... 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. ...

... EXPEDITION ISS-13 /14 . PRIME CREW . ... ISS Flight Engineer – 2, . ... WORK EXPERIENCE: After completion of military jet training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Thomas was qualified as a pilot and flow the Alpha-Jet in a fighter-bomber squadron based in Oldenburg, Germany. ... From January to July 1993 he passed general space training at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany. ... From March 30 to August 11, 1995 he passed direct training for a flight within the crew. ...

... 2009 December 7 . The International Space Station Over the Horizon . Credit: STS-129 Crew , Expedition 21 Crew , NASA . ... Just over a week ago, the STS-129 crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and returned to Earth. ... The space shuttle crew spent almost 12 days calling the space station home. The shuttle crew resupplied the space station and delivered valuable spare parts. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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: . ... In order to indicate such a situation, selected days which do not satisfy certain absolute criteria are marked as follows. ... A selected disturbed day is considered not really disturbed and marked by an asterisk ( * ) if Ap less than 20. ... January 2000 - recent . January 1990 - December 1999 . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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) ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... This has been designed for 8-12 year olds, however the challenge is for anyone and everyone who is curious about space exploration and what it takes to be an astronaut. How can I take part? ... All you need to do is complete a partnership agreement available here or alternatively contact Martina Redpath €а (email Martina(at)armaghplanet.com ) for more information and a guide to the activities. ... Take part in Mission X 2014 | ...

... 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 (-...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 1.01.2002 . ... Credit Copyright: STS-108 Crew , NASA Explanation: High above a cloudy Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) orbits silently. The Space Shuttle Endeavor Crew took the above picture as they departed the space station in mid-December. ... Highlights of this Endeavor mission included fixing a solar panel and maneuvering the station to avoid a large piece of passing space junk . ... January 2002 . ... Publications with keywords: ISS . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... Simulators . ... Functional Cargo Block (FGB) simulator; . ... Each partner participating in the ISS construction elaborates and develops simulators and trainers of its own segment on a home base; . Training of astronauts on the station segments' operation is carried out on the basis of countries - customers, investigators and researchers; . ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:56:03 -0500 From: Ken Sembach Subject: Fwd: 1 PM status meeting MA2 TCXO Anomaly: HSTAR 13152 From: "Dunham, Larry" Date: December 27, 2011 8:40:40 AM EST Subject: 1 PM status meeting MA2 TCXO Anomaly: HSTAR 13152 Meeting today in S107A at 1:00 as a follow up on the MAT 2 anomaly seen late last week.€ ... Charts should be posted to the anomaly briefing page prior to the meeting. ... EST Tuesday December 27.€ ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Research Innovation . ... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... Karazin university . ... up until December 31, 2012 . Bilateral competition of fundamental research . Fundamental Research State Foundation (FRSF) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announce a bilateral competition of fundamental research. The competition coverts the following areas of research: . ... July, 2016 . ... up until April 2016 . ... April 18-23, 2016 . ... Phone: +380 (57) 7051248 . ...

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. ...