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. ...

... 2008 November 30 . An Apollo 15 Panorama: Astronaut Exploring . Credit: Apollo 15 Crew , USGS , NASA . Explanation: What would it be like to explore the Moon? NASA's Apollo missions gave humans just this chance in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In particular, the Apollo 15 mission was dedicated to better understanding the surface of the Moon by exploring mountains, valleys, maria, and highlands . ... The Apollo 15 mission returned about 76 kilograms of moon rocks for detailed study. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Minutes of the Ninety Fourth Meeting of the Management Committee . ... PDF Format . ... Minutes of the Ninety Third Meeting of the Management Committee . ... Minutes of the Ninety Second Meeting of the Management Committee . held on 5th June 2014 at the Planetarium . ... Minutes of the Ninety First Meeting of the Management Committee . ... Minutes of the Ninetieth Meeting of the Management Committee . ...

Solar Eruptive Event of 4 November 2001 observed with the SPIRIT Telescope on Board the CORONAS-F Satellite . ... Based on the data of the SPIRIT telescope on board the CORONAS-F satellite in three EUV channels 175, 284, 304 , we have analyzed large-scale manifestations of the post-eruptive so-lar activity followed one of the most considerable and geoeffective coronal mass ejection (CME) in the 23rd cycle which occurred on 4 November 2001. ... Posteruptive arcade on the CORONAS-F/SPIRIT movies at . ...

A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The VC-4 flight tasks were successfully completed. The manned transfer vehicle Soyuz TM-34, been a part of ISS orbital complex since April 27, 2002, as a rescue vehicle and been the earlier manned space vehicle modification of Soyuz type, was replaced by Soyuz TMA-1, the new modification, designed by the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists in cooperation with its subcontractors from Russian rocket and space industry. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... NASAтАЩs management hopes the Orion crew module will serve as both transport and a home to a crew of four or more astronauts during future long-duration missions to asteroids, Mars and other destinations throughout the Solar System. ... A space-going Orion will be fitted to a service module derived from EuropeтАЩs successful Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV). ...

... 2000 November 28 . BZ Cam Bow Shock . ... Explanation: BZ Cam is a binary star system that is not well understood. ... In BZ Cam , however, light appears to flicker unpredictably, and an unusually large wind of particles is being expelled. Pictured above , BZ Cam 's wind creates a large bow-shock as the system moves through surrounding interstellar gas . BZ Cam lies about 2500 light-years away toward the constellation of Camelopardalis . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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... Huygens Images Titan s Surface . ... Credit: ESA , NASA , Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer Team ( LPL ) Explanation: After a seven year interplanetary voyage on board the the Cassini spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe parachuted to a historic landing on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14. ... News: Huygens Updates . ... Publications with keywords: Huygens probe - cassini spacecraft . Publications with words: Huygens probe - cassini spacecraft . ... Liquid Sea on Saturns Titan . ...

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... The 11 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Bombay (Mumbai) on November 10-19, 2006. The duration of the Olympiad was 10 days, it is one day longer than usualy. ... The International Astronomy Olympiad has been held in Europe and Caucasus for nine times, the X IAO visited East Asia, and now it is the first time IAO coming to South Asia. ... Friday, November 10 - Day of arrival . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

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... This is a preliminary summary of the event on November 24, 1996, considered during the INTERBALL Workshop in Kiljavanranta, Finland, February 1998. ... Pronounced plasma sheet thinning (Bz decrease) . ... Particle burst observed inside the Polar Cap and in tail lobes . A short burst of particles detected by the Auroral Probe particle detectors during the Polar Cap crossing at 21:45 UT, almost simultaneously with the Tail Probe detectors registration of the particle burst inside the North Lobe. ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... November/December 2006 . ... Creating NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program: The Real Stuff (Abridged), Jeffrey D. Rosendhal . ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . November Sky Map | December Sky Map | ...

Rhiannon's ballet/jazz dance show November 17-20 2002. Rhiannon practising her ballet positions. Getting ready for the show. Hair, makeup, costume, whew. Rhiannon in the fan dance. More ballet dancing. The jazz portion of the show. The awards for participation given out by teacher, Lizbeth. Rhiannon and Gayathri with their trophies and ribbons. Rhiannon and Gayathri admiring their awards. Ellen Howell <ehowell@naic.edu> Last modified: Fri Oct 12 2001

For around forty years, astrophysicists have observed the annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy at a prodigious rate. ... The fact the Galactic bulge far outshines the disk in annihilating positrons which are injected into the ISM at low energies makes the source of the positrons difficult to identify, as the main source of such positrons are prima facie located in the Galactic disk. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2009 > IVOA Interoperability Meeting November 2009 . ... ESO Data . ... The International Virtual Observatory Alliance ( IVOA ) organises two Interoperability meeting per year. ... The IVOA Interoperability meetings focus on the development of Virtual Observatory standards to facilitate access to, and maximize the scientific exploitation of, the worldwide collection of astronomical information. ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...