... John Glenn: Friendship 7 To Discovery . ... Credit: Courtesy NASA Explanation: Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space . ... Publications with keywords: Space Shuttle Discovery - mercury program - john glenn - astronaut . Publications with words: Space Shuttle Discovery - mercury program - john glenn - astronaut . ... Orbiting Astronaut Reflects Earth . ...

... October 29, 1998 . John Glenn: Friendship 7 To Discovery . ... Explanation: Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space . Dubbed Friendship 7 , his own snug spacecraft was launched by an Atlas rocket and carried Glenn three times around planet Earth at an altitude of about 120 miles, returning him safely to a "splashdown" in the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

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NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Glynn S. Lunney O RAL H ISTORY: 9 March 1998 9 December 1998 28 January 1999 8 February 1999 26 February 1999 30 March 1999 26 April 1999 18 October ... EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Attended the University of Scranton, 1953-1955 BS in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Detroit, 1958 PRE- NASA CAREER: NACA Lewis Research ... NASA-TM-X-84. Cleveland, Ohio: NASA Lewis Research Center, 1959. ... NASA-TM-X-69335. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

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... Below is a near-final schedule for the meeting "Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions," to be held at STScI in Baltimore on October 16, 17, and 18, 1996. ... New programs for the detection and study of planets (interferometry, photometry, microlensing) . ... Spinoffs and benefits of planet detection programs and contributions of these programs to understanding planet formation and evolution (astrophysics using small-field interferometry, NGST) . ... K. Noll, STScI...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... STEPS OF ISS ASSEMBLY . ... STEPS OF THE ISS ASSEMBLY All flights 09/30/2009 - up to now 11/15/2008 - 09/30/2009 10/23/2007 - 10/24/2008 12/10/2006 - 10/21/2007 02/28/2005 - 10/26/2006 02/28/2005 - 09/08/2005 04/19/2004 - 02/27/2005 04/26/2003 - 05/24/2004 09/25/2002 - 02/04/2003 04/25/2002 - 09/24/2002 11/26/2001 - 04/15/2002 06/12/2001 - 10/31/2001 02/26/2001 - 05/23/2001 10/12/2000 - 02/20/2001 08/06/2000 - 09/20/2000 07/12/2000 - 07/26/2000 11/20/1998 - 05/29/2000 . ... Station element . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... 2000 October 28 . Moonrise, Planet Earth . Credit: STS-35 Crew, NASA . ... In the foreground, towering clouds of condensing water vapor mark the extent of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's life-sustaining atmosphere . ... Moon and clouds are strong visual elements of many well known portraits of planet Earth , including Ansel Adams' famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" , photographed in 1941. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

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