... Then in 1959 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asked the United States military services to list their members who met specific qualifications. The search was underway for pilots for the exciting new manned space flight program. In seeking its first space pilots, NASA emphasized jet aircraft flight experience and engineering training, and it tailored physical stature requirements to the small cabin space available in the Mercury capsule then being designed. ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

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SETI with SKA1 and SKA 2 Alan Penny1, Heino Falcke2, Mike Garrett 3 1 University of St Andrews and South African Astronomical Observatory PI: LOFAR Early Access Program LEA070 ­ 'A SETI Pilot Program' 2 Raboud University 3 ASTRON and Leiden University AAVP2010 U Cambridge 8-10 December 2010 What a radio SETI search looks for A narrow (perhaps1 Hz wide) spectral line Sections 1. SETI 2. Experience of SETI with LOFAR and WSRT 3. SETI and SKA - needs Sections 1. ...

Computer Ephemeris. Lunar orbital data. Explanations. ... mean longitude of the Moon (degrees) . ... mean longitude of lunar node (degrees) . inclination of mean lunar equator to real equator of the Earth (degrees) . angular distance from ascending node of mean lunar equator on real equator of the Earth to ascending node of mean lunar equator on ecliptic (degrees) . angular distance from real equinox to ascending node of mean lunar equator on real equator of the Earth (degrees). ...

Click for a video of the pendulum . ... In 1851 Leon Foucault (1819-1868) was made famous when he devised an experiment with a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the Earth. Joseph Ashbrook's book, The Astronomical Scrapbook , (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has a short chapter on Foucault's contributions to astronomy. ... Click here for more a detailed pdf document (5MB) about the University of Louisville's Foucault pendulum along with technical notes and the original working drawings. ...

... HELD BETWEEN THE FIRST VISITING CREW (VC-1) AND JOURNALISTS . ... question to Tito): . You stated that you intend to go into business in space tourism. ... D. Tito: . ... Question to Tito): . ... Question to the combined crew): . ... As to any new cosmonaut we should explain certain things which a person cannot feel on the ground. ... All crew members treat me well and do everything so that I feel well aboard the International Space Station. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Gliese 229B: A Really Cool Brown Dwarf . ... Missions . ... Research . ... Last year we have identified a common proper motion companion to the nearby star Gliese 229. ... We report broad-band photometry of the object from 0.7 micron to 10 microns. ... We conclude that this is a brown dwarf with an effective temperature of 900 K. Strong bands of refractory oxides and hydrides (TiO, VO, FeH) are conspicuously missing from the Keck optical spectrum - similar to the situation in Jupiter. ...

... Workshop | ... I work in a field of relativistic astrophysics, and my current scientific interests are black holes and cosmology. Black holes are objects predicted by General Relativity. ... Why Do We See So Few Black Holes in Massive Binaries?" (with V.M. Lipunov). The limits got on massive binary system parameters for accreting black hole to be observable. ... Winter School on Black Holes Astrophysics 2002 . ... International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics 2002 . ...

These include satellites which monitor the weather, such as the GOES series (one of which is shown on the right) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ... To this class also belong "spy satellites" which observe the ground from low circular orbits. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) is currently studying the Earth atmosphere. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Investigation · checking possibility of nutation rates estimation based on RLG observations simulation level · combination of simulated RLG data with real VLBI data · comparison of estimates based on real RLG data (Wettzell) with results of simulation 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Simulation ... 10-8) 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Simulated data + VLBI (ac. lev. ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ssclib (ssclib-3.29.3) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / General-purpose array-processing utilities . Subsections . 1-D interpolation . Trapezoid-rule, 1-D, numerical integral . Median . Value at histogram fraction . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-08

... Main observations are made in interferometric mode but we still continuing boresighting on 3C84 to keep our understanding of the sensitivity at K & C bands and to measure the pointing offsets (1-2'). ... We have analyzed the fringe search observations of BL Lac which has happened at C & L bands from medium to large baselines up to 25 Earth diameters. ... Despite near zero length baselines on GBT ­ RA no fringes were found at K band. ... However fringes were found at L band on Evpatory ­ SRT baseline...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

... Up: Real-Time Systems . ... The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) spacecraft contains a large Proportional Counter Array (PCA) experiment which produces high count rates for many X-ray sources. ... This allows opportunity for some serious real time interpretation and decision making by the experiment controller, duty scientist, and Guest Observer (GO), if present. ... This paper briefly describes the available Science Monitoring subsystem display options. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... The processor can only execute one instruction at a time, but Linux systems appear to be running lots of things simultaneously. ... Most of the configuration of the kernel is done when you build it, using make menuconfig , or make xconfig in /usr/src/linux/ (or wherever your Linux kernel source is). ... If you are building a system from source, you can make life a lot simpler by creating a ``monolithic'' kernel. ... source code, see Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code for urls . ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...