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Joseph-Louis Lagrange, born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia [January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813] was a Italian mathematician and astronomer, who lived the most of his life in France, making outstanding contributions to all fields of analysis, to number theory, and to classical and celestial mechanics. On the recommendation of Euler and D'Alembert, in 1766 Lagrange succeeded Euler as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he stayed for over twenty years, producing a large body of work and winning several prizes of the French Academy of Sciences. Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics [Mécanique Analytique, 4. ed., 2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1888-89,] written in Berlin and first published in 1788, offered the most comprehensive treatment of classical mechanics since Newton and formed a basis for the development of mathematical physics in the nineteenth century.
Born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia in Turin of Italian parents, Lagrange had French ancestors on his father's side. In 1787 he became a member of the French Academy, and he remained in France until the end of his life. Therefore, Lagrange is alternatively considered a French and an Italian scientist. Lagrange survived the French Revolution and became the first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794. Napoleon named Lagrange to the Legion of Honour and made him a Count of the Empire in 1808. He is buried in the Panthéon.
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Ulysses after Deployment. Mission Management: ~
Ulysses Mission To End After 17 Years ~
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 12:10 CDT ~
After more than 17 years of pioneering solar science, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission to study the sun will end on or about July 1.
The Ulysses spacecraft has endured for almost four times its expected lifespan. However, the spacecraft will cease operations because of a decline in power produced by its onboard generators. Ulysses forever has changed the way scientists view the sun and its effect on the surrounding space. Mission results and the science legacy it leaves behind were reviewed today at ESA Headquarters in Paris.
STS-125 is the next Space Shuttle mission to be launched. STS-125 will be the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope [HST.] The mission will be flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, with Space Shuttle Endeavour ready to launch in case a rescue mission is needed. STS-125 is currently scheduled by NASA to launch no earlier than October 8, 2008 due to external tank manufacturing delays.
Atlantis will carry two new instruments to the HST, in addition to a replacement Fine Guidance Sensor, six new gyroscopes and batteries to allow the telescope to continue to function at least through 2013. The crew will also install a new thermal blanket layer to provide improved insulation, and a "Soft-Capture mechanism" to aid in the safe de-orbiting of the spacecraft by an unmanned spacecraft at the end of its operational lifespan.
Otherwise known as Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 [HST-SM4,] the mission will mark the thirtieth flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis, the last planned manned mission to the space telescope, and the final flight of a Space Shuttle not related to the assembly of the International Space Station [ISS.] The mission will be the first flight of Atlantis since STS-122, and the first flight of Atlantis not to visit a Space Station since STS-66 in 1994. It will be the first Shuttle mission not related to the ISS since STS-107, which ended in the Columbia accident. Its completion will leave nine flights remaining in the Space Shuttle program until its end in 2010, including two Contingency Logistic Flights.
Albert Einstein [German: IPA: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n] [help·info;] English: IPA: /ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn/] [March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955] was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density [which laid the foundation for the photon theory,] a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.
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solaris. ~ image:The Constellation spacesuit's Configuration Two replaces elements from Configuration One with parts specialized for the lunar surface.
solaris. ~ * one parsec is approximately 3.262 light-years.
* the nearest known star to the Earth, other than the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, 1.29 parsecs away.
* the center of the Milky Way is about 8 kpc from the Earth, and the Milky Way is about 30 kpc across.
* the Andromeda Galaxy [M31,] the most distant object visible to the naked eye, is a little under 800 kpc away from the Earth.
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~ A space elevator is a proposed megastructure designed to transport material from a celestial body's surface into space. The term most often refers to a structure that reaches from the surface of the Earth to geosynchronous orbit [GSO] and a counter-mass beyond. The concept of a structure reaching to geosynchronous orbit was first conceived by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who proposed a compression structure, or "Tsiolkovsky tower." Most recent discussions focus on tensile structures [tethers] reaching from geosynchronous orbit to the ground. Space elevators have also sometimes been referred to as beanstalks, space bridges, space lifts, space ladders, skyhooks, orbital towers, or orbital elevators.
The most common proposal is a tether, usually in the form of a cable or ribbon, spanning from the surface near the equator to a point beyond geosynchronous orbit. As the planet rotates, the inertia at the end of the tether counteracts gravity, and also keeps the cable taut. Vehicles can then climb the tether and reach orbit without the use of rocket propulsion. Such a structure could hypothetically permit delivery of cargo and people to orbit at a fraction of the cost of launching payloads by rocket.
Current technology is not capable of manufacturing materials that are sufficiently strong and light enough to build an Earth based space elevator as the total mass of conventional materials needed to construct such a structure would be far too great. Recent proposals for a space elevator are notable in their plans to use carbon nanotube-based materials as the tensile element in the tether design, since the theoretical stength of carbon nanotubes appear great enough making this practical. Current technology may be able to support elevators in other locations in the solar system however, and other designs for space elevators exist that use current materials
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