. Wright: Today is July 22, 2008. This interview with Stephen Francois is being conducted at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the NASA Headquarters History Office Oral History Project. Interviewer is Rebecca Wright, assisted by Sandra Johnson. Thanks again for making time for us today. We know that you?re currently the Program Manager of the Launch Services Program. However, you began your career with NASA serving as a propulsion and mechanical engineer during the Titan/Centaur Program. Tell us how
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... Beam from Telescope M2, at edge of FOV Window З Baffle Cryostat Telescope M1 M1 Cell region Lens Barrel G10 truss Cold Bench Sensor Mount flange Cable wrap region Warm electronics FPA Filter wheel `Services bundle' Figure 1: General view of the VISTA infrared camera layout The specification on the net imaging performance of the system is for point spread function of width compatible with the detectors pixel size (0.34ДД) over this wide FOV and over wavelength range 1.0 to 2.35um. ...
In 1978, a Foucault pendulum was installed in the Administration Building, now called Grawemeyer Hall, at the University of Louisville. ... The observed period of swing is 9.4 s, corresponding to a length of a simple pendulum of about 72.1 ft. ... Verne Baxter and Samuel Bell from the Department of Electrical Engineering would provide the circuitry and sensing apparatus to control the magnet which was needed to maintain the steady swing of the pendulum. ...
... 32, No. 8, pp. 592603. i Central Regions of the Early-Type Galaxies in the NGC 3169 Group O. K. Sil'chenko1* and V. L. Afanasiev 1 2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. ... The mean age of the stellar populations in the centers of all three galaxies has been found to be approximately the same, 1 Gyr. ... In contrast, in NGC 3166, there is a metallicity gradient, but the stellar age remains approximately constant up to a distance of 8 from the center. ...