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Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Winter 2009 . ... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Dark Night, Rowena Davis . ... The International Dark-Sky Association is leading the movement to save our starry skies. ... Imaging the Universe Online, Paul Deans . ... Time-Domain Astronomy, John Avant . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Night Sky Brightness . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ... Reflections, Paul Deans . ...

At 08:32, Moscow Time, Soyuz TMA-14 descent vehicle returned to Earth. ... Russian cosmonaut G. Padalka (commander of ISS-19/20, commander of Soyuz TMA-14) and NASA astronaut M.Barratt (flight engineer of ISS-19/20 and of Soyuz TMA-14) completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under the program of Expedition ISS-19/20, and a spaceflight participant, Canadian citizen G. Laliberte has completed his mission under the program of the 17th visiting mission. ...

... Press Releases . ... Press & Web Coverage . ... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. Click here to hear more and here to see who plays this music . Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. Click here to to see more press cuttings. ... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...