... Credit: Apollo 16 , NASA Explanation: How did the astronauts get back from the Moon? The Lunar Module that landed two astronauts on the Moon actually came apart. The top part containing the astronauts carried additional rocket fuel which allowed it to blast away, leaving the bottom part on the Moon forever. The top part would later meet up with the Command Module and its astronaut pilot, which were continually orbiting the Moon. ... Publications with keywords: Apollo 16 - Moon . ...

... 2015 August 2 . Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater . Image Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA . ... In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. ... The image shows Schmitt on the left with the lunar rover at the edge of Shorty Crater, near the spot where geologist Schmitt discovered orange lunar soil. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Having been launched at 11:15 Moscow time from Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) successfully injected 5 RapidEye spacecraft into orbit. ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras, speaking on behalf of the Company, extended his congratulations on the successful launch to the launch customers, namely British SSTL, Canadian MDA and German RapidEye AG. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ... Launch Sites . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... July/August 1995 . ... The scorching gas in many galaxy clusters is pulling a Houdini. ... Digging Into Science: Archaeoastronomy in a Multicultural Science Curriculum , by Greg Whitlock . ... Mercury now includes the sky calendars that the ASP used to mail quarterly. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara University (joined SSAU and SSU) began to develop a unified manoeuvring unit for CubeSat-type nanosatellites for the first time in Russia. ... During one of his latest visits to SSAU he proposed to extend capability of the nanosatellites created in Samara University by making a manoeuvring unit and allocated funding to begin work on this topic. ... Nanosatellites of Samara University . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... August . ... Posted on August 25, 2012 | 4 Comments Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in 2012 in Ohio. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment I had my doubts, but NASA didn?t let us down when the Agency?s Curiosity rover was successfully landed in Gale Crater, Mars at 5.14 UTC on 6 August 2012. ... Posted on July 31, 2012 | ... Posted on May 10, 2012 | ... Posted on April 12, 2012 | ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Auroral Probe Instrument List . Tail Probe Instrument List . ... MAGION-5 Operation on Orbit . ... Organizational Diagram of Data Processing in the INTERBALL Project . INTERBALL Data at IKI Solar-Terrestrial Data Archive . ... Attitude . Auxiliary Data . ... Attitude data files . ... Orbit data files . ... Magion-4 Sessions List (1995-1997) We provide authorized access to the instrument data. ... Interball publications list 1995-2001 ( PDF ) . ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...

... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #16: August 2010 . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... This is an early announcement of changes to be introduced in the ESO observing proposal submission process for Period 87 (proposals to be submitted by 30 September 2010 for observations to be executed between 1 April and 30 September 2011). ... PREVIEW OF PERIOD 87 CALL FOR OBSERVING PROPOSALS: MERGER OF SHORT PROGRAMMES CATEGORY AND CHANGES TO PROPOSAL FORM . ...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 10: Overheads andOrbit Time Determination > 10.2 NICMOS Exposure Overheads . 10.2 NICMOS Exposure Overheads . ... Overhead times for changing cameras are given in Table 10.2 . The values in Table 10.2 include the time to perform the Small Angle Maneuver (to change from one camera to the other) and the time for Instrument reconfiguration (to change PAM position in order to refocus the Cameras). ...

... XLIX International Mathematics Olympiad, Madrid (Spain), July. XXXIX International Physics Olympiad, Hanoi (Vietnam), July. XXXX International Chemistry Olympiad, Budapest (Hungary), July. XX International Informatics Olympiad, Cairo (Egypt), August. ... XIII International Astronomy Olympiad, Trieste (Italy), October. ... II International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bandung (Indonesia), August. ... of the XIII International Astronomy Olympiad (2008), . ...

Version 1.0 RadioAstron International Science Council meeting 2014 8 August 2014 , 14:00, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (room 48), Moscow 9 August 2014 , 09:00, Space Research Institute ( IKI , room 200), Moscow [10 August 2014 , 10:00, IKI : science team meetings] 8 August 2014 , start at 14:00, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (room 48): 14:00 Greetings Kardashev, Kovalev , ... The Kaluzhskaya shopping center is suggested as a lunch place for 10 August 2014. ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko . ... Situation Analysis of The "PROGNOZ" Orbit for Solar- Terrestrial Space Experiments. ... Studies of Satellite Situations Mission. ... A Situation Analysis of the Orbits of the Tail and Auroral Probes in the "INTERBALL" Project. ... Specific Tasks of Multiple Scale Plasma Measurement in Regatta- Cluster System (co-authors S. Savin and L. Zelenyi)- In Book: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Space Plasma Physics Investigations by Cluster and Regatta. ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Information & tools for observers . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

... oal (oal-3.115) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / User-visible functionality / Environment variables There can be two types of orbit data in an ODF, viz. predicted and reconstructed ones. ... Allowed values for SAS_ORBIT are P (predicted) and R (reconstructed). If SAS_ORBIT is not set to either of the above values (or unset) the orbit access routines in the oal will first look for reconstructed orbit data in the ODF and, if none are found, for predicted ones. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...