Astronauts working aboard the International Space Station will stay
overnight in the Russian segment of the station and will be able to
return to the US segment only by noon on Thursday, the director of
NASA’s manned space flights programs in Russia, Sean Fuller told TASS on
Wednesday.
Earlier reports indicated a possibility of foreign astronauts’ return
to the US segment of the station as early as Wednesday night.
Scientists from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have developed a monitor system to follow space junk.
The
system is a set of monitoring meters intended for a spaceship to ensure
its safety if established on board, Rector of the St. Petersburg
university Andrei Rudskoi told TASS on Thursday.
The space
litter monitoring project aroused interest at the Russian Space Agency
(Roscosmos). Chief of the Roscosmos agency Oleg Ostapenko has promised
support to St. Petersburg Polytechnic University to enable it to test
the litter monitoring meters on the orbit.
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Μοιάζει σαν να βγήκε από μια ταινία επιστημονικής φαντασίας αλλά αυτό
εδώ το μηχάνημα είναι σχεδόν σαν μια μηχανή χρόνου. Το Atacama Large
Millimeter Array, ή αλλιώς ALMA είναι το μεγαλύτερο τηλεσκόπιου του
κόσμου αλλά και το πιο ψηλό, καθώς και το πιο ακριβό με κόστος σχεδόν 1
δισ. δολάρια.
Doomsday hysteria has gripped Russia and some of its neighbors.
Travel agencies are selling tours to either heaven or hell and people
are stocking up on food and fuel. Officials are publicly denying the
apocalypse, hoping to calm the hype.
Those awaiting Doomsday have three weeks to finish their preparations
before the date of the much publicized apocalypse allegedly predicted
by Mayan calendar, that is going to happen on December 21, 2012.
Thousands
of people across Russia keep stocking up their back rooms and balconies
with food, fuel and other supplies they might need when disaster
strikes. Some are even moving outside of cities because of the widely
spread rumors that cities would be impossible to survive in after an
apocalypse on Earth.