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 Astronaut Biographies: Home Page
The crew assignments and duties of commander, pilot, Space Shuttle mission specialist, or International Space Station flight engineer are drawn from the NASA professional career astronauts.
At the present time, these payload specialists may be cosmonauts or astronauts designated by the international partners, individuals selected by the research community, or a company or consortia flying a commercial payload aboard the spacecraft.
A special category of astronauts typically titled "payload specialist" refers to individuals selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a space flight mission.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios

  
 Hurricane Ivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Hurricane Ivan's sustained 125 mph (200 km/h) winds wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, the swirling eye of the hurricane was photographed on September 11, 2004 from aboard the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) at an altitude of about 230 miles (370 km).
Hurricane Ivan was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, and the fourth major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
Hurricane Ivan is also suspected of bringing spores of soybean rust from Venezuela into the United States, the first ever occurances of soybean rust found in North America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Ivan

  
 Earth from Space - Search by Category
This service is provided by the International Space Station program.
Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center.
Searches by latitude and longitude can also be performed from the
earth.jsc.nasa.gov /sseop/efs/categories.htm   (84 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
* International Space Station * List of manned spaceflights to the ISS * List of ISS spacewalks Category:International Space Station Category:Lists Unmanned spaceflights to the ISS pt:Lista de vôos não tripulados para a ISS
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article List of unmanned spaceflights to the ISS.
*** Shopping-Tip: List of unmanned spaceflights to the ISS
www.mauspfeil.net /List_of%20unmanned%20spaceflights%20to%20the%20ISS.html   (84 words)

  
 Astronaut Biographies: Home Page
The crew assignments and duties of commander, pilot, Space Shuttle mission specialist, or International Space Station flight engineer are drawn from the NASA professional career astronauts.
A special category of astronauts typically titled "payload specialist" refers to individuals selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a space flight mission.
Welcome to the astronaut biographies home page, providing biographical information on the members of the space flight crews and candidates for future missions in NASA's space flight program.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios   (274 words)

  
 spc0313.txt
For more information on the ISS assembly sequence, see: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/index.html During a recent telephone, AMSAT-RU team member Sergej Samburov, RK3DR, informed the U.S. Ham Technical Team that the Russian Federation Communications Oversight Commission has granted a license to operate a "Ham Radio Station of the Highest Public Usage Category" for the ISS Russian Segment.
This will allow all the international crew members to operate different hardware that will comprise the ham radio station in any part of the ISS without third party restrictions in their country.
The ARISS International team is working on a long term plan for a single, international ISS station license.
www.amsat.org /amsat/ftp/news/2000/spc0313.txt   (999 words)

  
 UN Registry: Notes
Its orbital parameters were then given as 260 x 1499 km, 93.7 deg, 102.5 min and its type as category B. 105 Testing of on-board systems of the automatic station and further scientific investigation of the moon and circumlunar space.
548 Transport to the Mir manned orbital station of an international crew comprising the cosmonauts A Solovyev, S Avdeev and M Tonini (France) to conduct joint work with the cosmonauts A Viktorenko and A Kaleri.
Description: Prolonged exploration of outer space during flight to the planet Mars; establishment of inter-planetary radio communications; photgraphing of the planet Mars and subsquent radio-transmission to Earth of the photographs of the surface of Mars thus obtained.
www.planet4589.org /space/un/un_notes.html   (17355 words)

  
 Astronaut Biographies: Home Page
The crew assignments and duties of commander, pilot, Space Shuttle mission specialist, or International Space Station flight engineer are drawn from the NASA professional career astronauts.
A special category of astronauts typically titled "payload specialist" refers to individuals selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a space flight mission.
The crew of each launched spacecraft is made up of astronauts or cosmonauts drawn from the various categories described in these pages.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios   (274 words)

  
 LookSmart - Directory - Astronaut Piers Sellers
Piers Sellers has been pencilled in for a return trip to the International Space Station for early 2004.
Explaining that "it's not over until the fat lady floats", astronaut Piers Sellers discussed the installation of the Oct. 2002 space station girder.
Join the Zeal community and help build the "Astronaut Piers Sellers" Directory Category.
lsxml.looksmart.com /p/browse/us1/us317914/us77590/us77641/us77642/us289178/us10124190   (274 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Hurricane Isabel
Astronaut Ed Lu snapped this photo of the eye of Hurricane Isabel from the International Space Station on September 13, 2003 at 11:18 UTC.
After originating in the eastern Atlantic west of the Cape Verde Islands, Isabel became the second major hurricane of the 2003 Atlantic season when it was declared a Category 3 storm by the National Hurricane Center on September 8.
Over the next four days, Isabel strengthened into an extremely powerful Category 5 hurricane with winds estimated at 160 mph before dropping to a Category 4 hurricane on September 13.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16301   (177 words)

  
 Hurricane Ivan - free-definition
As Hurricane Ivan's sustained 200 km/h winds wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, the swirling eye of the hurricane was photographed on September 11, 2004 from aboard the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) at an altitude of about 230 miles (370 km).
It was a Cape Verde-type hurricane that reached Category 5 strength at its peak, and early in its path reached unprecedented intensity at low latitudes—Category 4 at only 10.6° N. After briefly being downgraded to Category 3 intensity, Ivan struck Grenada directly on mid-day September 7 with Category 3 winds.
Hurricane Ivan was the fifth hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
www.free-definition.com /Hurricane-Ivan.html   (177 words)

  
 Hurricane Ivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Hurricane Ivan's sustained 200 km/h winds wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, the swirling eye of the hurricane was photographed on September 11, 2004 from aboard the orbiting International Space Station(ISS) at an altitude of about 230 miles.
It was a Cape Verde-type hurricane that reached Category 5 strength at its peak, and early in its path reached unprecedented intensity at low latitudes Category 4 at only 10.6° N. After briefly being downgraded to Category 3 intensity, Ivan struck Grenada directly on mid-day September 7 with Category 3 winds.
Hurricane Ivan was the fifth hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
www.newagegod.com /STORmedia/ivan4.htm   (1954 words)

  
 NASA - Tuesday/Wednesday Solar Punch
The increased solar activity is also having an effect on the International Space Station.
The strongest flare of this solar cycle, in April 2000, a category X20 flare, was not directed at Earth.
Tuesday and Wednesday, the Expedition 8 crew of Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri will spend brief periods of time in the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module, which is the location aboard the Station most shielded from higher levels of radiation.
www.nasa.gov /vision/universe/solarsystem/10.28Flare.html   (834 words)

  
 Astronaut Biographies: Home Page
The crew assignments and duties of commander, pilot, Space Shuttle mission specialist, or International Space Station flight engineer are drawn from the NASA professional career astronauts.
A special category of astronauts typically titled "payload specialist" refers to individuals selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a space flight mission.
The crew of each launched spacecraft is made up of astronauts or cosmonauts drawn from the various categories described in these pages.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios   (834 words)

  
 Piers Sellers Astronauts Space Flight Aerospace Science
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-112 Atlantis (October 7-18, 2002) was an International Space Station assembly mission during which the crew conducted joint operations with the Expedition-5 in delivering and installing the S-One Truss (the third piece of the station's 11-piece Integrated Truss Structure).
He completed two years of training and evaluation and was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Computer Support Branch, followed by service in the Astronaut Office Space Station Branch.
Piers completed his first flight on STS-112 logging over 252 hours in space, including almost 20 EVA hours in 3 spacewalks.
infotut.com /reference/Science/Aerospace/Space_Flight/Astronauts/S/Sellers,_Piers   (834 words)

  
 Astronaut Biographies: Home Page
The crew assignments and duties of commander, pilot, Space Shuttle mission specialist, or International Space Station flight engineer are drawn from the NASA professional career astronauts.
A special category of astronauts typically titled "payload specialist" refers to individuals selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a space flight mission.
The crew of each launched spacecraft is made up of astronauts or cosmonauts drawn from the various categories described in these pages.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios   (834 words)

  
 Hurricane Frances Images
Astronaut Mike Fincke took this photo through the window of the International Space Station.
At the time, Frances was a category 4 hurricane located almost 500 miles east-southeast of West Palm Beach, Fla., with winds of 145 mph.
At the time, Frances was a category 4 hurricane with winds of 145 mph.
spaceflight1.nasa.gov /station/crew/exp9/frances   (633 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Hurricane Emily and Luna
This unusual high-oblique (from the side) panoramic view of the eye of Hurricane Emily was shot by the crew of the International Space Station while they passed over the southern Gulf of Mexico looking eastward toward the rising moon.
Emily, which at one point seemed to be approaching Category 5 status, quickly superseded Dennis as the most powerful pre-August storm on record.
With the formation of Hurricane Emily, 2005 became the first season in which there were two Category 4 storms before the end of July.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16977   (332 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Hurricane Emily and Luna
The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet.
Astronaut photograph ISS011-E-10509 was acquired July 16, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center.
Emily, which at one point seemed to be approaching Category 5 status, quickly superseded Dennis as the most powerful pre-August storm on record.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16977   (323 words)

  
 Domain Shake
AP - Cosmonauts and astronauts exchanged joyful embraces Sunday and began loading the international space station with scientific equipment and fresh vegetables after their successful docking of the Soyuz cargo ship.
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 SPACE.com -- Mission Atlantis: Hurricane Lili Delays Launch to Monday
But with the storm still on a northwest track through the Gulf late Tuesday and into early this morning, the decision was made to begin powering down the Mission Control computer and communications networks that keep an eye on things during a shuttle mission and aboard the International Space Station.
It was moving to the northwest at 15 mph (24 kph) and had sustained winds of 120 mph (193 kph), making it a very dangerous Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
The STS-112 Atlantis crew poses after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 29, 2002 for a planned launch three days later.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/sts112_delay_021002.html   (1059 words)

  
 Image of the Day
As the International Space Station orbited about 240 miles (386 km) above the Earth on Saturday, the Expedition 7 crew was able to capture some impressive imagery of Hurricane Isabel as it churned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Isabel was a Category 5 hurricane at the time the photos were taken.
Isabel had been a Category 5, with winds exceeding 155 mph at times, off-and-on since Friday.
www.space.com /imageoftheday/image_of_day_030916.html   (152 words)

  
 PTC's Pro/ENGINEER Brings X-38 Crew Return Vehicle to Market Faster
The X-38, the pathfinder for the lifeboat at the International Space Station, is a collaborative design effort of hundreds of people in 17 different countries.
Aerojet's success even impressed other PTC customers; Aerojet returned from PTC's 2000 Pro/USER International Conference in Orlando with a PTC Award for Innovative Computer Aided Design in the category of Aerospace.
Aerojet's relationship with PTC is ongoing; the company also takes advantage of the other Flexible Engineering solutions in conjunction with Pro/ENGINEER, including, Pro/MECHANICA.
www.ptc.com /company/news/press/releases/20000724aerojet.htm   (152 words)

  
 NASA - Tuesday/Wednesday Solar Punch
The increased solar activity is also having an effect on the International Space Station.
The strongest flare of this solar cycle, in April 2000, a category X20 flare, was not directed at Earth.
The third most-powerful solar flare ever observed in X-ray wavelengths erupted from Sunspot 486 early October 28, 2003, at approximately 6 a.m.
www.nasa.gov /vision/universe/solarsystem/10.28Flare.html   (834 words)

  
 MWBEX > Serviced Office Space in Soho Square
The premises are located within the centre of London's West End, just 2-minute's walk from Tottenham Court Road underground station, providing access to both the Central and Northern lines and onward connections to Waterloo International, Liverpool Street, King's Cross, Euston and Charring Cross mainline rail stations.
18 Soho Square is situated in the centre of London's West End, directly overlooking the famous square itself.
Advanced IT and telecoms supported by Category 5 cabling - facilities you can rely on.
www.mwbex.com /serviced_office_locations/sohosquare.html   (834 words)

  
 Observing and Learning - Specialized Links : Probes, Satellites, Space Agencies
To know it all about spacecrafts, the International Space Station, or manned spaceflight projects to Mars.
More than 40 years of space exploration, probe by probe, classified chronologically from the very famous October 4, 1957.
use the link category list in the left column.
www.geospace-online.com /gol-en/sav/lie/sav-lie-sondes-en.htm   (834 words)

  
 LumiScope, 1085, LumiScope 1085 Automatic Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor
Selected by NASA for use aboard the International Space Station.
For possible replacements or substitutions, please browse this Health & Beauty category of our website for similar items.
We're sorry, but unfortunately the 1085 has been discontinued and is no longer available from the Buzz.
www.thebuzzelectronics.com /item.asp?model_num=1085   (834 words)

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