National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Neil A. Armstrong . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... Died on August 25, 2012. ... His first assignment was with the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, NASA. ... Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Automatic Space Systems . Universal Space Platform . ... ISS-45 Images . ... Expedition ISS-45 Photoarchive . September 2, 2015. ... August 31, 2015. ... A meeting of the Technical management and State commission. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

... August 13, 1996 . Europa's Surface . ... This tantalizing prospect of oceans of liquid water beneath its frozen surface has helped make the smallest of the Galilean moon's of Jupiter a planned focus of the Galileo spacecraft's ongoing mission to explore the Jovian system. New Europa images and results from the Galileo mission were released today revealing details which further suggest that Europa's icy surface was once - and may still be - supported on slush or liquid water. ... About APOD | ...

... Some photos from the International Year of Astronomy "From Earth to the Universe" exhibition on display at the Bru na Boinne visitor centre (Newgrange) from Saturday 22 August 2009, the first day of the Heritage Week. Photos courtesy of Pat O'Neill (IAA) and Miruna Popescu (ArmaghObservatory/ IYA2009-Ireland) . Thursday, 27 August 2009 19:59 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Cassini Approaches Saturn . ... Last month, Cassini snapped several images during an engineering test. The International Space Station Expands Again . ... Last month the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the ISS and installed the third of eleven pieces that will compose the Integrated Truss Structure. ... At 1,500 light-years across, this expansive cloud of interstellar gas and dust is effectively a giant stellar nursery located some three million light-years distant in the spiral galaxy, M33. ...

... Meetings . ... List of all meetings from first one and up to present. Agenda of the session: eng version . ... Agenda of the meeting: eng version . Summary of the meeting: eng version . ... List of RISC members . ... List of participants . ... Agenda of the meeting: eng / rus version . ... Formal minutes: eng version . ... Lists of participants: eng / rus version . Formal minutes: eng / rus version . ... Agenda of the meeting & List of participants . ... Agenda of RISC's meeting . ...

... Viking Images . ... Each spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. ... The first month of orbit was devoted to imaging the surface to find appropriate landing sites for the Viking Landers. On July 20, 1976 Viking Lander 1 separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia. ... The Viking Landers transmitted images of the surface, took surface samples and analyzed them for composition and signs of life, studied atmospheric composition and meteorology, and deployed seismometers. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Military Space . Space Science . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . This is on-line version of Russian magazine Novosti Kosmonavtiki. This electronic version covers Russian and International space news. Those who wish to obtain the full, translated copy of an article will be charged an additional price, which varies with the size of the article. ... 2002 CosmoWorld.ru. ...

Transactions IAU, Volume XXVIB Proc. XXVIth IAU General Assembly, August 2006 K.A. van der Hucht, ed. c 2007 International Astronomical Union DOI: 00.0000/X000000000000000X COMMISSION 31 TIME (TIME) Demetrios Matsaskis Pascale Defraigne Gerard Petit Seigfrido Leschiutta Gerard Petit Mizuhiko Hosokawa Zhai Zao-Cheng PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT PAST PRESIDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS BUSINESS SESSION, August 21 2006 1. ... The second part of the session was dedicated to pulsar timing. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

Vega Stamps . International project VEGA was managed by Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 spacecraft were developed by Babakin Space Center and fabricated by Lavochkin Association in Khimki, Moscow region. ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 have been the part of the international fleet to Halley's comet, that also included Giotto mission of European Space Agency (ESA) and Sakigake and Suisei by Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan. ... Vega 1 . ...

... Lunar Orbiter 5 was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... Accurate data were acquired from all other experiments throughout the mission. ... A detailed description of the experiment, a bibliography, and indexes of all the available Lunar Orbiter 1 through 5 photos are contained in the report 'Lunar Orbiter Photographic Data,' NSSDC 69-05, June 1969. ...

... Moscow, August 26-31, 2012 . ... August 28 Tuesday, 9:30 . Evgeny M. Beniaminov (Moscow, Russia) The Galileo Invariance of Diffusion Scattering of Waves in the Phase Space . ... Alexei P. Davydov (St.-Petersburg, Russia, in Russian ) Estimating the computational complexity of Grigoriev's algorithm for solving tropical systems . ... August 30 Thursday, 12:40 . ... Vladimir V. Podolskii (Moscow, Russia) and Dima Grigoriev (Lion, France) Complexity of tropical and min-plus linear prevarieties . ...

... XLIX International Mathematics Olympiad, Madrid (Spain), July. XXXIX International Physics Olympiad, Hanoi (Vietnam), July. XXXX International Chemistry Olympiad, Budapest (Hungary), July. XX International Informatics Olympiad, Cairo (Egypt), August. ... XIII International Astronomy Olympiad, Trieste (Italy), October. ... II International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bandung (Indonesia), August. ... of the XIII International Astronomy Olympiad (2008), . ...

... Starting with the first human steps in 1969, six of 11 Apollo missions landed astronauts on the Moon to do a variety of science experiments, which continue today. ... In this episode of Astronomy Behind the Headlines, Dr. Jack Burns, of the University of Colorado's Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR), joins us to talk about lunar exploration and some exciting work his team is planning to do from the surface of the Moon. ... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/ . ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences will organize a traditional International conference ?Physics and Evolution of Magnetic and Related stars? during the period from August 25 to August 31, 2014. ... evolution of CP and related stars, . ... interplay of pulsations and magnetism in B, A, and F stars, . ... chemical abundance patterns of CP and related stars, . magnetic white dwarfs, . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

Third Extended ECFA/DESY Study Workshop , November 15-18, 2002 . ... 5th ACFA workshop on Physics and Detectors at a Linear Collider , July 10-12, 2002 . ... Lane Community College, Physics Club, , June 11, 2002 . ... Babar Collaboration Meeting , May 6-9, 2002 . Oregon State University, Physics Colloquium , May 6, 2002 . ... International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics , March 25-29, 2002 . ... University of Oregon, Physics Colloquium , February 21, 2002 . ... Talks 2003 . ...