National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... ESA picture Leopold EYHARTS . ISS Flight Engineer-2, . ESA Astronaut, France . ... Leopold Eyharts was assigned as backup of Thomas Reiter for ESA’s first long-duration mission to the International Space Station which took place between July 4 and December 22, 2006. ... In 2007 Leopold Eyharts was assigned to a two-month ISS mission to deliver the European Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station (the Atlantis Space Shuttle, the STS-122 flight). ... UNIVERSAL SPACE PLATFORM | ...

... 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 (-...

... 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. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­97 EPIC PN TIMING D LUMB December 4, 2001 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EPN TIMECORR 0054 2000­01­01T00:00:00 FRAMETIME TIMECORR YES 2 Changes The time between detection of a photon in a CCD, and the time which is written into a time stamp datum associated with a readout frame is partially indeterminate, but the mean time of the frame is generally assigned to this detection. ...

... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1140 Camera Mount & Enclosure . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... 1200 FLC . ... MRO-PLA-CAM-0000-0106 FTT/NAS & FLC Development Plan . ... 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 . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/DocMan) ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Chapter 2: Association Keywords . ... Calibration Products . ... Looking at the ASN_MTYP and EXPNAME keywords for each extension of the n48o06020_jif.fits file, we see... n48o06020_jif.fits [1], ASN_MTYP = EXP-TARG EXPNAME = N48O06G9J n48o06020_jif.fits [2], ASN_MTYP = EXP-TARG EXPNAME = N48O06GAJ n48o06020_jif.fits [3], ASN_MTYP = EXP-BCK1 EXPNAME = N48O06GBJ n48o06020_jif.fits [4], ASN_MTYP = EXP-BCK1 EXPNAME = N48O06GCJ n48o06020_jif.fits [5], ...

Function: RadioAddKey Purpose: Ad a keyword to a group of associated keywords. Category: USER-INTERFACE File: radiogroup.c Author: J.P. Terlouw Use: #include "radiogroup.h" ident group; char *key, *value; RadioAddKey(group, key, value); group - group to which 'key' is to be added. key - LOGICAL user input keyword to be added to the group. value - associated value to be assigned to the group keyword when 'key' becomes TRUE. Related docs: radiogroup.dc2 RadioGroup.dc2, RadioDeleteGroup.dc2. ...

International Q-Days and D-Days ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Classification of Days (deduced from Kp indices) The selection of the quietest days (Q-days) and most disturbed days (D-days) of each month is deduced from the Kp indices on the basis of three criteria for each day: 1. ... In order to indicate such a situation, selected days which do not satisfy certain absolute criteria are marked as follows. ...

... Inside the Eagle Nebula . ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. ... The telescope mirror, about the size of the Hubble Space Telescope mirror, is protected by a red covering. ... In fact, early last week RS Oph suddenly became visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1985. ... An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturns Telesto . ... M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy in Dust and Stars . ...

... 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 . ...

Russian . Main . News . ... Minutes of the Telecon on January 17, 2012. ... News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site up to September 15, 2011 (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to September 3, 2011. News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to August 18, 2011. ... Second version of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook ( in Russian )is placed on the project site . ...

... Normative references . ... Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217 . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1700.txt . ... For more information, consult http://www.iso.ch/cate/d4766.html . See also http://www.sil.org/sgml/iso639a.html . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1555.txt . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1556.txt . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1738.txt . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt . ...

To read standard input into a shell script use the read command. For example: echo "Please enter your name:" read name echo "Welcome to Edinburgh $name" . This prompts the user for input, assigns this to the variable name and then displays the value of this variable to standard output . ... For example: echo "Please enter your surname\n" echo "followed by your first name: \c" read name1 name2 echo "Welcome to Glasgow $name2 $name1" . ...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...

The connect window allows you to connect to "hub" at the observatory. It is brought up by selecting Connect from the TUI Menu. ... Program Name : the name of your program as assigned to you by APO. ... Passwords and permissions are both associated with program numbers. Password : the password associated with the program name. Status bar: displays the current status of the connection. Connect button: initiates the connection, Be sure the program name and password are entered first. ...

... You can work in group sizes as large as 5. Each individual in that group could be assigned a particular question which would allow the group to complete the assignment in a more efficient manner. ... Off in the corner of the store was a small black box with a big sign that read . ... As the century turned, Africa began to emerge from a Dark Age stretching as far back as life on earth, into all the years that lay ahead - years of Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industry, and, if you will, Anxiety. ...

... 2007 December 31 . A Year of Spectacular Comets . ... Explanation: Two spectacular comets graced Earth's skies during 2007. Both comets became bright enough to be seen by the unaided eye of the casual sky enthusiast . Early in 2007, Comet McNaught grew brighter than any comet in 40 years, displaying a beautiful dust tail that flowed across the sky. ... Toward the year's end, normally docile and faint Comet Holmes brightened suddenly and unexpectedly to naked eye visibility. ...