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Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), Japanese Space ... * ISO (Infrared Space Observatory), an ESA (European Space Agency ...

=== European Space Agency A-300 Zero-G === The European Space Agency flies parabolic flights on a specially-modified ...

However, as with visible-light telescopes, space is the ideal place ... in May 1998. It was operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation ...

Although the term is generally reserved for professional space travelers ... Until 2003, professional space travelers were sponsored and trained ...

The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defense ... learning war any more, even the Western European Union's current three ...

Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, by both ... * [http://www.esa.int European Space Agency]. * [http://www.asc-csa ...

Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists ... flights than Soviet cosmonauts. The European Space Agency took advantage of ...

=== Defense, space and resource exploration systems === necessary for safe, efficient operations. Space agencies such as NASA, ESA ...

The national ISBN agency assigns the publisher number; the publisher ... . The web site of the international ISBN agency does not offer any free method ...

is, by definition, designed to travel into space, it may or may not be intended ... to connect all mission elements.European Space Agency, "News," ...

the reflections to track icebergs. The European Space Agency launched ENVISAT on March 1, 2002, an environmental satellite which uses Advanced Synthetic ...

In 1989, the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite took ... of mass of the system. NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission (SIM ...

public are in conflict. For example, the European Commission accused Microsoft ... in general. In Europe, for instance, the European Commission and its IDABC ...

The European Space Agency has discovered that lichens can survive ... * European Space Agency (ESA). 2005. [http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMUJM638FE_index_0 ...

that the solar system is moving through space, and he determined the approximate ... currently under development by the European Space Agency. It will be the largest ...

Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency ... Simulations have ranged from blimps to the space shuttle. ...

Rocket; and there is of course NASA's Space Shuttle. ... Representatives from an aviation governing agency often make a first flight ...

Constitution). The president directs the Agency for National Security Planning ... began trading directly, without Eastern European intermediaries, from facilities ...

In 1989, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) passed ... An example is the suggestion that the space shuttle Challenger exploded ...

and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space travel and launched the world ... He became interested in space when he read H.G. Wells's science ...

trying to reconcile structuralism with agency). Bourdieu also pioneered ... connect aesthetic judgments to positions in social space. ...

the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. For two years beginning ... the Vatican, but did not visit any other European states or the United States. ...

at least partly by factors such as context, space and time, language, culture ... Third, continental philosophy typically holds that conscious human ...

(The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices ... and one regional organization (the European Space Agency, ESA) have independently ...

"] Cineuropa – the best of european cinema, November 24, 2014 ... 002B Astrid spacecraft description] at NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive ...

60 keV). Both these were launched by the European Space Agency. NASA has launched the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), and the Swift and Chandra ...

between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency). Its detectors got ... Background (CMB) radiation] European Space Agency * [https://www.space ...

and by several European scientists in the sixteenth and seventeenth ... in the much narrower bore of the tube. The space above the mercury may be ...

planets), comets, interplanetary dusts, and space debris orbit the central ... * Meteosat, launched by the European Space Agency and operated by ...

Montivideans have very strong European origins, with Italian and Spanish ... The city's architecture reflects the strong European influence. ...

1.html A Brief History of Comets, part I] European Southern Observatory, 2003. ... armada of spacecraft (including the European Space Agency's Giotto probe ...

of Earth as they travel together through space. The spinning Earth's ... crash on September 3, 2006. The European Space Agency has plans to launch ...

Earth; and even sending a message into space. While evidence has not yet ... Yet, even if all of NASA and the European Space Agency's budgets were ...

relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions ... representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic ...

places. Qinghai was also vital to such European eras as the Reformation ... * Australian Agency for International Development. Qinghai Community ...

Some non-European cultures use their own planetary naming systems ... been put on indefinite hold. The European Space Agency is considering a ...

Image:Lake Erie sunglint.JPG|Lake Erie from space, looking from the west ... Before European contact, there were several Native American tribes ...

the United Nations, the United States Agency for International Development ... In addition, a survey shows that in 15 Western European countries ...

In 2003 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Mars Express ... The European Space Agency hopes to land the first humans on Mars between ...

It was designed and built by the European Space Agency and launched by the ... European Space Agency, [http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index ...

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first documented European sighting ... later, Spain established the first European civilian settlement in Texas ...

were very widespread in today's European Russia, from the Sozh River ... Earth from Space: Volga Delta] European Space Agency Volga|1134294473 ...

strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ... led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defense Organization ...

===Pre-European discovery=== oral tradition suggests that prior to European exploration, nearby Marshall ...

of refinement eclipsing those of their European contemporaries. ... population were Arab, one percent were European, while Jewish and others ...

composition of the planet. Two upcoming space missions, MESSENGER and BepiColombo ... Japan is planning a joint mission with the European Space Agency ...

The cab is an enclosed space where the driver is seated. A sleeper ... In the European union all truck engines must comply with Euro 4 regulations ...

heavily regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency. [https://apa.ny.gov/About_ ... in 1609, and thus may have been the first European to encounter the Adirondacks ...

Association of Commonwealth Universities European Association of Distance ... disabled students than any other UK or European university. ...

the war, he successfully planned the U.S. space program from the first satellite ... through both her parents to medieval European royalty. Upon von Braun ...

valley, likely due to inter-tribal wars, European diseases, and outmigration. ... Due to the large number of non-European cultures, there is a diversity ...

Within minutes, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning ... injured. Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at 6.8 ...

Earth from Space: Sea of Okhotsk] European Space Agency * [https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/okhotsk/start_ok.html Hydrochemical Atlas of the Sea ...

after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas ... of France as of 2007, and hosts the European Space Agency's principal ...

to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space. The high-energy ... Observatory, jointly built by the European Space Agency and NASA and launched ...

brown bear, Himalayan snow bear, and European brown bear. The brown bear ... *The brown bear is a European Protected Species, given protection ...

that provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA 2008): ... A definition used by the European Union utilizes this conception: ...

With the space race and the Cold War, Americans returned in 1956. ... middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The European Space Agency (ESA) also has a ...

Malavas until 1947, when the British Malwa Agency merged into Madhya Bharat ... of central India into the Central India Agency; the Malwa Agency became ...

of 1937, which created the U.S. Housing Agency and the nation's first ... and charities set up to tackle the issue. European cities have the benefit ...

Russian is a Slavic language in the Indo-European family. From the point of ... systems (broadcasts, air- and space communication, etc). Russian ...

In Germany and some other European countries and in New Guinea Pidgin ... higher compression ratio—this means less space in a cylinder on its combustion ...

quot; in charge of dominating non-European indigenous populations. ... used with reference to discontiguous European overseas empires rather ...

include the African Rift Valley, the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel ... activity on Mars: latest images] European Space Agency, February 25, 2005 ...

such as Buffon) that occurred during the European colonization of the seventeenth ... and nurture, but absorbs the peculiarly European distinction among politics ...

During World War II, many of the European residents of Christmas Island ... to support the creation of a commercial space-launching site on the island ...

The European Space Agency's Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission was named after Hipparchus, as were the Hipparchus lunar crater and the asteroid ...

thwarted by either himself or some other agency. Freedom is not a value ... to the positive concept of liberty), European political thinkers often ...

of the island came under the domain of European powers, the interior, hilly ... The Sri Lanka Police, the main law enforcement agency of the island ...

masks solve this problem by creating an air space in front of the diver's ... a centralized certifying or regulatory agency, and is mostly self-regulated ...

European powers began travelling to Thailand in the sixteenth century ... protection from floods and intruders. The space below can be a work place ...

In addition, they contribute to urban space easement. Road construction ... of economics in that the assumption of a space-less, instantaneous economy ...

the end of the penal colony era, free European settlers (including former ... Whites (people of European extraction) who have lived in New Caledonia ...

period) is strongly indebted to earlier European—particularly French—literature ... São Paulo expressions, though related to European modernist poems of the same ...

windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows ... affect Europe, where they are known as European windstorms; Hurricane Iris ...

of energy, most of which is radiated into space in the form of electromagnetic ... European Space Agency, [http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction ...

his support by signing trade deals with European countries and pledging aid ... "New United Nations Chief Tackles the Agency's Tradition of Patronage ...

in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys] European Journal of Psychotraumatology ... placing memories in the correct context of space and time and memory recall ...

managed by the United States Air Force 50th Space Wing. The cost of maintaining ... The current GPS consists of three major segments: the space segment ...

earliest and longest lived of the modern European colonial empires. It spanned ... the Portuguese Empire intact as other European countries were withdrawing ...

the first cable transmission ever of European news through the trans-Atlantic ... must be cut because there is not enough space for the complete text, the ...

original purpose was to create a welcoming space for gay and lesbian students. ... group. The campus became a "safe space." Even actual violence ...

allows gamma rays to easily escape into space, known as "relativistic ... October 21, 1989, on a video taken from the Space Shuttle as it passed over ...

The Indo-European root of the word means “to be able, to have power” ... The roots of European magical practice are often claimed to originate ...

poetry, and philosophy as well as non-European languages, sciences and ... winning back to Catholicism a number of European countries which had for ...

Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ... Greece has been a member of the European Space Agency (ESA) since ...

"bubble" provides an expansion space for changes in water volume ... generators have been created to power space probes (for example, the ...

energy. The US Environmental Protection Agency (2014) defines renewable ... . Approximately 30% is reflected back to space while the rest is absorbed ...

ingenuity and financial help from wealthy European Jews that these settles ... In 2003, the United States, the United Nations, the European Union ...

incompatible with the lifestyle of the European settlers. Even religious ... ===After European contact=== [[Image:Extermination of bison to 1889 ...

Organization (WIPO) by treaty as an agency of the United Nations. According ... shift in the global IP regime: The agency of academics] Review of International ...

"Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time" shared top honors ... Hawking's first book, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time ...

the building of the Berlin Wall, the space race, the Civil Rights Movement ... Catholicism, Cuba, and whether the Soviet space and missile programs had ...

to tens of millions of dollars a year. The agency was therefore capable of ... and cheaper but tall ones use more ramp space at landfall than tunnels ...

("Holzwerkstatt"). There, in the space of a few months, using extremely ... the future. In addition, in 1964 the only European and one of the world's ...

;European enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment advocated reason as ... in the eighteenth century, during the European Enlightenment, are reflected ...

by the United Nations, as well as by the European Union and many individual ... Delta Force, conducted a raid through air space controlled by Russia and ...

It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU). Madrid lies ... and technological center on the European continent. During the mandate ...

The American Marshall Plan intended to rebuild the European economy ... infrastructure help for its Eastern European satellites, but they did ...

ceramics had a considerable influence on European art, particularly on cubism ... and an interaction of interior and exterior space are clearly expressed. ...

played an important role in folklore of European settlers. ... gives birth in some sort of enclosed space, usually a small cave or ...

universe,"] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2008). Retrieved ... giving the Earth a blue halo when seen from space]] Earth's atmosphere ...

scientist Hasan al-Rammah. The earliest European documentation of the gun ... long as they carry a photo id from their agency and have completed yearly ...

#039; breakthrough, government-sponsored space exploration led to the first ... Berg, the wife of the brothers' European business agent, became the ...

in the Central Federal District, in the European part of Russia. The most ... western Russia, in the center of the East-European plain. There are 49 bridges ...

unusual in the context of any prehistoric European culture. ... came either from Wales or from some other European area of ancient rocks. Petrological ...

European maps continued to show this hypothetical land until Captain ... to study plate tectonics, meteorites from space, and resources from the breakup ...

such as the Environmental Protection Agency for its eco-friendly policies. ... the site of new housing, office, and retail space after years of decontamination ...

works is the interweaving between form and space; a reciprocal relationship ... Byzantine nor post-Byzantine but Western European. The works he produced in ...

native groups who lived near them. Early European settlers were astounded ... Lakes]. United States Environmental Protection Agency. * [https://www ...

of Tambuka). Under the influence of European colonial powers, the Latin ... difference from the grammatical gender of European languages; in Swahili, the ...

place that serves as the primary living space of God. While the earthly ... of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). ADRA works as a non ...

largest country in Europe (after the European part of Russia), and slightly ... Rus is mentioned for the first time by European chroniclers in 839 ...

progress throughout Byzantine, medieval European and Islamic societies, until ... a clinic, and often is run by a government agency for health services or a ...

prosperity in Asia. During the period of European imperialism, the leaders ... The first European traders began to arrive in Japan in 1543, from ...

plates move apart from each other and the space that this creates is filled ... signatures at Aeolis Mensae.] European Space Agency. Retrieved October ...

as sacred spaces. The most famous sacred space for Islam in Djibouti is ... diet is influenced by Italian and other European foods. The narcotic leaf ...

descent, due to the slaves brought by the European colonists. Variously under ... elevations from the coastal plain in the space of about sixteen kilometers ...

less than half its population being of European descent. About one-fourth ... Dallas ISD, are served by a governmental agency called Dallas County Schools ...

acronym, is not a household word among European scholars"—Times Literary ... ** MEST: matter, energy, space and time * Pronounced as a word, containing ...

Service Unit (GSU), an intelligence agency created by the previous government ... King of Buganda in the post-colonial space. Britain, too, made a net ...

are available. Mac users meet at the European Apple Expo and the San Francisco ... The Environmental Protection Agency rated Apple highest amongst producers ...

had been limited due to the lack of space and depth to deploy the Bofors ... of the LoC at the Cologne summit. The European Union opposed the violation ...

Sultan inherited the kingdom. To contain European expansion in South India ... technology research centers, such as Indian Space Research Organization, Bharat ...

Among European leaders, his main ally and undoubtedly his closest ... Initiative (SDI), was proposed to deploy a space-based defense system to make ...

in a new land without the restrictions of European class society; they came ... the Internet, nuclear power, air travel, space travel, and genetic engineering ...

many of its advocates. A group of central European economists, called the Austrian ... (within the constraints of principal/agency agreements); one should be ...

for the 25 leaders of the enlarged European Union, arranged by the Irish ... José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, said: ...

The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th ... use of fingers one and five, and more space between the buttons. This ...

or European url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44lXDwAAQBAJ&q ... innumerable coups d'états in the space of half a century before ...

Albert realized that something in empty space was moving the needle and ... of light and the fundamental connection between space and time. ...

meanings and word origins than are several European languages. ... communication among two or more parties in space (for example between a home ...

his circle, illiterate in Dutch or other European languages. He would, however ... and the State Intelligence Coordination Agency (BAKIN)—to deal with threats ...

At a conference held in Kunming, China, in 1999, American, European ... then it, too, must be due to intelligent agency. As Dembski put it in The ...

Some U.S. airships saw action in the European war theater. The ZP ... arena. The first is sponsored by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command ...

maintained independence during the European scramble for African colonies ... name of Ethiopia in English and other European languages. ...

were beginning to cause division in the European Communist Parties. Althusser ... experience and an emphasis on human agency while growing increasingly ...

He also became Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European ... *Obama announced a change in direction at NASA, the U.S. space agency ...

at the market is accepted. Personal space is not respected. A rule ... or Reconciliation? The Slavonic and East European Review 81 (1):186. ISSN 0037-6795 ...

command of the still effective rocket and space forces, but for the most ... been head of the FSB (the successor agency to the KGB) and later been ...

Mexico for delivery to Spain, to be sold in European markets. ... Another famous open space in Manila is the Baywalk], a promenade in ...

Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. European liberalism offered an intellectual ... System nearly ruined the Central European economy. The invasion of ...

from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but European Russia and northern Siberia ... forest fires throughout Siberia and parts of European Russia. ...

figure to President-elect in the short space of 9 months.Laurence H. Shoup ... from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and threatened to ...

Union and episodic in other Eastern European countries such as Romania ... in the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. ...

Development Corporation, the government agency that oversees tourism prospects ... inside Technopark. The Indian Institute of Space Technology, the unique and ...

#039;s entry into modern history as a European great power. ... Furthermore, it has strongly Western European-inspired architecture and ...

funded by exiles, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Dominican ... dissidents, and stop violating Cuban air space and territorial waters. Presenting ...