... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-04M, after two days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... All the dynamic operations were performed by mission control specialists under the supervision of the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ...

... NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ... Publications with keywords: NEAR-Shoemaker - asteroid - Eros . Publications with words: NEAR-Shoemaker - asteroid - Eros . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

. Russion version . Last updated on May, 2008 . RadioAstron Mission .

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Larry D. Davis O RAL H ISTORY: 15 February, 28 February 2007 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S. in Engineering Physics, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, 1964 NASA EXPERIENCE: NASA Manned Spacecraft Center /Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center , Houston, TX (1964Current) · Aerospace Engineer, Gemini Trajectory Analysis Section, Flight Analysis Branch, Mission ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

Lidar experiment cover story . ... Delta-2 launching vehicle delivered on a flight trajectory to the Mars the Polar Lander spacecraft. ... The main scientific goals are: Martian surface research, especially its light fractures and atmosphere research. ... The atmospheric sounding instrument aboard Mars Polar Lander is the LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, developed by team of Space Research Institute, RAS. The LIDAR system is a laser sounder located on the Mars Polar Lander deck. ...

... Looking down on a storm (image credit: Robert Johnston) . Spearheaded by the Project Lead Robert Johnston of Cookstown High school, along with the support of Gerard McStocker from Holy Trinity College and the тАШhighlyтАЩ experienced High Altitude Balloonist Philip Heron , this leading edge school project has left us gazing into the sky! ... The Sun from the stratosphere just north east of Dublin (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ... The limb of the Earth (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ...

... Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Student clubs . ... XI International Summer Space School Advanced Space Technologies and Experiments in Space. From Mission Idea to Project of Nanosatellite took place in Samara State Aerospace University from June 22, 2015 to July 3, 2015. ... For the first week of lectures and practical exercises the participants studied the design theory of nanosatellites: flight mechanics, peculiarities of motion control and on-board systems. ...

Hubble Space Telescope Program Goddard Space Flight Center HST /GSFC Project Report Presentation to: STUC Mansoor Ahmed Associate Director, Astrophysics Projects Division Jennifer Wiseman HST Senior Project Scientist Kenneth G. Carpenter HST Operations Project Scientist Patrick Crouse HST Operations Project Manager James Jeletic HST Operations Deputy Project Manager Kevin Hartnett HST ... 5 Hubble Space Telescope Program Steamy Waterworld? ...

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Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

Space Scientific and Education project of Lomonosov Moscow State University "MSU-250" is timed to its 250-th annversary. ... Scientific program is directed to the studies of the space physics problems. It includes development and launch of two supersmall satellites intended mainly to the studies of the radiation conditions in the near-Earth space. ... The conference "University Satellites and Space Science Education" (UNIVERSAT-2006) was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. ...

home education > resources . ... Activities . ... Has an NSF-funded project called TYC21, which brings together regional groups of community college physics and astronomy instructors [see appendix , or consult the web site: http://www.aapt.org/programs/tyc21/tyc.html . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory: . ... Project ASTRO's The Universe at Your Fingertips: An Astronomy Activity and Resource Notebook, 800+ pages of activities and resources for teachers at all levels, especially grades 4-12. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...