... Concept Spacecraft . ... The proposed lentiular design concept for the Apollo spacecraft was one of several unorthodox designs rejected in favour of the more familiar conical shape which was lighter and less complex.The lenticular design was a ?road not taken?, losing out to less challenging configurations.It is strange to think that if history had proceeded differently, each Apollo crew could have ended their lunar mission by gliding to a touchdown on a runway at Edwards AFB in a flying saucer! ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . November : 2008 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: November 10, 2008 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 10, 1997 . Dark Volcano Active on Io . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... A vast moonscape roughly the size of Arizona has just been covered by some dark material. ... It's composition remains unknown although it is certainly different in color from the red material seen surrounding volcano Pele on the upper left. ...

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... Credit Copyright: Courtesy Lavochkin Association Explanation: On November 17, 1970 the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-controlled robot on the Moon . ... Lunokhod 1 toured the lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - spacecraft - soviet - rover . Publications with words: Moon - spacecraft - soviet - rover . ... Apollo 16: Diving on the Moon . ...

MAGION is a name of the serial of small MAG netospheric and ION ospheric satellites manufactured in Czech Republic to be launched as Russian scientific S/C hitch-hikers. ... magnetic field . ... Institute for Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radioware Propagation, Russian Acad. ... Technical manager of the MAGIC project E.M.Vasilyev vasilyev@mx.iki.rssi.ru . ... Institute of Atmospheric Physics , Czech Acad. ... Subsatellite project scientist from Czech Republic P.Triska ptr@ufa.cas.cz . ...

Mariner 10 . ... Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner spacecraft series, and the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet ( Venus ) to reach another ( Mercury ). ... It measured 1.39 meters (4.56 feet) diagonally and 0.457 meters (1.5 feet) in depth. ... Views of Mariner 10 . ... Venus/Mercury Mission . ... Launched in November 1973, this mission provided new information about Mercury and Venus in the Mariner program's first dual-planet mission. ...

Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers . ... General information . ... With a purpose to support the enthusiasm of the young amateurs and their teachers, to give them a possibility to test their knowledge and to help them to get in touch with their like-minded friends, the I Open Russian Astronomy Olympiad has been organized by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS) and Ministry of Education of Russian Federation in May 1994 in town of Yaroslavl', Central Russia. ... November 2000, SAO RAS. ...

... Eileen Marie Collins (Colonel, USAF, RET.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for service in Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury, October 1983), French Legion of Honor, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medals, Free Spirit Award, and the National Space...

Large-scale activity in solar eruptive events of October-November 2003 by SOHO/EIT data . ... We analyze large-scale disturbances associated with extremely powerful flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occurred during two passages across the solar disk of a grandiose complex of three active regions in October–November 2003 using SOHO/EIT imaging data. ... In events repeating with short time intervals, the main dimmings observed show clear homology by their form and location. ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...