... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... PRIME CREW . ... On February 14, 1995 he was assigned to the second crew (PC-20) under the EuroMir-95 program and from February 20 to August 1995 he passed training as a flight engineer, together with G. Manakov and from April 1– with C.Fuglesang (ESA, Sweden). ... On February 3, 1999 by decision of RSA Board he was removed from the ISS crews and assigned as a flight engineer of the back-up crew (PC-28) and the prime crew (PC-29) for the Mir Orbital Station, together with S. Sharipov. ...

... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1140 Camera Mount & Enclosure . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... 1200 FLC . ... MRO-PLA-CAM-0000-0106 FTT/NAS & FLC Development Plan . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/DocMan) ...

... This is the eighth SADE slew anomaly of this type, the third with SADE 2-R. The belief is that all are radiation/EMI induced and are not permanent. As in previous events, a SADE on-orbit test will be conducted prior to resumption of the nominal science observation program. ... A VEST test of the SADE commanding will be performed this afternoon in preparation for the on-orbit SADE test to be executed tomorrow morning. o The on-orbit test will be completed before 17:00 UTC (12 noon EST). ...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

The connect window allows you to connect to "hub" at the observatory. It is brought up by selecting Connect from the TUI Menu. ... Program Name : the name of your program as assigned to you by APO. ... Passwords and permissions are both associated with program numbers. Password : the password associated with the program name. Status bar: displays the current status of the connection. Connect button: initiates the connection, Be sure the program name and password are entered first. ...

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... You can work in group sizes as large as 5. Each individual in that group could be assigned a particular question which would allow the group to complete the assignment in a more efficient manner. ... Off in the corner of the store was a small black box with a big sign that read . ... As the century turned, Africa began to emerge from a Dark Age stretching as far back as life on earth, into all the years that lay ahead - years of Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industry, and, if you will, Anxiety. ...

To read standard input into a shell script use the read command. For example: echo "Please enter your name:" read name echo "Welcome to Edinburgh $name" . This prompts the user for input, assigns this to the variable name and then displays the value of this variable to standard output . ... For example: echo "Please enter your surname\n" echo "followed by your first name: \c" read name1 name2 echo "Welcome to Glasgow $name2 $name1" . ...

... I am developing an Informed Prefetching and Caching system as part of the kernel in which it is very important that the memory assigned to hold the data does not get swapped to disk. Without any thought to swapping I used vmalloc() to assign memory to the data structures of the Informed prefetching system. ... I later realized that most probably the pages assigned using vmalloc() were getting swapped to the disk and when I referenced them, they were brought from the disk rather than memory. ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

Arecibo proposals submitted for the Tuesday, 1st February 2011, 23:59 EST, deadline are for telescope usage during the eight months beginning 1st June 2011 (i.e. valid for two trimesters). ... A 700-800 MHz receiver is available for use in the band (temporarily) freed up by TV channel reallocations in 2009. ... The 2 x 7, dual-polarization, 300-MHz bandwidth, "Mock" spectrometers are available to all ALFA users. ... An implementation of a SINGLE-PIXEL MODE for the Mock spectrometers is available. ...

... The OM CCF component BadPix is read and the entries of bad pixels falling into the specified area are extracted. A value of zero is assigned to defect free pixels in the output map. Bad pixels are marked in the output map by non-zero values. The value assigned to a bad pixel encodes the type of defect. The mapping between CCF description and the integer encoding used in the output badpixel map is as following: . ... hot CCD pixel . ... dead CCD pixel . ... bad CCD pixel . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... The contemporary world opinion, while welcoming the efforts of different states aimed at realization of manned space flights, still considers these efforts insufficient, over-bureaucratized and too slow. ... The more up-to-date is the basic training program for a cosmonaut/astronaut or a manned space flight participant (hereinafter referred to as the student) that is being offered to your interested attention. ... Pre-flight space training (PFST). ...

The following news items are available: . New task RENDER displays rendered 2d 3d GIPSY data (feb 16, 1999) . ... A number of changes were made to allow GIPSY to be installed under newer versions of Linux. ... November 12, 1998) . ... New features in FUNPLOT . ... New task ROTMAS . ... New task FUNPLOT . ... New task SKYTOOL . ... An interactive coordinate transformation utility based on the new experimental GIPSY graphical interface routines (Ggi). ... New task FIT. ... New task INSPECTOR. ...

... For any PostScript hardcopy printer that has been assigned by ASSIGN/GRAPH , MIDAS produces a so-called encapsulated PostScript file. Using a public domain macro package ( e.g. Psfig/TeX) this PostScript plot file can, with a minimum of effort, be included in TeX or LaTeX documents. To do so, in the TeX or LaTeX document one should refer to the (possibly renamed) MIDAS PostScript file (normally pscrplot.ps ). ... Here is how the LaTeX text file with the included MIDAS plot then looks like. ...

... ESO Science Newsletter February 2016 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. ... A new Band 9 receiver was installed inside the Swedish ESO PI receiver for Apex ( SEPIA ) at APEX in early February. ... After on-sky commissioning in late March, Science Verification (SV) observations are planned. ... The Call for Proposals for SEPIA Band 9 SV can be found here and the deadline is 12:00 CET, Friday 11 March 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

... Circle area is proportional to the number of tweets + retweets tweets retweets . Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS221 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS221 . ... The top/left position is for the user with the largest number of followers, and the bottom/right is for the smallest number of followers. by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS221 . ...