Sentences with phrase «space center led»

At its famous 1996 press conference, a group from NASA Johnson Space Center led by David McKay — no relation to Chris — laid out four lines of chemical and physical evidence that they believed made a strong case for life on Mars.

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He has lead the payload team on a NASA - funded CubeSat project, taken multiple space - policy study abroad trips, and worked internships at Cummins Engine Company, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Northrop Gruspace - policy study abroad trips, and worked internships at Cummins Engine Company, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Northrop GruSpace Flight Center, and Northrop Grumman.

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2018, file photo, Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX, speaks at a news conference after the Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla..

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

First, the facts: The Cordoba Institute, led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan, plans to build an Islamic community center with a prayer space included, in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center murderously destroyed on 9/center with a prayer space included, in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center murderously destroyed on 9/Center murderously destroyed on 9/11/01.

The first ever drink technology India in New Delhi got off to a flying start: the regional spin - off of the leading trade fair for the Indian beverage, dairy and liquid - food industry, together with the partner events of Messe Düsseldorf, occupied 11,000 square meters of floor space at the Pragati Maidan exhibition center in New Delhi during its debut event.

Even with Lionel Messi playing effectively as a number 10, Barça had trouble finding spaces inside Madrid's defense and couldn't control the game in the center of the park, which led to lethal counter-attacking opportunities for Real.

And SAGE members have long had use of their own space at the LGBT Community Center in the West Village, though recent changes to their arrangement there led to controversy last year.

The first suggestion that the flow existed came in 2008, when a group led by Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scrutinised what was then the best map of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the big bang's afterglow.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

Using these new data, a research team led by Charles L. Bennett of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and David Spergel of Princeton University compiled a full sky map that reveals our universe in its earliest stages.

Last year, using ground - based telescopes, a team led by Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reported that Mars's methane is concentrated in vast plumes.

Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

«I believe we're on the cusp of a golden age of industry - led innovation,» Garrett Reisman, head of SpaceX's commercial crew development program, said today (July 28) at the New Space 2011 conference, which is being held here at NASA's Ames Research Center.

«Some of the most interesting sites will be those that offer fresh material — perhaps exposed by an impact, a crack or plume activity like comets have — and those with diverse material,» said Keiko Nakamura - Messenger, OSIRIS - REx sample site scientist and the deputy lead for curation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The study's lead investigator, Bryan James of the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, suggests that, «Perhaps life space is an indicator of how much we are actively engaging and challenging our cognitive abilities.»

This positioning allowed a team led by Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to observe Jupiter using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

Antti Pulkkinen, who leads NASA's «Solar Shield» satellite - based detection system at the Goddard Space Flight Center, said the cloud of ionized particles from Tuesday's violent «coronal mass ejection» will largely miss Earth, giving some North American residents a glimpse of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, this weekend.

Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center, Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Go?ttingen; French National Space Agency, Paris; and the Italian Space Agency, Rome.

Most leading climate experts don't agree with Henrik Svensmark, the 49 - year - old director of the Center for Sun - Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.

A research team led by Timothy J. Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center analyzed images from NASA's Polar spacecraft and the IMAGE spacecraft taken of both the northern (aurora borealis) and southern (aurora australis) lights.

However, a new study from a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center scientist, Claire Pettersen, describes a unique method involving cloud characteristics that could help answer some big questions about the Greenland Ice Sheet and its snowfall.

This NASA video describes the project in a bit more detail, and interviews Babak Saif, a physicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who is leading the effort.

Kashlinsky leads science team centered at Goddard that is participating in the European Space Agency's Euclid mission, which is currently scheduled to launch in 2020.

«Robotic spacecraft are usually radiation - hardened to protect against these kinds of events,» said Chris St. Cyr, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the study.

Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.

«The WMAP results are a turning point,» says astrophysicist Charles Bennett of Goddard Space Flight Center, the probe's lead scientist.

A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight CCenter (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Ccenter of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterCenter.

The strongest evidence for methane comes from a team led by Michael Mumma, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

A team led by Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, looked at data from the Hubble Space Telescope showing the same spot in the sky nine days after the burst.

«We think that there is a dormant black hole there that has accreted a lump of matter — probably a star that has fallen into it,» says astrophysicist Neil Gehrels, the lead scientist for SWIFT at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Jose Camberos, research aerospace engineer and lead of design space exploration at the Multidisciplinary Science & Technology Center of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, said that the work will hopefully give the field better insight into where the design of airplanes is going.

The research, led by Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos and Diego Janches of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, simulated the variations in meteoroid impacts, revealing surprising patterns in the time of day impacts occur.

Enrico Costa of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuSpace Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictuspace missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictured).

«Mercury is the perfect test object for these experiments because it is so sensitive to the gravitational effect and activity of the Sun,» said Antonio Genova, the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Aurorasaurus team, led by Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomenon.

«If you have an indication of the availability of breeding sites,» says David Grass of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, near Washington DC, who led the study, «that's going to bring you one step closer to predicting...

«This will be our first free - flier capture from the space station,» says Dana Weigel, lead flight director for the ISS at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tspace station,» says Dana Weigel, lead flight director for the ISS at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TSpace Center in Houston, Texas.

The UCL - led study also involved researchers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Boston University, Observatoire de Paris, MIT, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), University of Southampton, University of Leicester, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and University of Michigan.

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

Life is extremely unlikely to exist in these subsurface regions of Mercury, however, as pockets of liquid water would be very small, says Gregory Neumann of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a lead author on a second paper.

«This process isn't completely new to space science — electrostatic discharges can occur in any poorly conducting (dielectric) material exposed to intense space radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the pspace science — electrostatic discharges can occur in any poorly conducting (dielectric) material exposed to intense space radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the pspace radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the pSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the paper.

«Given how much of the matter out of which we formed may have come from other galaxies, we could consider ourselves space travelers or extragalactic immigrants,» said Daniel Anglés - Alcázar, a postdoctoral fellow in Northwestern's astrophysics center, CIERA (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics), who led the center, CIERA (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics), who led the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics), who led the study.