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. ...

... NASA picture Sunita Lyn WILLIAMS . ... She is a member of the following organizations: Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Society of Flight Test Engineers, American Helicopter Association. ... From January to December 1993 she studied at the United States Naval Test Pilot School. ... In December 2003 she was assigned to the ISS-12 prime crew and in December 2005 she was transferred to the ISS-14 prime crew. On May 2, 2006 she was assigned to the STS-116 crew for flight to the Station. ...

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 (-...

... 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. ...

... 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) ...

... 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 .. ...

The File System . Accounts consume disk space as files are created, copied, edited and mail is sent and received. Disk space is a limited resource and various methods are used to manage it. ... If quotas are used on your cluster, use the SHOW QUOTA command to display information about how much space you have used and how much is available to you. ... If free space on the scratch disk falls below 25%, then all files that are more than 4 business days old will be deleted. ...

... 0 Data Bit for Transfer Relay Control 0 : DDS's to Receiver, Fixed 20MHz to Transmitter 1 : DDS's to Transmitter, Fixed 20MHz to Receiver ___________________________ (+) Use Bit 12 in conjuction with the Data Ready Flag and Data Error Flag. ... Table 2 : Command Word Bit Assignments Bits Description 15 Set to 0 to identify Command Word 14,13,12 0 : Exit IPP Mode and Clear Flags 1 : Clear DDS's 2 : Update Immediate 3 : Update on tick 4 : Update on tick and then on every IPP 5.. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... September Issue: Einste . ... Тема: September Issue: Einstein ? ... To view this email as a web page, go here. links.email.scientificamerican.com/servl.. NzQyODY1NjExS0 =0 . ... 100 years of general relativity links.email.scientificamerican.com/ctt?k... ... Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery links.email.scientificamerican.com/ctt?k... ...

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" . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Space Science . ... ISS Main Expedition Five Mission Chronicle: September 2002 . In September, Valeriy Korzun, Peggy Whitson and Sergey Treshchov conducted material science experiments and received another Progress M1 cargo ship. Day Off At Labor Day . ... Day Of Rememberance . ... Preparing For Change Of Progresses . ... Seasons At The ISS Planet . ... September Shakedown Of The ISS Project . ...

... Plotting in MIDAS will create a MIDAS plotfile which contains all essential plot information. By default this plotfile (metafile) љ is always created by the execution of the main plot commands. ... The SHOW/GRAPH command shows the user which is the last created plotfile. ... Names of plotfiles are a composition of the device names that is currently assigned and the MIDAS session number. ... He/she can now send the plot to a hardcopy device using the COPY/GRA command. ... send plotfile to LASER . ...

Albert White (Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign), Mark Bailey (Armagh Observatory), Terry Moseley (Irish Astronomical Association) and Leo Enright (Broadcaster and Journalist, and invited Guest Speaker at the Conference) receiving "Recognition of Merit" Awards from the International Dark-Sky Association, in the Market Place, Armagh, 19th September 2009. ... An important objective was to raise public and private awareness of the many adverse impacts of light pollution. ...

... 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 . ...

... Short reports. ... For the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), the requirements for the short report are not strong. ... According to the information above the regular deadline for receiving the short reports of Nationals Olympiads of the current year (with a set of all problems used on the National Olympiads) is defined as 13 plus 5 = 18 weeks before the Olympiad: July 04 , 2009. ... Personal data for visas. ...

... 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 . ...

... Here, we proposal for the ATNF to appoint TAC `readers' to assist the TAC members by comments and grades on proposals prior to a TAC meeting. telescope members. discuss a providing Following final revisions to this proposal, we recommend that the changes to the TAC processes be introduced from 2009 OCTS. ... Prior to a TAC meeting, each proposal is read by three or four TAC members who return preliminary grades and comments. ... The TAC will for the scientific assessment of ASKAP Guest Proposals. ...

... adass@eso.org . ... c/o Britt Sj?berg . ST-ECF/ESO . ... European Southern Observatory . ... The ADASS '97 Program Organizing Committee is comprised of the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), R. Crutcher (Uni. of Illinois), F. Rick Harnden - Chair (SAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Jonathan McDowell (SAO), Jan Noordam (NFRA), Dick Shaw (STScI), Richard Simon (NRAO), Britt Sj?berg (ST-ECF), Doug Tody (NOAO), and Dave Van Buren (IPAC). ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . omichain (omichain-1.51) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Intermediate Output Files This image-file is produced by omdetect and the image shows the pixels assigned to each source- the value assigned to each pixel corresponds to the number of the source in the source-list file. Intermediate level-image file produced by omdetect - eg I0123920101OMS493LEVELIMAGE1000.FIT . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-02