OLF HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A FREE ONLINE OFFERING OF THE FOLLOWING COURSE PROVIDED BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY THROUGH COURSERA INC. ... PER ENGE PROFESSOR OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS STANFORD UNIVERSITY DR. FRANK VAN DIGGELEN BROADCOM FELLOW & VP OF GPS TECHNOLOGY, BROADCOM CORP. ... IT DOES NOT CONFER A STANFORD UNIVERSITY GRADE, COURSE CREDIT OR DEGREE, AND IT DOES NOT VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF THE STUDENT. ...

... This is not important for drift observations but poses a problem for any observing mode in which the telescope is moving while taking data, since the ALFA beams then will be rotating on the sky. ... The new mode is called ' sky angle tracking ' and is available for all existing observing modes. ... The next figure shows the distance between the beams in declination as a function of hour angle when the telescope is tracking a source with Dec=+10 from rise to set with a sky angle of 19 degrees. ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... SETI: Monday 7 December Ballyclare . ... Blackrock Castle Observatory: Cosmic Christmas Launch & Flood Relief Benefit: First Fridays at the Castle, December 4th. Blackrock Castle Observatory is launching Cosmic Christmas in association with RSVP Red Sandstone Varied Productions at the popular First Fridays at the Castle event on Friday December 4 th at 6pm. ... Deise Astronomy Club ). ... Tuesday, 1 December 2009 17:47 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 1024 x 768 x 256 display mode is distorted. ... VESA LB Video card with S3 805 chip, 1MB RAM. ... The problem seems to be that SVGA.EXE shipped with Warp generates an SVGADATA.PMI file that does not properly "program" this particular type of S3 card. ... This generates the Warp version of \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI that you need as a base for later steps . ... Edit \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI and replace the 1024 x 768 x 256 mode configuration with the equivalent section from \OS2\PMI\OLD\SVGADATA.PMI . ...