home education > resources . ... Activities . ... Has an NSF-funded project called TYC21, which brings together regional groups of community college physics and astronomy instructors [see appendix , or consult the web site: http://www.aapt.org/programs/tyc21/tyc.html . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory: . ... Project ASTRO's The Universe at Your Fingertips: An Astronomy Activity and Resource Notebook, 800+ pages of activities and resources for teachers at all levels, especially grades 4-12. ...

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. ...

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASTRONOMY EDUCATION . ... c/o European Southern Observatory , Karl Schwarzschild Strasse 2, DE-85748 Garching bei M nchen, Germany . The purpose of the Association is to improve and promote astronomical education at all levels in all institutions involved in teaching astronomy in Europe. NATIONAL EAAE HOME PAGES . ... Germany . ... Some Important E-mail Addresses : . ... Michael Reichen ( Editor ), michael.reichen@obs.unige.ch . ...

... Home Links International Sidewalk Astronomy Night . ... Saturday night, April 12, 2008, is the 2nd International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.€а We call on all amateur astronomers to take their telescopes and binoculars out for the public to enjoy the wonders of the night sky.€а A first-quarter Moon will be visible, as will the planets Saturn and Mars.€а More information can be found at http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com /, where you can register so people will know where to find you. ...

Astronomy Education News . ... Armagh Observatory Press Release . Pupils from two schools in Armagh won eight of the prizes of the national astronomy competition run by the Irish Astronomical Association as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... James Leetch and Edie Mea McCarthey from the Royal School Armagh won first prizes in the intermediate and junior art category of the "Space and Aliens Astronomy Competition". ... Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... 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. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... 14 Bissat, an International Student Experience . ... On August 2003 an accident with the Brazilian Launcher, VLS, destroyed the UNOSAT (www.space.unopar.br) that was the first Brazilian University Undergraduate Student nano satellite. ... The name of 14 Bissat is to commemorate the 100 year of the flight of the first airplane by the Brazilian Santos Dumont in Paris and is an acronym of Brazilian International Student Satellite. ...

... Greenland meteorite expeditions, Greenland 1998 Unix system administration (part-time), Teoretisk Astrophysics Centre, Copenhagen Teaching assistant (part-time), University of Copenhagen Guide, Round Tower Observatory (part-time) hereof 1991-1993 as Head observer, Copenhagen Planetarium guide Technical Museum (part-time), Elsinore 1999- 1989-1999 1996 1995-1996 1991-1996 1984-1997 1984-1985 EDUCATION o o o Master of Science , Astrophysics, University of ...

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. ...

For Astronomers: Finding a Partner Teacher . ... By now you've decided you want to start a Project ASTRO partnership, but you don't have a partner. ... When you contact a teacher, explain that you want to volunteer as a Project ASTRO astronomer and describe some of what you'd like to offer. ... Bring a copy of the Project ASTRO How-To Manual, The Universe at Your Fingertips, and other Project ASTRO resource materials you may have to a meeting with the school principal or classroom teacher. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...