Ken Watanabe (NASA) - Ken Watanabe (NASA) Dr. Ken Watanabe is an astrophysicist at NASA..
Kalpana Chawla - after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpana Chawla Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Life 2 Education 3 NASA Career 4 Personal Characteristics 5 Memoria 6 See also 7 External Links Early Life Chawla was born in Karnal, Haryana, India. Her interest in flight was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, India's first pilot. Education Chawla studied aeronautical engineering at the Punjab Engineering College in Punjab, India in 1982 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. Thereafter she moved to the United States to obtain a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas (1984). Dr. Chawla earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering from University of Colorado in 1988. That same year she began working for NASA's Ames Research Center. Kalpana Chawla became a naturalized USA citizen,.
Vertical take-off and landing - delivery system. Currently there are believed to be two types of practical VTOL aircraft in operation: Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey "tilt-rotor" and the British Aerospace Hawker Harrier "Jump jet" An early VTOL prototype was the so-called "flying bedstead". The Harrier is often flown in STOVL mode which enables it to carry a higher fuel or weapon load over a given distance. It was developed from the Hawker P.1127 and Kestrel. The United States Marine Corps uses a license-built derivative of the Harrier. NASA has flown other VTOL craft such as the XV-15 research craft, as have the Soviet Navy and West German Air Force. The Indian and Spanish Navies operate Sea Harriers, mainly from aircraft carriers. The Moller Skycar is a prototype personal VTOL aircraft -- literally, a "flying car". See.
Venus (planet) - of Venus despite its extremely slow rotation (less than one rotation per Venusian year). Winds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat. There are strong 350-kilometer-per-hour winds at the cloud tops but winds at the surface are very slow, no more than a few kilometers per hour. However, due to the high density of the atmosphere at Venus's surface, even such slow winds exert a significant amount of force against obstructions. The clouds are composed of sulfur dioxide and sulphuric acid droplets and cover the planet completely, obscuring any surface details. The temperature at the tops of these clouds is approximately -45°C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given by NASA, is 464°C. The minimal value of the temperature, listed.
Kelly Freas - are now collectors' items) and over 90 covers for Ace books alone. He was editor and artist for the first ten Starblaze books. He was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program (used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution); pinup girls on bombers while in the US Army Air Corps; comic book covers; the cover of Queen's first two-million-selling album News of the World; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna; and many others, such as more than 500 saints' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman ("What? Me Worry?") for Mad. He is very active in gaming and medical illustration. Kelly has published several collections of his artwork and frequently gives.
Ken Watanabe - Ken Watanabe (actor) Ken Watanabe (NASA) This is a disambiguation page, that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Kecksburg UFO incident - was said to be carried away, presumably by the military. Theories as to what the Kecksburg object (if there was one- reports vary) range from it being an alien craft to the nosecone of a Soviet probe, Kosmos 96 that was destined for Venus. There has been a recent push for NASA to release pertinent documents on the subject. Some 40 pages of these documents were released on November 1, 2003, but are unrevealing. Similarities have been drawn between Kecksburg and the Roswell UFO incident. See also http://ufocasebook.com/Kecksburg.html http://www.ufocasebook.com/Kecksberg-UFO.pdf.
Kuiseb River - the river. In the process, so much sand and silt is deposited in the Kuiseb that it only reaches the sea while it is in flood. Satellite image of the Kuiseb river See also: List of rivers of Africa Original entry was from the NASA Earth Observatory; [1].
January 3 - killing three workers at the installation. The radiation is contained. 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. 1966 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California. 1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner. 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolov TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground 1997 - NBC's Today show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the.
January 30 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. 1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time. 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist. 1948 - 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland. 1962 - Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon. 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begin when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam. 1969 - The.
January 16 - House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City. 1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. 1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt. 1988 - Sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder is fired by CBS a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery. 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins. 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000. 1997 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California. 1998 - NASA.
James Lovelock - In 1948 he received a Ph.D in medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Within the United States he has taught at Yale, Baylor University College of Medicine, and Harvard University. Professional Career A lifelong inventor, some of his inventions were adopted by NASA in their program of planetary exploration. It was while working for NASA that Lovelock developed the Gaia Hypothesis. Lovelock is currently president of the Marine Biological Association, was elected a FRS in 1974, and in 1990 was awarded the first Amsterdam Prize for the Environment by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. An independent scientist, inventor, and author, Lovelock works out of a barn-turned-laboratory in Cornwall. Books Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979, 3rd ed. 2000) Oxford University Press..
James Irwin - 15 mission and the eighth man to walk on the Moon. Beyond his achievements as an astronaut with NASA, Irwin is perhaps most notable for his attempts to use his experiences on the Moon to spread his belief in Christianity. He publicly commented many times about how his experiences in space had made the presence of God even more real to him than before. This is a stub. Please help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Jack Swigert - 30, 1931 - December 27, 1982) was a NASA astronaut. Born in Denver, Colorado, he attended the University of Colorado, where he played varsity football and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He served with the United States Air Force as a combat pilot in Korea and then became a test pilot. After earning a Master of Science Degree in Aerospace Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Hartford College, he was accepted into the NASA Apollo program. Swigert was one of three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 moon mission, which was launched on April 11 1970. The mission was the third lunar landing attempt, but was aborted after the rupture of an oxygen tank on the spacecraft's service module. Swigert and.
Jaú National Park - of the most exquisite examples of tropical rainforest conservation in the Amazon. It houses spotted jaguars, manatees, pink river dolphins, and numerous other species of animals and plants. Original entry was from the NASA Earth Observatory; [1].
Vger - is a fictional sentient life form based upon Voyager 6, a NASA probe. It was discovered by sentient mechanical life forms, who found it, "repaired" it, assuming it was an artificial intelligence like themselves, and sent it back to Earth. While on the way back to Earth, VGer destroyed a Federation space station, and a Klingon fleet. Admiral James T. Kirk, was assigned his old ship Enterprise, to go intercept VGer. When Kirk and crew finally makes contact with VGer, through the assimilation of Lt. Ilia, they find out what VGer really needs: To bond with the "Creator", Humans. Captain Willard Decker accepts the offer, and disappears with VGer to places unknown. It has been speculated that there may be a connection between V'ger and The Borg, the Federation's biggest foe..
James Webb Space Telescope - Space Telescope. Formerly called the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), it was renamed after NASA's second administrator, James E. Webb, in 2002. The telescope's launch is planned for sometime between 2009 and 2011. Its orbit (at the L2 lagrangian point point, around 1.5 million km from Earth) is considerably beyond the maximum altitude achievable using the Space Shuttle, so JWST will probably be placed in orbit using a European Ariane 5 launcher. This height also means that, unlike Hubble, it will not be possible to repair or upgrade the observatory during its 5-10 year design life. Although JWST has a planned weight half that of the Hubble, its primary mirror (a 6.5 meter segmented beryllium reflector) is more than 5 times larger..
Jet engine - light. Every bit of efficiency in running the compressor is needed, so one common design technique is to use more than one turbine to drive the compressors at various speeds. Most such designs that use two stages are are known as "two spool" engines. A few have used three stages. Given that 60% of the engine's power is being used up for driving the compressor, one option for better efficiency is to do less compression - that is, make a smaller engine. This seems self-defeating, but it's not the case. If you instead use some of that energy not to compress the air, but simply push it, you can get thrust without compression. Turboprop or turboshaft By adding another turbine stage to the engine, all of the jet exhaust can be.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena, California builds and operates unmanned spacecraft for NASA. JPL-run projects include the Galileo Jupiter mission and the Mars rovers, including the 1997 Mars Pathfinder and the twin 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. Over the years, JPL has sent unmanned missions to every planet, except Pluto. In addition, JPL has also done extensive mapping missions of the Earth. JPL also manages the world-wide Deep Space Network, with facilities in California's Mojave Desert, near Madrid, Spain, and near Canberra, Australia. The 177-acre JPL campus is actually located in the city of La Canada Flintridge, California, but JPL maintains a Pasadena address (4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109), for simplicity's sake. There are approximately 5,000 full-time employees, and typically a few thousand additional contractors work there on any given day. The lab has.
Jean Michel Jarre - displays and fireworks. One of his albums, Musique pour supermarchés had a print run on only a single copy, which was auctioned to raise money for French artists. In 1986 he worked with NASA; astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of Jarre's piece Rendez-Vous VI while in orbit on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was to have been the first piece of music recorded in space, for the album Rendez-Vous. After the Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986, the piece was recorded with a different saxophonist, retitled Ron's piece and the album dedicated to the seven Challenger astronauts. He was married to actress and photographer Charlotte Rampling. He is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Discography Oxygene (1976) Equinoxe (1978) Magnetic fields (Les Chants Magnétiques) (1981) Concerts in China.
