Sentences with phrase «space studies before»

John McAfee (The Big Dog), Senior Strategist & Advisor John started as a programmer for NASA's Institute for Space Studies before becoming the creator of the first anti-virus software company that continues to bear his name.

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Studying them could reveal things we never knew before about our origins in space.

Even before Obafemi Awolowo's democratization of the Nigerian education space, by his revolutionary free primary education programme in the old Western Region; and Yakubu Gowon's liberalization of university access in the early 1970s, privileged and determined families had always sponsored theirs to study abroad.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

Astrobiology, a field that didn't exist before 1995, is a multidisciplinary approach to studying life on Earth — and in space.

«We may have to wait 20 or 30 years before the data set in the 21st century is good enough to pin down sensitivity,» says climate modeler Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

«With these system concept studies, we are taking the next steps to develop capabilities needed to send humans deeper into space than ever before, and ultimately to Mars, while testing new techniques to protect Earth from asteroids,» William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

That's what researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore expected to find when they combined data on 458 GRBs discovered by satellites since 2007, a painstaking chore that no one had undertaken before, says Melissa Nysewander, a former STScI astronomer and a co-author of the study submitted for publication to The Astrophysical Journal.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.&rspace station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.&rSpace Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

«If space - based [biological] science had come before a review panel, it wouldn't have been funded,» says Donald Brown, the Carnegie Institution of Washington biologist who chaired the study.

MRIs before and after space missions reveal that astronauts» brains compress and expand during spaceflight, according to a University of Michigan study.

The takeaway is that if humanity stopped cranking out greenhouse gases immediately, sea levels would still rise for centuries before the heat dissipates through Earth's atmosphere and into space, says study co-author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at MIT.

Editor's note: Exactly 20 years ago, on June 23, 1988, James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies testified before a Senate committee that he could state with «99 percent confidence» that a recent, persistent rise in global temperature was occurring, and had long been expected.

Late in 2002, Wolfram Freudling and two colleagues grabbed some observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope to study the universe's pristine early days, before exploding stars seeded interstellar space with heavy elemSpace Telescope to study the universe's pristine early days, before exploding stars seeded interstellar space with heavy elemspace with heavy elements.

«This is a tantalizing discovery with a low chance of being a false alarm, but before we can start rewriting the textbooks, we'll need to see more bursts associated with gravitational waves from black hole mergers,» study lead author Valerie Connaughton, of the National Space, Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a statement.

Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system.

The team encouraged added studies on these radiation exposures well before long - term space missions begin.

«Other missions like NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton looked at the Perseus cluster before, but their instruments didn't have sufficient energy resolution to study the dynamics of the intergalactic medium,» said Stanford University postdoctoral researcher Irina Zhuravleva in a press release.

After a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun in October 2014, its journey through space was tracked by Curiosity, Rosetta, Cassini, New Horizons and possibly even Voyager 2, allowing astronomers to study the phenomenon in much greater detail than ever before.

Through several studies, she demonstrates that changing your posture (or posing so as to take up more space) can actually make you more confident before a high - stress situation like a job interview or public speaking engagement.

The library also provides a space for students to socialise and relax before and after school, and during study breaks.

For example, they may have limited access to high - quality day care, limited access to before - or after - school care, and limited physical space in their homes to create private or quiet environments conducive to study.

Described by Sony as an unnerving VR space adventure set on a hostile alien planet, your mission is to to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, before a rupture transports you to an unknown alien world.

Before Nonas began making objects, he worked for ten years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way native cultures conceptualize space.

As Minturn explains in his essay accompanying the exhibition catalogue, «When composing the book [on Ossorio], Dubuffet had many of the works he was writing about right in front of him, some of which had been executed just hours before... Dubuffet makes it clear that his study is not art history written from afar (in time or space), rather, it is art writing «on the spot,» and as such, much closer to journalistic reportage.

For all users of the MDI — staff, researchers, and the public — the direct visual connections between the living room and the scholars» cloister, and the gentle flow of space into and through the building, will create what is possibly a more active, open, and engaging atmosphere than has existed before for the act of viewing and studying drawings.

He studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths College before running the non-profit gallery, Whitechapel Project Space, for six years.

Born in New York in 1936, Nonas worked for 10 years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way indigenous cultures in Mexico, Canada, and Arizona conceptualize space, before he began sculpting in the 1960s without any formal art education.

Various Updates You have probably heard that two of President - elect Donald J. Trump's advisors have been pushing for a reboot of the mission of NASA, focusing more on exploration of extraterrestrial space and less on studying the one planet we know is inhabited by 7.35 billion people, with at least a couple of billion more coming along before humanity's puberty - style growth spurt shifts to something new past 2050.

Where I come from, we study the subject first before shooting off... the vacuum of space «has» a temperature of 2.7 degrees because it is filled with black - body radiation at that temperature.

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies director Gavin Schmidt, the climatologist behind the GISS data and the latest «warmest on record» claim, knew before sending out his press release that even based on his own dubious GISS data, 2014 was probably not the warmest on record.

James Hansen, a leading climate scientist and director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies, testified before Congress that scientific data confirmed humans» role in climate change.

Studies have shown that colour has a direct physical and emotional effect on us so consider the atmosphere you want to create within a space before you get started.