Nalini Chandra & John Percy, University of Toronto . ... Some works to refer to when using multicultural astronomy in your classroom: . ... Nalini Chandra is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT. ... OISE-University of Toronto . ... John Percy, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, is a Past President of the ASP, and is active in astronomy education at all levels. ... ASP Multicultural Astronomy Resources . ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... Launch Vehicles and Spaceships . We have two rockets used to launch manned spaceships : . ... VIR 2000 will be employed with the SIRIO 2000 spaceship. ... It can carry 960,000 pounds into several planets orbit or launch a 180,000 pound payload on several planets journey. VIR 2001 will be employed with the SIRIO 2001 spaceship. ... They test many of the techniques required for landing men on different planets , such as rendezvous procedures and leaving and re-entering and orbiting a spaceship. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

The FSP3 event includes those parts of the magnetic conjugations between any couple of four considered spacecraft, which satisfied to the FSP1 or to the FSP2 criterion. ... The value of the relative geocentric angular distance between magnetic field line's footprints is considered during FSP3 situation selection. The mentioned angular distance value less then 5 deg is used as a criterion of the magnetic conjugation. ... for the first SC the red color and the first line are used, . ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

... Launch Date: 1966-08-10 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition. ... An 80-millimeter lens system was used to obtain Medium-Resolution (MR) photos, and a 610-millimeter lens system was used for High-Resolution (HR) photos. ...

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup system used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. ... The HTML 3.0 proposal for tables uses a lightweight style of markup suitable for rendering on a very wide range of output devices, including braille and speech synthesizers. ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... Additional training . ... Samara State Aerospace University Education Educational programs (English) Mathematical Modeling and Informational Technologies in Photonics . Degree awarded (diploma or credits): Master of Science in Photonics. ... The Master s program is focused on the project-oriented activity (Applied Master s program the Program). ... Areas of the professional activity for graduates with the Master s Degree include: . ... Professional skills: . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

JSC History . ... The JSC History Collection is divided into program series including Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), Shuttle and Space Station. ... Space Station | ... The Oral History series also contains a group of interviews pertaining to the history of the Shuttle-Mir Program (Phase 1 International Space Station) . ... All documents in the Apollo collection are searchable at the item level in the History database , making this the most accessible of the series. ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The first satellite launched into orbit was Sputnik€а 1 (meaning ?Traveller?), launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. ... Space Shuttle creeping to the pad to launch the Misty satellite into orbit? ... The Misty is not the only mystery in orbit, another potential covert satellite is known as Prowler. ... However there does seem to be enough substantiated sightings and evidence to suggest there are or perhaps were real mystery satellites orbiting the Earth. ...

... Rocket-Space Complex N1-L3 . ... launch vehicle N1 . and Lunar Complex L3 . designed under . ... Launch vehicle N1 was designed of three stages (A, B, V) connected with transfer compartments of a truss type and a core stage. ... The rocket was a package design with suspended, single-unit, spherical fuel tanks and multi-engine propulsion units on stages I, II, and III. ... Mass of payload delivered to the Earth orbit, . ... Launch mass, t . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Sprint the Flying Space Camera . ... The ball near the middle of the above photograph is actually a robotic camera designed to float about a Space Shuttle and the International Space Station and take pictures. ... A big bright star near the center of the red region appears white hot and emits light so energetic . A Distant Cluster of Galaxies . ... Oddly - most of them are spiral galaxies. This rich cluster of galaxies, named CL 0939+4713, is almost half way across the visible universe. ...

Open System Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... Section II of this handbook includes information on the current status of internationally accepted industry standards and specifications for open systems. ... Appendices include an overview guide to standards developing organizations and consortia, a listing of standards development organizations, and a summary of open systems environments developed by prominent standards and open systems organizations. ... Standards for Open Systems 2-10 . ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

... In 1965, in view of the fact that the country's leadership put S.P.Korolev in overall charge of the effort to land a man on the Moon and bring him safely back to Earth, Korolev decided to focus the work of his team on the manned space flight, while the work on the lunar robotic craft was turned over to Lavochkin Design Bureau headed at the time by G.N.Babakin. ... This flight was considered as an initial phase of preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. ...

... GIANT Magellan Telescope . Dr. Dan Fabricant . ... The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a 25 meter diameter optical-infrared telescope that will be sited in Chile. ... Dr. Fabricant, a leader in the design of new instruments for optical astrophysics, led the development of the optical and instrument design for the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) in Arizona. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...