... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

... Multiexposition 34 images Sun 1/1000 sec f/22 and 1 image background. ... It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year. Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. ... Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. ...

... 26-04-2006 . XMM-Newton открыл нестабильную нейтронную звезду . ... Нейтронные звезды имеют сильные магнитные поля, из-за которых тепловые потоки от внутренних слоев формируются на поверхности полюсов в виде горячих пятен. ... По словам ученых, наблюдаемые изменения в излучении являются необычными, так как нейтронная звезда остывает за значительно больший промежуток времени. ... Новости астрономии . История Астрономии . Астрономия сегодня . ... Законы космоса . ... rin.ru . ... Новости . ...

... Free image alignment/stacking/processing Software . My lunar drawings . ... REAL TELESCOPES . ... Download Pocket-Aberrator . ... The Aberrator is freeware that generates star-testing images to show the effects of aberrations (distortions) influencing the quality of a telescopes performance. ... The idea to make a program like the Aberrator I got after studying many internet-sites on star-testing and often the effects of certain aberrations were only available as literal descriptions. ...

... Facts of the Tunguska paradox . Hypotheses about the nature of the Tunguska explosion . Bibliography . ... Puzzles of the Tunguska event . Tunguska sketches . ... Review of studies of the Tunguska phenomenon . ... Vasilyev . ... Map and photos of the Tunguska site . Detailed maps of the epicenter of explosion . ... Photos . ... The expedition "Tunguska 2004" . ... The expedition "Tunguska 2001" . The expedition "Tunguska 2000" . ... The expedition "Tunguska 2002" . ...

... Official logo of the VSM - Who and Where? What's here? ... This site's goal - The Virtual Space Museum is currently located at the Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science ( CC RAS ). ... Here you'll find mainly VRML models of Russian spacecraft and launch facilities. ... The VSM's goal is to let you see all the Russian cosmonautics rather than to provide you with encyclopaedic information. If you need figures and descriptions, try sites listed in the Links section. ...

Space Development: Theory and Practice 2005 . ... During the conference the participants had an exclusive opportunity to visit such Russian enterprises associated with Space industry as Scientific and Production Association “Zvezda”, which designs and produces helmets, spacesuits and emergency evacuation systems for aviation; Khrunichev Space center which is one of the world’s leaders in launch vehicle and spacecraft development ; Rocket and ...

... Press release for Jan. 28, 2001 a.m. (Moscow time) . The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5"operations scheduled for Jan. 27-28 completed. ... The MCS (motion control system) is in free drift. ... The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5" onboard systems checkout is shceduled for 28-29 Jan. On Jan 25"Progress M-43' undocked the Station at 08.20 a.m. (Moscow time), its de-orbit is scheduled for Jan.29.The calculated time of jets firing for breaking - 05,12 a.m. (Moscow time) . ...

... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... In the Fall of 1993, NASA Science lnternet (NSI) and the Russian Space Science lnternet (RSSI) began a cooperative effort to provide lnternet communications to selected Russian institutions in order to promote sponsored scientific cooperation between the two countries. ... This change, limiting full lnternet access via NISN for NASA selected Russian institutions, will take place no later than July 1998. ...

... ОБЩИЕ СВЕДЕНИЯ О ПЕРЕМЕННЫХ ЗВЕЗДАХ . ... В случае переменных звезд, быстро меняющих свой блеск, принято приводить моменты наблюдений к центру Солнца (чтобы избежать влияния на характерные точки кривой блеска периодического движения Земли по орбите, которое, в частности, может создавать иллюзию изменений периода). ... Кривая блеска непериодической переменной звезды - это график зависимости звездной величины от времени. ... Пусть элементы изменения блеска переменной звезды имеют вид . ... 1.2) . ...

... 09 ноября 2000 . ... Рентгеновский фон в космосе . ... Теперь, вглядываясь в просвет в темном газе и пыли в нашей Галактике, мощный орбитальный телескоп XMM-Newton получил это изображение неба в рентгеновских лучах , разрешив некоторые загадочные области фона на множество слабых индивидуальных источников. ... Особенно видна тенденция к зеленыму и голубыму у слабых источников, что говорит об огромных количествах вещества, падающего на массивные черные дыры в очень удаленных галактиках. ...

... The author attempts to approach the problem from the positions of systems analysis with account for the ideological grounds and history of space activities in Russia and abroad, comparing its current interpretation with the initial goals posed by leading theoreticians and practitioners who stood at the cradle of the space exploration era. ... The space systems recognized in Russia as priority projects are largely developed with violations of the systems approach principles. ...

... Lense J., Thirring H.-Phys. Zs.- ... Варгашкин В.Я. Эволюция представлений о сущности эффекта Эйнштейна как иллюстрация диалектичности процесса познания // Исследования в области гуманитарных наук: Сб. науч. тр. ... Варгашкин В.Я. Сравнительный анализ результатов наблюдений эффекта Эйнштейна // Инженерно - физические проблемы новой техники: Тезисы докл. ... Варгашкин В.Я. Прецессия Лензе - Тирринга частиц с инфинитной орбитой (на примере аномального эффекта Эйнштейна) // Известия Тульского Гос. унив...