... AND FIFTH VISITING CREW . TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... This morning the Expedition 8 crew (ISS-8) consisting of Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale, as well as flight engineer of the sixth visiting crew (VC-6) Andre Kuipers, who early morning upon completion of the flight program returned to Earth in Soyuz TMA-3 descent vehicle, arrived to Chkalovsky aerodrome near Moscow. next.. ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-3 manned transport spacecraft was launched. ... Photo-report . ... SEA LAUNCH | ...

... HST . ... HST Overview . ... 26 Jun 2015 ISR 15-06 by V. Kozhurina-Platais "ACS/WFC Revised Geometric Distortion for DrizzlePac" is now posted. 23 Jun 2015 ISR 15-03 by S. Ogaz "Post-Flash Calibration Darks for the Advanced Camera for Surveys Wide Field Channel (ACS/WFC)" is now posted. ... 07 Apr 2015 New and improved post-flashed superdark files for ACS/WFC are available in the archive. ... 12 Mar 2015 ISR 15-02 by D. Borncamp "Results of the Updated ACS/WFC Distortion Correction" is now posted. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

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SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA . international astrophysical project . ... Control system units of Spacecraft Engineering Model were delivered to Lavochkin Associati on Jan. 23 2002. The assembling of Engineering model of Spacecraft Control System and the preliminary testing of the system will be performed in February. The stand-alone tests of Spacecraft Control System is being planned for April 2002. Febr., ... You are visitor number since October 02, 2000 . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

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Next: Advanced Architecture for the Infrared Science Archive . ... IPAC/SIRTF Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91344 . ... The California Institute of Technology has been selected as the home for the SIRTF Science Center (SSC) . ... The Science Observations Data Base (SODB) is used at the SSC to hold all information submitted by the community, and will eventually encompass the project archival data bases as well. ...

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A new Advanced Instruments and Engineering Facility will be established on Mt Stromlo, establishing new capability for precision optics manufacture and an expanded research and development program. ... ANU has signed an agreement with commercial aerospace partner Auspace to rebuild the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph, (NIFS) for the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. ... This first Australian instrument for the Gemini telescopes is of enormous importance to Australian science and Stromlo staff. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... Calibration information standardisation 2. Pre-launch calibration gold-standard 3. ... Role of ICWG STANDARDISATION IN GROUND CALIBRATION: tracking (configuration and quality) ------------------------------------- There was some discussion of the mechanisms for imposing or enforcing requirements on instrument development in the different (inter)national contexts relevant to the development of our missions. ... This includes standardisation of ground calibration data formats. ...

... The Baikonur space vehicles and missiles launch site is a complicated engineering and technical complex. ... The world's first artificial satellite of the Earth, as well as the first artificial satellites of the Sun, of the Moon and of the Venus were launched from the Baikonur. ... The cosmodrome consists of nine launch complexes with fourteen launchers, thirty-four engineering complexes, three fuelling stations for space vehicles and two aerodromes. ...

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Southern Lights and Shuttle Glow . ... Credit Copyright: STS-39 Crew, NASA Explanation: A background of distant stars, sinuous and spiky bands of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) , and the faint glow of charged plasma (ionized atomic gas) surrounding the Space Shuttle Discovery's engines give this photo from the STS-39 mission an eerie, otherworldly look. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... A novel superconducting element, HighHarmonic Phase Detector (HPD), intended for phaselocking of a FFO has been proposed and experimentally tested. ... The HPD PLL concept is very promising for future applications, especially for building of the multi-pixel SIR array, long-base interferometry and for phase-locking of the THz range FFO. ... Improving on the fully Nb-based SIR we have developed and studied Nb-AlN-NbN circuits which exhibit an extended operation frequency range. ...