Sentences with phrase «shuttle endeavour»

That's the Shuttle Endeavour making its way to its new home at the CA Science Center.

In 2001, aboard Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks — the first Canadian to do so — and in 2013 he was Commander of the International Space Station — the first only Canadian to ever command a spaceship — so far.

Cover: This Spaceborne Imaging Radar - C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR - C / X-SAR) image provided by NASA JPL and acquired from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS - 59 (April 11, 1994), shows part of the vast Namib Sand Sea on the west coast of southern Africa, just northeast of the city of Luderitz, Namibia.

Artist Statement «The first flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and it set all kinds of records!

Garrett Reisman — Human Space Flight Past and Present: Lessons Learned About Inspiration and Determination Selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998, Garrett Reisman's first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which brought him to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 95 - day mission.

She served on a 13 - day mission onboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2007.

She will serve as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Endeavour mission scheduled to launch August 7.

Spectators watch from the Rotary Riverfront Park pier as Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Kennedy Space Center Aug. 8, 2007.

My LA trip recap is coming up this week; and it will include details about our visit to the California Science Center, and seeing the space shuttle Endeavour in person!!

We took them just before leaving the hotel to go to the California Science Center where we saw the space shuttle Endeavour on display.

The meeting concluded with a visit to the California Science Center, where the Space Shuttle Endeavour has its retirement home.

In 1993, NASA astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave flew on Space Shuttle Endeavour to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Scientists have revealed the first data gathered by Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover, about the Martian atmosphere, while Space Shuttle Endeavour has opened to the public.

Join him at the Los Angeles celebration under Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Finally, in December 1993, seven men aboard the space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space for the HST's first servicing mission.

Radar systems carried aloft by the space shuttle Endeavour provide a new perspective of the earth's environment

And dents on the Japanese Space Flyer Unit, retrieved from orbit by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1996, revealed traces of phosphorus and sulfur.

Nearly three months after 9/11, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off on its STS - 108 mission to the International Space Station.

But, in June, when NASA astronauts tried to load Eureca into the hold of the space shuttle Endeavour, two communications antennas would not fold away.

Friday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Endeavour — its last flight, and the second - to - last planned for any shuttle — will be carrying an ambitious and potentially pioneering particle physics experiment.

When the shuttle Endeavour flew its Astro - 2 mission this past March, thrice - daily updates from AAVSO and its amateur sky watchers let astronauts know which variables were active and worth observing.

These recently released radar images were taken by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1994 as part of a geologic study of climate change in northwest China.

The Australian telescope was one of several payloads carried into space by the shuttle Endeavour to observe ultraviolet radiation from stars and galaxies.

The shuttle Endeavour released Unity, the first US module for the International Space Station, in 1998.

Residents of southern California were treated to a pair of sonic booms as the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour passed overhead yesterday en route to its safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base.

In 2011 during its penultimate mission the Space Shuttle Endeavour delivered three to the International Space Station (ISS), where they were mounted outside for three years as part of a materials - science experiment.

NASA plans one further flight of the shuttle Endeavour in February and is seeking funds for a final flight of Atlantis in June.

The only downside was that I'd miss the Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at LAX by an hour, but I knew the Oakland opportunity would be worth it.

Not exact matches

The outgoing three - shuttle fleet (Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour) is survived by several thousand laid - off scientists, engineers, mechanics, and other personnel who were responsible for the program's operation, as well as by a President George W. Bush — endorsed scheme to re-create the rocket - and - capsule - style vehicles of NASA's glory days with versions of shuttle hardware capable of reaching Mars.

Although Endeavour has flown in a shuttle before in January 1992, it was not used because the temperature of the cargo bay exceeded the safety limit, causing the telescope to shut down automatically.

With Endeavour and Discovery now retired, Atlantis is scheduled to embark on the shuttle programme's final mission on Friday.

It flew in the cargo bay of an American space shuttle — by coincidence also called Endeavour — for just over two weeks last month.

Now a curious calm has fallen on these formidable beasts — the engines from the recently retired space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour — as they await a new role in human space flight.

During their nearly quarter - century of service, the five shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Challenger's replacement Endeavour) have accomplished numerous important research missions and established many records in space travel.

Flying aboard the space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour, Reilly amassed more than 853 hours in space and completed five spacewalks before his 2008 retirement from NASA.

One of the major goals of the ongoing space shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesterday.

Astronaut David Low is pictured here hovering in space over the cargo bay of NASA's shuttle, Endeavour, during a mission last month to recover the 4.5 - tonne Eureca satellite.

Endeavour's robotic arm plucked the satellite from space on 23 June and lowered it into the shuttle's payload bay.

It will, however, be on standby in case the last planned shuttle flight — Endeavour in late 2010 — runs into trouble.

Studying the shuttle, piece by piece During their long operational lives, Endeavour flew 25 space missions, Atlantis 33 and Discovery a record 39.

With the possible exception of Columbia and the very first space shuttle mission, few orbiters had as dramatic and exciting a maiden voyage as Endeavour.

In many regards the Space Shuttle program never quite lived up to expectations, but at the same time it's hard to put a value on the data, knowledge, and wisdom that has resulted from NASA's launches of Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

You spent a total of 54 days in space during four space shuttle missions, including serving as commander of Endeavour's last flight.