Sentences with phrase «new frontiers program»

The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium - class missions identified as top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

He was the principal investigator of the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - REx)[1] mission of NASA's New Frontiers Program.

The New Frontiers program, which NASA says is aimed at — among other things — examining the «big picture» of the solar system, kicked off in 2006 with the launch of the New Horizons spacecraft.

The Juno spacecraft, part of a mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program, launched on Aug. 5, 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Florida and entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4 of this year.

The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

NASA is presently awaiting formal proposals from planetary scientists for missions to Titan as part of the agency's New Frontiers program.

New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The cost - capped New Frontiers program, with $ 850 million set out for the mission and about $ 150 million for the launch, is the largest planetary exploration line that NASA opens to outside competition and leadership.

New Horizons is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

New Horizons is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency's New Frontiers Program for the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

OSIRIS - REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program.

One highlighed the Dawn mission using an activity developed for NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers Programs, Art and the Comic Connection, in which students used the elements of art to perform visual analysis of images of giant asteroid Vesta and create an individial piece of art.

Not exact matches

Each finalist team will receive $ 4 million to firm up its concept by mid-2019, when NASA will choose one to fully develop as the fourth member of the space agency's «New Frontiers» program.

«There are those who think that growing strawberries in Greenland and drilling for oil in the Arctic are the new economic frontiers,» said Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program.

Only one will be chosen for flight as the fourth mission in the planetary exploration program; the APL - led New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt was the first New Frontiers mission ever selected.

Specifically, five Saturn - related concepts are contending for the next New Frontiers mission, a program that in past years yielded the New Horizons Pluto spacecraft, the Juno Jupiter orbiter, and the asteroid - return spacecraft OSIRIS - REx.

The research at MIT was funded by Jerry and Marge Burnett, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the IET A. F. Harvey Prize, the Janet and Sheldon Razin ’59 Fellowship of the MIT McGovern Institute, the New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Investigator Award, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

Yang Xiang, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology at University of Massachusetts Medical School, has received a three - year, $ 900,000 grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program to lead an international team of scientists, including Gang Han, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, in the development and implementation of a new optogenetic platform that can remotely activate neurons inside a free - moving organism.

The 10 - episode drama stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant and complicated founder and chief programmer of Westworld; Ed Harris as the Man in Black, characterized as» the distillation of pure villainy into one man»; Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a provincial and kind rancher's daughter who begins to discover her entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie; James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a new arrival to a small frontier town; Thandie Newton as the razor - sharp madam Maeve Millay; Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of the park's programming division; and Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, a mysterious and savvy provocateur.

«We'd be hard - pressed to not have the Youth Frontiers program,» said Mandy Little, chemical education resource and ninth grade advisor for Irondale High School in New Brighton, Minnesota.

The Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Program, which began in the 2011 - 2012 school year, is the new frontier in school choice.

James can recall the early days of his father's business when Bernard taught himself computer programming by renting time through a technology company during a period when computers were a new frontier.

She is also a fellow of the Sundance New Frontiers Lab Program, a recipient of a Harpo Grant and the Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship in Bern, Switzerland.

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The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 is publicly and freely available thanks to support from the report's Premium Sponsors: the Program on Forests (PROFOR), the World Bank BioCarbon Fund, Face the Future, and New Forests; Sponsors: Althelia Ecosphere and Baker & McKenzie; and additional support from the UK Forestry Commission's Woodland Carbon Code — all of which enable Ecosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem service finance.