... NASA Astronaut . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Two Defense Superior Service Medals, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, two Navy Unit Commendations, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, three NASA Space Flight Medals, Russian Federation Medal for merit in Space Exploration....

... NASA Astronaut, USA . ... HONOURS: NASA Medals for Space Mission (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999). ... He is a veteran of five space flights and has logged altogether 178 days 23 r 44 in 15 s including three space walks of the total duration: 18 hr 49 min. ... The mission duration was 9 days 6 hr 8 min 24 s. In the third mission from February 3-11, 1995 he was a mission specialist onboard Discovery (STS-63); it was the first rendezvous (up to 10 m) of STS-63 with the Russian Space Station Mir. ...

... December 9, 1995 . Apollo 14 on the Moon . ... Explanation: The jewel-like glare from a brilliant sun reflects off the lunar module of the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon as it rests on the lunar surface in February 1971. ... Coming only months after the abortive Apollo 13 mission, Apollo 14 was famous for long exploratory moon walks, collecting samples of lunar bedrock from Cone Crater, deploying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, and hitting golf balls . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

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Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time visibility of the IB_TAIL relative to the Evpatoria and Panska Ves . ... The real time regions passing . ... The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the Moscow time (MT = UT + 3h) (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the MT (Plot) . The IB_TAIL orbital data ASCII files . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Apertures . ... Data Files . ... We have updated the offsets for the full-field apertures, which results in a significant wavelength shift if those apertures were used for slitless spectroscopy. j1c1746no_apd.fits (use on or prior to December 8, 1997) . ... We have updated the entry for the F28X50OIII filter to account for the red leak, and to change the F28X50LP by 0.766 of the previous values (based on in-orbit data). ...

... Astronomy Festival: 12/13 February 2010, Galway . ... Astronomy Ireland's Christmas talk: Mon 14 Dec, TCD, Dublin . ... ESO and the E ELT* . The talk will take place on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 9:30 am in room HG19 of the DCU School of Nursing . ... He directed the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy and Leiden Observatory, and served on oversight committees for AURA, ESA, ESO and NASA. ... Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:12 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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These links highlight 2008 - current ARC projects for telescopes, instruments, or operations at Apache Point. ... Eyepiece: April 10, 2009 . Painted Enclosure: April 23, 2009, Part A , Part B . Drive Maintenance: July 24, 2009, Part A , Part B , Part C , Part D , Part E , Part F , Part G . ... New Interior Photos: March 14, 2014 . TripleSpec Electronics Mount: March 05, 2008: Part A , Part B , Part C . ... TripleSpec: October 30, 2008 . ... GFP Upgrade: December 8, 2010 . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Descent To Jupiter . ... Hours ago, at about 5:00 pm EST (2200 GMT) December 7, Galileo's descent probe slammed into Jupiter's atmosphere. ... The above picture by the Hubble Space Telescope of the center of the nearby galaxy NGC 4261 tells us one dramatic tale. ... A leading candidate is a type of dim, low mass star called a "brown dwarf" star. ... In the center of the above photograph lies a star with one of the hottest surface temperatures yet confirmed. ...

. The new arrival, a few hours old, greeting his big sister. A week later. He's sleeping, so it must be daytime. The whole family at the zoo in New Orleans. If we had managed to send them, this would have been our Christmas card picture. But we didn't. Jasper at 2 months old. Still fits in the Christmas suit but just barely. He may not sleep, but he sure does eat. Jasper and Thisbe getting acquainted. Ellen Howell <ehowell@naic.edu> Last modified: Fri Dec 26 2002

HARP is the Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The programme is beginning with HARP-B, . ... February 2006 . ... The HARP-B project is a collaboration between Cavendish Astrophysics (MRAO) at the University of Cambridge, UK, The Joint Astronomy Centre at Hilo in Hawaii (operators of the JCMT), The UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council Canada . ...

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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 . ...

The Higgs Boson: Window on the Big Bang, UO, Eugene, Oregon , October 29, 2012 . Physics Slam, UO, Eugene, Oregon , March 22, 2011 . University of New Mexico , October 1, 2009 . Columbia Hall, UO, Eugene, Oregon , September 12, 2008 . ... Eugene Rotary, Eugene, Oregon , February 5, 2008 . ... University of Oregon , May 19, 2005 . ... Particles, Energy, and Cosmology , Jim Brau . ... Annual Star Party - Public Lecture . ... Public Lecture Celebrating the World Year of Physics 2005, . ...

... 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 . ...

... Telescopes . ... On February 4, 2016, the Jubilee conference dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first observations on the 6-m BTA telescope took place at SAO RAS. ... Afterwards, Igor D.Karachentsev shared his memories of the first observations at the BTA. ... One of the first SAO RAS astronomers Eugene L.Chentsov outlined the first steps of stellar spectroscopy at BTA and Vladimir E.Panchuk in detail described the instruments and stellar spectroscopy technique at the 6-m telescope. ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around the planet Jupiter, this morning began the first scheduled return of data from its companion atmospheric probe that parachuted into the jovian atmosphere last Thursday. ... Forty minutes of data collected by the probe stored in the orbiter's onboard computer memory will be radioed to Earth over the next four days and presented to Galileo scientists for analysis. ... Space History Galileo . ...