Sentences with phrase «american space scientist»

In July 2016, he and his family were in southern Turkey wrapping up a visit to relatives and preparing to return home to Houston, Texas, where the Turkish - American space scientist studies the effects of radiation on astronauts.

Equations worked out decades ago by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and, independently, by American space scientist Jerome Pearson, found that the ideal tether should be tapered, widest at the geosynchronous orbit altitude of 35,800 kilometers, and narrowest at Earth's surface and at its far end.

A group of American space scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) saw and photographed the lunar lander and a return module during a visit to the Moscow Aviation Institute last November.

Not exact matches

Experts appearing include Anjana Ahuja, science writer for The Times, Dr Kevin Fong, Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space, UCL Professor Gerard de Groot, author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent madness of the American Lunar Quest and Sima Adya, Space Missions Scientist.

That is just par for the course with enormous, contractor - based projects, says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and a former director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists.

At the American Physical Society meeting in March scientists reported that our makeup of complex molecules based on carbon and hydrogen is no fluke and that precursors to terrestrial life's distinctive chemistry apparently abound in distant space.

The American Geophysical Union, representing more than 62,000 Earth, atmospheric and space scientists worldwide, has teamed with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to make lawyers available for confidential sessions with scientists at its annual meeting next month.

Outside analysts like Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists say that a resolution of 10 centimeters — allowing us to see a softball or the fine details of a car from space — is likely the best available resolution using visible light.

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of California, Berkeley, presented new results on the ionosphere at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 14, 2016, in San Francisco.

«It's not something you can hang a $ 13 billion - a-year agency on,» says John Pike, a space analyst with the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC.

SECRECY — «A House of Representatives report concluded that «the Federal Government has mired the American scientist in a swamp of secrecy» and that the classification of scientific information played a part in «the nation's loss of the first lap in the race into space.»

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a collaboration between NASA, UC Berkeley, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Arizona State University, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and Zooniverse, a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop and manage citizen science projects on the internet.

The Russia connection is China's latest attempt to revive its struggling 15 - year - old crewed program, says John Pike, space policy director at the Federation of American Scientists.

From these lectures, published this year by Princeton University Press as The Nature of Space and Time, Scientific American has culled excerpts that serve to compare and contrast the perspectives of the two scientists.

«I would have said that the space station was a done deal,» says John Pike from the Federation of American Scientists.

The feature was first detected in 2016 by EarthScope, a collection of thousands of seismic instruments sprinkled throughout the U.S. Vadim Levin, a geophysicist at Rutgers University, says this wealth of sensors lets earth scientists peer under the North American continent, just as the Hubble Space Telescope has enabled astronomers to gaze deep into the night sky.

Welcome to The Countdown, the Scientific American show that counts down the five coolest things happening now in space news.Episode 1: July 26, 2012 Story 5 Galaxies from the early universe usually look kind of lumpy or blobby, but scientists have spotted one with a spiral structure, making it look a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy.See Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet.

But astronauts have already done natural experiments in venting water to space, Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University, pointed out October 17 at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Provo, Utah.

Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security.

In July 2007, a group of American scientists, in association with the National Research Council, issued a report recommending that scientists search for so - called weird life on other worlds, in space and even on Earth.

On January 6, 2015, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, a team of scientists (analyzing data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope) announced the discovery of eight new planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their host stars in Constellation Lyra.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 11, 2016 — Space scientist Roger Wiens was awarded the honorary title of chevalier (knight) in France's Academic Order of Palms for his work in forging strong ties between the French and American scientific communities.

The 2016 film was based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, who told the true story of the black female mathematicians and scientists who were unsung heroes in launching the early - day of the American space program.

Visit the Themed Reviews page (www.childrenslit.com/th.htm) for book reviews in such categories as women scientists, Johnny Appleseed, famous African Americans, and space exploration.

On the first floor, gallery attendants sit in a bank shouting into phones in American, for all the world like NASA scientists in a space disaster film.

When the initiative launched in 2013, the director Raj Pandya, wrote an article for Eos, the American Geophysical Union magazine, explaining the goal is «to enable communities to partner with Earth and space scientists and access the expertise needed to address problems arising from hazards, disasters, resource limitations, and climate change.»

«These American heroes — the astronauts that took to space and the scientists and engineers that put them there — are simply stating their concern over NASA's extreme advocacy for an unproven theory,» said Leighton Steward.

In December 2012, a pink - haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco.

Two scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (GISS) and a third formerly affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have been named fellows by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

the AGW players were all there; Scientific American granting massive amounts of press space to promoting it, a fawning press that never critically challenged it, and scientists hiding their political views behind obvious hack peer reviewed papers.

He is also the president of the American Meteorological Society and a former scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Operating as the American Tradition Institute (ATI), The Energy and Environment Legal Institute filed a federal FOIA request with NASA seeking information on how climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies «has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behaviour.»

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology present their findings in the March 2001 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The American Geophysical Union is a not - for - profit professional society of Earth and space scientists with more than 60,000 members worldwide.