Sentences with phrase «earth after a mission»

Portman plays a married astronaut who returns to Earth after a mission and begins an affair with a fellow astronaut (Hamm).

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«The whole mission behind Menchie's is making people smile and I thought, after the man's service to his country, it would be great to send them to one of the happiest places on Earth.»

After the mission is complete, the cores are designed to come back to Earth and be reused.

The Falcon Heavy consists of three Falcon 9 cores strapped together and will be mostly reusable, with all three cores intended to return to Earth after launch so they can be used for other missions.

This is what has given many Sci - Fi writers the idea of the long - distance traveller returning to Earth after what to him was a ten year mission, only to find that the Earth he or she knew was long in the past.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

Second Life: Just months after the craft dropped its payload to Earth in 2006, remotely fired its thrusters to change its course for a new mission, called Stardust - NExT, to photograph the crater created by Deep Impact.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After four and a half hours of flying around Earth, the new Orion capsule made a triumphant splashdown in the Pacific Ocean to end its debut mission.

To measure these minor deformations, scientists sent four gyroscopes into space in a mission called Gravity Probe B. And they found that after circling the Earth some 5000 times the gyroscopes» angle of spin had changed, ever - so - slightly, in response to the Earth's gravitational pull.

Eight years after a NASA mission brought them back to Earth, seven grains of interstellar dust keep giving scientists fresh puzzles to ponder.

Russia's Progress spacecraft are disposable vehicles designed to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after completing their missions.

Gerst, who was backed up by Wiseman, was in charge of releasing the resupply vehicle after ground controllers at Mission Control, Houston remotely maneuvered it into the release position following its unberthing from the Earth - facing port of the Harmony module.

After taking another look at data from the Kepler space telescope's original mission we have spotted 20 possible Earth - like worlds that could host life

After a decade - long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India — making it the first - ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

Under an international agreement called the «25 - year rule» countries acknowledge they should not launch objects whose life span in Earth orbit will go beyond 25 years after their mission concludes.

After the crew returns to Earth, the deep - space vehicle remains in high Earth orbit, awaiting refueling and refurbishment for its first asteroid mission.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), NASA's satellite to track CO2 emissions on Earth, failed to reach orbit after blasting off early this morning, crashing in the waters off of Antarctica and dashing hopes for the $ 278 - million mission.

Astronauts, however, returned to Earth without any severe health problems after long missions in space, which begs the question as to how capable cells are of adapting to changes in gravity.

Straight out of a Tintin cartoon comes the latest idea in space research — a reusable rocket that settles back on Earth on its spindly legs after completing each mission.

The additional funds would support the administration's directive to reinvigorate human and robotic exploration of Earth's moon and other planets in the solar system but would also come at the expense of several other big - ticket items in NASA's portfolio — namely the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a «flagship» - class mission next in line for launch after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

«Based on theoretical models, the cosmic radiation during that mission could also impact the crew's cognitive abilities or cause them not to remember the journey after they safely returned to Earth.

The specific launch date of 2018 was chosen by Tito after consulting a feasibility analysis study that had been made in the 1990s, which showed that launch windows for very fast flyby missions to Mars which require the minimum amount of fuel (also known as free - return trajectory missions), open every 15 years when Earth and Mars properly align in their orbits.

As part of the mission, after NASA sends a near - Earth Object (NEO) to a safe orbit, the space agency will send astronauts to explore and collect samples of the asteroid, to occur in the 2020s.

Two years after placing its very first rover on the surface of the moon, China has announced it would launch a mission to return lunar samples to Earth later this year.

(A well - known claim, dating from the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, that Earth bacteria could return to life after more than two and a half years on the harsh moon turns out to be almost impossible to replicate due to the laboratory practices the scientists employed at the time.)

Two years after saving the world with the Autobots, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is away at college when an ancient Decepticon named «The Fallen» returns to Earth on a mission of vengeance.

After half - century of the war against gigantic monsters, the human race, deciding to escape the planet Earth for safety, creates a small group to go on a exhibition mission back to the planet.

Alfonso Cauron won Best Director for Gravity, the intense story of a female astronaut who must find a way back to earth after being stranded in outer space during a NASA mission.

The movie follows Will Smith as Cypher Raige, a stern general who is tasked with a peacekeeping mission on earth, one thousand years after humanity settled elsewhere.

«Gravity» After a summer in which one would - be blockbuster after another failed to inspire much enthusiasm, moviegoers were starving for something that reminded them of the genuine sense of magic that the cinema could inspire in the right hands and they got it with Cuaron's visually stunning and emotionally gripping thriller about a space mission that goes horribly wrong and leaves two astronauts (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) floating in the cosmos with little chance of returning to EAfter a summer in which one would - be blockbuster after another failed to inspire much enthusiasm, moviegoers were starving for something that reminded them of the genuine sense of magic that the cinema could inspire in the right hands and they got it with Cuaron's visually stunning and emotionally gripping thriller about a space mission that goes horribly wrong and leaves two astronauts (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) floating in the cosmos with little chance of returning to Eafter another failed to inspire much enthusiasm, moviegoers were starving for something that reminded them of the genuine sense of magic that the cinema could inspire in the right hands and they got it with Cuaron's visually stunning and emotionally gripping thriller about a space mission that goes horribly wrong and leaves two astronauts (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) floating in the cosmos with little chance of returning to Earth.

Anomaly 2 starts with a fairly basic premise, and after a couple of training missions you're out stopping mechanical aliens who have invaded a post-apocalyptic Earth trapped in an everlasting winter.

Moon (R for profanity) Futuristic, sci - fi adventure about a lonely astronaut (Sam Rockwell) eager to reunite with his wife (Dominique McElligott) and daughter (Kaya Scodelario) back on Earth after living alone on the dark side of the moon for three years who comes to question the nature of his mission when a young clone of himself (Robin Chalk) suddenly materializes out of thin air.

Schools across the country got a lift from the excitement surrounding the mission of the space shuttle Discovery and the return of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, to space after 36 years.

After fulfilling his Earth - based mission he is called back to The Rainbow Bridge as remembered in the poem by Paul C. Dahm.

-- New story quests and missions — after years hiding amongst the Hive shadows, a new character, Eris, has come forth bearing an ominous warning: The Hive seek to summon a god, Crota, to destroy the Earth.

o New story quests and missions — after years hiding amongst the Hive shadows, a new character, Eris, has come forth bearing an ominous warning: The Hive seek to summon a god, Crota, to destroy the Earth.

Red Faction Guerrilla is set 50 years after the original and allows you to take control of an insurgent fighter, whose mission it is to help battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.

After getting back to grips with your Guardian powers, you are tasked with completing all sorts of different missions that take you from Earth to the Moon, Mars, or Venus.

After my single, not - so - great generation finishes the «missions» (ie, fools» errands) the leading, self - proclaimed «masters of the universe» among us have set before the human community, what resources will be left for our children to consume; how many more billions of people will have to share what remains of Earth's depleted and debased resources; where will they find clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, adequate soil for planting?

Where appropriate, participants also considered whether missions in the Earth science decadal survey mission set might enable the recovery of the NPOESS climate measurements.11 As on day 1, templates were filled in during the breakout sessions, and they are available online.12 After the workshop a short background section was added to each breakout session summary to provide context for the discussions.

Tiangong - 1 — which means «Heavenly Palace» — hosted a number of Chinese astronauts during its brief life span, but after its extended mission ended in 2016 the Chinese space agency revealed that it had lost communication with the spacecraft and that its decaying orbit would eventually result in it plummeting to Earth.

Construction Worker, Mission Renovation2015 — Present • Read blueprints and assign responsibilities to work crew accordingly • Prepare construction sites before crew comes out to make sure all hazards are removed • Measures distances to ensure remodeling and installations will fit perfectly • Erect scaffolding and other safety structures to reduce the number of workplace injuries by 80 percentConstruction Worker, Rose Falls Remodeling2013 — 2015 • Operated jackhammers to break up concrete to install pipes under the earth • Assisted masons, plasterers, and carpenters with specialty work • Cleaned surfaces before and after material was to be applied, which included hosing water, sand, or steam based on the material being worked on • Installed over 60 new roofs on residential houses throughout the city