... BACKUP CREW . ... ISS Flight Engineer, . ... Test Cosmonaut of S.P.Korolev Rocket and . ... Afterwards, however, he was transferred as Flight Engineer to ISS-17 backup crew. ... On November 6, 2007 at the meeting of Roscosmos Interdepartmental Commission for Selecting Cosmonauts and their Enlistment in Crews of Manned Space Vehicles and stations he was approved as backup Flight Engineer of ISS-17 and Soyuz-ТМА-12 transport manned space vehicle scheduled to be launched on April 8, 2008. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

... Astronomy Ireland's Christmas talk: Mon 14 Dec, TCD, Dublin . ... Cosmic Christmas to be launched on Friday 4 December at Blackrock Castle Observatory . The next meeting of the NIAAS takes place on Monday 7th December, starting at 8pm in Ballyclare High School lecture theatre. ... The IMOAS celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. ... Howard's topic for the night is SETI which stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

The IV Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November 16-23, 2008) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2008 may participate in the APAO-2008 (that is a student may participate in the XIII IAO or in the IV APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). For the IV APAO the (age) group of participants to be analogous to IAO groups, rules 4.5.2-4. to be used (alpha group - "juniors" and beta group - "seniors"), i.e.: . ... The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . ...

... International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos , 1998, vol. ... Impulsive synchronization of chaotic dynamic systems has some important applications to chaotic secure communication and chaotic spread-spectrum communication systems. In this paper we present some experimental results on impulsive synchronization between two Chua's circuits. ... The robustness of impulsive synchronization with respect to variations in the frequency and the width of impulses is studied. ...

... International workshop “The Europa Lander: science goals and experiments” is organized by the Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences, on February 9-13, 2009, in Moscow, Russia. The workshop will last 5 days including the days of arrival/departure and some sightseeing events, and focus on the scientific goals and technical aspects of the project, key issues of Europa science with the special emphasis on astrobiology and requirements to scientific instruments. ...

Sagdeev R.Z. (chairman), academician of RAS - Maryland, Space Research Institute, RAS, Russia . ... Gokhberg M.B. Professor, RANS academician - Schmidt United Institute of Physics of the Earth, RAS, Russia . ... Golitsyn G.S. academician of RAS - Institute for Physics of Atmosphere, RAS, Russia . ... Kruglyakov E.P. academician of RAS - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, RAS, Russia . ... Zakharov V.E. academician of RAS - Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, RAS, Russia; . ...

... December 20-24, 2004, . Space Research Institute (IKI),Moscow, Russia. ... The conference will commemorate his contribution to astronomy by concentrating on recent progress in cosmology and high energy astrophysics, the areas where his ideas laid basis for revolutionary advances. The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on December 20-24, 2004. ... Cosmology . ... High Energy Astrophysics Department at IKI , 2004. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 1.01.2002 . ... Credit Copyright: STS-108 Crew , NASA Explanation: High above a cloudy Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) orbits silently. The Space Shuttle Endeavor Crew took the above picture as they departed the space station in mid-December. ... Highlights of this Endeavor mission included fixing a solar panel and maneuvering the station to avoid a large piece of passing space junk . ... January 2002 . ... Publications with keywords: ISS . ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... GLORIA will travel to Peru to broadcast the event live. ... Lunar eclipse . Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. ... A partial eclipse will be visible from the Canary Islands. The broadcast . ...