. NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by NASA JSC Image Repository and Terry Slezak . S69-45486.jpg - Landing and Recovery Division Systems Engineer John K. Hirasaki removing equipment and . decontaminating of the interior of the Apollo 11 spacecraft inside the Lunar Receiving Lab.

... Two new staff members have just joined us to bring the Parkes team back up to full strength in cryogenics and receiver support. Brett Dawson joined us from Ericsson in December as our new receiver engineer. ... Mother Tracey and new daughter Emily are both well, and together with their three-year-old Bryn should be moving to Parkes to join Dave in a few weeks. ... Lou has been tireless in her role as Observatory `front-person' over the last year and her cheerful presence will certainly be missed. ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... Ranger 9 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight. The spacecraft carried six television cameras, an optical earth sensor and high-gain antenna for optimum communications, and solar panels to provide power, as well as additional engineering equipment. ... The spacecraft encountered the lunar surface with an incoming asymptotic direction at an angle of -5.6 degrees from the lunar equator. ...

. HVAC EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION: OCTOBER 6, 1999 . This is two of a series of three photo files covering the installation of the HVAC equipment by Southwestern Air. Other files: 100499 and 100799. The scaffolding is raised to provide work area for installing the 4 HVAC units. The grating on the pier is removed and an I-beam removed so that the units can be lowered beneith the pier. angle channel (short red pieces) are welded into place which will support the units.

... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...

... News . ... NASA moves longest-serving Mars spacecraft for new observations . ... No NASA Mars orbiter has been in a position to observe morning daylight on Mars since the twin Viking orbiters of the 1970s. NASA/JPL . NASA s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds, and surface frost develop in different seasons on the Red Planet. ... NASA's Odyssey spacecraft camera yields most accurate Mars map ever . ...

... Girls from Scoil Rince Emain Macha and choreographer Lorraine Scallon provided a moving astronomy-inspired dance at the opening of the John Hewitt Summer School at the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, on Monday 26 July. The highly acclaimed performance was part ofб "OASES", a cross-border and cross-community initiative that uses science and the arts to bring people from different backgrounds and different communities together. ... Nowadays Science and Arts are completely separate worlds. ...

... Soyuz TMA TSC Flight Engineer, . ... Recipient of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School Colonel Ray Jones Award as the top flight test engineer/flight test navigator. ... In 1994, upon completion of the United States Air force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California, Fincke was assigned to the 39th Flight Test Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, where he served as a flight test engineer working on a variety of test programs, as well as flying the F-16 and F-15 aircraft. ...

This module provides for the customization of HTTP response headers. ... This module provides a directive to control the sending of HTTP headers. ... Header . ... Syntax: Header set|append|add header value . ... Module: mod_headers . This directive can replace, merge or remove HTTP response headers during 1xx and 2xx series replies. ... set . The response header is set, replacing any previous header with this name . ... The response header is appended to any existing header of the same name. ...

... The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. ... In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression the witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel. ... The North America Nebula . ... Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall. ...

. To remove a file use the command: rm [option] filename . To remove a directory use the command: rmdir directory_name . or rm -r directory_name . You cannot retrieve a file or directory that has been removed; it has been removed permanently. Removing files . Removing directories .

... MOTIVATION !Operations at observing sites should have quick and reliable access to the data, therefore observing sites are provided with their own local database server. ... SERVICE MODE OPERATIONS Standard service mode operations: !OBs produced by investigators are submitted to Garching. ... OBs moved to the operational database at Garching are replicated to the operational database at the observing sites by the same mechanism used for standard service mode Obs. ...

... Launch Date: 1966-08-10 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition. ... An 80-millimeter lens system was used to obtain Medium-Resolution (MR) photos, and a 610-millimeter lens system was used for High-Resolution (HR) photos. ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

... Next: Star Finding and Up: Image Restoration and Previous: Multiresolution and Astronomical . ... Design improvements continue to be made in the filter developed using mathematical morphology principles for the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) images. The purpose of this filter is to eliminate Galactic cirrus emission from extragalactic fields. ... With an appropriate normalization, the filter curve was applied to each pixel in the image to remove the Galactic cirrus. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... Thanks to extensive training and consummate professionalism, the two astronauts successfully and without a fuss fixed the problem . ... Article by Colin Johnston, Science Communicator) . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

XmCCD Copyright 2007-2012 John Kielkopf ======================================= Development Log =============== March 9, 2002 Version 1.0.0 * Support for SBIG cameras using the first public SBIG library * Basic panel for operation with ds9 +--------------------------+ May 22, 2002 Version 1.1.0 * Updated to use libudrv 4.35 +--------------------------+ May 24, 2004 Version 1.2.0 * USB support +--------------------------+ March 1, 2005 Version 1.4.0 * Full ...

Next: *imexamine* - General analysis Up: Regions and Source Parameters Previous: *imcnts* - Find background . input file: xdata$snr.qp . output file: snr_cnt.tab . ... N.B.: The use of imcnts to obtain counts in regions can lead to wrong results when more than one region is used in the same run, if there is any overlap between them, since each pixel can be assigned to ONE AND ONLY ONE region (the last one defined that includes that pixel. See ``help regions''). rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...