... 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. ...

... U.S. Naval Captain . NASA Astronaut, USA . ... He performed three space flights of the total duration of 42 days 14 hr 22min 27 s; during these flights he performed five EVAs of the total duration of 33 hr 58 min. ... The flight duration was 12 days 21 hr 42 min 41s. The main flight task was the Z1 Truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 delivery to the International Space Station. ... After his second space flight he led the newly formed ISS Crew Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ...

... 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. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

... 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 Site Safety Officer is responsible for continued safe functioning of facilities and equipment including telescopes, and the safety of personnel involved in or near maintenance activities. ... All employees are responsible for prompt reporting of conditions requiring maintenance. ... Preventive maintenance programs will be designed to insure a safe and healthful working environment for every employee and to minimize the need for emergency repairs. ... EMERGENCY REPAIRS . ... WRITTEN PROCEDURES . ...

... 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. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

the atoms includes descriptions of the telescope, its components and instruments, as well as detailed measurements. the reports are indexed as shown below. as there is often overlap between categories, a memo may appear under more than one category. the memos are referenced by year-number (i.e. 99-01), the number assigned in the order the memo is received. please note the date of the memos; information contained in the memos may have evolved over time. atoms directory: . ...

. Forms . Please complete this form, obtain your Branch Chief's signature, and return it to the computer operators in room 126. You will be assigned an initial password. You must change it the first time you log in. This can be done by typing SET PASSWORD . Generated with CERN WebMaker

... 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 . ...

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. ...

... Detailed procedures and reports are posted on the internal QC Operations Web page (www.eso.org/~qc/groupIndex.html). ... Customers are: o PSO For all supported instrument modes, create and certify master calibration data, for following customers: o external user community (through the Archive calSelector service) o PSO (on-line pipeline system), quality feedback o QC group (for IDP projects) Collect, analyze, and report instrument QC1 parameters. ...

... ClassX is a project aimed at creating an automated system to classify X-ray sources and is envisaged as a prototype of the Virtual Observatory. ... The most fundamental are: (a) classification methods and algorithms, (b) selection and definition of classes (object types), and (c) identification of source counterparts across multi-wavelength data. ... Using different sets of training parameters (attributes), we get different classifiers for the same list of class names (e.g., Figure 1). ...

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) ...

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" . ...

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