... 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. ...

... 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 | ...

... 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. ...

... 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 (-...

... 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 .. ...

... 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. ...

... 23.06.2010 . ... Credit: Expedition 23 Crew , NASA Explanation: What are these strange color bands being seen from the International Space Station? The Sun setting through Earth's atmosphere. ... Sunset is not an uncommon sight for occupants of the International Space Station , because it can be seen as many as 16 times a day. ... Publications with keywords: international space station - sunset - atmosphere . Publications with words: international space station - sunset - atmosphere . ...

... News . ... SSAU History . ... Evgeniy Shakhmatov, Rector of Samara State Aerospace University and Evgeniy Kablov, Director General of All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials have signed an order on establishing a joint laboratory on corrosion, aging and biodegradation of materials and complex engineering systems based on the ARSRIM and SSAU. ... In this regard, creation of the joint laboratory will allow SSAU and ARSRIM to make a new significant step forward in this direction...

... In addition, a range of second and third-level students were supervised under the Observatory's continuing work-experience and summer student training programmes, including the Nuffield-Sentinus scheme. In total, more than 100 days of school work-experience took place, the individuals involved including Adam Moss (Mercy Secondary School, Tralee, Co. ... Monaghan), Louise Jeffery (The Royal School, Armagh), and Cathal Hughes (St. Brigid's School, Armagh). ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

The purpose of these tools is to provide the ability to: . manage plan window assignment outside of SPIKE . apply additional planning constraints to visits for SPIKE to use in its plan window assignment. ... Tool . ... leonid-qsp-recs . not assigned . ... delete-plan-windows-for-visit . ...

... 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) ...

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" . ...

... Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education . ... In Arbat street you can find many places to eat and to buy presents for your relatives and friends. ... Moscow underground, or metro, is arguably the most reliable and easy public transport in the city. There are two metro stations closest to the Independent University, namely metro Kropotkinskaya and metro Smolenskaya , see them again on this map and now on this map , also showing connections to the airports and hotel NICEVT. ... Metro . ...

With the aim of providing steady development of astronomy and spreading astronomical knowledge the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS) and the Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers (EAATA) of the EAAS with the assistance of the P.K.Sternberg State Astronomical Institute (in Moscow), Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (in Niznij Arkhyz) and the Moscow-Regional ... The Coordinating Council forms an IAO jury for the period of holding the current Olympiad. ...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

As conditional or control statements you have IF in many variants (but essentially not changed from Fortran 77), DO (with some new variants) and the completely new statement CASE . The DO- loop should now be ended with the statement END DO and we no longer need any statement number. In addition, we can use the statement EXIT to jump out of the DO -loop and CYCLE in order to go to the next iteration of the present DO -loop. ... all negative numbers WRITE (*,*) 'Negative number' CASE (0) ! ...

astronomy . Astro Courses . ... IYA 2009 . ... Armagh Planetarium is proud to be associated with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) . IYA 2009 is a global year of events celebrating all things associated with the absorbing science that is astronomy. ... IYA 2009 Autumn/Winter events . ... Here at Armagh Planetarium one of our most important objectives is to promote formal and informal science education and there will be activities celebrating IYA 2009 throughout the year. ...