... 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. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Systems Engineering Docs . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... Doc Man . ... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102 FTT/NAS Conceptual Design Report . ... 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 . ...

... 2005 December 9 . December Moon Meets Evening Star . ... Explanation: If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star . ... As this season's evening star, Venus will be at its most brilliant tonight, but as December progresses the bright planet will begin to fall out of the western sky. By early next week, December's Moon will have moved on to meet another bright planet overhead -- Mars . ... About APOD | ...

... HST Overview . ... Panel Chairs are assigned to review proposals in the TAC and have no review assignments for their panel proposals nor are they asked to vote on those proposals during their Panel meetings . ... Panel Chairs are not required to submit preliminary grades for proposals assigned to their panel nor vote on them during the meeting . ... Panel Chairs should look over the reviewer assignments for their panel and bring to the attention of the PSS any possible conflicts or other problems. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Careers overview . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Science & Technology . ... Receivers & dishes . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Science Drivers and Technical Requirements for a Parkes High-Frequency Receiver . ... A Case for Development of the Parkes UWL Receiver . ... Meetings . ...

... Credit: Dan Bush ( Missouri Skies ) Explanation: If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star . Sometimes mistaken for a tower light near the horizon, Venus is the third brightest celestial beacon, after the Sun and Moon, in planet Earth's sky. ... As this season's evening star, Venus will be at its most brilliant tonight, but as December progresses the bright planet will begin to fall out of the western sky. ... December . ...

... 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. ...

... 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 (-...

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 .. ...

Subject: Rappel: 2007 IAU meetings . ... to: IAU Division Presidents IAU Commission Presidents IAU Working Group Presidents IAU Program Group Presidents re: Rappel 2007 IAU meetings Dear Presidents, The IAU Executive Committee, in its meeting of 18-20 April 2005, and in consultation with the IAU Division Presidents, has decided to upgrade the IAU Colloquium series to IAU Symposium status, and to simplify the IAU meeting proposal procedure. ... A time line of due dates is given below. ...

... The Site Safety Officer is responsible for continued safe functioning of facilities and equipment including telescopes, and the safety of personnel involved in or near maintenance activities. ... All employees are responsible for prompt reporting of conditions requiring maintenance. ... Preventive maintenance programs will be designed to insure a safe and healthful working environment for every employee and to minimize the need for emergency repairs. ... EMERGENCY REPAIRS . ... WRITTEN PROCEDURES . ...

... Ronald J. Garan, Jr. COLONEL, U.S. AIR FORCE, RET.) NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... ORGANIZATIONS: Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Engineers Without Borders, Association of Space Explorers, Member of the Launch.org Council, and Founder of the Manna Energy Foundation. ... In 1991, Garan was reassigned to the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, where he served as an F-16 Weapons School Instructor Pilot, Flight Commander and Assistant Operations Officer. ...

... UNAWE: Armagh Observatory Special Seminar and Workshop, Wed 22nd Nov 2006 Following Professor George Miley's presentation at the 7th October 2005 meeting of the ASGI (Dublin City University) concerning the UNAWE project, the Armagh Observatory is pleased to host a special information seminar and workshop on the UNAWE project, on Wednesday 22nd November 2006. ... UU Coleraine, tel: (048) 9036 6178 / pressoffice ulster.ac.uk Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... AAS 221 . AAS 219 . AAS 218 . AAS215 . ... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 215th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . ... For the period January 1, 2010 to January 8, 2010, I found there were 352 tweets that contained the #aas215 hash tag, and 895 that used the #aas hash tag. ... Here's the word cloud from the 1247 tweets: . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... mod_proxy extension for load balancing . ... Thus, in order to get the ability of load balancing, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer have to be present in the server. ... Enabled via lbmethod=byrequests , the idea behind this scheduler is that we distribute the requests among the various workers to ensure that each gets their configured share of the number of requests. ... lbfactor is how much we expect this worker to work , or the workers's work quota . ... worker...

A press release on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey was associated with this poster. ... Below are maps of HI emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity ( Figure 1 ) and latitude ( Figure 2 ) axes. ... 2000, A. J. , submitted . ... GIF | ... We are developing automated methods of locating HISA in velocity cubes by removing large-scale emission in space and velocity and flagging small-scale dark residuals. ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... Victoriy F. Schwarzman would have been seventy this year. He passed away almost forty years ago, although his vivid personality has an impact on us up to now. ... On December 18 2015, in the Oval hall of the SAO RAS laboratory building, there was a meeting dedicated to his anniversary. Some of his friends and colleagues shared their memories that day: Y.Y.Balega, I.D.Karachentsev, V.V.Vitkovsky, M.G.Mingaliev, S.N.Mitronova, B.Shtivelman, E.I.Ryzhikova, V.L.Plokhotnichenko, and G.M.Beskin. ...

... Annual Meeting . ... Scholarships for Cosmos . ... Download scholarship application instructions in pdf format. ... Scholarships will be provided after the meeting as reimbursement for document expenses incurred. ... While the deadline for scholarship application has now passed, there may be the possibility of additional funds from our generous meeting sponsors. You may submit a late application until June 30, 2010 and these will considered if funds become available. ... Cosmos Scholarships . ...

... The (very) slow rotation of magnetic Ap stars. ... Magnetic stars in young clusters and associations. ... Magnetic fields in low-mass stars from high-resolution infrared spectroscopy. ... Magnetic field measurements of late B-type starss. ... Measurement of magnetic field of FK Com. ... Magnetic field of white dwarfs. ... The magnetic star evolution project (teleconference). ... Conference-2014 . Program . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...