... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 September 2 . Discovery's Rainbow . ... Explanation: Just one minute before midnight EDT, Friday, August 28, the Space Shuttle Discovery began a long arc into a cloudy sky. ... The 13-day mission will exchange space station crew members and deliver more than 7 tons of supplies and equipment. ... About APOD | ...

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! ... it was renamed periodic comet P/2004 CB (LINEAR). ... Back to Previous News . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . Previous News Items . Anglo-Australian Near Earth Asteroid Survey 1990-96 . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... On March 26, 2009 Russian crew transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-14 was launched by the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome (the ISS assembly program, flight 18S) and the docking with the station occurred on March 28. ... On July 16, 2009 the US reusable space vehicle "Endeavour" STS-127 (the ISS Assembly Program, flight number is 2J/A) was launched, which on July 17 had successfully docked with the ISS. ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... September : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 September 2015 to 28 September 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . September 12, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . September 02, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... September 20, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances 2 September 2015 - 28 September 2015 . 01.09.2015 . ... Probability of a magnetic storm . ...

Orange Pulsar Meeting . ... All talks were scheduled for 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion time . ... Discovering Radio Pulsars in Fermi Gamma-ray Sources . ... Discussion . ... Detecting the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing . ... Gravitational wave science with pulsar timing . ... Observation of radio loud pulsars with the Fermi-LAT telescope . ... Linear acceleration emission in radio pulsars . ... Timing solutions for 177 Parkes pulsars . ... The ANDS-ATNF Data Archive . ...

... Discovery s Rainbow . ... 2.09.2009 . ... Credit: NASA , Ben Cooper ( Launch Photography ) Explanation: Just one minute before midnight EDT, Friday, August 28, the Space Shuttle Discovery began a long arc into a cloudy sky. ... On STS-128 , Discovery docked with the International Space Station Sunday evening. ... September 2009 . ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle - launch - COLBERT . Publications with words: space shuttle - launch - COLBERT . ... Station and Shuttle Transit the Sun . ...

SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE Summary of FOC Activities for the period 10 August -- 8 September 1994 FOC Status . ... Calibration/Engineering Activities . ... 5136 A ColorґMagnitude Array in the Bulge of M31 5138 A ColorґMagnitude Array of NGC6397 5301 Structure and Populations of Globular Clusters 5644 UV Observations of Globular Clusters . ... 1994 SPACETELESCOPESCIENCEINSTITUTE Summary of FOC Activities for the period 10 August -- 8 September 1994 Other Activities . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... September . ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ... This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows that M66 seems to have been through the mangle. ... You can find out in this issue of Astronotes) . ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Newer Entries . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Launches . ... Launch Vehicles. ... Space Science . ... Russian-Indian Activities On GSLV . While India successfully test fired its own Lox/LH2 engine Russian engineers continue to adapt 12CS (12KRB) stage for the Indian GSLV launch vehicle. Tsyklon-4, The Advanced Space Launch Vehicle . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Don't Follow You! ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on September 16, 2002 14:59:47 UTC . ... Let me explain - harvey1 - September 16, 2002 - 18:31 UTC . Once again, we are askew of the issue. - doctordick - September 17, 2002 - 18:15 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... There is also an edge-on view of the asteroid belt here . This video was created by Scott Manley. ... View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980. ... Notice how the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit. ... At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. ... An edge-on view of the asteroids . ... Other asteroid and comet animations by Scott Manley . ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

WPLTN Technical Workshop . ... WPLTN-2012) . ... of the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 . ... Having an opinion that the collocation of various space geodesy measurement technologies has a fundamental role in increasing the accuracy of fundamental and applied positioning, navigation and timing provision, the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 has come to the following conclusions: 2.1. ... Web-page . ... Resolution of the conference WPLTN-2012 . ...

Launch of Explorer 1 . Click here for a full size version of this image. ... The USSR was first, sending off its first "Sputnik" ("satellite") on October 4, followed by Sputnik II on November 3. ... News conference following the launch of Explorer 1 . ... Unlike the orbits of the Sputniks, that of Explorer 1 was quite elliptical and it rose to an altitude of about 2500 kilometers. ... Explorer 2 failed to orbit, but Explorer 3, launched March 26, was successful, and it did carry a tape recorder. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... Mars . ... Mars spacecraft ready for September 21 orbit insertion . ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled September 21 insertion into martian orbit after completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442 million miles (711 million kilometers). ... Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six-week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering the spacecraft into its final orbit and testing its instruments and science-mapping commands. ...

Supernova 2006el and 2006dn in UGC 12188 . This page is devoted to information on supernova 2006el and 2006dn in UGC 12188 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. 2006dn was discovered by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) on 2006/07/05.45. ... The host galaxy for both of these supernovae is UGC 12188 . ... SNWeb has a 2006dn page and a 2006el page . ... SNWeb 2006el Measurements and 2006el light curve . ...

... Pre-application form . Excel file with explanations how to fill; please, save the table in format not later Excel-1997-2003.) ... Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad that have to be translated into native languages of participants (if using Word, please, save the translation in format not later Word-1997-2003), attention for additions during last years ( blue and red text ): . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

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